Greece
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Greece: Civil servants shown the door
3 October 20112PresseuropTa Nea -
Greece: Modern Icarus
30 September 201127 -
Greece: Belt-tightening
28 September 201135 Jyllands-Posten Aarhus -
Eurozone crisis: Let Greece then Ireland default
28 September 2011176 2 Irish Independent Dublin -
Debt crisis: Eureca - the secret plan to save Greece
28 September 20116PresseuropLa Tribune -
Greece: Little fish
27 September 201138 I Kathimerini Athens -
Greece: There’s laughter in hell
27 September 2011226 3 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Greece: Church fortune to remain sacrosanct
26 September 2011551 5 Le Monde Paris -
Greece: A financial genocide
22 September 20114979 27 Die Presse Vienna -
Human rights: Frontex accused of mistreating immigrants
22 September 201174 4Presseuropi -
Greece: It’s autumn
21 September 201153 L'Hebdo Lausanne -
Greece: Died in perfect health
19 September 201164 Trouw Amsterdam -
Greece: Eating from bins - the new make do
19 September 2011429 7 To Vima Athens -
Debt crisis: Greek Marathon
15 September 201144 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Economic crisis: Youthful members of the full-time precariat
15 September 2011966 4 Polityka Warsaw -
Debt Crisis: Beijing is no white knight
14 September 2011189 4 La Repubblica Rome -
Germany : Liberals threaten Greece and the coalition
14 September 20112PresseuropFinancial Times Deutschland, Financial Times Deutschland -
Debt Crisis: Merkel and Sarkozy support Greece
14 September 2011PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Eurozone: Club Med
13 September 201167 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Press review: Worst case scenario for euro approaches
13 September 2011139 5Presseurop -
Greece: A tragic farce
13 September 2011120 3 Ta Nea Athens -
Greece: Keeping it up
12 September 2011184 Kommersant Moscow -
Greece: Is more belt-tightening worth it?
12 September 20111PresseuropEleftherotypia -
Eurozone crisis: Dutch PM wants to kick out faulty countries
9 September 20114PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Greece: High in Athens
8 September 201162 Le Vif/L’Express Brussels -
Greece: A funny bailout
8 September 201148 Le Monde Paris -
Greek crisis: Banks to get off lighter than expected
8 September 2011PresseuropDer Standard -
Debt crisis: Family ties
6 September 201128 Het Parool Amsterdam -
Debt crisis: What can Greece do now?
6 September 2011108 13 To Ethnos Athens -
Greece: Papandreou between a rock and a hard place
5 September 2011PresseuropI Kathimerini -
Greece: Expert at the helm
5 September 201122 I Kathimerini Athens -
Debt crisis: Southern Europe at critical turning point
5 September 20112PresseuropLa Tribune -
Debt crisis: Greece in no state to pay
2 September 2011235 13 Libération Paris -
Greece: Shattered films from a shattered country
2 September 2011170 1 The Guardian London -
Economy: Mediterranean diet
30 August 201135 Het Parool Amsterdam -
Greece: Qatar invests in Greek banks
30 August 20111PresseuropTa Nea -
Debt crisis: Poor accounting in Helsinki
26 August 201172 7 Helsingin Sanomat Helsinki -
Eurozone crisis: Finland destabilizes bailout plan
19 August 20111PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Social unrest: The street bankers
11 August 2011837 5 Der Standard Vienna -
Romania: A Marshall plan for crisis-hit countries
9 August 20111PresseuropAdevărul -
Debt crisis: Final summer holiday for the euro?
5 August 201157 15 La Repubblica Rome -
Greece: The 'we won't pay' anti-austerity revolt
5 August 2011639 The Guardian London -
Debt crisis: Credit markets defiant
4 August 201150 2 Presseurop -
Poland: Mini-Marshall Plan “unfair and divisive”
2 August 20111PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
European Union: Without the South, the North loses Europe
27 July 2011239 8 Le Temps Geneva -
Greece: The miracle that lasted just three days
26 July 201130 4 Ta Nea Athens -
Eurozone: A painful Greek lesson
22 July 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Eurozone crisis: An expensive breather
22 July 201157 1 Die Welt Berlin -
Eurozone crisis: Greeks relieved but mistrustful
22 July 201126 2 Presseurop -
Eurozone crisis: No more hide and seek
20 July 201190 1 Ta Nea Athens
Growing rumours of a Greek default have spurred the markets, not sent them into freefall. This suggests that worse than default is agonising and dithering about the fate of the Eurozone, according to Irish economist David McWilliams. 
Many Greeks feel their future has been stolen from them. But who is to blame? One writes a letter to Angela Merkel, another wants his people to embrace virtue. A report from Athens, where the laughter comes from desperation. 
As the country struggles with the crisis and its consequences, the assets of the Orthodox Church have yet to be affected by the government’s stringent austerity measures. Le Monde reports on a taboo that protects the Church’s close links with the state and the clergy’s influence on public policy. 
Are the Greeks not sufficiently keen on saving? A Viennese lawyer living in Athens has observed the daily life of the Greeks and come to the conclusion: they save to death. 
On 19 September, the Greek government announced new cuts designed to convince its partners to hand over the 6th tranche of international aid. Meanwhile in the streets of Athens, more and more people are searching for a cheap way to feed themselves. 
The crisis has accelerated the emergence of a new social class in Europe. Dubbed "the precariat" by sociologists, it is made up of young people with no prospect of a decent job or a reasonable standard of living. 
The announcement by Italy of a flow of Chinese capital rushing in to support the Italian economy has raised hopes of Beijing riding up to rescue the euro. We must be wary of false hopes, however, writes La Repubblica. China is a prudent and discriminating investor. 
With Greece progressively sinking deeper and deeper into crisis amid doubts about the country’s ability to remain in the Eurozone, the European press worries about the national and continent-wide consequences of Greek default, which appears to be increasingly likely. 
Embed a tax into electricity bills: the most recent proposal from the government is an admission of failure of the measures taken in the last year and a half, writes Ta Nea. And the worst of it is that some officials are refusing to implement it. 
Everyone now grasps that the Greek government cannot reduce its debt as promised, and the news has rattled the financial markets. In Athens there’s a feeling of helplessness in the air, as captured in this editorial in To Ethnos. 
Greek debt is now out of control. This disturbing conclusion, issued by a parliamentary committee, comes from Athens itself. Asphyxiated by a recession severer than expected and undermined by the black economy, the country looks unlikely to meet its repayment deadlines. 
Are the brilliantly strange films of Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari a product of Greece's economic turmoil? And will they continue to make films in this troubled country? 
Finland set a dangerous precedent for Europe by requiring, for purely political reasons, that Greece guarantees the loan to redress its finances. 
Europe is bailing out its financial centres, but not its youth. Three basic conditions – education, employment and housing – are denied them. So when they fight back, says Der Standard's writer, they're just following the message from the top: take what you can and get out. 
The slow response of European bureaucracy and Germany’s stubborn refusal to accept the sole remedy that can save the euro and Europe — collective management of public debt and an end to national sovereignty in budgetary policy — could effectively sink the euro.
Faced with the bleak realities of unpaid wages, bankrupt businesses, and mass unemployment, the Greeks are increasingly turning to civil disobedience. Is Greece in the throes of a political paradigm shift? The Guardian reports from Thessaloniki. 
While Rome and Madrid are doing their utmost to reassure the markets as to their solvency, the European press remains sceptical about the capacity of Europe’s 27 member states and EU institutions to credibly address the crisis. 
The countries of southern Europe are facing huge problems. But this no reason to neglect them or shove them towards the exit: the fate of the EU is linked to its southern countries, writes a reporter from Le Temps. 
The new rescue plan agreed by the EU on July 21 has not helped to calm the credit rating agencies. To get out of their impasse, the Greeks must change their methods and push forward a development policy, writes an editorialist.
In the end, the eurozone countries holding an emergency summit in Brussels did agree on a new rescue package for Greece. The underlying problem, however, is far from solved. And meanwhile, the bill is getting higher, warns Die Welt. 
The new rescue plan announced on July 21 after the extraordinary Eurozone summit eliminates the risk of Greece going bankrupt, but the Athenian press is divided about its implications. 
The extraordinary Eurozone summit on 21 July is supposed to put an end to the Greek crisis. A well-known Athens columnist argues that decisive action is long overdue, because the Greeks are tired of doing what they are told and obtaining nothing in return.