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Feb 18, 2023, 5 tweets

🇪🇺 European Front Pages 18/02/23

Welcome to the weekend people.

Here's what the papers have in store for us on the continent, should we find ourselves at some continental Bistro by accident when we wake up.

#TomorrowsPapersToday

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FR 🇫🇷 - Le Figaro

POWER LOSS: EDF published bleak financials yesterday, with the fallout of how the French govt handled the energy crisis resulting in them showing a nearly €18bn loss in 2022, giving them a total debt of nearly €65bn.

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DE 🇩🇪 - Bild

FLUG ZONK: An airport workers strike in Germany resulted in more than 2,300 flights having to be cancelled, and over 300,000 passengers travel plans ruined.

The workers in strike are wanting a 10.5% pay increase.

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Also in Bild 🇩🇪

EUROZO-NO GO: Bulgaria has decided to not rollout the use of the Euro currency in 2024 as planned, with high inflation listed as one of the reasons for the delay.

Croatians, who adopted the currency in January, have complained of price rises due to it.

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MT 🇲🇹 - Times of Malta

SAUSAGE FEST: For the first time in recorded history in Malta, census data has shown that there are more men than women in the country, at over 52% of the population.

The shift in demographic is attributed to an influx of foreign nationals.

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