Riots
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United Kingdom: Rioters point to excessive policing
5 December 20111PresseuropThe Guardian -
Youth: The hooliganism of losers
25 August 201116610 Die Welt Berlin -
United Kingdom: Cameron's response to riots
16 August 2011PresseuropThe Guardian -
Social unrest: The street bankers
11 August 20118385 Der Standard Vienna -
UK: Britain licks its wounds
11 August 2011PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
United Kingdom: Blamestorming Britain
Leading all the British front pages on August 10 was news of the riots spreading across the country.
10 August 2011912 Presseurop -
United Kingdom: The underclass lashes out
9 August 201111279 The Daily Telegraph London -
Italy : The grapes of wrath are ripe
11 January 2010104 La Stampa Turin -
Anniversary: Street fighting Greeks
7 December 2009PresseuropTa Nea
A Europe long at peace is once again a seething continent. In France, Greece and Spain crowds of youths are out demonstrating against their situation, and in London they have reduced neighbourhoods to rubble and ashes. What is going wrong here? wonders a German columnist. 
Europe is bailing out its financial centres, but not its youth. Three basic conditions – education, employment and housing – are denied them. So when they fight back, says Der Standard's writer, they're just following the message from the top: take what you can and get out. 
London's rioters are the product of a crumbling nation and an indifferent political class that has turned its back on them, says a columnist in The Daily Telegraph 
The African migrant workers’ riots in the province of Gioia Tauro, in Calabria, after two of them were shot with airguns, once again lifts the curtain on their deplorable living and working conditions. Now required to leave the city, these illegal immigrants in Rosarno as elsewhere, are often the only people to rise up against the mafias that reign supreme in several regions.