Europe Weekly: Pope Francis takes over at the Vatican

By Euronews

Published on 16/03/2013 - 11:43•Updated 09/12/2019 - 10:08

The Catholic Church has a new leader: the election of Pope Francis dominated this week’s top stories and overshadowed the EU summit.

Talks focused on measures to soften tough austerity measures as unions demonstrated outside the European Council.

That and other stories in this edition of Europe Weekly.

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