Fortune: Ex-Deutsche Bank, Nomura Officials Get Jail Time in Monte dei Paschi Collusion Case

Mark Blyth: “The continuing idiocy of the EU’s fiscal rules in an era of underinvestment and climate change. Madness on stilts”. Read HERE

AKP supporters wanted to ‘punish’ the government for economic and political failures, say analysts Read HERE Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – Photo: US State Department

Iñigo Urkullu is president of the Basque government: “I cannot understand or share Madrid’s approach to either Basque autonomy or the Catalan crisis”, nor  apparently the EU’s role in the Catalan crisis. Read here