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Lithuania: Basketball, a question of independence
7 September 201194 Libération Paris -
Czech Republic-Slovakia: A Soviet take on the Prague Spring
22 August 201141PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
1991-2011: A Baltic triumph
19 August 2011143 IQ The Economist Vilnius -
Anniversary: The coup that ended the USSR
19 August 2011PresseuropTribune de Genève -
INTERVIEW: Paolo Rumiz: “The heart of Europe beats in the East”
5 August 2011PresseuropBlog -
Middle East: Europe has a role to play
28 July 2011751 Al Hayat London -
Bulgaria: Sofia cracks down on Lukoil
28 July 2011PresseuropDnevnik -
Cyprus: An explosion some saw coming
12 July 2011PresseuropPolitis -
EU-RUSSIA: Progress thwarted by killer cucumbers
10 June 2011PresseuropNezavissimaïa Gazeta -
European Union: Back to the nation
8 June 201165024 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Editorial: Hanging on
20 May 201115Presseurop -
Russia-EU: Who will open this window on Europe?
10 May 2011541 Polityka Warsaw -
Gas: Russia and Germany meet at sea
6 May 20111PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Estonia: Some nationality disorder
5 May 2011573 Postimees Tallinn -
Internet: Crime spreads on the web
5 May 20112PresseuropLa Voix du Luxembourg -
Romania: A khaki-coloured American dream
4 May 2011801 Jurnalul Naţional Bucharest -
Slovakia: Ice hockey paves the way to Moscow thaw
28 April 20111PresseuropSME -
Railways: Berlin-Moscow soon at high speed
26 April 201177PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Geopolitics: Bucharest gets foothold in Caucasus
18 April 20111PresseuropRomânia libera -
Belarus: Croesus from Minsk
4 April 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Editorial: EU foreign policy running on empty
25 March 2011511Presseurop -
Natural gas: Putin peddles South Stream to Slovenia
23 March 2011PresseuropVečer -
Nuclear energy: Chernobyl to Fukushima - media gets it wrong
17 March 2011104 Postimees Tallinn -
EU-Russia: Barroso and Putin spar over gas deal
25 February 201114PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Cinema: Russian intrigue at the Berlinale
10 February 2011141 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Co-operation: Weimar Triangle needs a few more notes
8 February 2011371 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Eastern Europe: Transniestria looks to Russia, not EU
27 January 201173 EUobserver.com Brussels -
Poland: Two truths about Smolensk
19 January 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Asylum Rights: Welcome, you’ve just been Dublined
18 January 20111581 Le Monde Paris -
Poland: Only Poles to blame for Smoleńsk air crash
13 January 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Baltic states: Where minorities must hold their tongue
6 January 2011814 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Emerging economies: Globalisation 2.0: How the West lost it
6 January 20111872 La Repubblica Rome -
Pharmaceutical industry: European guinea pigs
23 December 2010160PresseuropVanity Fair -
Military alliance: Towards a EuroNato?
21 December 2010674 Rzeczpospolita Warsaw -
EU-Russia: Silvio and Vladimir, dangerous liaisons
9 December 20101033 La Repubblica Rome -
Geopolitics: Central Europe - we need to make friends
8 December 2010593 Lidové noviny Prague -
Alliances: Nordic countries huddle together
7 December 201073 EUobserver.com Brussels -
Diplomacy: EU / Russia love-in continues
7 December 20101PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Football: European fury over World Cup racket
3 December 2010PresseuropLe Soir -
OLIVER: Putin's European dream
29 November 201023 Der Standard Vienna -
Editorial: Sit down at the Bear’s table
29 November 201016Presseurop -
Wikileaks: What America thinks of us
29 November 20101PresseuropDer Spiegel -
Elections: Moldova's diaspora looking for a way home
26 November 201031 Timpul Chisinau -
NATO: The death of the west
19 November 2010104 România libera Bucharest -
Georgia: EU monitors marking time
16 November 201026 Le Monde Paris -
Politics: 2011 - the year of Central Europe
15 November 2010Jyllands-Posten Aarhus -
Bulgaria / Russia: Sofia bends to Putin gas deal
15 November 2010PresseuropDnevnik -
Nuclear Energy: Russia is Germany’s new dustbin
9 November 2010PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Poland / Lithuania: Why Warsaw and Vilnius are at loggerheads
4 November 201054 Rzeczpospolita Warsaw -
Poland / EU: Pipeline of contention
28 October 2010PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna
The particular fervour gripping Lithuania, which is currently hosting EuroBasket 2011, is part of a long tradition in a Baltic country that has expressed its identity on the basketball court since Soviet times. 
In August 1991, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia declared their independence from a collapsing USSR. Despite a few hiccups along the way, twenty years on they have definitively turned the page on Communism and come back to their roots in Europe. 
After years of playing a secondary role in the Arab world, the EU now has an opportunity to exert a positive influence in a region where the United States and Russia have failed to respond to radical change. An Al-Hayat columnist outlines how Europe can make a difference. 
The European Union was the best thing that could have happened to the continent. But over the years it has grown into a demon, uncontrollable and impossible to throw out of office. To avoid collapse, there is only one road open: back to the nation. And back to democracy. 
Residents of a region that considers itself to be a “window on Europe,” the population of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which is located between Poland and Lithuania, want Moscow to establish closer links with the EU. In particular, they are hoping for an end to a requirement for visas for European travel: an “iron curtain” that separates them from Western modernity. 
Since 1991, Estonia has tens been home to tens of thousands of “non-citizens” — Russian-speakers who settled in Estonia in Soviet times. Their numbers are decreasing, but too slowly. Is this Moscow's fault? 
The 3rd May announcement that the former military base in Deveselu has been chosen as the site for part of the American missile defence shield has brought a glimmer of hope to an undeveloped corner of southern Romania. 
In 1986, Estonians were Soviet citizens and had no idea what was going on at Chernobyl. Today they are members of the European Union, but whether they are better informed is questionable, writes the daily Postimees. 
A film by a German director about the Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky was to premiere at the Berlinale. But it’s been stolen – and the director is afraid. 
At their February 7 meeting in Warsaw the Polish, German and French leaders agreed to bolster their trilateral cooperation. High time, writes Gazeta Wyborcza, to counter fears of a two-tier EU. 
The 350,000-or-so people living in the separatist Transniestria region want to integrate with Russia despite a new wave of euro-optimism on the other side of its unofficial border with Moldova. But their views are shaped by decades of repression. 
Karina and Rouslan fled from Chechnya to France, before being deported back to Poland, their point of entry into the EU. Le Monde reports on an absurd itinerary dictated by the Dublin II regulation. 
The linguistic rights of the sizeable Russian and Polish minorities in the three former Soviet republics, which joined the EU in 2004, are hardly recognised. A Dutch journalist deplores governmental intransigence on the issue of languages. 
As the West stews in stagnation, emerging economies are on the rise – and driving prices of raw materials and fuel to perilous highs. As they now set the pace of the global economy, Europe, stymied by cutbacks and unemployment, is in for hard times ahead. 
Notwithstanding claims made by participants, the Nato summit in Lisbon did not constitute a turning point: the alliance continues to be undermined by a profound crisis, highlighted not only by the problems it faces in Afghanistan, but also by nagging doubts about the effectiveness of mutual assistance in the event of threats to security. 
Many of the leaked US embassy cables reveal the close personal ties between Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi. For Washington, suspicion is growing that Russia is using Italy as a Trojan horse to influence – by hook or by crook – Europe's energy policies. 
The two main forces structuring Central Europe — the EU and NATO — might not go on forever. For this reason, Lidové noviny argues that the countries of the region should take action to heal the wounds left by the wars of the 20th century before they are once again caught in a geopolitical squeeze between Germany and Russia. 
As the world gets bigger, and the rush for the resources beneath the Artic sea intensifies, the countries of Europe’s far North are seeking common cause. 
On 28 November, Moldovans will go to the polls to elect a new government. The vote, which will prove crucial in the country’s bid to overcome a political and social crisis, will also play a determining role in a choice between pro-European or pro-Russian policies. Many Moldovan emigrants in Europe are hoping for an outcome that will allow them to return home. 
The NATO summit to be held in Lisbon on 19 and 20 November will be marked by the rise of Russian influence in the alliance. A Romanian editorialist highlights the vital importance of the link between Eastern Europe and Washington. 
European observers sent to monitor the peace plan between Moscow and Tbilisi after the 2008 blitzkrieg are wondering what purpose they serve there. In the absence of political headway, the situation is stymied and prospects for a long-term solution are slipping away. 
In general, Western Europeans, and the Danes in particular, cling to negative stereotypes of fellow EU citizens fromthe former Eastern bloc. Hungary and Poland, however, at the helm of Europe in 2011 are likelier to make a bigger splash than provincial Denmark when it takes over the EU presidency in 2012. 
With growing bitterness, Poland believes that its partnership with Lithuania is one built on empty promises. At the heart of the debate - the rights of the Polish minority in the Baltic state.