Presseurop.eu | The EU’s 27 leaders are now meeting to discuss the European Union’s 2014-2020 budget and will probably reach an agreement. But they will do so by making the usual petty deals that compromise the future, warns Le Monde.
Evgeniya Khilji | Tensions between “Russians” and “others” can be observed more closely in Putin’s Russia’s large cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg, where the concentration of legal and illegal immigrants is high. Ethnic Russians feel threatened by the large numbers of incoming ‘visitors’.
Presseurop.eu | By Annelien De Greef | For a long time, prawns were all that Greenland was famous for. However, the melting ice caps mean that natural resources are there for the taking. This development is both a curse and a blessing and one that puts the Danes in a difficult situation.
MADRID | BFA-Bankia Group disposed of more than 5,600 foreclosed properties and subrogated 9,000 developer assets. Sales topped 1,600 million euros.
By Alexandru F. Ghita | The “sudden death” of one economic giant in certain regions created major spikes in unemployment. This is a(nother) sign that reliance on major companies to produce and sustain jobs on their own is counter-productive.
MADRID | The acquisition makes Telefónica the first telecoms Group in Latin America to deliver end to end services in the e-health market.
Presseurop.eu | “We can only welcome Brussels’ initiative if it really succeeds in relaunching rail transport in Europe,” writes Gian Paolo Accardo.
MADRID | By Carlos Díaz Guell | “The FT’s addiction for obsessive and empty criticism over most euro periphery and particularly Spanish matters is getting boring but, nevertheless, worrying.”
BARCELONA | The €130 million investment will represent the first sedan to be built in Nissan’s plant. The Barcelona plant will reach its maximum capacity.
MADRID | By Raimundo Poveda, former banking regulation director at Bank of Spain | The Single Supervisory Mechanism can be late. The EU banking watchdog has still to be formally founded, decide who’ll be part of its leadership, create an internal organization network and define its financing sources.