Greece
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Greece: An easy target for hoax reports
9 May 201169 Libération Paris -
Giannis Ioannou: An adventure
9 May 201117 To Vima Athens -
Editorial: The European patient
9 May 2011522Presseurop -
Debt crisis: Final rescue before renovation
5 May 201150 Der Standard Vienna -
Internet: Crime spreads on the web
5 May 20112PresseuropLa Voix du Luxembourg -
Greece: Parliament investigates German subterfuge
4 May 20111PresseuropI Kathimerini -
Greece: Desperate and resigned
3 May 201143 Libération Paris -
Greece: Back home with mum
3 May 2011126 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Romania-Bulgaria: On the road to Schengen
3 May 201121PresseuropRomânia libera -
European Union: Patient doing better than expected
2 May 2011733 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Greece: Debtocracy - exploring the roots of the crisis
26 April 20114151 To Vima Athens -
Populism: Springtime for the anti-euro brigades
19 April 20118911 Berliner Zeitung Berlin -
Ilias Makris: Scent of bankruptcy
18 April 201127 I Kathimerini Athens -
Greece: A country unraveling
18 April 20111131 To Vima Athens -
Eurozone crisis: The dangerous game of bailing out
14 April 2011818 Týždeň Bratislava -
Greece: High tension as restructuring looms
14 April 2011PresseuropTa Nea -
Debt crisis: Portugal gets offer it can't refuse
8 April 20112461 The Guardian London -
Monetary policy: ECB turns off the tap
7 April 20111PresseuropLes Echos -
Greece: Toward debt restructuring
6 April 2011PresseuropFinancial Times Deutschland, Financial Times Deutschland -
Greece: Rating agencies attack Athens again
30 March 2011PresseuropI Kathimerini -
Horsch: And then there were three
28 March 201140 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
European Council: Euro, curse of the 17 Sisyphus
24 March 2011434 La Tribune Paris -
Neighbourhood Policy: Dark clouds over Mare Nostrum
22 March 201162 La Repubblica Rome -
Greece: Give the young a chance
15 March 201194 I Kathimerini Athens -
Greece: The wrath of a people
11 March 201162 To Vima Athens -
Giannis Ioannou: Decisive summit
11 March 201117 To Ethnos Athens -
Debt crisis: Which way now for the Eurozone?
10 March 2011631 The Daily Telegraph London -
Eurozone crisis: A European politics is born
9 March 20111815 Libération Paris -
Debt crisis: Banks? What banks?
7 March 20111541 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Frankfurt -
Eurozone crisis: Ireland and Greece: parallel destinies
28 February 2011852 I Kathimerini Athens -
Greece: One month to get out of trouble
23 February 201137 Ta Nea Athens -
Greek crisis: Athens and Berlin mull over exit strategies
21 February 2011PresseuropTa Nea -
Greece: EU/IMF sell-off idea infuriates Athens
14 February 2011PresseuropEleftherotypia -
Climate change: Global warming could bankrupt Med
1 February 201126PresseuropPúblico -
Greece: Athens fears wave of North Africa migrants
1 February 2011PresseuropI Kathimerini -
Human rights: The EU’s conscience
31 January 2011601 NRC Handelsblad Amsterdam -
Tourism: Chinese are the new Americans
25 January 2011284 La Repubblica Rome -
Greece: Afghan refugees occupy university
25 January 2011PresseuropTo Ethnos -
Greece: “Cells of Fire” in the hot seat
18 January 2011PresseuropTo Vima -
Turkey-Greece: From the other side of the wall
17 January 201160 Sabah Istanbul -
Debt crisis: Plan B for the euro
14 January 2011PresseuropThe Economist -
Portugal: A bailout won’t help anyone
11 January 2011842 Jornal de Negócios Lisbon -
Greece-Turkey: Without a policy, the wall achieves nothing
10 January 201150 To Ethnos Athens -
Asylum Policy: Might as well build a wall
10 January 20111701 Berliner Zeitung Berlin -
Greece: Athens builds anti-migrant wall
4 January 2011PresseuropI Kathimerini -
Eurozone Crisis: PIGS aren’t out of the woods yet
3 January 2011PresseuropLa Tribune -
Greece: 2011 will be a lean year
23 December 2010PresseuropTa Nea -
Economic crisis: The curse of credit rating agencies
21 December 2010246 The Guardian London -
Hachfeld: Away in a manger
10 December 201040 Neues Deutschland Berlin -
European Integration: The Eurocracy is nigh
8 December 201074 Przekrój Warsaw
For several weeks, erroneous information about the Greek economy has been circulated to destabilise Athens. The latest hoax to date was Spiegel Online’s 6 May publication of a report about a secret Eurogroup meeting to discuss Greece’s exit from the euro. The question is: who stood to gain from the crime? 
How many failed states will still send out distress calls for help? The new bailout plan meant for Portugal ought to be the last, because Europe is going to have to reorganise the monetary union from top to bottom, says the Standard. 
Worn out by repeated austerity packages, the Greeks have reached a point where they no longer believe in their government. While populism attracts more and more votes in the country, euro-enthusiasm has entered into free fall. Libération’s special correspondent reports from Athens. 
Confronted by unemployment and the economic crisis, young Greeks are being forced to give up their nascent independence and return home to live with their parents, where they benefit from the same ethos of familial support whose excesses have contributed much to the crisis. 
Amid a virtual consensus that the current crisis has cast doubts over the future of the European Union, Polish columnist Jacek Pawlicki argues that the EU’s ability to adapt along with the contribution made by its more recent members will ensure its continued survival. 
Produced by activists and distributed on the Internet, a documentary retracing the history of the Greek debt crisis, which highlights the responsibility of the country’s political elite, has prompted a lively debate. 
The success of the True Finns party in the Finnish general elections is further proof that eurosceptics are making themselves increasingly heard on a European as well as a national scale. 
With new austerity measures announced against a backdrop of persistent rumours of debt restructuring and national bankruptcy, a Greek columnist worries that the choices being offered to Greece are being accompanied by the degeneration of the state. 
After Greece and Ireland, now it's Portugal's turn. But isn't helping out indebted countries with the money of other indebted countries going to kill the euro? A Slovak columnist doesn't understand just what the EU is playing at. 
Irish and Greek and now Portuguese citizens can testify that falling into the clutches of the European commission for a bailout is a mobster's embrace, argues a Guardian columnist. 
European Council summits organised since the onset of the Greek crisis have not been sufficient to prevent Europe from sinking into recession and political crisis — a fact that will remain unchanged by the 24/25 March meeting of member state leaders, writes La Tribune. Europe is faced with a straight choice: reduce the burden on over-indebted countries or organise their exit from the Eurozone. 
Initially ignored by Europe, the Mediterranean region was subsequently the focus of several integration projects, all of which failed to produce results. The current crisis, now striking its southern shores, is a testament to the need for a new approach. 
In spite of a softening of the conditions of the rescue package, decided by the Eurozone states on 11 March, the Greek population is increasingly pessimistic about the capacity of their leaders to overcome the ongoing financial crisis. A Kathimerini columnist points out that debate on the issue has overlooked the country’s major resource — its young people, who have been sadly neglected. 
After a year of austerity, George Papandreou’s government is still facing the risk of bankruptcy, sceptical financial markets and a dwindling sense of solidarity in other European countries. An editorialist expresses his concern over the upsurge in political anger among the Greek people. 
Political paralysis in Brussels, monetary tightening by the ECB and soaring rates for Portuguese, Irish and Greek bonds : the omens for the crucial 11 March Eurozone summit on how to head off the deepening economic crisis are not good. 
The government of Europe leans to the right on one side; the "shadow cabinet" made up of the opposition leans to the left on the other. Step by lurching step, the economic and financial crisis is laying the foundations for democracy across the EU, finds the French columnist Bernard Guetta. 
With Europe's leaders scheduled to meet on 11 March, all talk will be on rescuing troubled economies and Franco-German driven competitiveness pact to ward off future crises. But politicians are keeping quiet about the true nature of the eurozone crisis: the fragility of the banks. 
Electoral revolution in Dublin, paralysing strikes in Athens - Europe's most economically fragile member states are reacting differently to drastic austerity budgets and the EU/IMF bailout. But their fates are intertwined if they wish to emerge from the crisis and have a say in the running of the eurozone, writes an economist. 
On a visit to Berlin on 22 February, the Greek Prime Minister was hoping to obtain more time for the reimbursement of his country’s bailout package. However, in a context of mounting social dissent and pressure from European bankers, EU member states have postponed any decision on the issue until the end of March. 
Although the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has on occasion been criticised by national administrations, Professor of European Law at Leiden University Rick Lawson argues that it remains an indispensable institution for the EU. 
Buoyed by the emergence of China’s middle class, the growing wave of travelers from China could revitalise the European tourist industry. But businesses in the sector have yet to adapt to their new customers. 
The fence Greece has decided to build on its Turkish border to keep would-be immigrants out will also be yet another obstacle between Turkey and the EU, argues the chief editor of the Istanbul paper Sabah. 
Under pressure from the markets and certain European countries to accept a bailout, José Sócrates’ government must stand firm if it is to restore confidence, insists a Portuguese editorialist. 
According to To Ethnos, the ‘wall’ that Greece plans to build to curb the flow of migrants from across its border with Turkey is a desperate measure that is bound to fail. Only a real international initiative can hope to offer a genuine solution. 
By March, Greece will have built a 12km long anti-immigrant fence along its border with Turkey. But perhaps throwing up a proper wall would have woken the EU to its woeful immigration policy, spectulates a Berliner Zeitung columnist. 
The economic destiny of nations is now in the hands of credit rating agencies Moody's, S&P's, Fitch. Unelected, unaccountable and with hugely inflated powers, they must be curbed, argues a Guardian columnist. 
The crisis has been the perfect opportunity for the EU to push forward European integration. But now that some aspects of Greek and Irish sovereignity are now controlled by Brussels, the debate about the union’s democratic deficit is on once again.