Italy
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Italy: Camorra number one arrested
18 November 2010PresseuropLa Repubblica -
World heritage: UNESCO digs flamenco and med food
17 November 2010PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Italy: Dead government walking
16 November 2010PresseuropL'Espresso -
Internet: Italy, the broadband slowcoach
10 November 2010PresseuropWired Italia -
Horsch: Villa Berlusconi
8 November 201064 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Democracy: Berlusconi and the abuses of power
4 November 2010169 La Repubblica Rome -
Populism: The fear peddlers hobbling Europe
3 November 20101723 Libération Paris -
Italy : Berlusconi in homophobic gag
3 November 2010PresseuropLa Repubblica -
International Trade: China bites into Europe’s soft underbelly
2 November 20102532 The New York Times New York -
Italy: Berlusconi in another underage scandal
29 October 2010PresseuropIl Fatto Quotidiano -
Austerity: Pity the poor civil servant
27 October 2010129 Il Foglio Milan -
Austerity: A farewell to arms?
25 October 201028 La Repubblica Rome -
Austerity: Unions head for Judgement Thursday
25 October 2010PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Italy: No-one wants Neapolitan rubbish
21 October 20101PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
San Marino: Death of a tax haven
18 October 201063 La Stampa Turin -
Italy / Afghanistan: Rome's secret dirty war
15 October 2010PresseuropL'Espresso -
Serbia: Dark side of the Yugosphere
13 October 201067 Il Sole-24 Ore Milan -
Population: It’s time to make babies
13 October 20101673 Le Figaro Paris -
Natural Gas: Moscow scores against Brussels again
12 October 201032PresseuropLa Tribune -
Italy / Afghanistan: Bomb first, retreat later
12 October 2010PresseuropLa Repubblica -
Italy: Sicily, gobbler of EU funds
8 October 20101231 La Stampa Turin -
Italy: Birthday boy Berlusconi gets reprieve
30 September 2010PresseuropLa Stampa -
Austerity: Europe revolts against cuts
29 September 20101761 La Tribune Paris -
Debates: Diversity and solidarity - happy bed-fellows?
27 September 201076 Les Echos Paris -
Italy: Banker sacked for letting Libya in
22 September 2010PresseuropIl Sole-24 Ore -
Debate: Will France and Italy capsize the Union?
21 September 2010422 Adevărul Bucharest -
Roma: Axis of weevils
17 September 2010602 La Stampa Turin -
Roma: Just how far will France go?
16 September 201053 Libération Paris -
International shipping: Adriatic, gateway to the East again
14 September 201029 La Stampa Turin -
Diplomacy: Libyan patrol fires on Italian fishing boat
14 September 2010PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Italy: Expo 2015, a Milanese fiasco
3 September 201015PresseuropIl Post -
Counterfeiting: Fake is absolutely fabulous
3 September 2010124 The Daily Telegraph London -
Immigration: Is Gaddafi right?
2 September 2010992 La Stampa Turin -
Libya: Gaddafi is pulling our leg
31 August 2010762 Corriere della Sera Milan -
Mix&Remix, L'Hebdo (Lausanne): A lesson in diplomacy
30 August 201060 -
Italy / Libya: Gadaffi’s second Roman holiday
30 August 2010PresseuropL’Unità -
Immigration: Romanians non grata at Paris summit
24 August 2010PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Crime: The Mafia among us
20 August 20101PresseuropL'Express -
Immigration: France joins the heavy gang
19 August 2010582 Le Monde Paris -
Italy: The Axeman goeth
18 August 2010PresseuropIl Riformista -
Immigration: Where have all the migrants gone?
18 August 2010782 The Economist London -
Secularism: For the free movement of gods
13 August 20101282 Die Zeit Hamburg -
Economic crisis: Crisis boosts European military cooperation
12 August 201022 El País Madrid -
Firefighting: Europe works together as fires blaze
11 August 201015PresseuropThe New York Times -
Editorial: Summer without a break
6 August 201022Presseurop -
Immigration: Irregular crossings from Libya plummet
4 August 2010PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Italy: The long fall of Berlusconi
30 July 20101471 Presseurop -
Communications: OSCE warns of shrinking media freedoms
30 July 20101PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Industry: Will Italian workers turn Polish?
30 July 20101081 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Editorial: Corruption - a European problem
26 July 2010241Presseurop
The abuse of power is an irresistible temptation, which is why liberal constitutions establish checks and balances on the exercise of power. But Silvio Berlusconi’s latest transgressions go to show that even a liberal constitutional democracy is not proof against wanton abuse. 
The new far right not only exerts a growing influence on national governments, it is also organising at a European level and could soon weigh heavily on the very workings of the EU, warns French columnist Bernard Guetta. 
Beijing is fast building a bridgehead in Europe by buying up government debt and key strategic assets on the cheap in countries like Greece, Ireland and Spain that have been enfeebled by the crisis. But its long-term ambitions are not just to make money — it wants more of a say in Brussels too. 
They used to have it made — nice easy work, good pensions and job security — but the swingeing cuts that have come with the crisis threaten to end forever the cushy life of Europe's fast-disappearing civil servants. 
The crisis is forcing European states to make unprecedented cuts in their defence budgets, leaving their armed forces short on men and means – and eventually eroding their technological edge. 
Hitherto deemed a safe haven beyond the taxman’s clutches, this tiny republic in the foothills of the Apennines has been hard hit by the economic crisis and the Italian clampdown on capital flight. 
With Serbia’s candidacy for EU accession up for review at the end of the month, the tension fomented by Serb ultranationalists is mounting dangerously: witness Serb hooligans’ recent attacks on the Gay Pride parade in Belgrade and at the Italy-Serbia match in Genoa. 
To counter the decline in Europe’s population, we will have to take stock of two important points, insists the former president of France’s Institute for Demographic Studies: demographic change is proceeding at a different rate in individual countries, and immigration alone is not the solution. 
According to a recently released report on the use of billions in EU subsidies, Sicily has spent every last cent of it – not on stopping the island’s development gap, but on pork-barrelling patronage, charges La Stampa. 
With the European Commission about to force members to rein in their budgets, a wave of protest against the cuts has erupted across Europe with a general strike in Spain and large demonstrations in Brussels, Greece, Italy, Ireland and Portugal. 
Tensions between regions in Belgium and Italy, and the expulsion of the Roma from France have highlighted an underlying conflict in societies that wish to be both generous and socially diverse. According to two French economists, it is a tug-of-war that also has the potential to undermine the European Union. 
The Roma affair is evidence of an existential crisis in the European Union. A Romanian editorialist argues that it highlights the degree to which certain governments, on the look-out for easy votes, now hold the EU and its values in contempt. 
Nicolas Sarkozy defiance of Europe — loudly supported by Silvio Berlusconi — isn't just about the Roma, it is an attack on the community's core values and the right of the public to know what is being done in their name, says columnist Barbara Spinelli 
Threatened with legal action by the Commission, with precious little backing from her neighbours, France is suffering the fallout from her president’s bellicose anti-Roma rhetoric. But the other Roma-deporting countries could conceivably help her out of this fix. 
In the time of the Venetian Republic, the Adriatic ports were the trade capitals for the Orient. They are now reuniting to challenge northern Europe’s maritime monopoly, with an economic and ecological edge. 
A new European Union-funded report has declared that buying counterfeited designer goods can benefit consumers and the companies whose brands are being ripped off. 
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has demanded 5 billion euros from Europe, and unless he gets what he wants, he has threatened to stop policing the Mediterranean for illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa in search of a better life in Europe. Isn't this blackmail? Perhaps. But in the absence of an alternative to the problem, Gaddafi's proposition at least makes financial sense for the EU, according to economist Mario Deaglio. 
When it comes to foreign policy, national interests will sometimes trump lofty moral principles. But the Libyan leader’s latest provocations and blackmail attempts beat all. 
Nicolas Sarkozy has put France squarely in Europe's extremist camp with his new hardline stance on security and immigration. But other countries have found far less confrontational answers to the same problems 
Politicians are playing on fears of a migrant "invasion", but as The Economist's Charlemagne points out, there are fewer and fewer boat people landing on our shores. 
Confronted by a multiplicity of religions and their symbols, most states choose to forbid them. But in doing so, they are heading toward an impasse, claims Die Zeit while pleading for tolerance and pluralism. 
Blocked by national interests, European military cooperation is still at an embryonic stage. However, the economic crisis has encouraged member states to break new ground in their quest to take advantage of synergies and share common resources and defence infrastructure. 
The European press is convinced that the definitive rift between the Italian leader and his main ally Gianfranco Fini announced on 29 July will herald a full-blown crisis in the system of power controlled by Il Cavaliere. Shaken by scandals and, according to Fini, the "moral question" they raise, his political movement is falling apart, while Italy’s influence in Europe, which was already weak, continues to wane. 
When Fiat offered to relocate its Polish factory to southern Italy, it asked the workers to agree to work more. They accepted but face a major culture shock. A month later, Gazeta Wyborzca visited the Italian plant and seems puzzled by this instance of European social competition.