Transport strike, protests at the university and now the traditionalGerman nein to the promises of Emmanuel Macron. The French president appeared
before the Eurocámara on Tuesday with a battery of ideas to reinforce the euro once and for all.......... Berlin rejects each and every one of its proposals..
a dozen other countries from the North agree with Angela Merkel.

ACCORDING to police figures 315,000 people took to the streets of Barcelona Sunday)to demand the release of the Catalan leaders currently in prison in Spain. They also want those who fled the country prior to the arrests to be allowed to return without threat of incarceration although the
Spanish government is currently supplying fresh evidence to the German judiciary in its bid to have putative Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont
returned under a European arrest warrant.

PRESSURE builds on Madrid's Community leader Cristina Cifuentes after her degree scandal toppled another senior university figure. Enrique Alvarez
Conde, the director of the law institute that awarded Cifuentes with her disputed qualification, has been suspended............ The scandal could be calamitous for the PP's leadership in Madrid, whose minority government
relies on support from the centre-right Ciudadanos (C’s) party, which is now demanding Cigfuentes' resignation as regional leader.

SPAIN’S food safety agency has issued an urgent alert following the outbreak of 39 cases of the norovirus in the country.

AN over the drink drive limit American tourist, who ploughed into and killed a British cyclist on the Spanish holiday island of Menorca has avoided jail.
Father-of-three Phillip Rasmussen, 47, was struck from behind while cycling on holiday on the island. ...... American tourist Bryan Leeds, aged 25, was arrested after failing a roadside alcohol test and testing positive for drugs. But he
was able to show he had a medical receipt for amphetamine tablets found on him as part of treatment for an unidentified health condition. He was released on bail of €10,000 the day after his arrest but was banned from
leaving Menorca until his court appearance last week. ......

In the UK Theresa May claimed ….......It is in our national interest to prevent the further use of chemical weapons in Syria – and to uphold and defend the
global consensus that these weapons should not be used. For we cannot allow the use of chemical weapons to become normalised – either within Syria, on the streets of the UK or elsewhere.’ Jeremy Corbyn again questioned the legality of the UK’s role in the 105-missile strike – and called
for legislation to stop military action without MPs’ support. Mrs May will point to strong international backing from world leaders including Germany’s
Angela Merkel, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and European Council
president Donald Tusk since the strike.

Britain's 'depressing' array of ageing ships and fighter jets unable to fire cruise missiles meant that France took the lead in striking Syria, it was revealed today. The UK fired eight Storm Shadow missiles out of 105 used
to punish Bashar al-Assad for his chemical attack in Douma last Saturday - fewer than the French and the Americans.

The Government has approved a new cash injection for the Madeleine
McCann search fund. But the total is being kept under wraps amid fears of a
public backlash. .......Government funding for the investigation has historically
been agreed every six months, with £154,000 being granted from October
last year.

Pope Francis used his traditional Sunday blessing in St Peter's Square to
say he's praying for British brain damaged toddler Alfie Evans. The pontiff
said the situation is 'very painful and complex' as he spoke on Alfie and
others who are terminally ill. He expressed hope that they're always
respected in their dignity and cared for in a way suitable to their conditions,
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