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Obama, Merkel and Cameron will not figure among the 50,000 attendees at the summit on sustainable development which opens today in Brazil.
The world's future is the agenda in Rio – Svenska Dagbladet
According to the German financial daily the emerging countries of Latin America are taking pleasure lecturing their former colonial masters Spain and Portugal on measures to resolve the eurozone crisis.
Ex-colonies berate Europe – Financial Times Deutschland
Negotiations between New Democracy (right), winner of the 17 June Greek elections, Pasok (Socialist) and the Democratic Left (Dimar) to form a coalition continue, but are marked by dissent within Pasok, which also disagrees with Dimar over future government policy.
Agreement on government sealed – I Kathimerini
The package of economic measures proposed by the new Slovakian PM Robert Fico government has met with resistance from the opposition and companies that claim that it will mainly affect middle and low-earning classes and that the government should focus on spending cuts within the administration. Fico`s “consolidation” package consists of tax increases in order to collect an additional 1 billion euros in 2013, lowering public sector wages and 10% cuts on current spending.
Package meets with resistance – SME
“It”s a revolution”, writes the Warsaw daily, as Poland’s health ministry plans to introduce new standards in obstetrics hospitals. Women will have the right to ask for free epidurals. Until now, it is up to the hospital to decide whether to administer the painkiller (a painless childbirth can often cost as much as 200 euros). The new regulations will come into effect next year.
Child birth with anaesthesia — on demand and without payment – Dziennik Gazeta Prawna
Clashes have been ongoing in recent days between Spanish miners and police in the region of Asturias and Castilla y Leon. With the EU demanding the closure of all coal mines in deficit in 2010, the Spanish government decided to slash the mining sector's state subsidy by 60%.
Stone defence for sector without a future – ABC
According to Belgium's head of state security, "it would only take a few clicks for a hostile state to have Belgium on its knees, ruining both its industrial and economic activity, but also its security. Our country still lacks an overall strategy for cybersecurity" unlike the UK, Germany and France.
Belgium at mercy of cybersabotage – Le Soir
A conversation with investigative reporters Stefano Valentino and Giorgio Michalopoulos, who have dissected the dark underbelly of green finance for Voxeurop and won several awards for their work.
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