Europe abroad
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Eurozone crisis
Beijing tells Merkel “to do her homework”
3 February 20128PresseuropHandelsblatt -
Transnistria
Stooges’ ballot in Tiraspol
9 December 2011România libera Bucharest -
Germany-Syria
Damascus spying with European technology
7 November 20111PresseuropDer Spiegel -
18 October 2011PresseuropSvenska Dagbladet
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EU-China
No desire to die Chinese
13 October 201110La Stampa Turin -
Eastern Partnership
The East, not on the EU’s mind
29 September 20111Polityka Warsaw -
Libyan war
A time for accolades, and payback
2 September 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Press review
Libya: after the war, the oil scramble
1 September 20111Presseurop -
29 August 20111PresseuropThe Independent
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Somalia
How Europe can help
16 August 20113ABC Madrid -
29 July 20112NRC Handelsblad Rotterdam
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International Aid
How to really help Somalia
28 July 2011PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
France-Afghanistan
Free after 18 months with the Taliban
30 June 2011PresseuropLibération -
China – Germany
Tokens of friendship
27 June 20111PresseuropBerliner Zeitung -
Malta
In the forgotten camps
9 June 20115Mediapart Paris -
Libyan War
How much longer?
9 June 2011PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
9 June 2011PresseuropLe Monde
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Strauss-Kahn affair
Who said Europe should run the IMF?
20 May 20112The Independent London -
Strauss-Kahn affair
Why the IMF should stay European
20 May 20114Le Figaro Paris -
Syria-EU
Carte blanche for Assad
12 May 20112SME Bratislava -
Russia-EU
Who will open this window on Europe?
10 May 20111Polityka Warsaw -
After Bin Laden
Europe's day of shame
3 May 20118Handelsblatt Düsseldorf -
Africa
Françafrique debate heats up
15 April 2011PresseuropPresseurop -
Ivory Coast
Exit Gbagbo, with French nudge
12 April 2011PresseuropLe Figaro -
Diplomacy
Saving Private Ashton
1 April 20117El País Madrid -
31 March 20112La Stampa Turin
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Libyan war
Whose Odyssey Dawn is it anyway?
22 March 2011PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
21 March 20114Presseurop
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EU-Libya
European diplomacy disarmed
21 March 20111Presseurop -
Europe-Libya
The moral test of fire
18 March 20112Presseurop -
Nuclear energy
Merkel the panic merchant
18 March 20117Coulisses de Bruxelles Brussels -
EU-Libya
Insurgent leader looking for help
10 March 2011PresseuropABC -
European funds
South and East fight for the money
9 March 2011De Standaard Brussels -
Netherlands-Oman
Beatrix goes it alone
9 March 2011PresseuropTrouw -
North Africa
Europe's new frontier
1 March 20114La Stampa Turin -
Libyan crisis
Malta asks for help
28 February 2011PresseuropThe Times of Malta -
Arab revolutions
Europe's not so wonderful example
24 February 20112Frankfurter Rundschau Frankfurt -
North Africa
Libya's revolution, Europe's shame
23 February 20112El País Madrid -
Arab revolutions
What is really awaiting Europe
21 February 20111El País Madrid -
Arab revolutions
Lady Ashton misses the boat
17 February 2011Libération Paris -
Military
Misunderstanding over Dutch mission
15 February 2011PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Netherlands-Iran
Diplomatic anger over secret burial
8 February 2011PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Europe – Egypt
Everybody's favourite dictator
4 February 2011PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
EU-Egypt
An opportunity not to be missed
31 January 20111Presseurop -
31 January 2011PresseuropDe Volkskrant
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EU-Belarus
Minsk tries to bargain with Brussels
31 January 20111PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Diplomacy
Frattini’s Egyptian mission plan
28 January 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
Netherlands
New mission to Afghanistan
27 January 2011PresseuropTrouw -
25 January 2011The Guardian London
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EU-Uzbekistan
Our man in Tashkent
24 January 2011De Standaard Brussels
The secessionist region of Moldova is to hold presidential elections on 11 December — a vote that will be marked by a strange bargain between its Russian protector and Germany, which aims to resolve a conflict that has been deadlocked for 20 years. 
Italian writer Antonio Scurati believes that the boom in Chinese investment in Europe and the influence of Chinese capitalism on the European economy are a threat to the freedom and sovereignty of Europeans and for their social and cultural model. 
As the Eastern Partnership summit opens in Warsaw, the EU, which is caught up in the ongoing financial crisis, appears to have little enthusiasm for the project, launched by Poland in 2008. As for the partner countries, they continue to present a wide spectrum of political systems, ranging from dictatorship to democracy.
Lurking behind the public agreement on display among the participants at the Paris conference on “New Libya" is a shadowy struggle that France, Italy and the UK have already started in the race to exploit the country's resources. So say the French, Italian and British newspapers. 
No more talk: Europe must act now to relieve famine in the Horn of Africa. It can start by helping to restore order in a country racked by decades of civil war. 
As the border post went up in flames, NATO troops moved in to prevent an escalation of hostilities. The tension on the border between Kosovo and Serbia, a smuggling flashpoint, has once again reached fever pitch. A Dutch columnist argues that the solution should be more talks and subsidies for legal businesses. 
Along with the Italian island of Lampedusa, the Maltese Archipelago has become a favoured destination for hundreds of Africans fleeing the fighting in Libya. But on arrival, what they see of Europe is an unsanitary hangar where they vainly wait for political asylum. French news website Mediapart reports. 
In the wake of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s catastrophic fall from grace, the International Monetary Fund is looking for a new chief. But would a European really be up to the job solving the eurozone’s enduring troubles? 
At a time when the eurozone is in danger of breaking up, Europe must not surrender the leadership of the International Monetary Fund for the benefit of Asia or Latin America, pens an editorialist in Le Figaro, who suggests that the person best qualified to take over the job of Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the French Minister of Finance, Christine Lagarde. 
While determined to bring at end to Muammar Gaddafi's violence against the Libyan people, Europe has been largely silent about the terror exacted by the Basher Al Assad regime in Syria. And the sanctions against his regime announced on the 10 May are further proof of Europe's powerlessness. 
Residents of a region that considers itself to be a “window on Europe,” the population of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which is located between Poland and Lithuania, want Moscow to establish closer links with the EU. In particular, they are hoping for an end to a requirement for visas for European travel: an “iron curtain” that separates them from Western modernity. 
In the fight against terror, writes the Düsseldorfer Handelsblatt, America stands alone. Europe, preoccupied with how it can withdraw from Afghanistan, should be ashamed of its inaction. 
While the Libyan crisis unfolds before gates of Europe, the High Representative for EU foreign policy is totally absent from the scene. "One wonders if the post still makes sense," writes analyst Jose Ignacio Torreblanca.
The initiative taken by France and the United Kingdom — two countries which occupy key posts in the European External Action Service — has fragmented the emerging structure of European diplomacy to the point where some commentators have remarked that the EU’s foreign policy should be directly entrusted to Paris and London. 
The primary objective of Operation Odyssey Dawn – to protect Libyan civilians – is a just one, says the European press. But the other issues – oil, the fall of Gaddafi and the image of Nicolas Sarkozy – are not neglected. 
Europeans are leading the way in the fight against the Libyan regime, but without the European Union, which has been sidelined by member states that are determined to safeguard their prerogatives and an incoherent German foreign policy. 
A few hours after the UN approved military operations against Libya, the regime in Tripoli announced a cease-fire. This decision might well simplify a situation the European press deems risky, while supporting an eventual war there. 
The German Chancellor strikes again, quips Brussels pundit Jean Quatremer. Having sowed panic in the Eurozone last year, Angela Merkel has now succeeded in transforming the Japanese nuclear tragedy in Fukushima into a global nuclear energy crisis. 
As the EU prepares a programme of economic and political support for a North Africa in the throes of change, some member states are arguing that Europe's Eastern Neighbourhood Policy, particularly with regard to the Caucasus, shouldn't be forgotten. 
Thirty years ago nobody could have foreseen the process that brought the Warsaw Pact countries into the European Union. Now that the same is happening to Arab nations, the EU must offer them the same opportunity to strengthen democracy: the true prospect of membership. 
What must a North African currently following news from the “European community of shared values” be thinking? It’s not just that the community's support for the fight for freedom around the Mediterranean has been half-hearted. It’s that it is taking its own members’ violations of the values the community espouses rather calmly. 
Faced with the massacres perpetrated by the Gaddafi regime against its own people, how can the EU content itself with calling for “restraint”, while spending more time worrying about an influx of refugees? Madrid daily El País publishes an indignant editorial. 
Terrorism, immigration, the economy: for Europeans, the wave of revolts that have shaken the Arab world is fraught with dangers that are not altogether clear. El País has tried to unravel truth from falsehood. 
On 16 February, Catherine Ashton announced an aid package that will deliver a total of €258 million to Tunisia by 2013. Libération points out that the EU only gave its support for the Tunisian revolution when huge numbers of Tunisian boat people arrived on the coast of Lampedusa. 
After the cacophony and the hesitation that followed the “Jasmine Revolution” in Tunisia, the EU once more seems paralysed in the face of an uprising against the Egyptian regime of Hosni Mubarak. All the same, notes the European press, it’s another chance to support democracy in its Mediterranean “backyard”. 
As the Council of Europe prepares to demand an investigation into the shady underworld dealings of Kosovo PM Hashim Thaçi, secret Nato documents leaked to British daily The Guardian provide more shocking revelations about a prized Western ally. 
When talking to dictators, Europe applies a double standard: quick to snap at Lukashenko of Belarus, it plays much nicer with Karimov of Uzbekistan, as it did with Ben Ali. But is it really worth the trouble? asks political analyst Bruno De Cordier.