Italy
Italian front pages were preoccupied with the ongoing coalition talks between the 5Star Movement and the League. Il Gazzettino and La Repubblica both reported that the two parties had agreed on a mutually acceptable prime minister and will present their name, along with a proposed Cabinet, to President Sergio Mattarella Monday.
Spain
El País led with the PSOE’s “somber anniversary,” pointing to the party’s poor showing in opinion polls a year after Pedro Sánchez won the leadership primary. El Mundo focused on Pablo Iglesias, the pony-tailed leader of Spain’s leftist anti-austerity Podemos party, who is embroiled in a scandal over his purchase of a lavish home with his partner Irene Montero. The papers also reported on the latest from Catalonia, after Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy won political backing to maintain direct control over the region until its new leader, Joaquim Torra, agrees not to appoint secessionist politicians who are in pre-trial detention or in self-imposed exile to his Cabinet.
United Kingdom
The royal wedding made the splash in the Sun, the Mail, the Mirror, the Express, the Metro and the Telegraph. The Mail, which promised “the definitive story of that wedding,” featured coverage of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s nuptials on pages 1 through 31. Markle clearly won over the Daily Express, which referred to her as “our dazzling new duchess” in its headline. Other papers focused on a new report by the U.K. House of Commons foreign affairs committee, which accused the government of turning a “blind eye” to “dirty” Russian money flowing through London. City A.M. illustrated its story with a photo of the London skyline tinted red, with the headline “MPs call for clampdown on Russian ‘dirty money.'”
France
Le Figaro splashed on the Euroskeptic governing coalition taking shape in Italy, which the paper wrote will “alarm Europe.” The paper also ran an op-ed titled: “Theater in Italy.” Ouest France focused on the shortage of priests in the French countryside.
