More than 2,000 Britons in Monaco are costing the UK economy £1 billion (€1.24 billion) a year in lost tax revenue. In an investigation into large scale tax avoidance, the daily reveals “the scale of activity in the principality, where a wealthy elite reaps the benefits of British assets and connections, but escapes the levies that apply to other citizens.”
The Monaco problem – The Times
In the April-June period the number of people in work fell by nearly 14,000. Ireland’s actual workforce stands at 1.78 million, 357,000 fewer people since employment peaked in 2007. Factors such as mass emigration, however, some 35,000-40,000 in the last year, mean that the unemployment rate remains stable at 14.8%.
Increasing jobless figures dash hopes of growth – The Irish Times
In response to suspected corruption in the handling of its funds, the EU decided in early August to freeze payments to Romania. Disabled children, orphans and the unemployed are among those affected by the suspension of about 3,000 aid progammes. The government will spend 75 million euros to compensate for this loss.
Shock wave of fraud with EU money – România libera
Led by German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle, the Future of Europe Group's proposals include sanctions against countries that do not respect "fundamental European values". In Budapest, it is estimated that these provisions are aimed primarily at Hungary and Romania.
In the club the rules must be respected – Népszava
Hicham C., leader of the radical Islamist movement Sharia4Belgium, has been arrested in the wake of violent protests in Antwerp against the Islam-baiting film The Innocence of Muslims. He is accused of incitement to hatred and violence against non-Muslims and of fomenting unrest. His predecessor and the founder of the movement, Fouad Belkacem, has been imprisoned since June.
Sharia chief in prison – De Standaard
Radislav Krstić, a former general in the Bosnian Serbian Army and war criminal sentenced to 35 years of imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, will be transferred to a Polish prison in a matter of weeks. The Tribunal has asked Poland to accept the war criminal as no prison in Western Europe can guarantee his safety.
The Hague gives us a prisoner – Gazeta Wyborcza
Despite the crisis in the Italian press, a new print daily called Pubblico has been launched. In favour of radical generational and social change, it leads today with the story of a two-father Italian couple who married in Switzerland and had three children with a foreign surrogate mother. Two issues which are controversial in Italy, and deeply divide the left, six months ahead of general elections.
This is a family – Pubblico
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