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Unemployment: The Neets, a generation in need
28 November 201291454 Trouw Amsterdam -
Rating agencies: EU imposes new restrictions
28 November 2012459PresseuropLes Echos -
The front page: 28 November 2012
28 November 2012PresseuropDie Welt, Ta Nea, Der Standard & 4 others -
United Kingdom: Pucker up?
27 November 201230 The Independent London -
EU budget: Scrap the CAP
27 November 201237338 The Guardian London -
EU budget: Herman the poet
26 November 201223 Cicero Berlin -
EU budget: Britain’s bluster serves the eurozone well
26 November 201210016 Financial Times London -
ECB: Eurozone leaders disregard democracy
26 November 201231925 La Tribune Paris -
EU Budget: Rubbery figures
23 November 201221 The Guardian London -
EU Budget: Commission is nowhere to be seen
23 November 201223325 Coulisses de Bruxelles Brussels -
Eurozone crisis: EU set back a generation
23 November 201248156 Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw -
The front page: 23 November 2012
23 November 201219PresseuropLa Razón, Die Presse, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna & 4 others -
European Council: Major confusion over EU budget
22 November 201214245PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph, Público, El País & 4 others -
EU budget: Maximum spending, minimum gain
22 November 20126681 Der Standard Vienna -
EU Budget: The collection
22 November 201268 Le Monde Paris -
The front page: 22 November 2012
22 November 201215PresseuropFinancial Times, Dagens Nyheter, Die Welt & 4 others -
Israel-Palestine: Europe disapproves
21 November 201234 The Jerusalem Post Jerusalem -
Israel-Palestine: Fortunately no-one’s waiting for Europe
21 November 201222133 El Periódico de Catalunya Barcelona -
Croatia: Ivo Sanader — fall of an almost perfect leader
21 November 2012462PresseuropJutarnji List, Die Presse -
The front page: 21 November 2012
21 November 201214PresseuropRomânia libera, De Standaard, i & 4 others -
United Kingdom: EU exit would lead to less sovereignty, not more
20 November 201219740 The Observer London -
Balkans: Gotovina and Markač acquittal reopens wounds
19 November 2012572PresseuropNovi List, Jutarnji List, Poslovni Dnevnik & 2 others -
EU-China: EU puts foot down on porcelain imports
19 November 2012698PresseuropLes Echos -
Austerity: No sacrifices without hope
16 November 2012286141 Project Syndicate Prague -
Eurozone crisis: Splendid isolation
16 November 201282 The Times London -
Editorial: A budget for 7 years
16 November 2012476Presseurop -
Gender equality: Brussels moralises at its own peril
15 November 2012556 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Gender equality: Quotas for women, more than necessary
15 November 20127712 El País Madrid -
Social: Voice of the people
15 November 201286 I Kathimerini Athens -
The front page: 15 November 2012
15 November 201221PresseuropInternational Herald Tribune, Gazeta Wyborcza, Público & 4 others -
Work: A place for women
14 November 201239 Tageblatt Esch-sur-Alzette -
Germany: Goodbye euro, hello recession
14 November 201258798 Die Zeit Hamburg -
EU Budget: Bargaining set to go to the wire
14 November 20127619PresseuropJyllands-Posten, El Mundo, Gazeta Wyborcza, La Stampa -
European Commission: Borg impresses MEPs as police grill Dalli
14 November 2012123PresseuropThe Times of Malta -
Debt crisis: A plague of received ideas
14 November 201218415 Hospodářské Noviny Prague -
European Youth Parliament: EU’s young generation tackling the crisis
14 November 2012PresseuropBlog -
Renewable energy: Commissioner Oettinger rails against state subsidies
13 November 20125310PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Air travel: Brussels suspends CO2 tax for foreign airlines
13 November 2012388PresseuropDe Volkskrant, El País -
Debate: How to preserve the European miracle
13 November 201229465 Dagens Arena Stockholm -
European Union: Belgium’s Genk factory kicks off week of social unrest
12 November 2012572PresseuropLa Libre Belgique -
Debate: All of Europe’s misfortunes
12 November 201216314 Polska The Times Warsaw -
Profile: Olli Rehn, austere guardian of budgetary discipline
9 November 20123722 Les Echos Paris -
United States-EU: Obama and Europe are facing the same battles
9 November 20129436 Le Soir Brussels -
Editorial: Need for transparency
9 November 2012201Presseurop -
China: The 28th member state
8 November 2012925PresseuropDie Welt -
Zone euro : Doctor Merkel and her lethargic patients
8 November 20126531PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung, Le Temps -
Cyprus: EU bailout for Russian oligarchs?
7 November 201240712 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
EU Budget: Grazing away at billions of euros
7 November 2012544PresseuropTrouw, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
United States: “Obama 2.0” urged not to disappoint
7 November 201214135PresseuropExpresso, Der Tagesspiegel, To Vima & 3 others -
EU-United States: Take advantage of US indifference
6 November 201220719 Libération Paris
Fourteen million European young people are neither working nor in school. Their number is growing because of the economic crisis, with disparities according to the countries. Sociologists worry of the social and health consequences of this phenomenon. 
The Common Agricultural Policy was one of the contentious points of the last week’s EU summit. In the midst of an economic crisis, how can we join the French and defend spending €50 billion on a policy that benefits wealthy landowners and does nothing to protect the environment, rages ecology columnist George Monbiot. 
The EU leaders' failure to find an agreement on the budget is largely symbolic as negotiations concern only a very small part of the Union’s wealth. More important to the EU’s future is the efficiency of the single market and relations between the countries inside and outside the currency bloc. 
On the sidelines of the Brussels budget summit on November 22 and 23, Eurozone leaders approved the appointment of Luxembourgian Yves Mersch to the board of the European Central Bank. But he was elected despite the European parliament voting against him, a move which highlights the EU's dysfunctional nature. 
Everyone has forgotten that the European executive prepared the budget which is currently being negotiated by European leaders. And there is a simple reason for this: Commission President José Manuel Barroso has become invisible. Libération’s Brussels correspondent deplores what he describes as a political “suicide”. 
It will be decades before the most economically stricken countries recover their pre-crisis standard of living. And the gulf between with these states and those doing well is widening all the time, threatening the unity and stability of the EU. 
Meeting in Brussels for an extraordinary European Council summit, Europe’s leaders are to about to outline the EU’s budget for years to come in an atmosphere that has already been marked by threats of a veto from various countries. The European press examines the bargaining process and attempts to identify the probable winners and losers. 
The EU spends a third of its budget to try to narrow the gap between rich and poor in Europe. Despite the billions from Brussels, though, the poorer countries have not caught up. Could the 27 please rethink that when they discuss the EU budget? 
Left on the sidelines by the Arab Spring, the EU has not found its voice in the renewed conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It is as if the EU has given up on playing a role in a region that is in its own backyard. 
As a poll shows 56% of Britons in favour of a straight EU exit, the British Sunday newspaper argues that the consequences of such a withdrawal would be dire. 
The acquittal of General Gotovina and General Markač by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia salvages the honour of Croatia, but does not erase all the questions about the country's recent past, writes the national press. In Serbia, on the other hand, the news has not been well received. 
If the EU had greater legitimacy, Europeans would agree more readily to the efforts that are asked of them, because they could then expect to see these sacrifices rewarded. 
How a country ensures equality is its own business. Brussels should not interfere. The meddling is hardly helping women, and Brussels is making itself even more unpopular by its moral interventionism, writes a German columnist. 
Despite regular calls to promote equality in the workplace, women continue to be under-represented at the highest corporate level. The European Commission is therefore right to impose quotas, writes a Spanish observer, who regrets that this measure is only temporary. 
What would happen if Germany left the euro? Economist Gustav Horn of the Hans-Böckler Foundation, which has close ties to trade unions, speculates on what would happen in the days following a German exit from the euro – and on what Germany's most popular euro-critic, Thilo Sarrazin, might also say. 
How is the EU to be funded from 2014 to 2020? This is the issue to be settled at the European Council summit on 22 and 23 November. The European press reports that EU member states, which seem to be mainly concerned with their national interests, are far from agreement. 
In the Middle Ages, just as now, crises were conducive to the emergence of all sorts of myths. Just as the plague was blamed on the Jews, Europe and the single currency are supposedly responsible for the world's current woes. An idea that economist Tomáš Sedláček seeks to contradict. 
The crisis might be undermining the EU project, but a journey through the former “bloodlands” of Europe’s historical wars reminds us of what the Union has done for the continent, writes a Swedish journalist. If we want to make sure that democracy doesn't perish again, we mustn't shirk from getting citizens involved in the political life of the EU. 
The Old Continent is grappling with a moderately severe economic crisis, a severe political crisis, a critical civilisational crisis, and perhaps a deadly spiritual crisis, argues a Polish philosopher. 
Popular in his home country of Finland and much feared elsewhere in Europe, the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs maintains a low profile. However, with the introduction of new supervisory rules for budgets, his emerging role as a key player in Europe’s economic governance will make it difficult for him to avoid the limelight. 
The newly re-elected US president and his European counterparts are facing the same challenge, writes the editor of Belgian daily Le Soir: to prove that a tolerant society and social solidarity are possible. 
The EU, the IMF and the government of Cyprus are negotiating a 10-billion euro bailout for the country’s ailing banks. Brussels doesn’t want to let the country go bankrupt. But there is a danger that the financial injection could be used to launder dirty money that passes through financial institutions on the island. 
Reflecting a public opinion largely favourable to Barack Obama, the European press heaves a sigh of relief after his re-election. But the illusions of 2008 about his commitment to Europe have vanished. 
Whoever takes the White House for the next four years, Europe must face the facts: it is no longer considered a strategic priority by the United States. Europe must therefore reinforce its common defence structures and spearhead decisive diplomatic initiatives towards Russia and the Mediterranean countries, suggests a French commentator.