Italy
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Italy: Indians keep the Grana Padano coming
9 September 2011454 The New York Times New York -
Eurozone: Madrid and Rome – two sorts of crisis
8 September 20111165 La Vanguardia Barcelona -
Italy: Moment of truth has come
7 September 2011PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Debt crisis: ECB in the Italian trap
6 September 2011986 Il Sole-24 Ore Milan -
Debt crisis: Southern Europe at critical turning point
5 September 20112PresseuropLa Tribune -
Libya: A big cake
2 September 201196 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Libyan war: A time for accolades, and payback
2 September 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Press review: Libya: after the war, the oil scramble
1 September 20113271 Presseurop -
Italy: Austerity plan in vanishing act
1 September 2011PresseuropLa Repubblica -
Economy: Mediterranean diet
30 August 201135 Het Parool Amsterdam -
Economic crisis: Please tax me, I’m fabulously rich
30 August 20114271 The Guardian London -
Libya: France and Italy battle over reconstruction
26 August 2011PresseuropLa Stampa -
Libya: The race for oil has begun
24 August 20111PresseuropDie Presse -
Press review: Where next for Libya?
23 August 2011981 Presseurop -
Environment: 'Clean' energy, scourge of our countryside
18 August 20113808 La Repubblica Rome -
Italy: Under supervision
12 August 2011PresseuropL'Espresso -
Debt crisis: Europe reacts
12 August 20111PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Editorial: Sovereignty: time to decide
12 August 201185Presseurop -
Debt crisis: First paralysis, now panic
11 August 2011391 ABC Madrid -
Debt crisis: All aboard?
9 August 201126 Corriere della Sera Milan -
Debt crisis: Now is the time to tan
5 August 201163 The Sunday Business Post Dublin -
Debt crisis: Final summer holiday for the euro?
5 August 201121215 La Repubblica Rome -
Debt crisis: Credit markets defiant
4 August 2011502 Presseurop -
Italiy: The king’s pointless speech
4 August 2011PresseuropLa Stampa -
Debt crisis: Full speed ahead for the euro
3 August 201154 Het Financieele Dagblad Amsterdam -
Eurozone: Spanish and Italian debt spiral
3 August 20111503 El País Madrid -
Refugees: Asylum in Europe — a mirage across the water
3 August 20113148 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Italy: Tragedy at sea and riots onshore
2 August 2011PresseuropLa Stampa -
Ideas: The European limbo
29 July 20111955 El País Madrid -
Italy : Unions, banks and employers against Berlusconi
28 July 2011PresseuropLa Repubblica -
Extremism: New far-right – the boy next door
26 July 20112462 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Italy: The storm is not over
26 July 2011PresseuropLa Repubblica -
Italy: Northern League topples Berlusconi ally
21 July 2011PresseuropLa Repubblica -
Debt crisis: Italy and Spain in turmoil
19 July 2011512PresseuropPresseurop -
Spain: The Civil War is still an open wound
18 July 20111142 El País Madrid -
Italy: Berlusconi’s shipwreck
15 July 20112142 La Repubblica Rome -
Editorial: Paralysis
15 July 201147Presseurop -
Eurozone crisis: Understand the banks and you save the euro
14 July 201110311 Die Zeit Hamburg -
Debt crisis: Spain lashes out at Germany
13 July 20111PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Debt crisis: It’s the euro, stupid
12 July 20111317 Presseurop -
Eurozone crisis: Italy, the last battleground
12 July 20111354 La Repubblica Rome -
Italy: Markets sanction political mess
11 July 2011PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Infrastructures: Holes in the great train network
6 July 2011511 La Stampa Turin -
Austerity: Belt tightening general across Europe
1 July 20111PresseuropPúblico -
Italy: Work restarts on Lyon-Turin rail link
28 June 2011PresseuropLa Stampa -
Debate: Europeans have a right to the truth
22 June 20112125 La Repubblica Rome -
Italy: The “Angry Ones” of the Northern League
21 June 2011PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
European Union: Nuclear industry still doing fine
21 June 20111PresseuropLa Tribune -
Debate: Rome-Berlin, new anti-nuke axis
17 June 20111453 Corriere della Sera Milan -
Italy: Berlusconi associate arrested
16 June 20111PresseuropLa Stampa
Indian immigrants working in Italy’s agricultural heartland are keeping some of the country’s internationally renowned food industries alive. And not even the immigrant baiting Northern League is kicking up too much of a fuss. 
One bows to rigorous demands from Germany and the ECB, the other dithers, entangled in its political games. Spain and Italy, however, both play a crucial role for the future of the single currency. 
Faced with the risk of Italian default, the European Central Bank opted to provide support for Italy’s sovereign bonds in exchange for a commitment from Rome that it would rapidly implement of a package of austerity measures. Now the Berlusconi government’s failure to take decisive action is seriously threatening the credibility of the ECB. 
Lurking behind the public agreement on display among the participants at the Paris conference on “New Libya" is a shadowy struggle that France, Italy and the UK have already started in the race to exploit the country's resources. So say the French, Italian and British newspapers. 
As governments prepare their 2012 budgets, with the middle classes expected to tighten austerity belts to clean up the public accounts, more and more super-rich in several countries are expressing their readiness to share the burden and are asking to pay more tax. 
The European press as a whole welcomes the fall of the Libyan regime and the momentum it will give to the “Arab spring” -- but it strikes a more cautious note on the future of the country. A future in which Europe has a decisive role to play. 
Crisis-hit Italian farmers are turning to the intensive cultivation of maize for biogas production, which is more profitable than growing it for food. But they’re laying themselves open to the mercies of speculators -- and they’re threatening biodiversity too, declares the founder of the Slow Food movement. 
Political dithering and rumour-mongering have caused dramatic falls in global markets. Fiscal integration will be necessary if the euro is to survive the storm. And Angela Merkel is the only political leader who can make it happen, says ABC's editorial. 
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.
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. 
With each passing day, both countries are growing weaker on the markets. And the more it costs to finance their debt, the less chance they have of surviving the crisis. To date, no one has come up with a solution.
Twenty-five refugees have just suffocated in the engine room of a boat bound for Italy. Their deaths are not merely another episode in the decades-old refugee crisis along Europe's southern coasts, but are part of the European strategy for deterring asylum-seekers. 
Europe emerged from ruins of war Europe but now finds itself struggling in the midst of the present crisis. Is this the end? wonders - not without a hint of nostalgia - Mexican writer and European resident of 60 years, Carlos Fuentes. 
In the wake of the Oslo bomb attack and massacre on Utøya island, attention is focused on far-right extremist groups proliferating on the web. But their members have little in common with traditional neo-nazis and extremist conservative movements. 
75 years after Franco's coup against the young Spanish republic and the start of a bloody civil war, Spain has yet to write a definitive and undisputed history of the period. For El Pais, part of the right still cultivates a selective forgetfulness. 
Italy's sudden weakening in the markets has meant a blow to the credibility of Silvio Berlusconi, who has always said his country is doing fine. Today, with no sign of the Cavaliere, his government is hurriedly pushing through an austerity plan whose usefulness is far from assured. 
The fate of the euro is a matter of indifference to the financial markets. Investors are pulling their money out of Rome, Athens, Lisbon and Madrid. And Europe – especially Germany – is doing everything to drive off the financiers it so depends on. 
Sceptical about the Greek bailout, the markets are rounding on the Spanish and Italian sovereign debts. For the Spanish press, the fault lies with those Europeans elites incapable of defending the single currency with a community response. 
Although Italy’s economic indicators are better than other countries', hedge funds have chosen to attack it because of the country’s huge public debt andThe last battleground stagnant growth. The fall of the eurozone’s third largest economy would deal a fatal blow to the common currency while providing enormous profit opportunities to speculators. 
The European Commission has identified ten rail infrastructure projects as a priority, aiming to facilitate the flow of passengers and merchandise, all the while accelerating European integration. An ambition that is facing political and public opposition. 
The financial crisis has exposed the deception and subterfuge of politics, yet the leaders of Europe continue to deny the obvious. Only honesty, and the courage to tell the truth, can save Europe. 
Germany is phasing out nuclear power and Italy has rejected its reintroduction. This about-face by two founding members of the European Union could encourage other member states to turn the nuclear page and to develop renewable energies.