Slovenia
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21 September 2011PresseuropDnevnik
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Eurozone crisis
Finland destabilizes bailout plan
19 August 20111PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Political fiction
Onwards to Europe 2.0
30 May 20117Die Welt Berlin -
Labour market
Work in Germany? Yes, maybe
29 April 20111Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Litterature
Paolo Rumiz, soul without frontiers
22 April 20111Le Figaro Paris -
Croatia
EU – what's it in aid of?
12 April 2011Tportal Zagreb -
Natural gas
Putin peddles South Stream to Slovenia
23 March 2011PresseuropVečer -
Croatia
Zagreb looks to the euro
3 February 2011PresseuropVjesnik -
Literature
Has America discovered Europe?
10 December 2010The New York Times New York -
Portugal
Half a million working poor
2 December 2010PresseuropJornal de Notícias -
Balkans
Neither here nor there
30 September 2010Adevărul Bucharest -
International shipping
Adriatic, gateway to the East again
14 September 2010La Stampa Turin -
Light pollution
Darkness falls but only in Slovenia
8 September 2010PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
7 June 2010PresseuropVečernji list
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Marriage
Divorce European style
25 March 2010PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Atomic energy
Eastern Europe, a nuclear dustbin?
18 February 2010PresseuropPolska The Times -
Diplomacy
EU earns pat on head from Russia
19 November 2009PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Economic crisis
Romania goes deeper into recession
13 November 2009PresseuropAdevărul -
22 October 20091Wprost Warsaw
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European Union
Are you Lisbon or are you Swiss?
2 October 2009The Guardian London -
Enlargement
Game on for Croatia
2 October 2009PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Documentary
Filming the forgotten frontier
4 September 2009Cafebabel.com Paris -
The Stage
All the world's a train station
22 July 2009Die Zeit Hamburg -
Marriage
Mr and Mr Smith
17 July 2009Cafebabel.com Paris -
17 July 20091Presseurop
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Balkans
Frustrated expectations
15 July 2009The Guardian London -
Cooperation
Balkans to Europe
26 June 2009PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Italy-Slovenia
Sister towns, sibling rivalry
15 June 20091Die Tageszeitung Berlin
Forget the nation-state: Europe would be much better off if it were fundamentally reorganised – into powerful regions in the north and the Alps and picturesque bankrupts in the south 
On 1 May, the doors will open wide for Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans now free to work in Germany. But no one expects a stampede. Quite the opposite: German companies will have to woo the new guest workers ardently and assiduously. 
Traveller, writer and journalist. Italian, Balkan and a little bit Slavic too. Paolo Rumiz is all these things at the same time, this man who has passed through the upheavals of Europe and got it all down in books of highly personal tales. 
"For or against joining the EU?" Between now and the end of the year, the citizens of Croatia will be called on to answer a question they increasingly see as irrelevant. Having overcome many obstacles on the road to accession, they are no longer interested in a Europe that is strongly associated with their country’s discredited political elite. 
With the help of independent publishing houses and with the input from the Old World’s cultural institutes and agencies, European literature is finally making inroads in the United States, a country which traditionally shies away from books in translation. 
A nest of vipers, a powderkeg of ancient hatreds or the cradle of Western civilisation — Europe doesn't know how to view its troublesome southeastern corner. One thing is sure though, it keeps getting its stance wrong. 
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. 
Separated by wars which marked the 1990s, some citizens of the former Yugoslavia are attempting to rebuild the cultural ties, which were a feature of the Titoist state. Today, with encouragement from Europe, political leaders are also beginning to recognize this trend. 
The European Union offers a high level of security, prosperity, freedom and social welfare for most of its citizens, but on the world stage is something of an irrelevance. If it is to escape its status as a “Greater Switzerland”, then it is crucial that the Lisbon Treaty is approved, argues Timothy Garton Ash. 
Café Babel interviews Berlin-based French students Simon Brunel and Nicolas Pannetier, directors of The Inner Border, a documentary that travels along the former Iron Curtain in search of those whose lives were shaped by the now defunct and once forbidding boundary line. 
For 80 days, German, Turkish, Romanian, Croatian, Serb and Slovenian actors have been criss-crossing Europe on a train transmogrified into a theatre-on-wheels. The object of this project launched by the Stuttgart National Theatre is "to foster understanding between nations". Easier said than done, says a journalist from Die Zeit, who boarded the train for the stretch from Istanbul to Bucharest. 
Same sex couples continue to benefit from more extensive civil rights almost everywhere Europe. But de jure gay marriages are only authorized in five countries. Cafebabel.com sets out to map "gay-friendly" Europe. 
On July 16th, the Icelandic parliament passed an EU application proposal which is likely to be submitted to the Swedish presidency when the council meets in Stockholm later this month. The European press has welcomed the news while being under no illusion that accession for the debt-burdened island nation may be fraught with difficulty. 
Croatia's prime minister resigned July 1 because his country's future accession to the EU had been called into question. In Macedonia too, the EU aspirant government is fragile. As the European dream recedes, the more Western Balkan states are destabilised, writes British researcher Ian Bancroft in the Guardian. 
The fall of the Iron Curtain should have united two towns, but Italian Gorizia and Slovenia's Nova Gorica continue to snub one another with great distinction. While Nova enjoys an economic boom, old Gorizia tearily remembers the rare old times.