Iraq
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9/11, 10 years on
The East rises over Ground Zero
9 September 20112The Guardian London -
11 May 20111PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza
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Terrorism
Bin Laden’s legacy
2 May 20112Le Monde Paris -
19 April 20112PresseuropThe Independent
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Wikileaks
The war of words
25 October 2010Presseurop -
29 July 2010PresseuropDiário de Notícias
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United Kingdom
Clegg declares Iraq invasion illegal
22 July 2010PresseuropThe Guardian -
Iraq War
Blair, blinded by the Enlightenment
1 February 20101The Independent London -
United Kingdom
Knives out for Blair over Iraq
29 January 2010PresseuropNew Statesman -
Editorial
Dark secrets and necessary lies
29 January 2010Presseurop -
Iraq War
The truth doesn't quite matter
13 January 2010 -
Iraq War
Chilcot inquiry accused of whitewash
24 November 2009PresseuropThe Guardian -
Torture
Corporal Payne comes clean
17 November 2009PresseuropThe Independent -
12 November 2009PresseuropPolitiken
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30 September 2009Die Zeit Hamburg
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Asylum Seekers
"Delight" as Besson clears Calais Jungle
22 September 2009PresseuropThe Daily Mail -
Dennmark
Gagging Private Rathsack
16 September 2009PresseuropPolitiken -
10 September 2009PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung
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Middle East
Moving closer to Syria
27 August 2009The Guardian London -
Germany
Terrorist cell in deep slumber
11 August 2009PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
3 August 20091Presseurop
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Immigration
Wilkommen to Romania
14 July 20091Le Monde Paris -
United Kingdom
Blame it on Brown
13 July 2009PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
ENERGY
Nabucco out to gas up
13 July 2009PresseuropLe Figaro
We have spent the years since the attacks on US soil focusing on the terrorist threat and wars in Afganistan and Iraq. But we have been blind to the real global change : the slow but unstoppable rise of China, writes Timothy Garton Ash.
Symbolic as the death of the al-Qaeda leader is, it does not mark the end of the fight against terrorism, nor of its consequences for our way of life, writes Le Monde.
The publication of more than 400,000 documents by the WikiLeaks website and several major newspapers has shed light on day-to-day events in the field, but much of the European press is critical of the manner in which this information is presented to the public.
At the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair expressed no regrets over his decision to join the war in Iraq. Bruce Anderson in the Independent argues that he was driven by a typical delusion of Enlightenment thinking, that it is possible to reshape human nature and the world in the West’s image.
Ankara is the neighbour Europeans still won’t let into their club. And yet the country behind the Bosporus is soon to become the communication hub for energy supplies bound for Europe. Die Zeit doubts the EU can go on snubbing the Turks indefinitely.
Britain’s recent call to bring Syria into the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is part of a wider western strategy to tempt the previously isolated Ba'athist regime away from Iran and continue co-operation with the west in Iraq and Lebanon. Chris Philips at the Guardian wonders whether we are witnessing another example of human rights and democracy being sacrificed for political expediency.
On August 1st, former Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen was formally invested as NATO’s new secretary general, declaring that resolving the war in Afghanistan would be his main priority. But what, wonders the European press, is the outlook for the western alliance, blighted by in-fighting and seemingly with no end in sight to its battle against a resurgent Taliban?
Since becoming a member of the EU, Romania has attracted waves of African, Indian, Afghan and Iraqi immigrants. Hailing from Somalia, Kasim thought he was on his way to Germany when unscrupulous traffickers dumped him deep in the heart of the Romanian countryside...