Europe & the World
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Economy: China wants to invest €7.5 billion euros in central Europe
27 April 20127514PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Switzerland: Berne closes the door on East Europeans
19 April 2012134PresseuropTribune de Genève, Le Temps -
Belarus: Freed activist warns EU against concessions
17 April 201225PresseuropThe Independent -
Debate: Mars and Venus, 10 years on
11 April 201218341 El País Madrid -
Balkans: Kosovo’s demographic time-bomb
11 April 201225214 The Irish Times Dublin -
Israel-EU: Lady Ashton has hit a raw nerve
26 March 20121679 Ha’aretz Tel-Aviv -
Belarus: Lukashenko’s friends in Brussels
20 March 20121174 EUobserver.com Brussels -
Diplomacy: An EU human rights representative?
9 March 2012603PresseuropJyllands-Posten -
Iran: EU favours dialogue with Iran
7 March 2012202PresseuropDie Welt -
Russia: Putin at the crossroads
5 March 201271PresseuropThe Guardian, Westdeutsche Zeitung, Wprost & 2 others -
United States: A bogeyman called Europe
5 March 201237538 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
EU-Belarus: Minsk triggers diplomatic war
29 February 201231PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
EU-Belarus: Slovenia uses EU veto for €150 million
27 February 2012505PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Europe – Syria: No one lifts a finger to stop Assad
16 February 20122207 Revista 22 Bucharest -
FRANCE: The open wound of the Rwandan genocide
9 February 20121151 Le Monde Paris -
EU-US: Obama honey words ahead of Monti visit
9 February 2012251PresseuropLa Stampa -
Eurozone crisis: Beijing tells Merkel “to do her homework”
3 February 20121238PresseuropHandelsblatt -
Cyprus: The holiday island that turned Russian
2 February 20122626 The Guardian London -
Diplomacy: Europe’s undeclared war against Iran
26 January 201229211 The New York Times New York -
Diplomacy: EU raises stakes with Iran
24 January 20126812PresseuropLe Figaro, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Daily Telegraph, La Vanguardia -
Diplomacy: Europe to slap embargo on Iranian oil
23 January 2012432PresseuropEl Mundo -
Diplomacy: When values are stage dressing
16 December 2011975 El Mundo Madrid -
European parliament: Sakharov prize for the Arab spring
14 December 201129PresseuropEl Mundo -
EU/Russia: Kaliningrad gets closer to Europe
14 December 201144PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Transnistria: Stooges’ ballot in Tiraspol
9 December 2011111 România libera Bucharest -
Economy: Portugal, glittering prize for emerging nations
6 December 201122315 Expresso Lisbon -
Geopolitics: It’s too early to write Europe off
5 December 20111634 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Kosovo: Mitrovica Serbs turn to Moscow
30 November 20111477 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Moldova: President cannot be found
15 November 2011PresseuropTimpul -
Eurozone crisis: What Latin-America can teach Europe
9 November 201142511 El País Madrid -
Germany-Syria: Damascus spying with European technology
7 November 2011561PresseuropDer Spiegel -
Eurozone crisis: Chinese saviour is in debt too
31 October 20113PresseuropDie Presse -
Debt crisis: China is ready to help
28 October 20113799 The Global Times Beijing -
Switzerland : Swiss voters seek the centre
24 October 20112PresseuropLe Temps -
Libya : What next for Gaddafi’s billions?
21 October 2011PresseuropPúblico -
Serbia-Kosovo: Border tension growing
21 October 2011PresseuropDanas -
Sweden: Two journalists, one minister, lots of petrol
18 October 2011PresseuropSvenska Dagbladet -
EU-China: No desire to die Chinese
13 October 201138810 La Stampa Turin -
Eurozone crisis: US staring at crumbling EU
13 October 2011314PresseuropUSA Today -
Ukraine: Tymoshenko jail sentence isolates Kiev
12 October 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Italy: Judiciary under pressure acquits Knox
4 October 2011PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Eastern Partnership: Summit fails to tackle big issues
3 October 2011263PresseuropPresseurop -
Eastern Partnership: The East, not on the EU’s mind
29 September 20111061 Polityka Warsaw -
Estonia-Russia: The apartments that lead to Schengen
28 September 2011104 Postimees Tallinn -
Debt crisis: Eurozone death drive
26 September 20114237 The New York Times New York -
EU-Ukraine: Association agreement on track
26 September 201117PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Ukraine: Stakes are high at the Tymoshenko trial
23 September 2011841 Respekt Prague -
Middle East: Europe stuck in the middle of the road
21 September 2011832 An-Nahar Beirut -
Turkey : Abdullah Gül threatens to slam door on EU
21 September 201111PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Turkey-Cyprus: Ankara starts spat with EU
19 September 20111PresseuropLa Stampa
Americans believe in the god of war, while Europeans are inspired by the goddess of love, wrote American thinker Robert Kagan in 2002. But after Iraq, Afghanistan and the European crisis, this controversial thesis reveals a surprising reversal of perspectives. 
The continent’s youngest state has the highest unemployment rate. With no chances to travel and few opportunities at home, is Kosovo's burgeoning youth generation ripe for revolt? 
The parallel drawn by the EU's foreign affairs chief between the massacre of three Jewish children in Toulouse and Syrian, Israeli and Palestinian war victims has provoked widespread outrage in Israel. But Israel should stop playing the role of eternal victim, argues columnist Gideon Levy. 
Even as President Alexander Lukashenko becomes increasingly cruel — with two men recently executed for the 2011 bombing in the Minsk metro — the EU capital is seeing an unprecedented level of lobbying on his behalf, reports the EUobserver. 
By winning a third term in the first round of the Russian elections on February 4, Russia’s Prime Minister has set himself up in the Kremlin for good. It’s an outcome Europe can be satisfied with, because it ensures stability – provided it is accompanied by progress on democracy, notes the European press. 
A haven for euthanasia, the homeland of socialism and the cradle of the debt crisis: for Republican candidates campaigning for the US presidency, Europe is a model that must be avoided at all costs. 
How to oppose the massacres in Syria? While the question grows more pressing by the day, the West, and Europe in particular, seems indecisive and helpless. Is it because conditions have changed following the intervention in Libya. 
Two camps, two theories, and two visions of France: 18 years after the massacre of 800,000 Tutsis, the precise role played by Paris is still the subject of heated debate, fueled by the findings of successive criminal investigations. 
Ten of thousands of Russians are making Cyprus their home from home. A trend that raises questions about Nicosia’s diplomatic and pecuniary relations with Moscow. 
Now that the EU has slapped unprecedented sanctions on Iranian oil imports in a bid to thwart its alleged nuclear weapons programme, what are the consequences? asks a Tel Aviv based political scientist. 
With their decision to impose an embargo on Iranian oil and to freeze Iranian bank assets in Europe, EU member states are hoping to force Teheran to halt its nuclear program — an initiative which the European press believes is a risky bet. 
United by common interests but separated by different values, Europe and Russia have been obliged to engage in a political game in which the Europeans plead for democracy and Moscow pretends to listen. The 15 December EU-Russia summit in Brussels is a case in point. 
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. 
To cut its debt, Portugal’s government has embarked on a far-reaching privatisation program. Brazilian, Chinese and Angolans are the main candidates for taking over its national enterprises. 
Economic power is not the only criterion for global power. What matters is how political systems respond to new crises. And from this perspective, the EU is still in with a chance, writes Dutch historian Dirk-Jan van Baar. 
Afraid they will at the mercy of the Albanian majority once Serbia is forced to recognize Kosovo in exchange for EU members, a growing number of Kosovar Serbs have requested Russian citizenship. But "Slav solidarity" is a myth. 
The debt crisis has plunged the eurozone into a situation similar to that experienced by Latin America in the 90's. To emerge from it, Europeans should learn from the mistakes made at the time, writes columnist and former Venezuelan Minister Moises Naim. 
The eurozone is looking for financial aid from emerging countries, mainly China. A prospect that sends shivers down the spines of many Europeans. But for the official Beijing daily Global Times, any future deal will need to be a “civilized” one. 
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.
Following a trend that has intrigued local authorities and real estate agents, more and more Russians are buying apartments without ever setting foot in them. The reason for this strange behaviour is that owning a home in Estonia makes it easier to apply for a Schengen visa. 
In talks with the IMF, European governments have pledged to take “all necessary measures” to prevent the collapse of the Eurozone. However, as New York Times columnist and Economics Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman points out, until now their actions have only served to undermine the single currency. 
The trial of the former premier resumes Sept. 27, three days after the visit of President Yanukovych to Russia. It’s a game of high strategy between Kiev and Moscow, in which Europe has a role to play too. 
In offering an alternative to the U.S. position on recognition of a Palestinian state, the EU is exposing itself to criticism and pressure from both the Palestinians and the Israelis.