India
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Debate
Why Europe needs enemies
17 November 20118Hospodářské noviny Prague -
Editorial
Hanging on
20 May 2011Presseurop -
3 March 2011PresseuropEUobserver.com
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11 January 2011Het Financieele Dagblad Amsterdam
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Emerging economies
Globalisation 2.0: How the West lost it
6 January 20112La Repubblica Rome -
Generic medicine
EC accused of doing Big Pharma’s bidding
11 October 20101PresseuropThe Guardian -
European diplomacy
The Lady vanishes
7 October 2010Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
23 April 20104Rue89 Paris
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Belgium
Bombay on Scheldt
23 March 2010De Morgen Brussels -
Geopolitics
United, but not with Europe
9 February 20102Wprost Warsaw -
4 December 2009La Stampa Turin
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Organ Donations
Study calls for universal "presumed consent"
14 October 2009PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
After Lisbon (3)
Museum Europe must go back to the lab
8 October 2009El País Madrid -
European Union
Soft power no match for hard reality
27 July 20094El País Madrid -
Immigration
Wilkommen to Romania
14 July 20091Le Monde Paris -
Africa
Asia leaps as Europe lags
30 June 2009Il Sole-24 Ore Milan -
Health
Patently cruel
19 June 2009De Volkskrant Amsterdam
Nothing better than an enemy to forge a common identity. But the adage of the nineteenth century doesn’t quite fit the current crisis. Only by changing their relationship to power can Europeans unite and overcome the crisis, says a Czech editorialist. 
As the West stews in stagnation, emerging economies are on the rise – and driving prices of raw materials and fuel to perilous highs. As they now set the pace of the global economy, Europe, stymied by cutbacks and unemployment, is in for hard times ahead. 
An efficient diplomatic service is not enough: EU's member states are still lacking a coherent common foreign policy, writes Gazeta Wyborcza. 
Having lagged behind an American cultural superpower for decades, the European mainstream now faces competition from the cultural products of China, India, and Brazil. A book published in France warns that Europe has been increasingly marginalized in the soft war to capture the popular imagination. 
The Orthodox Jewish monopoly on the cutting and distribution of gem stones in the world diamond capital Antwerp is now a thing of the past. Since the 1980s, the industry has been increasingly dominated by the Indian Jain community: a change reflected by the transformation of the Flemish city. 
The good news is that from Asia to the Americas, an increasing number of countries are coming together to create unions inspired by the EU. And the bad news? In the long term these entities may overshadow the EU on the world stage, worries Polish weekly Wprost. 
Even before the curtain rises on the Copenhagen Climate Conference on 7 December, the world is already warring over emissions targets. And Brussels is brandishing some fateful figures in its bid to lead the global crusade against greenhouse gases. 
If and when definitively ratified, the Lisbon treaty should give the EU the means to achieve its current political and economic agenda. But it will have to pool its forces and try new approaches if it is to hold its own against the growing powerhouses of the East, foresees Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím in El País. 
While defence budgets have continued to rise in China, Russia, the United States and India, military spending in the EU has remained stagnant over the last ten years. For El País, Europe's global influence is now based on soft power, which cannot adequately replace the hard power of a real common defence policy. 
Since becoming a member of the EU, Romania has attracted waves of African, Indian, Afghan and Iraqi immigrants. Hailing from Somalia, Kasim thought he was on his way to Germany when unscrupulous traffickers dumped him deep in the heart of the Romanian countryside... 
The European Union used to be the major partner for African governments, but it has increasingly lost ground to China, Russia and India, which now leads the race to take advantage of the continent's precious resources. 
European customs often seize medicines bound for developing countries on the basis of suspected violation of patent rights. Humanitarian organisations denounce this practice which, they argue, benefits pharmaceutical companies to the detriment of the world's poor.