Egypt
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European parliament
Sakharov prize for the Arab spring
14 December 2011PresseuropEl Mundo -
European of the Week
The cyber-revolutionary on Tahrir Square
6 December 20111Fokus Stockholm -
Diplomacy
5 billion to aid Arab revolutions
26 May 2011PresseuropEl País -
Editorial
Coping with Gaddafi’s return
14 March 20114Presseurop -
2 March 20111Svenska Dagbladet Stockholm
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North Africa
Europe's new frontier
1 March 20114La Stampa Turin -
Editorial
Democracy – but beautiful
25 February 2011Presseurop -
EU-Libya
Gaddafi's last stand, Europe dithers
22 February 2011Presseurop -
Arab revolutions
What is really awaiting Europe
21 February 20111El País Madrid -
Arab revolutions
Lady Ashton misses the boat
17 February 2011Libération Paris -
Arab revolutions
Seven reasons to be hopeful
17 February 20111PresseuropDie Zeit -
16 February 2011Charlie Hebdo Paris
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Meditteranean
A diplomatic challenge
15 February 2011Der Standard Vienna -
14 February 2011La Stampa Turin
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11 February 2011Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
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10 February 20113Lidové noviny Prague
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EU-Middle East
Time to ditch the Arab stereotype
4 February 20113Der Standard Vienna -
Europe – Egypt
Everybody's favourite dictator
4 February 2011PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Middle East
Hands off Egypt!
2 February 20116The Guardian London -
1 February 2011PresseuropHospodářské noviny
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31 January 2011Le Journal du jeudi Ouagadougou
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EU-Egypt
An opportunity not to be missed
31 January 20111Presseurop -
Diplomacy
Frattini’s Egyptian mission plan
28 January 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
France-Tunisia
How Paris missed the Jasmine Revolution
18 January 20111Presseurop -
EU-North Africa
A tragedy in the making
10 January 2011Le Soir Brussels -
Union for the Mediterranean
The Med’s adrift
23 September 2010El País Madrid -
Religion
MEPs stick up for Christians
22 January 2010PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Organ Donations
Study calls for universal "presumed consent"
14 October 2009PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
30 September 2009Die Zeit Hamburg
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Anti-semitism
Mooted UNESCO chief may eat his words
17 September 2009PresseuropLibération -
Middle East
Moving closer to Syria
27 August 2009The Guardian London -
Renewable energy
Will Africa's rivers and sun power Europe?
25 August 2009The Independent London -
ENERGY
Nabucco out to gas up
13 July 2009PresseuropLe Figaro
If Mubarak failed to cut the Egyptian revolutionaries off from the rest of the world last January, it was thanks to a Swedish student and theorist of hacktivism: Christopher Kullenberg, named “Swede of the Year” by the weekly Fokus. A profile. 
Some of the members of the April 6 Youth Movement, which spearheaded the Egyptian revolution, were trained by members of Otpor!, a Serbian-based group that was responsible for the fall of the Milosevic regime in 2000. 
Thirty years ago nobody could have foreseen the process that brought the Warsaw Pact countries into the European Union. Now that the same is happening to Arab nations, the EU must offer them the same opportunity to strengthen democracy: the true prospect of membership. 
The bloody repression of the Libyan people by the Gaddafi regime is exacerbating the problem of a Europe faced with revolts in the Arab world, writes the European press, which calls for concrete and coordinated action. 
Terrorism, immigration, the economy: for Europeans, the wave of revolts that have shaken the Arab world is fraught with dangers that are not altogether clear. El País has tried to unravel truth from falsehood. 
On 16 February, Catherine Ashton announced an aid package that will deliver a total of €258 million to Tunisia by 2013. Libération points out that the EU only gave its support for the Tunisian revolution when huge numbers of Tunisian boat people arrived on the coast of Lampedusa. 
The EU is being constantly overtaken by surprises: first by the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, then by the onslaught of refugees on Lampedusa. To ward off new ones, the 27 should be considering taking onboard the countries of Maghreb. 
With the collapse of the Ben Ali regime, thousands of Tunisians have caught the boat to Europe. Their landing on the nearby Italian island of Lampedusa and the chaos this has caused foreshadows what could happen on the southern shores of the EU if the migration controls worked out with North African countries were to vanish, worries an alarmed La Stampa columnist. 
The parallel between the popular unrest in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, and the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 is an uneasy one. How can the foundations for democracy in the Arab world be compared with those of Eastern Europe? 
The revolutionary spirit sweeping the Middle East has provoked as much fear as joy in the West. Der Standard questions why is it that we doubt that Arabs have the will or the ability to be the masters of their own destiny. 
The events in Egypt are exhilarating to any lover of civil liberty, concedes Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins. But given its record of bloody and futile interventions around the world, the West should think twice about meddling as Muslim states strive for self-determination. 
After the cacophony and the hesitation that followed the “Jasmine Revolution” in Tunisia, the EU once more seems paralysed in the face of an uprising against the Egyptian regime of Hosni Mubarak. All the same, notes the European press, it’s another chance to support democracy in its Mediterranean “backyard”. 
Overtaken by events, slow in supporting the forces of democracy, the French government seemed to be backing the regime of Ben Ali to the very end. Today, it’s having a hard time justifying its position. 
In turning a blind eye to the corruption, nepotism and human rights violations of North African governments, the EU should share some of the blame for the violence that has recently erupted in Tunisia and Algeria, argues Belgian journalist Baudouin Loos. 
The enthusiasm with which the Union for the Mediterranean was launched two years ago has been steadily waning ever since. The main reason why, says French political philosopher Sami Naïr, is the lack of a serious EU commitment to the region. 
Ankara is the neighbour Europeans still won’t let into their club. And yet the country behind the Bosporus is soon to become the communication hub for energy supplies bound for Europe. Die Zeit doubts the EU can go on snubbing the Turks indefinitely.
Britain’s recent call to bring Syria into the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is part of a wider western strategy to tempt the previously isolated Ba'athist regime away from Iran and continue co-operation with the west in Iraq and Lebanon. Chris Philips at the Guardian wonders whether we are witnessing another example of human rights and democracy being sacrificed for political expediency. 
Two massive power-generating schemes have been launched in recent weeks. One offers to create the world's largest solar farm, the other to create the biggest hydroelectric dam on the planet. While situated in Africa, they both aim to export electricity to Europe. The Independent weighs up the pros and cons of two ambitious projects, which, according to many critics, smacks of a colonial style power grab.