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Greece: ‘Cold War for €54bn’

The issue of German reparations to Greece for the Nazi occupation during World War II is creating new tensions between the two countries. While German Finance […]

12 April 2013
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Ta Nea
Cyprus: ‘Appeal to Olli Rehn’

On the eve of the Eurogroup meeting in Dublin on April 12-13, which will notably finalise the details of the Cypriot bailout, Greek President Nicos […]

12 April 2013
3312
Presseurop
O Phileleftheros
Austria: ‘Banking secrecy: Paris threatens Vienna with black list’

“France is piling pressure on Austria over tax evasion,” reports the Viennese daily. On April 11, French Budget Minister Bernard Cazeneuve declared that countries that do […]

12 April 2013
397
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Der Standard
France: ‘Austerity: Keine Alternative?’

Notwithstanding the recent public criticism of the socialist government’s austerity policies by a number of cabinet ministers, President François Hollande has reiterated his commitment to […]

12 April 2013
377
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Libération
Belgium: ‘This is the first time that Belgians are fighting alongside Al-Qaeda’

The mayors of Antwerp, Mechelen and Vilvoorde met with Dutch and Belgian security experts on April 10 to discuss the question of Flemish muslims travelling […]

12 April 2013
442
Presseurop
Gazet van Antwerpen
Spain: ‘39,000 families lost their mortgaged homes in 2012’

According to a report from the College of Property Registrars on the impact of mortgage default, the country’s banks filed for 65,000 foreclosures in 2012, […]

12 April 2013
1263
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La Vanguardia
United Kingdom: ‘New report: Scots paying more tax than rest of UK’

Average Scottish tax revenues per person exceeded those of the UK as a whole each year during the last 30 years when a proportion of […]

12 April 2013
454
Presseurop
The Herald
Germany: ‘MPs put court under pressure’

On the initiative of three MPs of Turkish origin, 55 members of the German federal parliament have demanded that the trial of five members of […]

12 April 2013
3524
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Die Welt
Eurozone: The French patient isn’t feeling any better

"Serious but not really new," says French financial daily Les Echos regarding the European Commission's assessment of France in its report on the prevention and […]

11 April 2013
9313
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Les Echos
Switzerland: ‘Tax data: Switzerland again isolated in Europe’

The drive to combat tax evasion will be on the agenda at the meeting of Europe’s finance ministers to be held in Dublin on April […]

11 April 2013
56
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Le Temps
Italy: ‘Europe warns Italy’

The report on macroeconomic imbalances issued by the European Commission on April 10 underlines Italy’s “loss of competitiveness as well as high public indebtedness” while […]

11 April 2013
564
Presseurop
Corriere della Sera
Eurozone: ‘Malta’s financial system is safe — EU’

According to the European Commission’s report on the economies of Eurozone states, published on April 10, Malta is not facing an immediate risk of a […]

11 April 2013
461
Presseurop
The Times of Malta
European Union: Thatcher ‘to blame’ for British split on Europe

German former Chancellor Helmut Kohl has said that the views on Europe of the late UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher were the source of the […]

11 April 2013
437
Presseurop
The Times
Hungary: ‘Europe’s bulldog’

The weekly, which has close ties to Viktor Orbán’s government, devotes its front page to European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, Viviane Reding. The […]

11 April 2013
341
Presseurop
Heti Válasz
Portugal: ‘Eurogroup wants Gaspar to show detailed cost cutting measures’

The government has managed to convince the EU-IMF-ECB troika that it will be able to fill the €1.3bn hole in its public finances left by […]

11 April 2013
82
Presseurop
Diário económico
Poland: ‘Smolensk lie’

Former Polish president Lech Kaczyński and 95 other victims of the air crash in Smolensk on April 10, 2010 were killed as a result of […]

11 April 2013
412
Presseurop
Gazeta Wyborcza
Slovenia: Cyprus syndrome looms over Ljubljana

After Cyprus, will the next victim of the banking crisis be Slovenia, as has been feared for several months? While the situation of the Slovenian […]

10 April 2013
735
Presseurop
Večer, Financial Times, Le Temps
Tax havens: Bank deal pressures Austria and Luxembourg

Europe’s five largest economies – Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Spain – have signed a deal to automatically share bank details of account holders […]

10 April 2013
10610
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EUobserver.com, ABC
Germany: ‘Nazi mafia in German prisons’

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and police in the state of Hesse are investigating an attempt by several neo-Nazi prisoners in […]

10 April 2013
1104
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Bild
Eurozone: ‘Germans are “poorest” in Europe’

According to a survey by the European Central Bank, the average capital of a German household including the value of owned property was €51,400 euros […]

10 April 2013
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De Standaard
Denmark: ‘European Commissioner reprimands Denmark on privacy’

In an email addressed to Politiken, European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Viviane Reding has “accused the Danish government of stalling negotiations on […]

10 April 2013
343
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Politiken
Germany: ‘Historic compromise on final nuclear waste storage site’

The federal government and Germany’s 16 states have reached agreement on a project to seek a site for a final deep-level nuclear waste storage dump. A […]

10 April 2013
303
Presseurop
Der Tagesspiegel
United Kingdom: ‘A nation disunited in mourning’

Police fears that the April 17 funeral for former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher will be targeted by protesters are triggering a security clampdown. Officers are […]

10 April 2013
674
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The Independent
Spain: ‘Andalusia seizes housing belonging to banks to curb evictions’

The Andalusian regional government, a coalition between the Socialist Workers Party and the United Left, is taking control of properties belonging to banks for a […]

10 April 2013
10963
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El País
Hungary: ‘Júlia Király resigns’

The Vice-President of the Hungarian National Bank (MNB) Júlia Király submitted her resignation on April 8, in protest against the bank overhaul conducted by György […]

9 April 2013
17
Presseurop
Népszabadság
Austria: ‘Banking secrecy: Faymann ready for talks’

“Measures against tax havens and tax evasion are on the agenda. Austria is expected to align itself with Switzerland and Luxembourg, whose minister of finance […]

9 April 2013
471
Presseurop
Die Presse
Serbia-Kosovo: ‘Dačić: Urgent need for dialogue! Thaçi: I will accept the invitation’

Serbia refused to accept the outline agreement on relations with Kosovo on April 8 – the day before a deadline set by the EU – […]

9 April 2013
34
Presseurop
Blic
Spain: ‘Rajoy demands ECB cash injection to save economy’

The Spanish Prime MInister has demanded "radical change" to EU austerity policies and intervention by the European Central Bank (ECB) to relieve countries like Spain […]

9 April 2013
17995
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El País
United Kingdom: ‘Margaret Thatcher 1925-2013’

“Thatcherism in its original form was a creed of thrift, of self-reliance, of aspiration, of liberty in the purest sense. It was also one of […]

9 April 2013
552
Presseurop
The Daily Telegraph
United Kingdom: ‘The woman who divided a nation’

“Margaret Thatcher broke Britain and replaced what had come before with something crueller, nastier,” writes the left-of-centre tabloïd Daily Mirror in its editorial on the […]

9 April 2013
44
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Daily Mirror
United Kingdom: ‘“She became harder than hard”’

“Just as in life she shaped the past 30 years, so in death she may well continue to shape the next 30,” writes The Guardian’s […]

9 April 2013
18
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The Guardian
United Kingdom: ‘The woman who saved Britain. 1925-2013’

“A giant, beside whom other peacetime politicians of the 20th and 21st centuries look like mere pygmies,” writes The Daily Mail after the death of […]

9 April 2013
2126
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The Daily Mail
European Union: The Roma: Europe’s guilty conscience

Europe's "greatest shame" is not knowing how to protect the Roma, according to Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, in an article published on April 8, International […]

8 April 2013
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Dagens Nyheter
European Union: David Cameron tries to sell his EU views

“Everyone fends for himself,” begins Gazeta Wyborcza on its frontpage, summing up British Prime Minister David Cameron’s vision of the EU, which he laid out […]

8 April 2013
5710
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Gazeta Wyborcza, The Daily Telegraph, Le Monde & 3 others
Austria: ‘Austria stands alone on banking secrecy’

The Austrian government “will not give one millimetre” on the issue of banking secrecy, reports the daily, “even though the country’s position is increasingly isolated”. In […]

8 April 2013
8712
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Die Presse
Luxembourg: ‘Frieden pledges more transparency’

In an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Luxembourg’s Minister of Finance has announced that he will cooperate with tax authorities in other states. Luc Frieden insisted […]

8 April 2013
33
Presseurop
La Voix du Luxembourg
Estonia: ‘Citizen Parliament’s 15 proposals to political leaders’

The Citizens’ Parliament published a series of proposals on April 6, to be examined by the national parliament in Tallinn. Composed of civil society representatives, […]

8 April 2013
76
Presseurop
Eesti Päevaleht
Portugal: ‘Passos answers the Constitutional Court with new state cuts’

After the Constitutional Court threw out four elements of the 2013 state budget, Portuguese PM Pedro Passos Coelho made a television address on April 7 […]

8 April 2013
404
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Diário económico
Germany-Russia: ‘Good face’

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin inaugurated the world’s largest industrial technology trade fair in Hanover on April 7. “The greetings were a little […]

8 April 2013
302
Presseurop
Die Welt
Balkans: ‘Montenegro without a president’

In the wake of presidential elections on April 7, both candidates are claiming victory. Outgoing president Filip Vujanović of the Democratic Party of Socialists insists […]

8 April 2013
44
Presseurop
Vijesti
Netherlands-Russia: ‘Vladimir, listen, one more thing…’

Dutch PM Mark Rutte will “be in a quandary” when he meets the Russian President Vladimir Putin in Amsterdam today, observes the daily. “They will first […]

8 April 2013
281
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De Volkskrant
Tax havens: More than €200bn in lost revenue for EU

“Without going after tax havens, the countries of the EU could take in an additional €200bn to €250bn in revenue [every year],” points out Ekonom. […]

5 April 2013
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Ekonom
Norway: ‘Utøya families prepare court action against police’

The families of some 20 Utøya massacre victims are planning to take court action against either the state or the police. The goal of the action […]

5 April 2013
20
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Aftenposten
Moldova: ‘Hidden faces of the ‘revolution’ of April 7, 2009’

Four years after the Twitter Revolution, which marked the end of communist government in Moldova and ushered the Alliance for European Integration into power, the […]

5 April 2013
401
Presseurop
Timpul
Hungary: ‘Central bank to use British recipe to boost economy’

The Hungarian National Bank (MNB) announced on April 4 a series of measures to facilitate lending to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), and reduce […]

5 April 2013
12
Presseurop
Magyar Hírlap
Germany: ‘The interest trap’

The business daily publishes a feature on how the financial crisis threatens the “German myth” of the small saver. “Germans are saving to become poorer,” remarks […]

5 April 2013
8032
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Handelsblatt
Offshore Leaks : ‘Storm hits islands hiding illegal treasure’

Authorities have begun responding to the leaked tax haven data: “The European Commission and the European Parliament have urged member states to take up the […]

5 April 2013
465
Presseurop
Ta Nea
Offshore Leaks : ‘Thunder over tax havens’

According to the daily, the Swiss section of the “Offshore Leaks” tax haven investigation reveals the involvement of more than 300 people and 70 […]

5 April 2013
871
Presseurop
Tribune de Genève
Portugal: ‘Government refers Relvas degree to prosecutors and forces him to resign’

Miguel Relvas, the minister for parliamentary affairs and a close adviser to Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, has resigned amid allegations he received favourable treatment […]

5 April 2013
60
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Público
Netherlands: ‘Rembrandt is back in its place’

The Rijksmuseum, the Dutch national museum, reopens on April 13 after a 10-year renovation. “Nearly everything has changed except for the setting of its famous painting,” […]

5 April 2013
473
Presseurop
De Volkskrant

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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