European Union
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EU budget: The European Union has been paralysed
11 February 2013260124 Les Echos Paris -
EU budget: An austerity budget cooked in German-British sauce
11 February 20134916PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna, Die Welt, El País -
European Union: ‘European budget: infrastructure projects abandoned’
11 February 2013361PresseuropLes Echos -
EU budget: The tap is frozen
8 February 201369 Kleine Zeitung Graz -
EU budget: A convoluted compromise
8 February 201332943PresseuropTrouw, Le Monde, El País, Die Welt -
Competitiveness: Bribery is no way to reform Europe
8 February 20139237 Financial Times London -
European Parliament: Tackling the overfishing problem
8 February 201359PresseuropLibération, La Vanguardia, Le Monde, Süddeutsche Zeitung -
United Kingdom: EU teaching dropped over claims it is ‘biased towards integration’
8 February 201343411PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
Interview: Friedrich Moser: “There’s a democratic deficit in the EU”
8 February 2013PresseuropBlog -
European Council: ‘Wealthy countries try to impose the most restrictive budget’
8 February 20133210PresseuropEl País -
European Council: ‘The last such budget’
8 February 2013209PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
European Council: The selfishness waltz
7 February 201324635 Le Monde Paris -
European Council: ‘Discord among net donors’
7 February 2013351PresseuropDie Presse -
Poland: ‘Van Rompuy’s Purse’
7 February 2013201PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Portugal: ‘Passos asks Brussels for more than €900m for agriculture’
7 February 201323PresseuropPúblico -
Croatia-Slovenia: Bridging an irreconcilable divide
6 February 2013963 Tportal Zagreb -
Eurozone crisis: Hollande stands alone
6 February 20138498PresseuropLes Echos, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Corruption: First you get the power, then you get the money?
6 February 201311310PresseuropDiário de Notícias, EUobserver.com, Expansión -
Eurozone: ‘ECB to create 2,000 new jobs’
6 February 201363PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Football: New rules of the game
5 February 201331 De Groene Amsterdammer Amsterdam -
EU budget: Roads in Brussels are paved with gold
5 February 2013934PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna, Die Welt, EUobserver.com -
Structural funds: Let Brussels manage our development projects
5 February 201313633 Dilema Veche Bucharest -
Football: ‘The ball is fixed’
5 February 2013391PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Eurozone: ‘France frets over strong euro’
5 February 20133114PresseuropLe Figaro -
European Union: ‘The mighty money market’
5 February 2013217PresseuropBerlingske Tidende -
Croatia: Bumps in the road to accession
4 February 20131139 NRC Handelsblad Amsterdam -
United Kingdom: What have the Europeans ever done for us?
4 February 201314731 The Independent London -
Renewable energy: ‘EU: End to green energy subsidies’
4 February 20131482PresseuropDie Presse -
European Union: ‘EU aims to free flow of funds across borders’
4 February 2013382PresseuropThe Wall Street Journal Europe -
Editorial: Back on track
1 February 20135613Presseurop -
Eurozone crisis: The euro’s Lazarus moment
1 February 201311716PresseuropFinancial Times -
EU-United States: ‘A United States of the West’
1 February 20136519PresseuropHandelsblatt -
Turkey: Erdogan looks east for a little love
31 January 201313359 Milliyet Istanbul -
News in brief: ‘European poverty explosion worries Red Cross’
31 January 20131791PresseuropLe Temps -
European Union: Trading places
30 January 201387 International Herald Tribune Paris -
CAP: The Green revolution hits Europe
30 January 201358315 La Repubblica Rome -
Czech Republic: ‘Klaus considers Brussels assignment’
30 January 2013695PresseuropLidové noviny -
Banks: Iceland wins the battle of Icesave against the EU
29 January 201317110PresseuropFréttablaðið, Les Echos, Financial Times -
Science: €2bn booster shot for European research
29 January 2013696PresseuropLe Temps, Le Monde, El Periódico de Catalunya, Il Sole-24 Ore -
United Kingdom: Don’t expect an immigrant tsunami in 2014
29 January 201317412 New Eastern Europe Cracow -
Debt crisis: Troika divided over austerity
29 January 201313413PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
War in Mali: Europe goes to war blindfold
28 January 201344395 La Repubblica Rome -
The Netherlands: Petition for a referendum on the EU
28 January 201325626PresseuropNRC Handelsblad, De Volkskrant -
Economy: ‘First signs of upturn in the eurozone’
28 January 2013322PresseuropLes Echos -
Editorial: You’re on, Mr Cameron!
25 January 20134815Presseurop -
European union: A crisis of democracy as much as finance
25 January 201359969 The Guardian London -
European Union: Cameron prods Europe’s sore spot
24 January 201322680PresseuropLes Echos, Die Welt, Gazeta Wyborcza & 4 others -
United Kingdom-EU: ‘Cameron scandalises Europe’
24 January 201338PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
UK-EU: ‘Cameron puts pressure on EU’
24 January 201320PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
European Union: ‘Europe grabs hold of the tap’
24 January 2013384PresseuropKleine Zeitung
A EU without a vision of the future, turned in on itself, divided, deaf and blind to the world it lives in: this is the face of Europe emerging in the wake of the “impoverished” budget agreement hammered out by the 27 on February 8.
The leaders of the European Union have managed to save face thanks to the Byzantine wording of the compromise agreement they have found for the 2014-2020 EU budget. The austerity measures adopted, however, could be difficult to implement, notes the European press. 
The EU should set its own economic goals and pursue them, writes the director of the Bruegel think-tank Jean Pisani-Ferry. 
The EU's 27 leaders are now meeting to discuss the European Union's 2014-2020 budget and will probably reach an agreement. But they will do so by making the usual petty deals that compromise the future, warns Le Monde. 
Croatia's accession to the EU, scheduled for July 1, remains suspended until a border dispute and banking row with neighbouring Slovenia are cleared up. The impasse exposes the gap in perceptions of national sovereignty between the EU and the continent’s new independent states. 
Structural funds for 2014-2020 are at the top of the agenda of the European Council meeting on February 7-8. Management of these development projects is left to member states but Romanian journalist Ovidiu Nahoi suggests it may be time to hand over responsibility to the EU Commission. 
The Netherlands is the 22nd member state to ratify Croatia's accession to the EU on July 1. A fair decision, says NRC Handelsblad, even if the laxity shown by the bloc during the enlargement which included Bulgaria and Romania led them to be more severe with Zagreb. 
Actually, quite a lot, argues a columnist, after the UK’s pro-Europeans rallied last week for a low-key launch of a new group to counter the nation’s infamous Euroscepticism. A fitting tribute to the subtle but profound influence that the EU has had on the country during the last 40 years. 
Faced with a European Union procrastinating over Turkish accession, the country's prime minister is threatening to hook up with other global bodies, such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Even if it is just a bluff, it reflects growing impatience in Ankara. 
The reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, which is to be wrapped up this year, is resulting in a move towards sustainable development and greater fairness. However, it is being threatened by pressure from the agro-food lobbies, declares the founder of the Slow Food movement, who is launching an appeal to Europe's citizens and their MEPs. 
Ahead of the end of immigration controls on Romania and Bulgaria in January 2014, some UK ministers are thinking of running a campaign to deter a repeat of the 2004 “wave” of immigration when eight former communist countries gained EU working rights. But the eurozone crisis makes this prospect less likely. 
Remarkably for a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Europe has been at war for close to 15 years: in the Balkans, in Afghanistan, in Libya, and today in the Sahel. However, an Italian editorialist argues, European intervention has consistently been marked by an absence of long-term vision. 
The spirit of dictators like Nicolae Ceauşescu is finding new life in the response of the European elite to the eurozone crisis, says Slovenian thinker Slavoj Žižek. The same distrust of democracy that once constrained the developing or the post-communist countries is now gaining ground in Europe. 
The British Prime Minister's speech on January 23 on the future of relations between his country and the EU has made the front pages of most European newspapers. The idea of a UK exit provokes reactions ranging from outrage to - more frequently - understanding.