Debt crisis
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Portugal: ‘Most Portuguese want to renegotiate or end the troika deal’
20 May 201320320Presseuropi -
Europe day: A rise halted by nation states
9 May 2013322133 Il Sole-24 Ore Milan -
Youth unemployment: Germany’s unique key to success
8 May 201380979 Die Welt Berlin -
Iceland: Renewal through architecture
7 May 2013269 Público Lisbon -
European Union: ‘End of austerity’
23 April 201322384PresseuropIrish Independent -
Portugal: ‘Troika presses for political consensus’
17 April 2013257PresseuropJornal de Negócios -
Eurozone: ‘Wealth tax to pay for EU bailouts’
15 April 20135283PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
Portugal: Austerity may pave the way for true reforms
8 April 201333491 Jornal de Negócios Lisbon -
Cyprus bailout: ‘Blackmail has replaced solidarity’
18 March 201337031PresseuropFinancial Times, Público, Trouw & 4 others -
Portugal: ‘Deadline for €4bn cuts in public sector spending extended to 2015’
15 March 2013111PresseuropPúblico -
Cyprus: ‘European bailout without the IMF for Cyprus’
13 March 2013363PresseuropPolitis -
Ireland: ‘ECB calls on Coalition to step up its reforms of bank sector’
8 March 2013132PresseuropThe Irish Times -
Ireland: Debt breathing space but no salvation
7 March 201348PresseuropIrish Independent -
Portugal: The social earthquake rumbles ever louder
5 March 20134221 Expresso Lisbon -
Italy: ‘Berlin warns of the “contagion” of the crisis of Italy to the rest of Europe’
28 February 20132824PresseuropEl País -
Italy: ‘Electoral shock crushes stocks and spreads’
27 February 201337PresseuropIl Sole-24 Ore -
United Kingdom: A-A-Another one bites the dust
25 February 20135216 The Times London -
Portugal: ‘Portugal would save €14.9bn if given Greece’s repayment deal’
20 February 20134134Presseuropi -
Portugal: ‘European Central Bank refuses to ease Portugal’s programme’
19 February 2013423PresseuropPúblico -
Cyprus: At the bottom of the sea
18 February 2013505 ABC Madrid -
Eurozone crisis: The great Portuguese sell-off
18 February 201370671 Le Temps Geneva -
Portugal: ‘Brussels team already in Lisbon to impose bank cuts’
13 February 201315PresseuropDiário económico -
Spain: ‘Bad bank puts houses on sale without extra discounts’
12 February 2013261PresseuropEl Economista -
Estonia: Crowdfunding — the future of banking
8 February 20133097 European Voice Brussels -
Ireland: ‘Debt deal would see IBRC liquidated if agreement secured from Frankfurt’
7 February 201328PresseuropThe Irish Times -
Zone euro: ‘Spain crisis threatens Portugal’s return to the markets’
5 February 2013183PresseuropJornal de Negócios -
Debt crisis: Troika divided over austerity
29 January 201313413PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Economy: ‘First signs of upturn in the eurozone’
28 January 2013322PresseuropLes Echos -
Debt crisis: ‘Portugal recovers some financial sovereignty’
23 January 2013382PresseuropDiário de Notícias -
United Kingdom: Lost illusions on Europe
14 January 201310724 Financial Times London -
United Kingdom: Will the pro-Europeans please stand up?
14 January 201310468 The Guardian London -
Debt Crisis: ‘EU redrafts bank rescue funding plans’
14 January 2013251PresseuropFinancial Times -
Economy: The rise of the zombie companies
10 January 20131377PresseuropFinancial Times -
Debt Crisis: A €1m gateway to Europe
9 January 201330261 Die Zeit Hamburg -
EU crisis: Outlook mixed for Europe’s party politics
4 December 20129710 Financial Times London -
Rating agencies: EU imposes new restrictions
28 November 2012459PresseuropLes Echos -
EU budget: Maximum spending, minimum gain
22 November 20126681 Der Standard Vienna -
Debt crisis: France’s elites are in denial
20 November 201234883 Die Welt Berlin -
Debate: All of Europe’s misfortunes
12 November 201216314 Polska The Times Warsaw -
Estonia: Estonian banks profit from Greek crisis
8 November 2012607PresseuropEesti Ekspress -
Spain: Evictions of indebted property-owners called into question
6 November 20124913PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Economy: Magical mystery bus
2 November 201243 Khaleej Times Dubaï -
Editorial: Obama, a lacklustre ally
2 November 20122834Presseurop -
Greece: Chaotic countdown to bailout or bankruptcy
2 November 20125715PresseuropTa Nea, To Ethnos, To Vima -
International trade: We can’t export our way out of the crisis
30 October 201215952 Frankfurter Rundschau Frankfurt -
Spain: IMF calls for end to all-out austerity
12 October 201214719PresseuropEl País -
Eurozone crisis: ESM: a debt making machine
9 October 201223940 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Debt crisis: Spanish banks main investors in national bonds
3 October 20127112PresseuropABC -
Debt crisis: Crushed
1 October 201248 Trouw Amsterdam -
Debt crisis: Behind the curtain
28 September 201253 L’Echo Brussels
For Die Zeit publisher-editor Josef Joffe, the European experience has been derailed by the reluctance of some member states to give up their sovereignty. 
For the five million young unemployed Europeans, Germany, where the rate of youth joblessness is the lowest in Europe, looks like a promised land. While its system of dual training at the core of this success seems like a model for crisis-hit countries, it is not easily exported. 
Completed just as the financial bubble burst, the Harpa concert hall symbolises the recovery of Iceland following years of gloom. Just one of the reasons why it was awarded the 2013 Mies van der Rohe European Architecture Prize. 
The Portuguese Constitutional Court's rejection of some proposed austerity measures is the latest setback for Portugal's government. However, this is an opportunity truly to reform the state and end the current impasse, believes a Portuguese newspaper editor. 
By imposing a tax on bank deposits in exchange for a €10bn bailout package, the eurozone leaders have, at best, set “a dangerous precedent”, and, at worst dabbled in “blackmail,” writes the European press. 
More than a million people of all ages took to the streets of Portugal on March 2 to demand an end to austerity. The growing discontent could bring down the political system that has been in place since the fall of the dictatorship. 
On February 22, the UK became the latest European nation to lose its platinum AAA credit worthiness status when rating agency Moody’s downgraded the country to Aa1. It’s an embarrassment to PM David Cameron, but not a shock to the markets, notes The Times, which encourages the government to continue the austerity policy. 
Sailing through the first round of the presidential elections on February 17, Conservative Nikos Anastasiadis is well placed to take over from Communist Dimitri Christofias. His main aim? To negotiate a tricky rescue plan to avoid the island being dragged down by the collapse of its banks. 
European leaders are counting on Portugal to set an example of how austerity can succeed when it is applied seriously. Sadly, despite a unprecedented tightening of the screw, Lisbon is still being forced to sell off its “crown jewels” to halt its spiralling debts. 
With the global credit crunch slowing bank loans to a trickle, “peer-to-peer” lending is filling the void, providing much-needed small businesses finance and better returns for investors. Now, this revolution is providing a lifeline to a Baltic country's business sector. 
In his forthcoming speech on Europe, due on January 18, UK Prime Minister David Cameron must take account of the Conservative Party’s eurosceptic mood, but above all speak for the country rather than the party and keep Britain in Europe, argues a Financial Times editorial. 
The UK runs the risk of being stampeded out of the EU by Europhobic politicians and media magnates. Pro-Europeans must shed their fears and launch an objective debate on the case for Britain’s EU membership, writes an editorial in The Guardian. 
Hard-hit by the crisis, Lisbon is wooing rich investors from its former colonies. Anyone who invests in the country has a good chance of obtaining a visa — and an open door to the rest of Europe. 
By picking Pierluigi Bersani as the centre-left Democratic Party’s candidate for premier, Italian voters have challenged the notion that the eurozone crisis is uprooting the established party political systems of southern Europe. 
The EU spends a third of its budget to try to narrow the gap between rich and poor in Europe. Despite the billions from Brussels, though, the poorer countries have not caught up. Could the 27 please rethink that when they discuss the EU budget? 
Accused of sticking its head in the sand over the crisis, France has been downgraded by Moody's and become the biggest problem child in Europe. To the political elite in Paris, though, all that doesn’t matter, writes an author from Berlin in the conservative Welt. 
The Old Continent is grappling with a moderately severe economic crisis, a severe political crisis, a critical civilisational crisis, and perhaps a deadly spiritual crisis, argues a Polish philosopher. 
To come up with the money to pay for its crisis, the eurozone has decided to export at any cost, slashing wages across the union, and courting customers abroad. The problem: that’s exactly what the countries in the Americas and Asia are trying as well. 
With the launch of European rescue fund the ESM on October 9, the EU is betraying its founding fathers and their treaties. That it will stabilise the monetary union is also in doubt, laments FAZ, which strongly backs Germany’s policy of stability. - 1 of 2
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