Economy
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Greece: EU/IMF sell-off idea infuriates Athens
14 February 2011PresseuropEleftherotypia -
Allemagne: Merkel’s favourite for ECB bows out
10 February 2011PresseuropFinancial Times Deutschland, Financial Times Deutschland -
Pensions: Everyone will work longer, except Poles
7 February 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Financial crisis: Bail-out fund beefed up
4 February 2011PresseuropFinancial Times -
Debt crisis: An EU made in Germany
3 February 201114313 Die Zeit Hamburg -
Air travel: Brussels to harmonise passenger surveillance
3 February 201112PresseuropTrouw -
Croatia: Zagreb looks to the euro
3 February 2011PresseuropVjesnik -
Financial crisis: Rescue madness will sink us
3 February 2011PresseuropHandelsblatt -
Bulgaria: Sofia embarassed by latest jobless figures
2 February 2011PresseuropDnevnik -
Fiscal reform: Berlin has a euroland plan
1 February 2011PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Spain: Green light for pension reform
28 January 20111PresseuropABC -
Germany: All aboard the crazy train
28 January 2011PresseuropDie Zeit -
Estonia: The most Soviet Western state?
26 January 2011633 Postimees Tallinn -
Debt Crisis: Strong demand for EFSF bonds
26 January 2011PresseuropLes Echos -
United Kingdom: Double dip recession fears as GDP slumps
26 January 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
Spain: Madrid to part nationalise toxic cajas
25 January 2011PresseuropEl País -
Employment: Come back to Germany, Pepe
24 January 20111182 La Vanguardia Barcelona -
Debt Crisis: Eurozone, where the cold shoulder is king
19 January 2011773 The Guardian London -
Euro: Berlin wants to control it all
18 January 20111PresseuropEl País -
Debt crisis: When a country buys its own debt
14 January 2011Presseuropi -
Debt crisis: Plan B for the euro
14 January 2011PresseuropThe Economist -
Debt crisis: Europe spooks speculators
13 January 2011PresseuropPúblico -
Debt crisis: Suspense over the future of the euro
12 January 201173 Presseurop -
UK-Germany: Banks getting stroppier
12 January 201128PresseuropPresseurop -
Spain: Bullet train, white elephant
12 January 201180 El País Madrid -
Portugal: A bailout won’t help anyone
11 January 2011842 Jornal de Negócios Lisbon -
Debt crisis: Markets mistrustful of Belgium
11 January 2011PresseuropDe Morgen -
Debt Crisis: Are eurobonds the cure-all?
11 January 2011130 La Vanguardia Barcelona -
Italy: Battle over the future of Fiat
11 January 2011PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
High Tech: Europe clings to her cable industry
7 January 20111PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Emerging economies: Globalisation 2.0: How the West lost it
6 January 20111872 La Repubblica Rome -
Eurozone crisis: Financial markets break Christmas lull
6 January 2011PresseuropLes Echos -
Spain: Record unemployment - glimmer of hope
5 January 2011PresseuropABC -
France-Germany: 35 hour working week under attack, still
4 January 2011PresseuropLa Tribune -
Single Currency: Has Estonia boarded a sinking ship?
3 January 201113PresseuropPresseurop -
United Kingdom: Britain braces for VAT hike
3 January 20111PresseuropThe Guardian -
EU Presidency: Will optimism save the euro?
3 January 2011PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Eurozone Crisis: PIGS aren’t out of the woods yet
3 January 2011PresseuropLa Tribune -
Debt crisis: China to the rescue
22 December 2010PresseuropLa Tribune -
Economic crisis: The curse of credit rating agencies
21 December 2010246 The Guardian London -
Ireland: ECB feels left out of Irish bill
20 December 2010PresseuropThe Irish Times -
Spain: Barcelona, 7 million visitors can't be wrong
20 December 2010PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Eurozone Crisis: Lisbon treaty tweaked for stronger euro
17 December 2010PresseuropEl País -
Eurozone crisis: Get serious with the euro
16 December 2010144 Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw -
Austerity: Hard-up families in affluent Austria
15 December 2010PresseuropDer Standard -
Money: Deutschmark redux
14 December 20102144 Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Frankfurt -
Currency: Germany : Give up your crowns and zlotys
13 December 20101PresseuropLidové noviny -
European council: Euro seeks caring country
13 December 2010PresseuropPúblico -
Financial crisis: And shall we die for the banks?
10 December 20105925 România libera Bucharest -
Euro: Paris and Berlin unite against euro-bonds
10 December 20101PresseuropLe Figaro
To save the eurozone, do as the Germans. Much repeated by Angela Merkel, this message is getting through to her partners. But for the crisis-ridden EU, such is the price to pay, argues Die Zeit. 
With the adoption of the euro on 1st January, Estonia, now a member of NATO, the EU and the Eurozone, became the most "Western" of the Nordic countries. However, the country’s drive to join Europe has been marked by political reflexes reminiscent of the Soviet past that it would prefer to set aside.
In one corner - Germany, in search of skilled workers to feed its recovery. In the other, a Spain in crisis, where young graduates have no future. As in the sixties, a new flow of economic migrants might be making their way north. 
With Portugal seemingly poised for a humiliating EU/IMF bailout and talks on an expansion of the stability fund, tensions within the Eurozone are on the rise. Squabbling between leaders and "Europe's big communication problem" is partly to blame. 
With several countries preparing bond issues and subjecting them to the “test of the markets,” the next few days will be decisive for the future of the euro. As the European press explains, we’ll shortly have a clear measure of market confidence in the capacity of the most fragile countries of the Eurozone to put their finances in order, as well as on the future stability of the single currency. 
Spain now boasts the biggest high-speed rail network in Europe. But does it make ecological or, more to the point in these times of crisis, economic sense? 
Under pressure from the markets and certain European countries to accept a bailout, José Sócrates’ government must stand firm if it is to restore confidence, insists a Portuguese editorialist. 
The idea hatched late last year of creating EU-wide bonds is gaining ground. Though flatly rejected by Germany, it looks like an effective means of bolstering overindebted countries besieged by the markets. 
As the West stews in stagnation, emerging economies are on the rise – and driving prices of raw materials and fuel to perilous highs. As they now set the pace of the global economy, Europe, stymied by cutbacks and unemployment, is in for hard times ahead. 
The economic destiny of nations is now in the hands of credit rating agencies Moody's, S&P's, Fitch. Unelected, unaccountable and with hugely inflated powers, they must be curbed, argues a Guardian columnist. 
Bailouts and the ECB buying up sovereign debt have so far failed to put an end to the eurozone crisis. European leaders must now come up with a clear plan and trustworthy decision-making process, writes a Polish economist. 
More and more Germans see leaving Euroland and returning to the long-lost Deutschmark as the preferred way out of the crisis. That is a highly risky but ultimately feasible option, say some economists. 
Should Brussels foot the bill for bankrupt banks? Not according to a professor of law at the University of Bucharest. Writing in the columns of România liberă, Gheorghe Piperea argues that the preservation of the welfare state is more important, and cites the example of Iceland, which chose to allow its banks to fail.