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Italy: 'Letta stops IMU and party money'

On April 29, Italy’s new coalition government, headed by Enrico Letta (Democratic Party), was approved by the lower house of the parliament with 453 votes […]

30 April 2013
361
Presseurop
Corriere della Sera
Cyprus: ‘Tough dilemma with only one choice’

On April 30, the Cypriot parliament is expected to approve by a narrow majority the memorandum signed with the EU-ECB-IMF troika of international creditors and […]

30 April 2013
18
Presseurop
Politis
Serbia-Croatia: Melting of the 'ice age'

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić’s April 29 visit to Zagreb has marked a thaw in Serbian-Croatian relations, which had been deadlocked in the wake […]

30 April 2013
29
Presseurop
Danas
France-Germany: ‘Berlin declares France a problem state’

“The honeymoon is over. Franco-German relations have been cooled by the euro crisis,” remarks the business daily. “In the wake of the harsh criticism of the […]

30 April 2013
33927
Presseurop
Handelsblatt
Netherlands: ‘Idiotic, but not so bad after all’

On the day of the abdication of Queen Beatrix and the accession to the throne of her son Willem-Alexander, 46, the newspaper enumerates “seven reasons […]

30 April 2013
221
Presseurop
De Volkskrant
Iceland: ‘Mandate from president expected today’

On April 30, three days after general elections, Icelandic president Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson will appoint a prime minister charged with the task of forming of […]

30 April 2013
20
Presseurop
Morgunblaðið
Poland: ‘The end of Gowin’s mission’

Prime Minister Donald Tusk has fired Justice Minister Jarosław Gowin after just a year and a half in the role. “I don’t have time to […]

30 April 2013
24
Presseurop
Rzeczpospolita
European Commission: From Dalligate to Olafgate?

It appears the corruption scandal that cost Maltese politician John Dalli his job as European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy is beginning to backfire […]

29 April 2013
391
Presseurop
The Times of Malta
France-Germany: ‘The big chill’

Tensions between France and Germany rose yet another notch on Friday, after months of clashing over which policies to adopt in order to end the […]

29 April 2013
14949
Presseurop
Le Figaro, Le Monde
Belgium: ‘Royal family: should we copy the Netherlands?’

Tomorrow, 46-year-old Willem Alexander is set to take over the throne of the Netherlands from his mother, Queen Beatrix. For Belgians, the succession of the Prince […]

29 April 2013
259
Presseurop
Le Soir
Austria: ‘Tyrol elections: only losers’

In April 28 regional parliamentary elections, the conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) maintained its position as the leading party in the Austrian state, with 39.6 […]

29 April 2013
21
Presseurop
Die Presse
Spain: ‘Rajoy demands “patience”’

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy "will not change anything: neither the government or its economic strategy," remarks El Mundo, in the wake of meetings Granada […]

29 April 2013
405
Presseurop
El Mundo
Iceland: ‘Waiting for Sigmund and Bjarni’

April 27's general elections concluded with the defeat of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir’s social-democratic government and the return to power of the centre right. With 26.7 per […]

29 April 2013
242
Presseurop
Fréttablaðið
Poland: ‘Let us forgive ourselves’

Ahead of the 70th anniversary of the Wołyń massacre, priests of the Ukrainian Church Council are calling on Poles and Ukrainians to once again express […]

29 April 2013
458
Presseurop
Gazeta Wyborcza
Italy: ‘“I wanted to kill politicians”’

As Italy’s new government was being sworn in at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome on the morning of April 28, a man opened fire […]

29 April 2013
334
Presseurop
La Repubblica
European Union: ‘Shadow hangs over Europe’s fraud investigators’

The 2012 Activity Report of the OLAF Supervisory Committee has added to “doubts about the work of the European Anti-fraud Office,” remarks Die Presse — […]

26 April 2013
622
Presseurop
Die Presse
Serbia-Bosnia: ‘On my knees I ask forgiveness for the crime of Srebrenica’

In an interview broadcast by national television in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić apologised for the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre. “It was a […]

26 April 2013
715
Presseurop
Oslobođenje
European Union: ‘Merkel austerity comments highlight eurozone division on interest rates’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reopened the divisive issue of bank interest rate policy by saying that Germany would ideally need higher rates than would suit […]

26 April 2013
3133
Presseurop
Financial Times
Spain: ‘Now something must be done’

According to figures published on April 25 by the Spanish National Statistics Institute, there were 6.2 million unemployed (the equivalent of 27.19 percent of the […]

26 April 2013
847
Presseurop
Cinco Días
Portugal: ‘Cavaco Silva’s appeal to consensus causes break with the Left’

"It is useless to win or lose elections," if you keep the mood of unease, President Aníbal Cavaco Silva said during his speech to mark […]

26 April 2013
394
Presseurop
Público
France: ‘France has never had so many unemployed’

The number of jobless reached 3.224 million in March, the equivalent of 10.2 per cent of the workforce. Unemployment has increased by 11.5 per cent […]

26 April 2013
8812
Presseurop
Le Figaro
European Union: Stalled and in crisis

The fourth issue of Europa, the supplement jointly produced by Gazeta Wyborcza, The Guardian, Le Monde, El País, La Stampa and Süddeutsche Zeitung, focuses on […]

25 April 2013
9048
Presseurop
Free movement: Switzerland keeps door closed on Europeans

Switzerland decided on April 24 to extend, for a year, its quota system on long-term work permits to all citizens of the European Union (with […]

25 April 2013
10018
Presseurop
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Le Temps
Diplomacy: Europe still has no single foreign policy voice

European External Action Service (EEAS) boss Catherine Ashton has failed. The EU has not spoken with a single voice on any key foreign affairs issue […]

25 April 2013
6810
Presseurop
Rzeczpospolita
Germany: ‘Karlsruhe imposes limits on secret services’

The German Constitutional Court decided on April 23 to impose a strict separation between the work of the police and intelligence services. For the Karlsruhe based […]

25 April 2013
291
Presseurop
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Sweden: ‘New Russian Air Force incident’

“The Russian military has once again taken Sweden by surprise,” writes Svenska Dagbladet, which reports on another apparent incursion into its airspace, in the wake […]

25 April 2013
5527
Presseurop
Svenska Dagbladet
Spain: ‘Supreme Court president endorses pressure outside homes’

In a recent radio interview, Spanish Supreme Court President Gonzalo Moliner has said that “‘escraches’, or demonstrations to shame officials that are often held outside […]

25 April 2013
56
Presseurop
El Mundo
Economy: ‘Car industry: freeze on European market’

The European car market is weak and the outlook for 2014 is poor, points out La Tribune. The quarterly figures reported by carmakers are cause […]

25 April 2013
293
Presseurop
La Tribune
Portugal: ‘Free to protest against this government’s wrongheaded policies. April 25’

On the 39th anniversary of the Portuguese revolution, which brought to an end a dictatorship government that ruled the country for 41 years, demonstrations are […]

25 April 2013
403
Presseurop
O Primeiro de Janeiro
Italy: ‘Letta government, the PDL conundrum’

Caretaker leader of the Democratic Party (PD) Enrico Letta, 46, was given a mandate from President Giorgio Napolitano on April 24 to form a government […]

25 April 2013
282
Presseurop
La Stampa
Czech Republic: ‘Nečas and Kalousek make a U-turn. Severe austerity is over’

“The government will increase spending as it will raise more money thanks to lower interest rates,” writes Hospodářské Noviny, noting that Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek […]

25 April 2013
26
Presseurop
Hospodářské Noviny
EU-United States: Film-makers defend European cultural exception

A petition signed by 80 European film-makers demanding that Brussels exclude audiovisual media from negotiations on a free trade agreement between the EU and the […]

24 April 2013
764
Presseurop
Les Echos
Scotland: UK cashes in on independence fears

A new report published on April 23 by the UK Treasury on what currency Scotland would use should Scots choose to separate from the rest […]

24 April 2013
6216
Presseurop
Financial Times, The Herald
Spain: ‘Royal household to publish expenses’

“For the first time in history,” reports the newspaper, the Spanish royal family’s accounts will be made public following the coming into force of new […]

24 April 2013
38
Presseurop
El País
Moldova: ‘Iurie Leancă appointed acting prime minister of Moldova’

President Nicolae Timofti appointed Deputy Prime Minister Iurie Leancă, of the Liberal Democrat Party (PLDM) to lead the government on April 23, following the Constitutional […]

24 April 2013
29
Presseurop
Timpul
Netherlands: ‘PvdA erupts in rebellion over illegal migrants’

Several thousand members of the Labour Party (PvdA), including a number of mayors, and members of the PvdA youth section, the Young Socialists (JS), have […]

24 April 2013
751
Presseurop
De Volkskrant
Economy: ‘Germany defends austerity against EU’

José Manuel Barroso’s remarks to the effect that “austerity policies have reached their limits” have attracted the ire of the ruling Christian Democrat (CDU) and […]

24 April 2013
10554
Presseurop
Die Welt
France: ‘Europe homo+’

After several months of heated debate, on April 23, the French National Assembly definitively authorised marriage and adoption for same-sex couples, when it passed controversial […]

24 April 2013
383
Presseurop
Gazeta Wyborcza
Economy: ‘Europe: heading for an end to austerity?’

Now that the pace of cleanup policies has been criticised in “the very temples of economic discipline,” notably by European Commission President, José Manuel Barroso, […]

24 April 2013
607
Presseurop
Libération
Italy: ‘Amato ahead, Letta is close’

After being re-elected as president of the Italian Republic on April 20, Giorgio Napolitano is expected to approve the formation of a new government as […]

24 April 2013
22
Presseurop
Corriere della Sera
EU-Serbia: EU accession, but not overnight

“Berlin and Paris put the brakes on Serbian accession to the EU,” headlines Die Presse, in the wake of a European Commission decision to recommend […]

23 April 2013
652
Presseurop
Die Presse, EUobserver.com
Romania-United Kingdom: The great misconception

"London–Bucharest: chronology of a misunderstanding," runs the headline on the cover of Romanian weekly Dilema Veche, referring to a story on the complicated relations between […]

23 April 2013
624
Presseurop
Dilema Veche, Gandul, BBC News
EU-Syria: Brussels lifts embargo on Syrian rebels’ oil

The European Union eased sanctions against Syrian rebel-controlled areas on April 22, approving trade in Syrian oil and related industries, writes the European Voice. […]

23 April 2013
25
Presseurop
European Voice
Germany: ‘Steinbrück-Hoeneß 0:0’

Hoeneß has the ball, but then Bavaria fluffs a pass to Switzerland, and Steinbrück regains possession right in front of the posts. This […]

23 April 2013
366
Presseurop
Die Tageszeitung
Spain: ‘Brussels offers Spain two more years to reduce deficit to 3%’

Spain closed 2012 with the biggest shortfall in deficit reduction targets in Europe, with the public deficit reaching 10.6 per cent of GDP — including […]

23 April 2013
4121
Presseurop
El País
Poland: ‘By-election scare for Civic Platform’

A senate by-election victory in Rybnik for a candidate backed by the opposition Law and Order (PiS) party has sparked tangible unease in prime minister […]

23 April 2013
301
Presseurop
Rzeczpospolita
Liechtenstein: ‘Liechtenstein open to talks on automatic data exchange’

There has been another breakthrough in the drive to introduce automatic exchange of banking data. Following in the footsteps of Switzerland and Luxembourg, Liechtenstein has […]

23 April 2013
29
Presseurop
Volksblatt
France: ‘Vive les Mariés!’

On the day of the parliamentary vote on the law legalising same-sex marriage and marriage and adoption, Libération has invited the artists and romantic couple […]

23 April 2013
5811
Presseurop
Libération
European Union: ‘End of austerity’

Austerity “is not working” and may be replaced by a policy of quantitative easing, ie printing money, writes the daily, following comments made by European […]

23 April 2013
22384
Presseurop
Irish Independent
Italy: ‘Napolitano, ultimatum to the parties’

As new second-time president of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano took his oaths of office, he delivered a harsh scolding to the nation’s political parties […]

23 April 2013
29
Presseurop
La Stampa

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Europeans have made no use of the European citizenship they have had since 1992. Nice little sheep who allow themselves to be shorn, they continue to place their trust in national parties who are fully focused on their national electoral advantage.

alcofribas on ‘Eurozone mired in recession’

The government debt of the GIPSIC countries is around € 3 tn. The bank debt of the GIPSIC banks is around € 9 tn. Banking union is a step in the right direction but given those numbers it has to be done with extreme care.

gero42 on New test for the Eurozone

Neither East Germany nor the other Eastern Bloc countries have managed a genuine moral examination of their pasts. But it is relatively easy to distinguish those who participated in the system for its privileges, those who betrayed others and those who were simply protecting themselves.

preda on A chancellor made in the GDR