Press digest

The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press.

Times of Malta says the unused marquee erected near the Hagar Qim temples for a CHOGM dinner meant €100,000 went with the wind. It also says there are 220 deaths from air pollution every year.

The Malta Independent leads with comments yesterday that there is no need for a referendum on the proposed Gozo tunnel.

MaltaToday carries warnings made at a KPMG conference about dark clouds over Malta's financial services industry.

In-Nazzjon reports that hundreds are to lose their job at De La Rue security printers.

l-orizzont, on the same theme says the workers' interests are priority for the GWU. It also quotes Joseph Muscat saying Malta needs to be more creative in financial services.

The overseas press

The Daily Express reports open borders in Europe under the Schengen agreement could be scrapped after it was revealed fugitive Paris terror attacker, Salah Abdeslam, could have crossed up to six European borders to escape to Syria. Politicians across the EU have called for an immediate halt to the continent’s refugee programme.

France 24 says the trial began in Paris yesterday of seven suspected Islamists, including...