German Chancellor has called on the new Spanish PM to implement "quick" reforms while ratings agency Fitch demands "a quick and ambitious plan to surprise markets positively."
Merkel and rating agencies give Rajoy homework – Público
Italy's new Prime Minister has visited Brussels to confirm that Italy will have a balanced budget in 2012 and to argue the case for eurobonds.
Monti to EU: Italy will succeed – La Repubblica
All parties in Germany's Bundestag expressed solidarity with the victims of the neo-Nazi cell which killed 9 immigrants in the last decade and promised that more light would be shed on this matter.
Democrats united against right-wing shit – Die Tageszeitung
The Danish National Church (Protestant) will allow same-sex couples to marry in church. The government is shortly to legislate on gay marriages.
Gays allowed to say "I do" in church – Politiken
Romanian parliament finally passes a law on stray dogs, a veritable scourge in urban areas. Mayors must now put down strays or have them placed in the care of specialist NGOs.
150,000 stray dogs at the mercy of mayors – Evenimentul zilei
PKO and PZU (respectively Poland’s largest bank and insurance company, both partly state-owned) are ready to buy out foreign-owned Polish banks, Rzeczpospolita reveals.
Banking reconquista – Rzeczpospolita
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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