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Eurovision 2012
Baku intent on buying respectability
25 May 20129Eesti Päevaleht Tallinn
Sweeping criticism under the carpet. Crystal Hall, the site of the Eurovision 2012 song contest, Baku Azerbaijan, May 21 2012. – AFP
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Profile
Is Alexis Tsirpas a danger for Europe?
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Humour
Even the gods can’t get their heads around this crisis
25 May 201216The Times London
The leader of Greece’s leftist alliance SYRIZA is the new bright hope of Greek politics. Steering a course between pragmatism and the rhetoric of class warfare, he has unsettled Berlin, and not just those who back Angela Merkel's austerity policies. 
Europe’s economic woes have forced us to try to understand the secret Olympian world of global finance. But now that we pay more attention to bond yields and stability mechanisms, isn’t it clear that the experts up on their lofty peaks don’t know what’s going on either? In brief
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Debate
Europe must choose
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25 May 2012PresseuropLe Monde
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Today's front pages
25 May 2012
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24 May 2012The Guardian London
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EU summit
A way out of the crisis begins here
24 May 2012108France Inter Paris -
Minorities
Roma still on the margins
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Finance
MEPs approve the Tobin tax
24 May 201211PresseuropLa Tribune, The Daily Telegraph -
Today's front pages
24 May 2012
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EU summit
Growth — the new magic word
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23 May 2012Le Monde Paris
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23 May 201210PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau
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23 May 20122PresseuropEUobserver.com, Rue89
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EU summit
Hour of truth has come for Europe
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Today's front pages
23 May 2012
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22 May 2012Le Temps Geneva
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Eurozone crisis
Don’t isolate the Germans
22 May 2012226The Independent London -
Greek crisis
“Geuros” to save Athens
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22 May 201213PresseuropLe Monde, Le Temps
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22 May 2012Die Zeit Hamburg
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Today's front pages
22 May 2012
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21 May 20124PresseuropDanas, Politika, Blic & 2 others
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21 May 201243El País Madrid
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21 May 2012Trouw Amsterdam
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21 May 20128Aftonbladet Stockholm
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Today's front pages
21 May 2012
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Editorial
No way out?
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18 May 2012Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
In their discussion on common investment and eurobonds at an extraordinary summit on 23 May, the EU27 set aside the opposition between “virtuous” and “spendthrift” states and took a further step towards economic integration. 
In recent months, EU leaders from all spectrums have embraced the notion of "growth". But how can it be generated? Although a practical discussion on this issue has not yet really arisen, infrastructure projects could perhaps be part of a solution to the crisis. 
Let Greece leave the euro? Save Spain’s banks? Continue to stand fast on austerity, or give growth a chance? Plenty of questions that the leaders of the eurozone, meeting at the extraordinary summit on May 23, will have to find answers to if they want to preserve Europeans’ faith in the common project. 
In helping to bail out struggling eurozone economies, Angela Merkel has already gone well beyond what her electorate wants. And the eurobonds France’s new president François Hollande is pushing for might just be a step too far. 
Revolt against data retention, distrust of Google and Facebook: in all things Internet, Germany is an “emerging nation”, says Sascha Lobo. The best-known blogger and Internet pioneer in the country is going through something similar. He is sought after – and hated. 
In an unexpected result, nationalist Tomislav Nikolić has defeated the outgoing Boris Tadić to become the new president of Serbia. At a time when the country is a candidate to join the EU, his election will likely have an impact on relations between Belgrade and Brussels. 
At the G8 in Camp David, the richest countries have agreed to boost growth, particularly in Europe. This requires a radical change in tack from the austerity policies pushed so far. Are the leaders ready? 
Triumphant a decade ago, today social democrats have been voted out office in most European countries — a change that is due to a lack of new proposals, but also and more importantly to the right’s appropriation of the language and ideas of social democracy. 