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Youth unemployment: The ‘lost generation’ left by the wayside
22 May 201323428 Der Spiegel Hamburg
“We want more education,” “Youth unemployment 40 percent”: students demonstrate against education cuts in Portugal, February 2013. – AFP
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Eurozone: The troika pulls its separate ways
22 May 2013367 Le Monde Paris
Hitched together at the outset of the Greek crisis, the three-part team of the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission did the heavy pulling in the bailouts of European countries in crisis. Since then, though, strains among the three institutions have grown more severe. In brief
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New euro banknotes: €5 won’t buy you a soda
22 May 2013518PresseuropLa Repubblica -
European Council: The difficult union against tax evasion
22 May 2013351PresseuropLibération, Der Standard
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European Union: ‘EU aims to create jobs with cheaper energy’
22 May 2013362PresseuropDer Standard -
Hungary: ‘Orbán’s dilemma with Merkel’
22 May 2013248PresseuropNépszabadság -
Germany: ‘Evaders turn themselves in: 6 million euros more for Berlin’
22 May 201325PresseuropBerliner Morgenpost -
Greece: ‘Crisis tolls for 200,000 workers’
22 May 2013641PresseuropTo Ethnos -
Far right: ‘Alien, get out of Greece’
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European Union: ‘To the polls on Sunday May 25 2014’
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Ireland: ‘Ireland labelled a “tax haven” as US Senate investigates Apple’s offshore strategies’
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Crime: The war against the organic mafia
21 May 201393912 Die Tageszeitung Berlin -
European Commission: Member states want to keep their commissioners
21 May 20136311PresseuropDer Spiegel -
United Kingdom: Dashing hopes of nuptial bliss
21 May 201334 The Independent London -
Jersey: Treasure island caught in the searchlight
21 May 201315337 El País Madrid -
Cyprus: Money launderers still not hung to dry
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Liechtenstein : ‘Financial centre benefits from success of agreement with Great Britain’
21 May 2013455PresseuropVolksblatt -
Germany: ‘CDU demands ban on GDR symbols’
21 May 2013603PresseuropBerliner Morgenpost -
Romania: ‘Becali finally pays for the greatest ever swindle of the state’
21 May 2013378PresseuropRomânia libera -
Dalligate: ‘EC president sticks to decision on Dalli’
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Italy: ‘Anti-Grillo law becomes an issue’
21 May 20134817PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Sweden: ‘Riots continue’
21 May 20131006PresseuropDagens Nyheter -
EU-China: ‘Europe-China: Trade war is declared’
21 May 201310119PresseuropLe Figaro -
Interview: Antonio Tajani: ‘Make industry a central priority for recovery’
20 May 201350PresseuropBlog -
Economy: The European gas plant
20 May 201341 Khaleej Times Dubaï -
Moldova: Europe Day with an eye to Moscow
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European Council: Casting shadows on energy policy
20 May 201317815 Le Figaro Paris -
Poland: The Russians who shop gaily in Gdańsk
20 May 201321211 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Arms: European drones take direct hit
20 May 2013739PresseuropLibération, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Fraud in the organic farming sector has become a thriving international industry made up of a complex network of companies that bears all the marks of traditional organised crime.
The EU has taken the fight against tax havens seriously, as shown by the May 22 leader summit to discuss tax evasion. But the clean-up should start at home, where territories such as the British Channel Island of Jersey prosper under the shelter of traditional political ambiguity. 
From a lack of investment to an underdeveloped renewable energy sector, plus competition from American coal: the domestic energy market faces a slew of obstacles. This is driving concerned European groups begin to put the EU under pressure. 
There have probably not been so many Russians in Gdańsk since the spring of 1945. Most are Kaliningrad residents, crossing the border to shop. It’s largely a one-way trade that sees about €20m a month flow out of the Russian exclave into Poland.