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Eurozone crisis: ‘Europe agonises over the crisis’
28 March 20131934PresseuropDie Presse -
European Union: ‘EU Commission frets over deficit of billions’
28 March 20131394PresseuropDie Welt -
United Kingdom: Cypriot lessons in courting the Russian Bear
27 March 20131404 The Guardian London -
Eurozone: ‘You should not always be honest in Brussels’
27 March 20134825PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
Croatia: ‘€655m. Vukovar, Osijek, Rijeka and Porec will be first to benefit from EU money’
27 March 2013432PresseuropVečernji list -
Debate: The “Latin Empire” should strike back
26 March 20133096491 Libération Paris -
Latvia: Cypriot crisis is a boon for “Switzerland of the Baltic”
26 March 20131227PresseuropHospodářské Noviny -
Cyprus: Money-laundering audit casts shadow over bailout
26 March 2013601PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Cyprus: ‘Merkel’s pawn considers Cypriot haircuts elsewhere’
26 March 20132917PresseuropEl Mundo -
Cyprus: ‘Eurozone shifts burden of risk from taxpayers to investors’
26 March 2013503PresseuropFinancial Times -
Cyprus: “This is the start of the Road to Calvary”
25 March 201315072 O Phileleftheros Nicosia -
Cyprus: ‘Euro rescuers close down their first bank’
25 March 20133711PresseuropHandelsblatt -
United Kingdom: ‘Cameron to deny aid for immigrants’
25 March 20131635PresseuropThe Times -
Editorial: Everyone is to blame
22 March 201314124Presseurop -
Cyprus: Paradise lost
22 March 2013701 Le Monde Paris -
Cyprus: The Russian saviour is taking his time
22 March 201314789 Nezavissimaïa Gazeta Moscow -
European Commission : Was Dalligate a tobacco industry trap?
22 March 2013662PresseuropLibération -
Cyprus: ‘Just when you thought it was safe...’
22 March 2013199PresseuropThe Economist -
Cyprus: The other guy’s always to blame
21 March 2013301128 Frankfurter Rundschau Frankfurt -
EU-United States: Free-trade zone no longer a dream machine
21 March 20131152PresseuropLes Echos -
European Union: How Europe’s leaders ran out of credit in Cyprus
21 March 201325220 Financial Times London -
Diplomacy: Berlin calls for more powers to EEAS
20 March 2013942PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Nuclear Energy: No fifth reactor for Romania
20 March 201350PresseuropRomânia libera -
Portugal: ‘Criminals from 60 countries in Portugal’s gangs’
20 March 2013851PresseuropDiário de Notícias -
Cyprus: ‘Russian roulette with Brussels’
20 March 201337PresseuropPolitis -
Aviation: ‘Airbus, a symbol of winning European industry’
19 March 2013355PresseuropLes Echos -
Religion: Pontifices maximi
18 March 201360 L’Echo Brussels -
Cyprus bailout: ‘Blackmail has replaced solidarity’
18 March 201337031PresseuropFinancial Times, Público, Trouw & 4 others -
Eurozone crisis: Byzantine lessons for Europe
18 March 201398944 The Guardian London -
Cyprus: A rescue plan that will kill us
18 March 2013416143 Cyprus Mail Nicosia -
Eurozone: ‘Cyprus caught between punishing savers and bankrupcy’
18 March 201329319PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Balkans: ‘Government condemns, Brussels stays quiet’
18 March 201322PresseuropKoha Ditore -
Editorial: Grim anniversary
15 March 201346Presseurop -
European Council: Why change a losing formula?
15 March 201322773PresseuropIl Sole-24 Ore, Ziarul Financiar, Les Echos -
European institutions: Grand ideas and empty jargon
15 March 201318525 Revue Politika Brno -
European Union: The problem with Germany
15 March 2013310270PresseuropNew Statesman, The Daily Mail -
European Union: ‘The poisoned gift’
15 March 20132825PresseuropHandelsblatt -
Eurozone: ‘ECB to Hire Hundreds of Supervisors’
15 March 201340PresseuropThe Wall Street Journal Europe -
EU-Syria: ‘UK and France: We must arm Syrian rebels’
15 March 20133611PresseuropThe Guardian -
Italy: ‘Europe, no progress on growth’
15 March 2013331PresseuropIl Sole-24 Ore -
European Council: ‘Group therapy’ for growth-crisis countries
14 March 201310114PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung, Financial Times -
Diplomacy: Stupidity and stinginess in Mali
14 March 201317970 Le Monde Paris -
EU budget: Negotiations to begin between member states and MEPs
14 March 2013991PresseuropAdevărul -
European Parliament: Change looms ahead of 2014
14 March 201312436 Hufvudstadsbladet Helsinki -
European Parliament: A loaded chamber
13 March 201312316 Financial Times London -
European Union: National budgets under Brussels supervision
13 March 201312533PresseuropLe Temps, Le Figaro -
Social issues: Gaping healthcare inequalities
13 March 2013643PresseuropEl País, Süddeutsche Zeitung -
European Union: ‘More rights for air passengers’
13 March 201324PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Hungary: ‘A blow to the heart of the rule of law’
12 March 201315324PresseuropFinancial Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Público, Le Monde -
Debate: Europe has lost its citizens
11 March 201380698 El País Madrid
Cyprus is not the only island nation to roll out the red carpet for Russia’s riches. Since the Soviet Union’s collapse, London has welcomed Russian expatriates who made their fortunes plundering the collapsing state, but at what cost, asks a British journalist.
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has revived the idea of a union of Southern European countries, a proposal first launched by another philosopher, Alexandre Kojève, just after World War II. This "Latin Empire" could act as a counter weight to the dominant role played by Germany in the European Union. 
In an open letter to his compatriots, a Cypriot scientist calls on the citizens of the island to show patriotism, and to roll up their sleeves for an independent initiative to save their banking system, so that they can turn the page as quickly as possible on the aid plan negotiated on 25 March in Brussels. 
Russia, despite owning a large chunk of the cash deposited in the island’s banks, is resisting the increasingly desperate pleas for aid from the Cypriot government. Instead of rushing in, the Great Bear is sitting back and awaiting the Europeans’ next move. 
Greedy banks, the EU or Angela Merkel: The search for the culprit in Cyprus is running along the usual fault lines of the euro crisis. But do individuals not share in the responsibility for the mistakes of their society? That would mean the Cypriots would have to give up some of their savings deposits. 
The bigger problem remains the gap in trust between the north and the south, writes a Financial Times columnist. 
By imposing a tax on bank deposits in exchange for a €10bn bailout package, the eurozone leaders have, at best, set “a dangerous precedent”, and, at worst dabbled in “blackmail,” writes the European press. 
From managing a single currency, to ending a recession and negotiating political and fiscal unions among a multi-lingual, multi-ethnic commonwealth, Byzantium’s leaders handled the lot. The EU’s politicians could learn much from their ancient forebears, argues a UK historian. 
The EU and IMF have agreed a €10bn bailout of Cypriot banks, but the price to provide rescue funds is a tax on all deposits. This condition has stunned the tiny Mediterranean nation, with the Cyprus Mail accusing the new President and other member states of betraying the island. 
The heads of state and government met in Brussels to discuss growth but have failed to reach any decision that might give a boost to a Europe exhausted by the crisis and by austerity, laments the European press. 
Each year the EU produces thousands of pages of reports, speeches and legislation designed to move the European project forward. They have one thing in common: a pompous language worthy of a regime lost in its own dogma, writes a Czech political scientist in Revue Politika. 
Despite what its European partners say in public, France is alone in fighting the armed Islamists and helping rebuild the Malian state. The EU's inability to agree on major global issues will cost it dearly one day, argues Le Monde. 
The European elections slated for 2014 will be a departure from the past procedure, and that has awoken high hopes among the public. The most crucial aspiration among Europe's citizens is the fostering of a true trans-national debate. 
The EU parliament’s capping of bank bonuses shows it has matured as a political force. 
In reforming the constitution once again, the government of Viktor Orbán has taken another step to weaken democracy in Hungary – against a powerless EU, laments the European press. 
The latest Eurobarometer figures are showing clearly what the election results have been hinting at one by one: hit by the crisis, Europeans have lost their confidence in the EU. After having saved the euro, we must rescue the legitimacy of the EU – and before the 2014 elections.