The Spanish daily criticises the wildcat strikes in the UK after French company Total hired Italian and Portuguese workers in Lyndsey oil refinery. It talks of a rise in xenophobia in Britain with a picture of workers holding the sign PUT BRITISH WORKERS FIRST. The piece says the UK used to fancy itself as a model of ultra liberalism…but now the right is growing and the BNP is becoming more popular.

Intolerance is growing in Italy as the government takes a hard line on illegal immigrants. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni from far-right party Northern League is talking tough, saying the government will multiply military presence in cities by ten and blaming illegal immigrants for a rise in petty crime. Italy is a country that historically had few immigrants, but in the last ten years there’s been an influx of African illegal immigrants and they don’t quite know what to do with them.

Prime Minister Francois Fillon has unveiled a classic stimulus package, by encouraging job creation with big public projects. It’s coming under fire from the left for not giving people spending power. Libération gives ten alternatives to the government's stimulus package, including banning banker's bonuses, boosting the minimum wage and and targeted lowering of VAT. The spread shows the polarisation between left and right. For Libération, Sarkozy can do no right.

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