Euro crisis
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Growth : ‘Eurozone mired in recession’
16 May 201362375PresseuropFinancial Times, Les Echos, România libera & 4 others -
Minorities: For George Soros, Roma are victims of the crisis
16 May 201316729PresseuropDilema Veche -
Banking crisis: ECB wants to finish the clean-up
14 May 20135315PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
Debt crisis: Irish president condemns ‘hegemonic’ EU
3 May 20133722PresseuropFinancial Times, The Irish Times -
Economy: There is no euro crisis
3 May 201331787 Lidové noviny Prague -
Enlargement : Crisis makes candidate countries think twice
2 May 201311712PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Eurozone: ‘ECB: what is the reason for the lower rate?’
2 May 20131410PresseuropLa Tribune -
Cyprus: ‘Tough dilemma with only one choice’
30 April 201318PresseuropPolitis -
Ideas: What happened to the European dream?
25 April 201394266 Kultura Sofia -
Eurozone crisis: Austerity absurdity?
24 April 2013978131 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Greece: ‘Dangerous Dawn’
17 April 20139689PresseuropNeues Deutschland -
Eurozone: Germany: Europe’s poor relation
11 April 2013682326 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Slovenia: Cyprus syndrome looms over Ljubljana
10 April 2013735PresseuropVečer, Financial Times, Le Temps -
Austria: ‘Banking secrecy: Faymann ready for talks’
9 April 2013471PresseuropDie Presse -
Cyprus: Remission
28 March 201336 De Groene Amsterdammer Amsterdam -
Eurozone crisis: Time to abolish the tax havens
28 March 2013929115 El País Madrid -
EU-Russia: Brussels’ Cyprus slip-up
28 March 20131657 Lidové noviny Prague -
Eurozone crisis: ‘Europe agonises over the crisis’
28 March 20131934PresseuropDie Presse -
Cyprus: ‘A dribble of cash’
28 March 201316PresseuropPolitis -
Cyprus: Friends like these...
27 March 2013341 To Ethnos Athens -
Debate: The “Latin Empire” should strike back
26 March 20133119491 Libération Paris -
Latvia: Cypriot crisis is a boon for “Switzerland of the Baltic”
26 March 20131227PresseuropHospodářské Noviny -
Cyprus: ‘Cyprus avoids being expelled from Eurozone’
26 March 2013204PresseuropNezavissimaïa Gazeta -
Cyprus: ‘Merkel’s pawn considers Cypriot haircuts elsewhere’
26 March 20132917PresseuropEl Mundo -
Cyprus: ‘The dwarf has been saved, but the giant is trembling’
26 March 2013296PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Cyprus: ‘The €9.2bn heist’
26 March 2013263PresseuropO Phileleftheros -
Cyprus: ‘Eurozone shifts burden of risk from taxpayers to investors’
26 March 2013503PresseuropFinancial Times -
Cyprus: “This is the start of the Road to Calvary”
25 March 201315072 O Phileleftheros Nicosia -
Cyprus: ‘Euro rescuers close down their first bank’
25 March 20133711PresseuropHandelsblatt -
Poland: ‘PO-PIS Constitutional?’
25 March 2013442PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Cyprus: ‘30% haircut for the Bank of Cyprus’
25 March 20134413PresseuropPolitis -
Cyprus: ‘Just when you thought it was safe...’
22 March 2013199PresseuropThe Economist -
Eurozone crisis: ‘EU gives Cyprus an ultimatum to avoid it leaving the euro’
22 March 2013147PresseuropEl País -
Cyprus: The other guy’s always to blame
21 March 2013301128 Frankfurter Rundschau Frankfurt -
European Union: How Europe’s leaders ran out of credit in Cyprus
21 March 201325220 Financial Times London -
Eurozone: ‘Guarantee up to €100,000 remains’
19 March 2013344PresseuropDe Standaard -
Eurozone crisis: Byzantine lessons for Europe
18 March 201399044 The Guardian London -
Italy: ‘Europe, no progress on growth’
15 March 2013241PresseuropIl Sole-24 Ore -
European Council: ‘Group therapy’ for growth-crisis countries
14 March 201310114PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung, Financial Times -
Italy: Merkel’s Europe hits the skids in Rome
27 February 2013226228 Il Sole-24 Ore Milan -
Italy: ‘Protest vote’
27 February 2013361PresseuropHandelsblatt -
Eurozone crisis: Austerity plunges Europe into recession
15 February 2013543130PresseuropLa Tribune, Diário económico, NRC Handelsblad & 4 others -
Italy: ‘Who can save Italy?’
15 February 20139189PresseuropThe Economist -
Eurozone: ‘Deficit: French case embarrasses Europe’
14 February 20138531PresseuropLe Figaro -
Eurozone crisis: Hollande stands alone
6 February 20138598PresseuropLes Echos, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Eurozone crisis: The euro’s Lazarus moment
1 February 201311716PresseuropFinancial Times -
European union: A crisis of democracy as much as finance
25 January 201359969 The Guardian London -
Germany: ‘Europe suffers, Germany wins’
16 January 2013441PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Economy: America’s European moment
4 January 2013825PresseuropThe Economist -
Economy: Merkel shepherds us away from the fiscal cliff
3 January 201316550 NRC Handelsblad Amsterdam
Europe's May 15 growth figures fell like a hammer blow. For the sixth consecutive quarter, the Eurozone economy has contracted – the longest period of decline in growth since the creation of the single currency, notes the European press. 
Don’t believe this “modern myth” that the single currency is teetering on the edge of disaster. The real problem is that the losers – the less competitive countries – are growing in number day by day 
Amnesia, recession, the failure of political elites, divided societies… The free and caring Europe that was the dream of oppressed peoples no longer exists, it is just that European leaders lack the courage to admit it, says a Bulgarian political analyst. 
“The policy of austerity has reached its limits”, says European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, the first time Brussels has questioned its own policy. It’s time we grasped that one path for such varied countries doesn’t work, writes Süddeutsche Zeitung. 
According to the ECB, the Germans did not take advantage of the crisis and are even poorer now than other Europeans. For the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, this is proof that they should not pay for the mistakes of others, and they need to better allocate their wealth. 
The Cyprus crisis has shone a spotlight on the special tax status of the island in the eurozone. That status, though, is not very different from that of other European countries, like Luxembourg or the Channel Islands: aberrations that should purely and simply be abolished. 
The EU's Cyprus solution reveals how it wants to limit Russian influence in the Mediterranean and crack down on international tax havens. While the rescue plan may be a victory for the EU, Moscow could be the long term winner, warns a Czech journalist. 
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has revived the idea of a union of Southern European countries, a proposal first launched by another philosopher, Alexandre Kojève, just after World War II. This "Latin Empire" could act as a counter weight to the dominant role played by Germany in the European Union. 
In an open letter to his compatriots, a Cypriot scientist calls on the citizens of the island to show patriotism, and to roll up their sleeves for an independent initiative to save their banking system, so that they can turn the page as quickly as possible on the aid plan negotiated on 25 March in Brussels. 
Greedy banks, the EU or Angela Merkel: The search for the culprit in Cyprus is running along the usual fault lines of the euro crisis. But do individuals not share in the responsibility for the mistakes of their society? That would mean the Cypriots would have to give up some of their savings deposits. 
The bigger problem remains the gap in trust between the north and the south, writes a Financial Times columnist. 
From managing a single currency, to ending a recession and negotiating political and fiscal unions among a multi-lingual, multi-ethnic commonwealth, Byzantium’s leaders handled the lot. The EU’s politicians could learn much from their ancient forebears, argues a UK historian. 
The voters rejected the tutelage of Mario Monti and Angela Merkel, sabotaging the Chancellor's strategy of postponing the euro crisis until after Germany's September elections. To avoid a complete disintegration of the European consensus, the integration process must get back on track now. 
The latest statistics on the state of the eurozone economy indicate that, contrary to what political leaders have recently been saying, the crisis is far from over. 
The spirit of dictators like Nicolae Ceauşescu is finding new life in the response of the European elite to the eurozone crisis, says Slovenian thinker Slavoj Žižek. The same distrust of democracy that once constrained the developing or the post-communist countries is now gaining ground in Europe. 
The last minute negotiations in Washington to avoid a budget shortfall show that short-termism is well grounded in US politics. And by contrast, it shows that despite her controversial handling of the euro crisis, the German chancellor is wise enough to instead push for long-term solutions. - 1 of 4
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