Afghanistan
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9/11, 10 years on
The East rises over Ground Zero
9 September 20112The Guardian London -
14 July 2011PresseuropAujourd'hui en France - Le Parisien
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France-Afghanistan
Free after 18 months with the Taliban
30 June 2011PresseuropLibération -
27 June 2011L’Avenir Namur
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Afghanistan
French troops to follow US retreat
24 June 20111PresseuropLe Figaro -
11 May 20111PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza
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Terrorism
Bin Laden’s legacy
2 May 20112Le Monde Paris -
Immigration
What to do? Give them a job!
18 February 20112La Repubblica Rome -
Arab revolutions
Seven reasons to be hopeful
17 February 20111PresseuropDie Zeit -
Military
Misunderstanding over Dutch mission
15 February 2011PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Netherlands
New mission to Afghanistan
27 January 2011PresseuropTrouw -
26 January 20111Frankfurter Rundschau Frankfurt
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25 January 2011PresseuropTo Ethnos
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7 January 2011PresseuropLa Vanguardia
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19 November 2010România libera Bucharest
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18 October 2010PresseuropSvenska Dagbladet
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Italy / Afghanistan
Rome's secret dirty war
15 October 2010PresseuropL'Espresso -
Italy / Afghanistan
Bomb first, retreat later
12 October 2010PresseuropLa Repubblica -
Afghanistan
Taliban claim two Spanish victims
26 August 2010PresseuropPúblico -
Peacekeeping
Berlin lost in Somalia
30 July 2010PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
27 July 2010
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Terrorism
Somali lessons for Afghanistan
27 July 2010Financial Times London -
Afghanistan
The war unravels
26 July 2010PresseuropPresseurop -
Afghanistan
British army leaves war to Americans
8 July 2010PresseuropThe Independent -
24 June 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza
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1 June 2010PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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18 May 2010PresseuropJyllands-Posten
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Afghanistan
Italian government leaves NGO high and dry
13 April 2010PresseuropIl Manifesto -
Afghanistan
A costly miscasting
23 March 2010PresseuropLibération -
Common Defence
Time to close ranks
9 March 20102European Voice Brussels -
Afghanistan
War comes home
22 February 2010 -
Afghanistan
Squaring the circle
29 January 20102Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Editorial
Dark secrets and necessary lies
29 January 2010Presseurop -
Diplomacy
Getting out of the Afghan quagmire
28 January 2010PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
10 December 2009
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Afghanistan
100 dead soldiers
8 December 2009PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
Afghanistan
Mission : Blurred
3 December 2009Die Tageszeitung Berlin -
Afghanistan
Poland answers Obama's call
30 November 2009PresseuropPolska The Times -
26 November 2009PresseuropBild
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European Union
Dead immigrants don’t exist
20 November 2009PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
4 November 2009
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Immigration
Greece opts for forced repatriation
26 October 2009Kathimerini Athens -
Foreign policy
The peacekeeper's lament
21 October 2009Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw -
Immigration
Rome, city of eternity for asylum seekers
9 October 20091Cafebabel.com Paris -
Nobel prize
Obama comes not with peace but a sword
9 October 2009PresseuropNew Statesman -
Asylum Seekers
"Delight" as Besson clears Calais Jungle
22 September 2009PresseuropThe Daily Mail -
Afghanistan
McChrystal calls for fresh blood
22 September 2009PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Italy-Afghanistan
Should we stay or should we go?
18 September 2009PresseuropLa Repubblica -
Dennmark
Gagging Private Rathsack
16 September 2009PresseuropPolitiken -
Democratisation
EU too soft on hardline regimes
14 September 2009PresseuropDer Tagesspiegel
We have spent the years since the attacks on US soil focusing on the terrorist threat and wars in Afganistan and Iraq. But we have been blind to the real global change : the slow but unstoppable rise of China, writes Timothy Garton Ash. 
Symbolic as the death of the al-Qaeda leader is, it does not mark the end of the fight against terrorism, nor of its consequences for our way of life, writes Le Monde. 
Italy has requested financial assistance from the EU to cope with the wave of migrants from north Africa. Instead of increasing the budget of Frontex, the border security agency, the EU should rather reform its asylum policy to foster economic integration of immigrants. 
EU countries have been swapping information with their allies in the "war on terror". Often it's just information on “troublemakers”, i.e. political protesters. And whether they have actually ever committed an offence makes no difference. 
The NATO summit to be held in Lisbon on 19 and 20 November will be marked by the rise of Russian influence in the alliance. A Romanian editorialist highlights the vital importance of the link between Eastern Europe and Washington. 
Following the leak to the international press of over 90,000 documents related to the war in Afghanistan, there is precious little evidence that the country is stabilising. The west might do well to abandon its counter-insurrection strategy there, and focus instead on counter-terrorism. 
When it comes to defence, each member state has so far been content to pump money into its own army. But challenges posed by the conflict in Afghanistan may force a rethink of this policy. 
Unable to agree on whether to keep their troops in Afghanistan, the Dutch coalition government collapsed on 20 February. The shockwave could hit other European contingents on the ground, predicts the European press. 
The Western community have got to stop reducing Afghanistan to a domestic policy issue and deluding themselves and the public, writes the Süddeutsche Zeitung: viz. that their objectives can be achieved, that they can go home soon and, above all, that there will be a happy end in Afghanistan. 
The US wants more German soldiers in Afghanistan. The current Bundestag debate goes to show the governments involved have yet to clarify their objectives or give up the myth of the noble warrior, and they adamantly refuse to put the public in the picture, deplores the Tageszeitung. 
Greece, the point of entry for many an illegal immigrant to the EU, is also required to take back immigrants that other countries do not want to keep. However, pleading a lack of appropriate infrastructure, it has failed to honour this responsibility, and instead adopts a policy of forced repatriation, which rides roughshod over refugees' rights. 
Diplomats, soldiers, policemen: from the Balkans to Afghanistan, the EU is deploying more or less ambitious peacekeeping missions. But in a report two experts assert that lack of organisation or commitment from member states means that the results often fall short of expectation, reports Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. 
They have travelled through Iran and Turkey, or crossed the Mediterranean to Greece, to find themselves blocked in Italy, waiting to obtain right of asylum. Cafebabel.com went to meet up these Afghan refugees in Ostiense, in the south of Rome.