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Romania: The EU must stop stepping on our toes
7 March 2013144 71 Jurnalul Naţional Bucharest -
Germany: ‘End of reduced electricity prices for industry’
7 March 201343 6PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Economy: ‘Brussels imposes heavy punishment on Microsoft’
7 March 201326PresseuropLa Tribune -
Romania: ‘Halt Ion! Verboten Simeon! Nein!’
7 March 201321 26PresseuropJurnalul Naţional -
Debate: We, the lost European people
6 March 2013595 215 The New York Times New York -
United Kingdom: ‘Osborne rebuffed on bank bonuses’
6 March 201321 3PresseuropThe Guardian -
Romania: ‘Schengen — Willkommen’
4 March 201385 42PresseuropJurnalul Naţional -
Agriculture: EU abuzz over missing bees
1 March 2013835 20 De Standaard Brussels -
European Union: Hard-fought bank pay deal’s blow to the City
28 February 201379 17PresseuropFinancial Times, Le Temps -
Diplomacy: European small is beautiful
28 February 2013133 5 EUobserver.com Brussels -
Middle East: Croatian weapons in Syrian rebel hands
27 February 201346 2PresseuropLa Libre Belgique -
Food: Romania struggles to swallow horsemeat scandal
27 February 2013194 46 Revista 22 Bucharest -
Italy: ‘Protest vote’
27 February 201336 1PresseuropHandelsblatt -
EU-Ukraine: Financial stick and carrot
26 February 201315 1PresseuropEuropean Voice, Gazeta Wyborcza -
European Union: ‘Political chaos in Italy threatens to reignite tensions over euro’
26 February 201315 28PresseuropEl Economista -
United Kingdom: A-A-Another one bites the dust
25 February 201352 16 The Times London -
Kosovo: Reeling them in
21 February 201315 1 Danas Belgrade -
European Commission: Agreement to allow Brussels more supervision of national budgets
21 February 2013373 17PresseuropLes Echos, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Corruption: ‘Europe under scrutiny of Brussels prosecutors’
21 February 201393 3PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Health: Next!
20 February 201362 1 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Climate change: Tough climate for carbon trading
20 February 201374 1 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Internet: Will Google face punishment?
20 February 201353 2PresseuropLe Monde -
Editorial: Food for thought
19 February 201374 3Presseurop -
EU-Mali: ‘EU sends training mission to Mali’
19 February 201320 2PresseuropLa Voix du Luxembourg -
Food: Noah’s burger boat
18 February 201393 The Times London -
Eurozone crisis: The great Portuguese sell-off
18 February 2013708 71 Le Temps Geneva -
Health: ‘EU wants to facilitate clinical trials on humans’
18 February 2013110 2PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Banks: ‘EU ready to impose tough bank pay curbs’
18 February 201341 12PresseuropFinancial Times -
Food: Close shave
15 February 201340 L’Echo Brussels -
Kosovo: Europe and the challenge of state-building
15 February 2013190 50 Le Monde Paris -
Food safety: ‘Meat: from fraud to health warning’
15 February 201332 5PresseuropLe Soir -
Italy: ‘Who can save Italy?’
15 February 201391 89PresseuropThe Economist -
USA-Europe: Stars and Stripes
14 February 201368 2 Neues Deutschland Berlin -
Food: Perils of supermarket cost-cutting machines
14 February 2013451 16 Financial Times London -
Turkey: Paris relaunches negotiations with Ankara
14 February 201379 26PresseuropLe Monde, Zaman -
Romania: Banners of discord
14 February 2013100 10 România libera Bucharest -
United Kingdom: ‘PM targets benefits for EU nationals’
14 February 201328 1PresseuropThe Independent -
EU-US: ‘Transatlantic trade liner’
14 February 201340 1PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
European Union: Water is first Citizens’ Initiative
13 February 2013296 7PresseuropCinco Días, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
USA-Europe: Why the EU should not get into bed with the US over trade
13 February 2013362 136 Welt am Sonntag Berlin -
Food: Horsemeat scam is a European problem
13 February 2013256 25 NRC Handelsblad Amsterdam -
Banks: ‘Financial sector must pay €30bn’
13 February 201345 11PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Portugal: ‘Brussels team already in Lisbon to impose bank cuts’
13 February 201315PresseuropDiário económico -
Eurogroup: Dijsselbloem’s new style exasperates Cyprus
12 February 201334 5PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Data protection: A platform to flush out the lobbies
12 February 2013243 4PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Editorial: Budget and democracy
11 February 201354 21Presseurop -
EU budget: The European Union has been paralysed
11 February 2013260 124 Les Echos Paris -
EU budget: An austerity budget cooked in German-British sauce
11 February 201349 16PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna, Die Welt, El País -
European Union: ‘European budget: infrastructure projects abandoned’
11 February 201336 1PresseuropLes Echos -
EU budget: The tap is frozen
8 February 201369 Kleine Zeitung Graz
Germany has announced that it will veto the entry of Romania and Bulgaria into the Schengen Area. Perhaps it is time for Romanians to stop being the victims of their partners' political games, writes a Romanian journalist in a leader article. 
More Europe could help our continent out of the crisis, but we would still have to create the Europeans. We must encourage education, cultural exchanges and political initiatives to recover the sense of common destiny that we lost last century, argues a French journalist. 
A category of insecticides, widely used throughout the agricultural sector, may be responsible for Europe’s high level of bee mortality. The European Commission wants to ban their use, but manufacturers are throwing a spanner in the works. 
From Germany’s austerity drive to the UK’s planned referendum on EU membership, it is always the big states that get the headlines in EU policy making. But the smaller states are increasingly punching above their weight on the world stage. 
Romania, wrongly named as the source of the horsemeat food fraud, has suffered more than most in the ready-meals scandal. Having been dealt a severe blow, the country’s agriculture industry now has to pick up the pieces and regain Europe's trust. 
On February 22, the UK became the latest European nation to lose its platinum AAA credit worthiness status when rating agency Moody’s downgraded the country to Aa1. It’s an embarrassment to PM David Cameron, but not a shock to the markets, notes The Times, which encourages the government to continue the austerity policy. 
To cope with the decline in the price of CO2 emission permits, the European Parliament wants to take 900 million tonnes off the European market. But that won’t be enough to halt the trend. The economic crisis is just too deep. 
European leaders are counting on Portugal to set an example of how austerity can succeed when it is applied seriously. Sadly, despite a unprecedented tightening of the screw, Lisbon is still being forced to sell off its “crown jewels” to halt its spiralling debts. 
On February 17, Kosovo will celebrate five years of independence. However, corruption among local political elites has yet to be eradicated at a time when the mandate for the European civil mission to the the former Serbian province has less than 18 months left to run. Questions are now are being asked about the reality of the rule of law in Pristina. 
The switching of horsemeat for beef is a spectacular signal that a limit has been reached, says columnist John Gapper. 
Romanian leaders never miss an opportunity to annoy the Székelys, Romania’s Hungarian minority. The “war over flags” which has recently been waged by the central government and a number of Transylvanian regional municipalities is only the latest episode in Bucharest’s campaign to create tensions with the Hungarians. 
A US-European free trade zone is on the agenda. There are at least four good reasons for Europe to stay away from it, writes the liberal Die Welt. 
The horsemeat scandal has taken on European proportions. While European countries seek to blame each other, they are ignoring the underlying problem, which is that the economic crisis has meant that low income families are increasingly dependent on cheap meat. 
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.