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Europhrenia: Lech Kaczynski – counter-homage
14 April 20101PresseuropBlog -
Editorial: The test for Poland
12 April 2010Presseurop -
Shooty, SME (Bratislava): Headless
12 April 2010 -
Smolensk air crash: Poland and Russia reconciled?
12 April 201012 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Poland/Russia: Putin kneels at shrine of massacred Poles
8 April 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
POLAND: Russians learn truth about Katyń
6 April 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Democracy: Non-revolutionary revolutions
2 April 201059 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Elections 2010: Mitteleuropa goes to the polls
31 March 201019 1 Lidové noviny Prague -
Poland: Fingering pan-EU VAT fraud
31 March 2010PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
University: Schools feel cost of crisis
30 March 201044 Adevărul Bucharest -
Poland: Mosque provokes jihad fears in Warsaw
29 March 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
European Agencies: Too many, too much
24 March 2010La Tribune Paris -
Gas: Energy solidarity not yet on tap
17 March 2010Rzeczpospolita Warsaw -
Poland: Germans ain't so scary after all
11 March 2010PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
European Parliament: "Westerners" remain the masters of invective
9 March 201025 1 România libera Bucharest -
Poland: Hitler in abortion poster row
4 March 20101PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Poland: Strasbourg paves way for gay marriage
3 March 2010PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
European of the Week: Agata Buzek, not just daddy's girl?
19 February 2010Polska The Times Warsaw -
Single currency: Euro, go east!
18 February 201023 1 Handelsblatt Düsseldorf -
Atomic energy: Eastern Europe, a nuclear dustbin?
18 February 2010PresseuropPolska The Times -
Poland/Belarus: Lukashenko cracks down on Poles
16 February 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Baltic Sea: The big cleanup begins
11 February 2010PresseuropHelsingin Sanomat -
A town in Europe: Cieszyn, a border run through it
5 February 201024 1 Polityka Warsaw -
Strategy: Anti-missile shield resurfaces in Romania
5 February 2010PresseuropRomânia libera -
Poland/Russia: Remembering the Katyń massacre
4 February 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Belgium: Poles, Africans, Gays - begone!
4 February 2010PresseuropTrouw -
Kaliningrad: Solidarność spirit inspires anti-Putin demo
1 February 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Anniversary: Auschwitz survivors poorly treated
27 January 20101PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Human rights: Europe can close Guantánamo
25 January 2010The Irish Times Dublin -
Crime: The war on cigarette smuggling
21 January 20102 Rzeczpospolita Warsaw -
Culture: Cities on the edge stand tall
7 January 2010277 2 Le Monde Paris -
Swine Flu: The germ of doubt
5 January 201018 1 Presseurop -
Poland - Slovakia: The new EU economic tandem?
4 January 2010PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Lithuania: CIA’s little helpers
23 December 2009PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Emigration: Diligent Poles reluctant to go home
17 December 2009PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Political asylum: Poland most welcoming EU state
15 December 2009PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Tower of Babel: When in Rome, do as Roman babies
11 December 20091 Cafebabel.com Paris -
Discrimination: Roma and Africans not welcome
10 December 20092PresseuropIrish Examiner -
Hospitals: Don’t get sick in the UK
9 December 2009476PresseuropThe Daily Mail -
Cross-border treatment: EU-wide healthcare still in waiting room
3 December 2009PresseuropAdevărul -
Central and Eastern Europe: Some post-communist dos and don'ts
2 December 2009Hospodářské Noviny Prague -
Poland: Ex-president accused of being Red spook
2 December 2009PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Germany: Chaotic opening to Demjanjuk trial
1 December 2009PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Afghanistan: Poland answers Obama's call
30 November 2009PresseuropPolska The Times -
EU-Russia: Moscow’s charm offensive
27 November 2009Presseurop -
Visas: EU favours Russia over Ukraine
26 November 2009PresseuropPolska The Times -
Tourism: Kosmopolitan Kaliningrad
19 November 200914 Cafebabel.com Paris -
European Union: Islam, top of a heap of prejudices
16 November 2009PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Economic crisis: Romania goes deeper into recession
13 November 2009PresseuropAdevărul -
Tower of Babel: Sour grapes
13 November 20091 Cafebabel.com Paris
The solidarity shown by the Russian authorities in the wake of the 10 April air disaster in Smolensk could, which killed Polish president Lech Kaczynski and a swath of the country's political and military elite, is another step forward in the much-postponed rapprochement between Warsaw and Moscow, 70 years after the Katyn massacre. 
Power, hitherto held by parties, governments and parliaments, is passing into the hands of citizens’ movements of every stripe. Is this Hannah Arendt’s dream come true in which everyone participates in public affairs? asks historian Marek Beylin. 
Polling stations in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire and Poland will be particularly busy in the coming months with general elections in Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Austria, and a presidential vote in Poland this autumn. Five intellectuals look forward to the ballots in their respective countries.
The education sector in Europe has been hard hit by cuts in budgets, personnel and investment. Some universities, e.g. in the UK, might even have to be closed down. And some leading institutions could soon lose their top international rankings.
Immigration, fisheries, GMOs… 28 agencies are supposed to provide support for EU member states and their citizens. But they are being criticized for their high running costs and poor management practice. La Tribune reports on the issues that Brussels is planning to set right. 
To avoid natural gas shortages that have marked the past few winters, the EU is studying a mutual assistance plan for member states. But the trigger conditions won't satisfy everyone, and member states aren't ready to play the game, writes Rzeczspospolita.
We were inured to the foul mouths of populist MEPs from the new member states who took their seats in Strasbourg last June. But they can’t hold a candle to their Western European counterparts, recounts România liberă.
Voted one of the year’s ten best European actors at the Berlinale, the Polish film actress is chalking up one high-profile part after another – in life as on the silver screen. Agata, daughter of European Parliament president Jerzy Buzek, is making a first name for herself.
With its monetary union weakened by the crisis, the EU shouldn’t be afraid of enlarging the eurozone. Handelsblatt recommends rapidly integrating the more dynamic economies to the east, which have been scorned for too long as the weakest links in the system. 
It is not easy to celebrate a common past in a town that has been divided by history. However, in spite of tensions between Poles and Czechs, life in Cieszyn and Český Těšín is beginning to benefit from the border that separates the two towns. 
One year after Barack Obama announced his intention to dismantle Guantánamo, 198 prisoners still remain at the notorious detention centre. Colm O'Gorman in the Irish Times argues that Europe, having facilitated extraordinary rendition flights and CIA secret detention centres, made Guantánamo possible, and must open its doors to former detainees. 
One cigarette in every ten sold in the European Union has been illegally imported. To combat the booming business in smuggled tobacco from Eastern Europe and Asia, Brussels has decided to tighten security on the EU's external borders. Poland is in the front line of the war on the cigarette smugglers.
Unloved and unrepentant: Europe's rebellious port cities have always been marked by a strong sense of their own identity. In 2006 six of them grouped together to form "Cities on the edge," a cultural network that celebrates pride in local differences. 
Several European governments are trying to resell millions of doses of swine flu vaccine. So was the threat exaggerated after all? The press takes the authorities to task. 
In order to attract tiny tots' attention, or prevent them from screaming for ever, adults go into form of verbal regression. The noises they make, however, are not the same depending on the country you're in. Cafebabel.com rounds up European baby phrases. 
Jobs, government, infrastructure: in the wake of 1989, the countries of the former communist block had to re-invent themselves. As Czech daily Hospodářské Noviny notes, the different strategies they chose resulted in some initiatives that were well-prepared and some that were wholly unsavoury. 
After tensions triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union and post-9/11, the hour has come for rapprochement between Europe and Russia. Favoured by the United States’ relative unconcern and the absence of major present-day flashpoints between the two powers, their reconciliation is being approached pragmatically – and in many areas on the Kremlin’s initiative.
Sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland, the once forbidding Russian exclave of Kaliningrad now benefits from federal money and oil revenues. Cafebabel.com reports from a city that now offers that familiar mix of Moscow trash and flash. 
Sour as vinegar, a saying with many variants across the continent, but why? It starts with the word itself - vinum acetum means ‘wine turned sour’. Cafebabel.com unleashes its idiom of the week.