Today's front pages

Published on 6 January 2012

The European Commission considers that the projected 2.8% deficit in the 2012 draft budget for Belgium is too optimistic.

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Europe rejects the budget – De Morgen

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Hungary threatened with bankruptcy – Financial Times Deutschland

Civil party lawyers have requested that a new psychiatric examination be carried out on the perpetrator of the Utøya massacre (77 dead in July 22, 2011), arguing that, contrary to what was established by medical experts, Breivik does not suffer from paranoid schizophrenia.

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Friends and relatives have never observed sign of mental disorder in Anders Behring Breivik. Psychologists, psychiatrists and doctors at the prison in which he has been incarcerated since July 22 concur. – Aftenposten

The Ministry of Health aims to put Portuguese legislation in line with some of the most restrictive smoking bans in Europe.

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Total ban on smoking in enclosed places – Diário de Notícias

Dissident republican group Óglaigh na hÉireann says it is behind the bomb which was planted inside the car of a British soldier in north Belfast, and which was later defused.

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Dissident bomb attack on soldier – The Belfast Telegraph

The government has launched a plan to recover €8,171 billion from the black economy and from tax havens and to put a cap on certain cash transactions.

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Offensive against fraud – La Razón

The heart of international finance is threatened by both the crisis and also by the increasingly restrictive rules that politicians in London and Europe are seeking to impose, argues the business weekly.

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Save the City – The Economist

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