Economy
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Youth unemployment: The ‘lost generation’ left by the wayside
22 May 201323428 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
European Council: The difficult union against tax evasion
22 May 2013351PresseuropLibération, Der Standard -
New euro banknotes: €5 won’t buy you a soda
22 May 2013518PresseuropLa Repubblica -
Eurozone: The troika pulls its separate ways
22 May 2013367 Le Monde Paris -
Germany: ‘Evaders turn themselves in: 6 million euros more for Berlin’
22 May 201325PresseuropBerliner Morgenpost -
Ireland: ‘Ireland labelled a “tax haven” as US Senate investigates Apple’s offshore strategies’
22 May 2013171PresseuropThe Irish Times -
Crime: The war against the organic mafia
21 May 201393912 Die Tageszeitung Berlin -
Jersey: Treasure island caught in the searchlight
21 May 201315337 El País Madrid -
Cyprus: Money launderers still not hung to dry
21 May 2013715PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Liechtenstein : ‘Financial centre benefits from success of agreement with Great Britain’
21 May 2013455PresseuropVolksblatt -
EU-China: ‘Europe-China: Trade war is declared’
21 May 201310119PresseuropLe Figaro -
Poland: The Russians who shop gaily in Gdańsk
20 May 201321211 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Eurozone: ‘Bundesbank offensive against stimulus for southern Europe’
20 May 20138318PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Italy: ‘A plan for youth unemployment’
20 May 2013761PresseuropLa Repubblica -
EU-China: Installers furious at solar panel tax
17 May 2013355PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
Growth : ‘Eurozone mired in recession’
16 May 201362275PresseuropFinancial Times, Les Echos, România libera & 4 others -
Banking Union: New test for the Eurozone
16 May 20138812 La Vanguardia Barcelona -
Banking crisis: ‘MEPs want to protect larger deposits’
16 May 2013411PresseuropJornal de Negócios -
Spain: ‘Europe tightens up Spanish economy’
16 May 2013361PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Portugal: ‘Berlin criticises austerity and accuses Barroso of incompetence’
16 May 20132333PresseuropPúblico -
Eurozone: Finland reveals the fine print of the loan to Greece
15 May 201317621PresseuropHelsingin Sanomat -
Tax fraud: Europe stuck in neutral
15 May 20131507PresseuropLe Soir -
Sweden: ‘Inequality growing fastest in Sweden’
15 May 20132114PresseuropSvenska Dagbladet -
Banking crisis: ECB wants to finish the clean-up
14 May 20135315PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
Clothing production: ‘H&M and Zara promise cleaner clothes’
14 May 201351PresseuropDe Morgen -
European Union: ‘‘New Deal’ against unemployment’
14 May 2013848PresseuropCinco Días -
Greece: ‘Europe grants a double tranche’
14 May 201326PresseuropI Kathimerini -
Greece: ‘Hedge funds once again betting on Greek banks’
14 May 201330PresseuropDer Standard -
Cyprus: ‘€3bn tranche. With... a whip’
14 May 2013202PresseuropO Phileleftheros -
Shadow economy: Shrinking but surviving
13 May 2013851PresseuropDe Morgen -
Cyprus: ‘Eurogroup to dig deep again’
13 May 2013254PresseuropPolitis -
Hungary: ‘Viktor Orbán: We have decided not to give in to pressure from Brussels’
10 May 20131239PresseuropMagyar Hírlap -
Economy: ‘Markets gamble on recovery scenario’
10 May 2013205PresseuropLes Echos -
Slovenia: ‘VAT set to increase with emergency tax as back-up solution’
10 May 201322PresseuropDelo -
Portrait: Isabella Lövin – The MEP who never gives up
8 May 20134531 Fokus Stockholm -
Agriculture: ‘Romania, the new Eldorado for farm land’
8 May 2013988PresseuropJurnalul Naţional -
Banks: ‘Brussels wants better comparability of bank charges’
8 May 2013332PresseuropDer Standard -
France: ‘Europe urges France to undertake ‘far reaching’ reforms’
8 May 20133813PresseuropLe Figaro -
Italy: ‘Night of terror in Genoa port’
8 May 201315PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Eurozone: ‘Rajoy and Letta warn Merkel of the risk of social unrest’
7 May 20136934PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Eurozone crisis: An end to ‘stupid’ Europe
6 May 2013388137 Le Monde Paris -
Society: Why have the Spanish people not revolted?
6 May 201394971 Infolibre Madrid -
France-Germany: ‘Deficit: a break for Paris which worries Berlin’
6 May 2013244PresseuropLes Echos -
Austerity: ‘Italy adds Spain to a weak anti-austerity front’
6 May 201360PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Tax Evasion: ‘Brussels boosts tax avoidance measures’
6 May 2013312PresseuropFinancial Times -
Debt crisis: Irish president condemns ‘hegemonic’ EU
3 May 201313522PresseuropFinancial Times, The Irish Times -
Economy: There is no euro crisis
3 May 201331787 Lidové noviny Prague -
Eurozone: ‘New low rate eats away at savings’
3 May 20136712PresseuropDie Presse -
Eurozone: ‘An insufficient step’
3 May 2013202PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Portugal: ‘Government increases the retirement age’
2 May 20131477PresseuropDiário económico
With nearly one in four young Europeans out of work, jobs must be one of the Union’s top priorities. But member states, especially those in the south, seem incapable of making the reforms that would set them in the right direction. 
Hitched together at the outset of the Greek crisis, the three-part team of the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission did the heavy pulling in the bailouts of European countries in crisis. Since then, though, strains among the three institutions have grown more severe. 
Fraud in the organic farming sector has become a thriving international industry made up of a complex network of companies that bears all the marks of traditional organised crime.
The EU has taken the fight against tax havens seriously, as shown by the May 22 leader summit to discuss tax evasion. But the clean-up should start at home, where territories such as the British Channel Island of Jersey prosper under the shelter of traditional political ambiguity. 
There have probably not been so many Russians in Gdańsk since the spring of 1945. Most are Kaliningrad residents, crossing the border to shop. It’s largely a one-way trade that sees about €20m a month flow out of the Russian exclave into Poland. 
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. 
Pool the debts of banks in the Eurozone, as requested by the ECB, or wait until every country has first put their house in order, as demanded by Berlin? We must do both, says the Eurogroup. The real question is how exactly to go about doing it. 
Since her election to the European Parliament in 2009, the Swedish MEP Isabella Lövin has pursued just one goal: to stop overfishing. Even if she has to upset the routines of elected officials and throw certain local communities out of work. 
In granting extra time to Madrid and Paris to clean up their public accounts, Brussels has shown good sense. This is in contrast to the rigid position it had adopted until now, which dragged the EU executive into a fool’s game with wayward member states. 
Five years of crisis, 6 million unemployed and thousands driven from their homes: Despite the heavy social toll, Spaniards suffer their fate without rebelling against the government or against the EU because they fear losing what little they have left, argues a sociologist. 
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 - 1 of 26
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