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Germany: Not so poor kids
6 May 2011PresseuropFinancial Times Deutschland, Financial Times Deutschland -
Human Rights: Uzbek child slaves for Europe
29 October 2010268 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Gaza flotilla: Why is Israel judged by different standards?
1 June 2010PresseuropBlog -
Ireland: Predicting the future, rewriting the present
27 May 2010PresseuropBlog -
Immigration: Why dread the migrant horde?
11 December 200915 Polityka Warsaw -
Hospitals: Don’t get sick in the UK
9 December 2009PresseuropThe Daily Mail -
Portugal: Nation's toddlers are underfunded
2 September 2009PresseuropDiário de Notícias -
Ireland-Iceland: Two islands in the same boat
7 August 2009Le Monde Paris
Every autumn, children in Uzbekistan are forced to work in the cotton harvest, for little pay. German companies are among those profiting from this violation of human rights. 
Immigration between member states and from outside the EU is the subject of ongoing debate in most European countries. Polish weekly Polityka reports on demographic data suggesting that immigration will be indispensable in the long term, and argues in favour of greater cooperation on this potentially divisive issue. 
Iceland has just voted to apply for EU membership, but as enlargement is contingent on ratification of the Lisbon treaty, Iceland's fate is in Ireland's hands this October 2 as it goes to the polls for a second time to vote on the troubled text. Both islands have much in common, argues Le Monde, while their approach to Europe differs somewhat.