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BelgiumEurope rejects the budget
The European Commission considers that the projected 2.8% deficit in the 2012 draft budget for Belgium is too optimistic.
Original article in De Morgen nl LinkDe Morgen Brussels -
HungaryHungary threatened with bankruptcy
Original article in Financial Times Deutschland de LinkFinancial Times Deutschland Hamburg -
NorwayFriends 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.
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.
Original article in Aftenposten no LinkAftenposten Oslo -
PortugalTotal ban on smoking in enclosed places
The Ministry of Health aims to put Portuguese legislation in line with some of the most restrictive smoking bans in Europe.
Original article in Diário de Notícias pt LinkDiário de Notícias Lisbon -
Northern IrelandDissident bomb attack on soldier
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.
Original article in The Belfast Telegraph en LinkThe Belfast Telegraph Belfast -
SpainOffensive against fraud
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.
Original article in La Razón es LinkLa Razón Madrid -
United KingdomSave the City
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.
Original article in The Economist en LinkThe Economist London
