Germany
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8 February 2012Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
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Cultural heritage
How Europe hawks its monuments
8 February 20121Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
France-Germany
Merkel seeks to save marriage of convenience
7 February 2012PresseuropLibération, Le Figaro, Le Monde & 2 others -
3 February 2012The Economist London
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3 February 2012264Die Zeit Hamburg
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Eurozone crisis
Beijing tells Merkel “to do her homework”
3 February 20128PresseuropHandelsblatt -
2 February 2012Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
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2 February 201214PresseuropLe Monde, Le Figaro, La Croix, Libération
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31 January 2012Le Temps Geneva
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European Council
Angela Merkel has gone too far
31 January 201214PresseuropDer Tagesspiegel -
Eurozone crisis
No-one wants a German budget commissar
30 January 201261PresseuropPúblico, Le Monde, Ta Nea & 2 others -
Italy
Relax, Germans!
30 January 201223Die Zeit Hamburg -
Editorial
Go for it, Angela
27 January 20124Presseurop -
Eurozone crisis
Save the euro – get rid of Germany
27 January 2012119The Times London -
27 January 201224Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
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26 January 2012Cicero Berlin
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25 January 201224 heures Lausanne
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Eurozone crisis
The Greek trap
24 January 201214Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
24 January 2012PresseuropDie Tageszeitung
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Eurozone crisis
After the downgrades comes the downward spiral
16 January 201263Financial Times London -
Eurozone crisis
France relegated to 2nd division
16 January 201211Le Monde Paris -
Editorial
Ménage à trois
13 January 20129Presseurop -
Eurozone crisis
Monti takes on Merkozy
12 January 201255PresseuropDer Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, La Repubblica & 2 others -
12 January 2012De Groene Amsterdammer Amsterdam
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Arms industry
Greece still splashes out billions on defence
11 January 201234Die Zeit Hamburg -
11 January 2012PresseuropDie Tageszeitung
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Finance
Tobin tax: Sarkozy rides alone
9 January 20125PresseuropLa Tribune -
Bailouts
Against all the rules
6 January 201252Die Zeit Hamburg -
Germany
Still living in Lenin Street
4 January 20124Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
3 January 20122PresseuropHandelsblatt
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Debt crisis
Does doom await in 2012?
2 January 201263El País Madrid -
30 December 201124 heures Lausanne
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Interview
Andrzej Stasiuk’s European lesson
26 December 201112Wprost Warsaw -
26 December 2011Neues Deutschland Berlin
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Employment
Germany welcomes working immigrants
23 December 20114PresseuropHandelsblatt -
22 December 2011Liberté Alger
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19 December 2011
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14 December 201110La Stampa Turin
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14 December 201121Die Zeit Hamburg
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Transnistria
Stooges’ ballot in Tiraspol
9 December 2011România libera Bucharest -
European Union
Union of fear
9 December 20111PresseuropTo Vima -
European Council
Unity dearly bought
9 December 201121Die Zeit Hamburg -
European Union
Goodbye Britain
9 December 201129PresseuropLe Monde -
8 December 2011The New York Times New York
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Eurozone crisis
Farewell sweet sovereignty...
8 December 201117El País Madrid -
Schengen
For a Europe of borders
8 December 2011PresseuropFinancial Times Deutschland -
European Union
The economic order that inspires Merkel
8 December 20116Libération Paris -
6 December 201115Expresso Lisbon
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Press review
Who will follow Merkel and Sarkozy?
6 December 201121Presseurop -
Eurozone crisis
Neither Paris nor Berlin, but Frankfurt...
5 December 201127Les Echos Paris
As Greece pimps its ancient monuments to bring in the tourists, lovers of cultural heritage are up in arms. But the country is only doing openly what the whole of Europe is: looting historic sites to drum up more ready cash. 
With 80 days left to run before the first round of French presidential elections, the German Chancellor has joined the campaign alongside her most precious ally in Europe, Nicolas Sarkozy — an initiative judged risky on both sides of the Rhine. 
“Hitler”, “Occupying Power" – it’s always the same. Berlin is asserting its stance on the euro crisis and, in turn, is being abused with comparisons to the Nazis. Die Zeit ponders how Germans should respond. 
A probable candidate for re-election, the French President seems intent on proposing an economic project calqued on the German model — a strategy which has surprised the French press. 
The idea of pinning the second Greek bail-out on the acceptance by Athens of supervision by a European budget commissioner, a German proposal unveiled on the eve of the January 30 European Council meeting, is nothing less than a violation of state sovereignty, according to the European press. 
Italy has long cursed Germany as a know-it-all, and yet respects it as the head of the class. With the arrival of the very proper Mr Monti this is changing, and Berlin will have to get used to some lessons from Rome. 
By foisting fiscal austerity on its Eurozone partners while stubbornly refusing an enhanced role for the ECB, and greater mutual support on national debt, Germany is a greater hindrance than a help to the single currency, argues Anatole Kaletsky. 
It is the madness that has become self-evident: for years, the public sphere has been plundered and democracy ruined. The German writer Ingo Schulze has had enough. Here he sets out ten reasons to take himself seriously again. 
In Athens, the war of nerves over the debt haircut is nearing a finale. The negotiations between private creditors and the government, however, are taking some dangerous stumbles. Before Greece gets €130 billion in aid, it must show some success with its reforms. And that, with all the good will in the world, cannot be achieved. 
In the wake of the collective downgrading of 9 eurozone countries, including France, it’s become clear that the EU’s policy of rescue funds coupled with fiscal austerity has exhausted itself. It’s time for Angela Merkel and her partners to find a credible outcome, writes Wolfgang Münchau. 
Standard & Poor's 13 January downgrade of France’s credit rating is a double blow: Nicolas Sarkozy and his presidential election rivals will come under even greater pressure from the markets while the North-South divide in Europe has grown significantly wider. 
Two days after French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit, Mario Monti traveled to Berlin on 11 January for discussions on saving the Eurozone with Angela Merkel. The Italian PM, who advocates a more flexible approach to the crisis, succeeded in obtaining the support of the German Chancellor. 
Frigates, tanks and submarines: Greece may be teetering on the brink, but the bite of austerity hasn’t come near its military. And Germany is profiting from it. 
He who makes mistakes must pay the price. Ever since the crisis erupted five years ago, this key law of the market economy has been trampled on. Politicians must now decide between prosperity and morality, writes Die Zeit. 
Twenty-one years after German reunification, many streets and squares of the former GDR are still named communist grandees. For a number of former dissidents and a journalist from Gazeta Wyborcza, it’s a puzzling phenomonen. 
In the wake of a terrible year in 2011, the worst may be yet to come warns political analyst José Ignacio Torreblanca. The crisis could force EU member states to choose between Greece and Great Britain. And once again, everything will be decided in Germany. 
Why do the Germans and the Poles have a hard time getting along? How does one recognise a Pole? Is there a way to help Germany better "dominate" the EU? A hard to pigeon-hole Polish writer provides some leads. 
The murder of two Senegalese traders in Florence is the latest manifestation of an upsurge of hatred in Europe. With the Utøya massacre, the vehement reactions to the Greek crisis, British isolationism and the rise of the extreme right, this trend has many forms — all of them equally alarming. 
The politicians of Europe love to flourish the flag of Community togetherness. But in their day-to-day politicking they give the lie to their supposed virtues. Die Zeit has compiled a cheat-sheet of national egotisms that are harming the Community. 
The secessionist region of Moldova is to hold presidential elections on 11 December — a vote that will be marked by a strange bargain between its Russian protector and Germany, which aims to resolve a conflict that has been deadlocked for 20 years. 
Without doubt, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have taken a big step nearer their goal of a fiscal union. But at what price? Britain remains outside it. The salvation or the disintegration of the Union is now approaching. 
If approved by the Twenty-Seven, the fiscal union proposed by Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy would be a decisive new stage on the path to European federalism. But are all willing to pay the price: the surrender of the budgetary autonomy of states? 
Angela Merkel’s drive to impose discipline and sanctions in the Eurozone is not a bid to establish German hegemony, but simply an extension of the economic doctrine that provided the basis for Germany’s economic miracle: “ordoliberalism”. 
To cut its debt, Portugal’s government has embarked on a far-reaching privatisation program. Brazilian, Chinese and Angolans are the main candidates for taking over its national enterprises. 
At a 5 December meeting in Paris, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy agreed on a plan to save the euro from catastrophe, which they will be asking the EU’s 27 member states to approve at a summit on 8-9 December. The European press, however, thinks they’re not out of the woods yet. 
German proposals for greater discipline in the Eurozone have not been enthusiastically welcomed in France, where several Germanophobic comments have highlighted one incontrovertible reality: the French are very well disposed towards Europe, but on condition that it is a French Europe, remarks a Les Echos columnist.