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EU-US: Britain will be weaker without EU, says Washington
19 December 201218812PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
Greece: A therapist’s worst nightmare
19 December 201211028112 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Greece: Boomerang effect
18 December 201228 I Kathimerini Athens -
European Union: Is Europe standing on its head?
18 December 201238028 Dagens Nyheter Stockholm -
Spain : EU opposes publishing tax evaders list
18 December 20121618PresseuropEl Economista -
Banks: Supervisor to the rescue
17 December 201230 Cicero Berlin -
The front page: 17 December 2012
17 December 201212PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza, Magyar Hírlap, Le Temps & 4 others -
Eurozone: Banking union flatters Germany’s financial physique
14 December 201246817PresseuropNRC Handelsblad, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, El País, ABC -
Editorial: Who’s afraid of Berlusconi?
14 December 20126310Presseurop -
Eurozone: An embryonic banking union
13 December 20126635PresseuropLe Monde, Handelsblatt, Diário económico, El País -
Italy-EU: Guess who’s back?
13 December 2012213 Le Temps Geneva -
European Council: No federal Europe this winter
13 December 201223220 Libération Paris -
European Union: A budget for 2013, but still not enough money
13 December 2012494PresseuropFinancial Times, EUobserver.com -
The front page: 13 December 2012
13 December 201211PresseuropDe Volkskrant, Blic, El País & 4 others -
School: Gap widens between Asia and Europe
12 December 201210911PresseuropLa Vanguardia, NRC Handelsblad, Die Tageszeitung -
Innovation: EU (finally) adopts single European patent
12 December 201210740PresseuropLes Echos, Libération, ABC -
European Union: Banking union pipe dream
12 December 201212115 Polityka Warsaw -
Nobel Peace Prize: Well earned prize
11 December 201274 L'Hebdo Lausanne -
Banks : After the Libor scandal, it’s Euribor’s turn
11 December 2012866PresseuropLe Figaro, The Wall Street Journal Europe -
The front page: 11 December 2012
11 December 201215PresseuropDie Welt, The Malta Independent, La Stampa & 4 others -
European Union: Peace day
10 December 201228 La Prensa Panama City -
Nobel Peace Prize: A controversial yet deserved prize
10 December 201211551PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza, Trouw, Diário de Notícias & 2 others -
The front page: 10 December 2012
10 December 201224PresseuropDe Standaard, Frankfurter Rundschau, La Libre Belgique & 4 others -
European Union: Vanished frontiers earn EU its Nobel Prize
10 December 201242031 El País Madrid -
Nobel Peace Prize: Championing EU complacency
10 December 201213116 Slate Afrique Paris -
Editorial: Bad climate
7 December 2012333Presseurop -
Nobel Prize: Another push for peace
7 December 201213838 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
European Union: Herman the Jedi
6 December 201247 L’Echo Brussels -
Ireland: Tightening the purse strings
6 December 2012415PresseuropIrish Independent, The Irish Times -
The front page: 6 December 2012
6 December 201211PresseuropThe Scotsman, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Les Echos & 4 others -
Competition: Cartels, Europe’s shadowy offspring
5 December 20129798 Der Tagesspiegel Berlin -
Interview: Gianni Pittella: “It’s time to turn the page on austerity”
5 December 2012PresseuropBlog -
Banks: Race against time on banking union
5 December 20124411PresseuropPúblico, Le Monde -
United Kingdom: David Cameron set to offer in-out EU vote
5 December 201221761PresseuropThe Times -
Israel-Palestine: Intercepted
4 December 201235 Trouw Amsterdam -
EU crisis: Outlook mixed for Europe’s party politics
4 December 20129710 Financial Times London -
European Union: Poverty on the rise
4 December 20121907PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Natural gas: Requiem for Nabucco
4 December 2012573PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
The front page: 4 December 2012
4 December 2012PresseuropDie Presse, I Kathimerini, Público & 4 others -
Switzerland: 20 years of ‘no’ to the EU
3 December 201239 24 heures Lausanne -
Nobel Peace prize: Czechs and Slovaks snub EU’s Nobel ceremony
3 December 2012585PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES, Lidové noviny , SME -
Euro: Autumn in Brussels
30 November 201225 Der Standard Vienna -
Editorial: Every man for himself
30 November 20124117Presseurop -
European Commission: Big Tobacco at home in Brussels
30 November 201228512 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Banks: Banking union comes a step closer
30 November 20125947PresseuropEl País -
The front page: 30 November 2012
30 November 201216PresseuropFinancial Times Deutschland, Financial Times Deutschland, Danas & 5 others -
EU-Middle East: European disunion
29 November 201222 Neues Deutschland Berlin -
EU-Middle East: When Europe had a foreign policy
29 November 201215846 El País Madrid -
International trade: Courting the East
29 November 2012212PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Youth: Let’s create an employment Erasmus scheme!
29 November 201286865 Les Echos Paris
A German trauma therapist journeys to Greece. What he sees there surpasses his worst fears. Greek society is crumbling under the pressure of the crisis. 
Born to give a political dimension to the common values of Europeans, the Union, with the complicity of the member states, has acquired power and skills that have weakened the people it was supposed to defend, argues the Irish writer Colm Tóibín. 
After the euphoria following the agreement on banking supervision that was finally reached between the 27 member states – the embryo of a banking union – the European press, given the details of the mechanism worked out in Brussels, has lost some enthusiasm. 
After 14 hours of talks, EU finance ministers agreed a system of bank supervision. The project covers only a small number of firms, but it marks a step towards an end to the crisis, says the European press. 
The last EU summit of the year will not take the path of economic and monetary union closer. The fault lies with Berlin and Paris, who have agreed to bury the roadmap which was presented to them by Herman Van Rompuy. The debate on the future of the Union has been kicked into the long grass to return in 2014, after the German and European elections. 
Banking union has already been delayed by more than 10 years and yet there are few indications this will change at the upcoming EU summit on Thursday. Clearly, national interests of some member states are about to prevail over the common good, laments Polityka’s columnist. 
On December 10, as the Nobel Peace Prize was officially handed over to the EU, the European press celebrates both gratitude for what the Union has already achieved and encouragement for the future, while acknowledging that there are good reasons for a dose of scepticism. 
Awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the EU has left many perplexed. However, notes political scientist José Ignacio Torreblanca, a reminder of the long “European civil war” that began in the 19th century should be enough to justify it. 
The European idea certainly deserves to be acknowledged. However, an Algerian-Tunisian journalist argues that the Nobel Committee should not have given its prize to today’s EU, which sells arms and creates unemployment. 
On December 10, the EU is going to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The question is whether this award is justified, given the ongoing euro crisis and the growing discontent. A Dutch historian argues that the award offers the perfect opportunity for Europeans to remind themselves of the European pacification process because now is the time for them to realise that European peace is not a matter of course. 
They sell cement, televisions or coffee. They drive up prices and cost consumers billions. Cartels act illegally, and yet seemingly having nothing to fear. In Europe, it turns out, price-fixing by cartels is a mere misdemeanour, like a traffic violation. 
By picking Pierluigi Bersani as the centre-left Democratic Party’s candidate for premier, Italian voters have challenged the notion that the eurozone crisis is uprooting the established party political systems of southern Europe. 
The resignation of Health Commissioner John Dalli last month lifted the lid on the influence of the tobacco industry in the European Commission. That influence has even penetrated OLAF, Europe's anti-fraud office, writes Der Spiegel. 
Incapable once again of taking a unified position on a matter of foreign policy, European countries are voting independently on UN non-member state observer status for the Palestinian Territories. Yet there was a time when Europeans claimed to have a key role to play in the peace process. 
The financial crisis has left behind 14 million young Europeans with neither employment nor training, yet nobody is mentioning them in the talks over the EU budget. What if a little money was spent on bringing them into the world of work through the Union, wonders a French consultant.