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Germany
Call us Nazis if it makes you happy
3 February 201214Die Zeit Hamburg
Protestors outside German embassy in Athens in 2011 demanding reparations for Nazi Germany's occupation of Greece during WW2. – Kostas Tsironis/AP/SIPA
France’s second city will be European capital of culture in 2013. But for the moment, news from Marseille is dominated by feuds among Kalashnikov toting drug dealers who hold sway over entire neighbourhoods. In brief
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Eurozone crisis
Beijing tells Merkel “to do her homework”
3 February 20125PresseuropHandelsblatt
Cartoon of the day
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2 February 2012Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
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Eurozone crisis
Save the ECB from the danger of Greece
2 February 20124De Tijd Antwerp -
2 February 201212PresseuropLe Monde, Le Figaro, La Croix, Libération
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2 February 2012PresseuropNépszava
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2 February 2012
2 February 2012PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza, Le Temps, Jurnalul Naţional & 4 others -
1 February 2012Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
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Economic crisis
Poverty trap for middle classes of Europe
1 February 20129El País Madrid -
1 February 2012Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw
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Fiscal treaty
Ireland begins bitter referendum debate
1 February 20123PresseuropThe Irish Times -
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1 February 2012
1 February 2012PresseuropIl Sole-24 Ore, Jornal de Notícias, Hospodářské noviny & 4 others -
Slovakia
A Gorilla tearing down the system
1 February 20125Respekt Prague -
31 January 2012Le Temps Geneva
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European Council
The Don Quixotes of Brussels
31 January 201240El País Madrid -
European Council
Angela Merkel has gone too far
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Fiscal compact
Prague keeps its distance
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EU Summit
Poland not 100% happy
31 January 2012PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna -
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31 January 2012
31 January 2012PresseuropFinancial Times Deutschland, Mladá Fronta DNES, Gazeta Wyborcza & 4 others -
30 January 2012De Volkskrant Amsterdam
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Eurozone crisis
No-one wants a German budget commissar
30 January 201260PresseuropPúblico, Le Monde, Ta Nea & 2 others -
30 January 201214Libération Paris
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Italy
Relax, Germans!
30 January 201222Die Zeit Hamburg -
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30 January 2012
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27 January 2012Kathimerini Athens
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27 January 20123Politiken Copenhagen
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Editorial
Go for it, Angela
27 January 20124Presseurop
A Greek default can still not be ruled out, and it would place the European Central Bank in considerable danger. To avoid this, states should pay up and provide guarantees, believes economist Melvyn Krauss. 
A probable candidate for re-election, the French President seems intent on proposing an economic project calqued on the German model — a strategy which has surprised the French press. 
Unemployment has hit record levels in the EU, putting nearly a quarter of those Europeans who until now had a decent standard of living at risk of sliding into social exclusion. The phenomenon is undermining the EU’s strategies against poverty. 
Tennis player Victoria Azarenka, the recent winner of the Australian Open, is now one of the few Belarusians known outside her country. A PR opportunity for the dictator of Minsk. 
Explosive and mysterious, a file named “Gorilla” contains evidence of corruption in Slovakia’s political and economic elite. Two months away from early parliamentary elections, who stands to benefit from the revelations? 
At best, the measures adopted at the January 30 summit – the fiscal treaty and the economic growth plan – are meant, at best, to overcome the mistakes of the past year and a half, says columnist Xavier Vidal-Folch. At worst, they’re part of a recurring sham.
The idea of pinning the second Greek bail-out on the acceptance by Athens of supervision by a European budget commissioner, a German proposal unveiled on the eve of the January 30 European Council meeting, is nothing less than a violation of state sovereignty, according to the European press. 
While negotiations on the write-down of Greek debt remain ongoing, Athens city hall is supplying two meals a day to jobless workers who are now threatened with famine in the wake of austerity measures: a situation that some Greeks readily compare with the occupation of the country during World War 2. 
Italy has long cursed Germany as a know-it-all, and yet respects it as the head of the class. With the arrival of the very proper Mr Monti this is changing, and Berlin will have to get used to some lessons from Rome. 
Can the radical manifesto of the killer of Oslo and Utøya really be staged? A theatre project in Copenhagen has raised strong protests in Norway and Denmark. But hearing the words of Breivik’s Manifesto 2083 is vital for understanding our times, responds its director, Christian Lollike.