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Tax fraud: Europe stuck in neutral

"Fight against tax fraud: Europe stalls," headlines Belgian daily Le Soir. In its May 15 edition, the newspaper reports that the Brussels meeting of […]

15 May 2013
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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
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Die Presse
Tax havens: Dragnet

12 April 2013
88 International Herald Tribune Paris
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
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Der Standard
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
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EUobserver.com, ABC
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
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Die Presse
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
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Die Presse
Austria: ‘Austrian amnesia’

One in two Austrians believe Adolf Hitler’s rule had some positive aspects, according to a poll conducted by daily Der Standard ahead of the 75th […]

11 March 2013
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Gazeta Wyborcza
Austria: ‘Pröll’s newfound joy – Haider’s posthumous decline’

"There are three major winners and one loser," in the wake of regional elections in Lower Austria and Carinthia on March 3, remarks the daily. The […]

4 March 2013
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Die Presse
Austria: Old dog teaching new political tricks

Austrian billionaire octogenarian Frank Stronach made a sensational debut into politics nine months ago by founding his own party. In the March 3 regional elections, the conservative Eurosceptic is counting on reaping the benefits of the corruption scandals shaking traditional parties.

1 March 2013
6348 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
Central Europe: Prague aims to appease on Sudeten German question

“In an address to the Bavarian parliament on February 21, Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas presented an apology for the deportation of Sudeten Germans after […]

22 February 2013
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Hospodářské Noviny, Die Zeit, Die Presse
Austria: ‘Homosexuals can adopt children’

On February 19, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of an Austrian lesbian couple who had filed a lawsuit for discrimination: They […]

20 February 2013
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Die Presse
Germany: In the land of the well-behaved

Minor stumbles can lead to big falls in Germany. Ministers are tumbling like lemmings over scandals around plagiarised theses and invitations to travel abroad. What gets the Germans so worked up?

15 February 2013
35959 Der Spiegel Hamburg
Corruption: Austrian case renews call for EU prosecutor

Former Austrian interior minister and MEP Ernst Strasser’s jailing for four years for corruption should be “proclaimed the length and breadth of the European Union” […]

17 January 2013
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European Voice
Austria: ‘Harmful to the Republic’s reputation’

In a verdict designed to act as a “deterrent”, Ernst Strasser has been sentenced to a four-year jail term for corruption. In 2010, the former […]

15 January 2013
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Die Presse
The front page: 18 December 2012

18 December 2012

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Mladá Fronta DNES, România libera, Trouw & 4 others
The front page: 29 November 2012

29 November 2012
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La Voix du Luxembourg, La Gaceta, Die Presse & 4 others
Austria: A former MEP on trial for corruption

“In the crosshairs of justice”, headlines Kleine Zeitung. On November 26, Ernst Strasser, former MEP and former Austrian interior minister, went on trial for corruption. During […]

27 November 2012
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Kleine Zeitung, Die Presse
The front page: 27 November 2012

27 November 2012

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Ta Nea, La Vanguardia, Financial Times & 4 others
Croatia: Ivo Sanader — fall of an almost perfect leader

“You are a corrupt prime minister and a war profiteer”: quoting the judge presiding over his trial, Jutarnji List announces the conviction of Ivo Sanader, […]

21 November 2012
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Jutarnji List, Die Presse
Germany: Green energy producers cheating with coal

“Green energy providers wants to make coal," leads Tageszeitung, punning on the German word for “coal”, which also means “money”. The Berlin daily, always fretting […]

16 November 2012
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Die Tageszeitung, Lidové noviny
The front page: 14 November 2012

14 November 2012
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Neues Deutschland, El País, Der Standard & 4 others
The front page: 8 November 2012

8 November 2012
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Ta Nea, Cinco Días, Politis & 4 others
Hungary: Orbán’s land war with EU

Currently reserved for Hungarians, farmlands will be available for purchase by foreigners from 2014. But as this EU imposed deadline looms, PM Viktor Orbán government is doing all it can to delay it. Meanwhile small farmers are battling with wealthy candidates, often close to sources of political power, for the most attractive lots.

30 October 2012
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Debate: Give us a break with your nation states

Those who are arguing today for more Europe have provoked the wrath of the professional democracy purists who hold up the nation state as an ideal model. But do we seriously want to live in a super-Austria?

25 October 2012
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The front page: 25 October 2012

25 October 2012
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Gazet van Antwerpen, I Kathimerini, Il Giornale & 4 others
European Union: The great plunge

16 October 2012
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The front page: 12 October 2012

12 October 2012
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De Morgen, Népszabadság, Die Presse & 4 others
The front page: 21 August 2012

21 August 2012
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I Kathimerini, Le Figaro, Kronen Zeitung & 4 others
Eurozone crisis: Helsinki and Vienna brace for Grexit or euro break-up

Finland is preparing for a full-blown currency crisis as tensions in the eurozone mount and will not tolerate further bail-out creep or fiscal […]

17 August 2012
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Kurier, The Daily Telegraph, Bild
The front page: 16 August 2012

16 August 2012
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De Morgen, Mladá Fronta DNES, Le Monde & 4 others
The front page: 10 August 2012

10 August 2012
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Jyllands-Posten, Die Presse, Libération & 4 others
The front page: 8 August 2012

8 August 2012
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La Voix du Luxembourg, Berlingske Tidende, Libération & 4 others
Austria: Legacy of Jörg Haider’s dirty money

“The new costume in Carinthia”, headlines Viennese weekly Der Falter, with an illustration of the southern Austrian political elite in prison clothes. An investigation […]

3 August 2012
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Falter
Austria: Why not let the people decide?

The ESM is one, and the fiscal pact another: should the major political decisions of a country be put to the people for a vote? In Vienna, which has been debating more transparency and direct democracy for some months, the politicians have been slamming the brakes on with both feet.

10 July 2012
1009 Die Presse Vienna
The front page: 4 July 2012

4 July 2012
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Der Standard, Die Tageszeitung, Aujourd'hui en France - Le Parisien & 4 others
Region: Something new in the heart of the continent

The Presidents of around 15 Alpine regions of Germany, Austria, France, Italy and Switzerland (Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Rhone-Alpes, Lombardy, Piedmont, Valle d'Aosta, Trento, South Tyrol, Salzburg, […]

3 July 2012
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Il Fatto Quotidiano
The front page: 21 May 2012

21 May 2012
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The Times, Financial Times Deutschland, Financial Times Deutschland & 5 others
The front page: 10 May 2012

10 May 2012
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I Kathimerini, La Tribune, Expansión & 4 others
Profile: Max Schrems, the man who de-friended Facebook

A law student from Vienna is accusing Facebook of contempt for Europe’s data protection laws. For the company, which wants to go public soon, the attention comes at a bad time.

27 April 2012
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The front page: 25 April 2012

25 April 2012
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NRC Handelsblad, Magyar Hírlap, Neues Deutschland & 4 others
The front page: 20 April 2012

20 April 2012
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Ta Nea, El Periódico de Catalunya, The Daily Telegraph & 4 others
The front page: 5 April 2012

5 April 2012
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El Periódico de Catalunya, SME, Die Presse & 4 others
Central Europe: Democracy in decline

“A setback for democracy in Eastern Europe,” leads Die Presse, using terms like “dramatic” and “explosive” to describe the results of the […]

26 March 2012
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Die Presse
European Union: Nine countries back Tobin Tax

"EU countries want to impose tax on financial transactions", headlines Süddeutsche Zeitung. The Munich daily reports that finance ministers from nine countries […]

12 March 2012
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Süddeutsche Zeitung
Controversy: Austrian-Turkish writer takes on Sarrazin

Less than 18 months after it was published, German economist Thilo Sarrazin’s scathing essay on failed efforts to integrate migrants, and in particular Turks, in […]

1 March 2012
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Die Presse
The front page: 29 February 2012

29 February 2012
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Danas, Zaman, Público & 4 others
The front page: 24 February 2012

24 February 2012
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Die Welt, Les Echos, El Mundo & 4 others
Eurozone crisis: The great European fire sale

All over Europe, nations are looking for a quick way to raise cash. All of them seem to have the same idea - to sell off state assets.

21 February 2012
50857 The Independent London
Central Europe: Austrians learn to love their neighbours

“Hello neighbour! Last minute reconciliation”: Die Presse enthusiastically reports on a survey of “cross-border community life” conducted by the Austrian Society for […]

20 February 2012
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Die Presse

Poll

Is austerity the main cause of the recession?

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You say...

There is no "austerity". This is just propaganda of the states, which prefer to take on new debt rather than carry out structural reforms. No country in Europe has a balanced budget.

aditec on Is austerity the main cause of the recession?

I dare say that your "schism" would be not like Luther's, rather it would be like Thomas Müntzer's one. It is one thing not to like how the euro is working, but quite another to mix up misunderstood concepts which serve only to deepen the abyss that already exists.

El elogio de la locura on Europe needs its Martin Luther

These people certainly help to show huge loopholes in the EU system. Is the EU able to act? Laws must be tightened so that people cannot receive benefits in a country where they have never worked. And most of all there must be exemplary penalties against gang leaders.

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