Today's front pages

SMER (social-democrat) leader Robert Fico returns to power after a two year hiatus and promises to revoke the outgoing government's liberal reforms. The far-right with which he previously governed failed to win a single seat in parliament.

Slovaks have chosen a populist – Gazeta Wyborcza

Hid-Most enters parliament, the Hungarian Coalition Party has failed: Of the two parties of the Hungarian-minority - Hid-Most and the Hungarian Coalition Party, representing 10-12% of the Slovakian population - only the former, which also presented Slovak candidates, crossed the 5% threshold needed to sit in parliament (7%). The latter party with only Hungarian minority candidates and supported by the ruling Fidesz party in Budapest, obtained only 3.9% of the vote.

Fico can govern alone – Magyar Hírlap

Even if Athens has reached agreement with its private creditors on restructuring its debt, the prospect of default remains real. While waiting on how investors will react, the Austrian daily wonders whether "financial crash 2.0 lies ahead."

Days of truth – Die Presse

Seven of Europe’s leading aviation companies have joined forces to warn the European Union’s plans to charge for carbon pollution are jeopardising 2,000 jobs and billions of dollars of orders from China.

EU aviation groups hit at plans for carbon levy – Financial Times

Ahead of the general strike called for March 29, tens of thousands of people in sixty Spanish cities marched following a call of the country's main unions to protest the government labour law reforms.

Rehearsal on half-steam – ABC

20 years after the fall of the GDR, the Christian Democrat CDU and Social Democrat SPD agree on Germany's major political issues - an end to nuclear power, a minimum wage, quotas for women in companies and help to Greece.

The single German party – Handelsblatt

54% of young Poles do not want to have children. "Are we on the verge of a demographic catastrophe?" asks the weekly.

To have children or not – Wprost