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Despite warnings from Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble about a negative market reaction, the German Constitutional Court has decided to "consider carefully" complaints against the fiscal pact and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), which should have come into force on 1 July. The decision could now be put back to late summer.
Karlsruhe refuses quick euro decision – Süddeutsche Zeitung
The Polish state and companies are to invest 500 million zlotys (€125 million) each to Polish shale gas technologies. The government has hailed the agreement which is to be signed today as “an experiment that should encourage industry to co-finance new technologies”. Until now, Polish companies have preferred to buy modern technologies abroad.
A billion in shale – Gazeta Wyborcza
Italian premier Mario Monti has announced that he will not continue his political career after his technocratic government’s term of office expires in 2013, when a general election is due. He will return to his academic job and remain a life-long senator.
“I will not stay beyond 2013” – La Stampa
British PM David Cameron finally met French president François Hollande in Downing Street yesterday, after snubbing the latter during his presidential campaign earlier this year. "We need to develop a multi-speed Europe, each to his own pace, taking what he wants from the Union, respectful of other countries," said Francois Hollande, facing British reluctance towards European integration.
Hollande for a multi-speed Europe – Le Figaro
A study commissioned by the Ministry of Health shows that the 2002 law legalising euthanasia has not led to an increase in cases (4,050 in 2010, representing 2.9% of all deaths). "International fears are therefore invalid," the Amsterdam daily writes, noting that the law has increased transparency.
Law doesn't lead to more euthanasia – De Volkskrant
British PM David Cameron cancelled a vote on House of Lords reform last night. He pulled a key vote hours before his own party’s MPs were set to inflict a huge defeat on deputy PM Nick Clegg’s reforms for the upper house. The bill intended to ensure that 80% of members of a slimmed-down chamber are elected by 2025.
Cameron blinks first – The Times
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Hungarian state to pay €9,000 in compensation to a civil servant for unfair dismissal. In October 2010 Viktor Orbán's government passed a law allowing civil service dismissals without due motive. While the opposition described the move as a "political purge", the Hungarian Constitutional Court ruled it unconstitutional. The dismissals continued nevertheless.
Europe has done justice – Népszabadság
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