Europe & the World
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Drugs: European mules pack Peruvian ‘snow’
11 January 20131367 Le Figaro Paris -
Ukraine: EU still fails to get Tymoshenko out of prison
10 January 2013241PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Debt Crisis: A €1m gateway to Europe
9 January 201330261 Die Zeit Hamburg -
Economy: America’s European moment
4 January 2013825PresseuropThe Economist -
EU-Russia: Brussels and Moscow’s frosty relations
21 December 20126512PresseuropThe Guardian, EUobserver.com, Le Monde -
Foreign aid: EU money only benefits the corrupt
21 December 201212016 De Standaard Brussels -
EU-US: Britain will be weaker without EU, says Washington
19 December 201218812PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
Nobel Peace Prize: Championing EU complacency
10 December 201213116 Slate Afrique Paris -
Nobel Prize: Another push for peace
7 December 201213838 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Nobel Peace prize: Czechs and Slovaks snub EU’s Nobel ceremony
3 December 2012585PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES, Lidové noviny , SME -
EU-Middle East: When Europe had a foreign policy
29 November 20126346 El País Madrid -
International trade: Courting the East
29 November 2012212PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Israel-Palestine: Fortunately no-one’s waiting for Europe
21 November 201222133 El Periódico de Catalunya Barcelona -
EU-China: EU puts foot down on porcelain imports
19 November 2012698PresseuropLes Echos -
United States-EU: Obama and Europe are facing the same battles
9 November 20129436 Le Soir Brussels -
China: The 28th member state
8 November 2012925PresseuropDie Welt -
United States: “Obama 2.0” urged not to disappoint
7 November 201214135PresseuropExpresso, Der Tagesspiegel, To Vima & 3 others -
EU-United States: Take advantage of US indifference
6 November 201220719 Libération Paris -
EU-US: Romney or Obama, it’s all the same for Europe
5 November 201213627 Il Sole-24 Ore Milan -
Asia – EU: ASEM summit cannot escape debt crisis
5 November 2012222PresseuropLes Echos, China Daily -
Kosovo: EU mission too expensive and inefficient
31 October 2012627PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Le Figaro -
Ukraine : Rude awakening for Ukrainian dream
30 October 2012262PresseuropLidové noviny -
Health: The Robin Hood doctors of Greece
29 October 2012266929 The New York Times New York -
Ukraine: Slowly leaving the Soviet universe
26 October 20121065 New Eastern Europe Cracow -
Lithuania-Belarus: The new Iron Curtain
25 October 20122381 15min Vilnius -
Belarus: Alexander Lukashenko: “You’re democratic bandits”
23 October 201222717 The Independent London -
Switzerland: Army prepares for ‘euro-humanitarian’ crisis
17 October 201223218PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Belarus: Voyage to the heart of Europe’s “grey zone”
17 October 20121219 Timpul Chisinau -
Greece: Chinese making Piraeus blossom
16 October 201225385 The New York Times New York -
History: Yugoslavia syndrome threatens EU
15 October 201242436 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Car industry: China and Japan spat provides work for Slovaks
9 October 2012373PresseuropPravda -
Russia: Domodedovo asks to join EU
9 October 2012654PresseuropKommersant -
European Union: Richer regions want to redraw the map
8 October 201224636 The New York Times New York -
Caucasus: EU is letting Georgia down
3 October 201210512 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
EU-China: Uneasy summit on arms and trade
21 September 20124411PresseuropHandelsblatt, EUobserver.com -
EU-Middle East: Europe flees from “Arab Winter”
19 September 201214454 La Repubblica Rome -
Kosovo: Not quite independent yet
10 September 20125416PresseuropJutarnji List, NRC Handelsblad, Le Monde -
EU/China: Solar panel spat could launch trade war
6 September 20129912PresseuropThe Guardian, The New York Times, China Daily -
Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko to remain in prison
30 August 2012232PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza, Les Echos -
Georgia: Why the EU should keep us out
16 August 2012538 Ekho Kavkaza Prague -
Geopolitics: Denmark sets course for North Pole
7 August 20121342 Politiken Copenhagen -
US-ROMANIA: General Wesley Clark works for Bucharest
2 August 20121114PresseuropForeign Policy -
Debate: Europeans also fuel US arms addiction
27 July 20122814PresseuropThe Washington Post -
Geopolitics: Reinventing the European Dream
2 July 2012419 Project Syndicate Prague -
G20 / EU: Europe has no monopoly on democracy
20 June 201215936 De Standaard Brussels -
G20: No option but change for crisis Europe
20 June 2012264PresseuropLa Stampa, La Vanguardia -
From the Maghreb: Europe is no longer an inspiration
20 June 20127312 Slate Afrique Paris -
G20: Europe lectured over crisis
19 June 2012475PresseuropLibération, De Standaard, Die Zeit, The Indian Express -
EU-United States: “European” — a dirty word in Washington
6 June 201211823PresseuropLa Stampa -
Diplomacy: Berlin and Paris divided over Syria
31 May 2012372PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung
Hit hard by the crisis, Roberta, a Spanish grandmother, and Jeremy, a French baker, responded to the lure of easy money. Their mission? Smuggle cocaine from Peru into their home countries. Today, they’re rotting in a Lima jail. 
Hard-hit by the crisis, Lisbon is wooing rich investors from its former colonies. Anyone who invests in the country has a good chance of obtaining a visa — and an open door to the rest of Europe. 
According to the European Court of Auditors, it’s almost impossible to check how EU aid money is spent by developing countries. As a major EU aid fraud scandal hits Uganda, commentators in Kampala wonder why European donors continue to funnel cash into a corrupt country. 
The European idea certainly deserves to be acknowledged. However, an Algerian-Tunisian journalist argues that the Nobel Committee should not have given its prize to today’s EU, which sells arms and creates unemployment. 
On December 10, the EU is going to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The question is whether this award is justified, given the ongoing euro crisis and the growing discontent. A Dutch historian argues that the award offers the perfect opportunity for Europeans to remind themselves of the European pacification process because now is the time for them to realise that European peace is not a matter of course. 
Incapable once again of taking a unified position on a matter of foreign policy, European countries are voting independently on UN non-member state observer status for the Palestinian Territories. Yet there was a time when Europeans claimed to have a key role to play in the peace process. 
Left on the sidelines by the Arab Spring, the EU has not found its voice in the renewed conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It is as if the EU has given up on playing a role in a region that is in its own backyard. 
The newly re-elected US president and his European counterparts are facing the same challenge, writes the editor of Belgian daily Le Soir: to prove that a tolerant society and social solidarity are possible. 
Reflecting a public opinion largely favourable to Barack Obama, the European press heaves a sigh of relief after his re-election. But the illusions of 2008 about his commitment to Europe have vanished. 
Whoever takes the White House for the next four years, Europe must face the facts: it is no longer considered a strategic priority by the United States. Europe must therefore reinforce its common defence structures and spearhead decisive diplomatic initiatives towards Russia and the Mediterranean countries, suggests a French commentator. 
Whether it’s the incumbent or his Republican challenger who wins tomorrow’s presidential election in America, economic and political relations with the Old Continent are unlikely to be substantially affected, writes Sole 24 Ore’s correspondent in the United States.
Successive austerity budgets have left hundreds of thousands of Greece’s unemployed without health cover, or even the means to pay for life saving medicine, a desperate situation which an underground network of doctors is seeking to alleviate. 
The October 28 general election is expected to confirm President Yanukovych’s power and the need for renewal of what remains of the Orange revolution. But in the long term, the country’s enduring crisis will lead to some form of normality, argues a Ukrainian journalist. 
In the Soviet era, when Lithuania and Belarus were both part of the USSR, there were several villages spanning a border that existed only on paper. Today, crossing from one side to the other has become a nightmare. 
The President of Belarus has made the former Soviet state a pariah nation. In an rare interview, he assures Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the British daily The Independent, that his people prefer security to freedom. 
When a Moldovan visits Belarus, “the last true dictatorship at the heart of Europe”, a comparison with the Soviet era is inevitable. And yet the people of Belarus look towards Europe as much as they look towards Moscow. 
Since taking over part of the historic Greek port of Piraeus, Chinese company Cosco has seen cargo traffic double over the last year. The other Greek side of the port is looking on with scepticism about working conditions, but perhaps also envy, according to this New York Times report. 
The north earns the money, while the south spends it – while this phrase is currently being bandied about in the eurozone, it was also widely heard a quarter of a century ago in the former Yugoslavia. European politicians would do well to remember, a Dutch journalist contends. 
The crisis is reviving old historical and economic quarrels between rich regions with a strong sense of identity and central governments. But as the latest example of Catalonia shows, the question is whether the EU encourages stability or secessionist tendencies. 
The unexpected victory of billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili in Georgia’s parliamentary election on October 1st has attracted little attention in western Europe. This is a mistake, argues a Polish columnist, because the EU is thus turning its back on a country that is one of its staunchest supporters. 
The anti-Western demonstrations in Arab countries and the turn the "Arab Spring" is taking in several countries are shouting out a challenge to Europe. But Europe, looking inward to its economic and institutional crisis, prefers to shirk its responsibilities in the Mediterranean and to rely on the – helpless – United States. 
On September 10, formal international monitoring of Kosovo will end and the newest state in Europe will take a further step forward towards true and full sovereignty. But as the European press has noted, Kosovo is far from being totally free of the supervision to which it has been subjected since birth. 
Rapprochement with the EU, including freedom of movement, will be the focus of the parliamentary and presidential election campaigns in 2012 and 2013. But, warns a Georgian journalist, abolishing visas for the EU would push his countrymen to flee the country rather than contribute to its development. 
En route to the Arctic to affirm sovereignty over an area of ocean floor and possible oil reserves, the Danish expedition to the North Pole will likely prompt opposition from both the Russian government and environmentalists, reports Politiken. 
On July 1, Nicosia took the rotating presidency of the EU. Gas, relations with Turkey, Middle East policy: Europe should take this opportunity to set a new major Mediterranean project, argues the American political scientist Anne-Marie Slaughter. 
During the G20 summit in Los Cabos, an indignant Jose Manuel Barroso declared that Europe had not come to Mexico get any tutoring in democracy from emerging states. The European Union, however, not only suffers from a democratic deficit, but lacks legitimacy in the eurocrisis. A look outside the box cannot hurt here, writes a Belgian editor. 
From the other side of the Mediterranean, the crisis that has struck the Eurozone has dimmed the star of the EU. More than ever divided, inward-looking, and prey to selfish national interests, Europe is no longer a model for a North Africa, which is increasingly inspired by emerging countries.