Europe & the World
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Strauss-Kahn affair: Who said Europe should run the IMF?
20 May 2011832 The Independent London -
Strauss-Kahn affair: Why the IMF should stay European
20 May 2011694 Le Figaro Paris -
Belarus : Lukashenko takes opposition “hostages”
16 May 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Belarus: Europe speaks up for Poczobut
13 May 20111PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Syria-EU: Carte blanche for Assad
12 May 2011692 SME Bratislava -
Russia-EU: Who will open this window on Europe?
10 May 2011541 Polityka Warsaw -
Immigration: The shame of Europe
10 May 20112PresseuropPúblico -
Diplomacy: EU to take seat at UN
4 May 20114PresseuropEUobserver.com -
After Bin Laden: Europe's day of shame
3 May 2011828 Handelsblatt Düsseldorf -
Terrorism: Bin Laden’s legacy
2 May 20111632 Le Monde Paris -
Italy: Rome joins the war in Libya
26 April 2011PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Libya: The expanding war
22 April 2011592 The Guardian London -
Libyan war: Obama must get stuck in
22 April 20111PresseuropThe Economist -
Belarus: Investment starved Minsk totters
19 April 20111PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Geopolitics: EU and NATO in a tail spin
15 April 20111332 El País Madrid -
Africa: Françafrique debate heats up
15 April 201120PresseuropPresseurop -
Palestinian Territories: Italian activist murdered in Gaza
15 April 2011PresseuropIl Manifesto -
Ivory Coast: Exit Gbagbo, with French nudge
12 April 2011PresseuropLe Figaro -
Belarus: Minsk blast is "gift from abroad"
12 April 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Libyan crisis: EU in trouble
5 April 20111204 El País Madrid -
France: Another French front in Africa
5 April 2011PresseuropLibération -
Belarus: Croesus from Minsk
4 April 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Diplomacy: Saving Private Ashton
1 April 20111097 El País Madrid -
Libyan war: London, a hub for Gaddafi aides
1 April 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
Diplomacy: Paris and London torpedo EU foreign policy
31 March 2011952 La Stampa Turin -
Odyssey Dawn: Toward total war in Libya
31 March 2011361PresseuropMediapart -
Enlargement: Tunisia, ideal candidate for the EU
30 March 20111725PresseuropLibération -
Libyan war: Sweden to join coalition
30 March 2011PresseuropSvenska Dagbladet -
Moldova: Real revolution, virtual promises
29 March 201146 Timpul Chisinau -
Odyssey Dawn: Libya, a last hurrah for the west
29 March 20111193 Financial Times London -
Belarus: Polish Lukashenko critic faces jail
29 March 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Libyan war: Bulgaria wants Gaddafi’s guts for garters
23 March 2011403 24 Chasa Sofia -
Libya: Sarkozy and Cameron, the force is not strong
23 March 2011571 The Daily Telegraph London -
Neighbourhood Policy: Dark clouds over Mare Nostrum
22 March 201162 La Repubblica Rome -
Libyan war: Whose Odyssey Dawn is it anyway?
22 March 2011PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Belgium: War in Libya makes kingdom work
22 March 2011PresseuropDe Standaard -
LIBYA: A just war – but just what kind?
21 March 20111594 Presseurop -
EU-Libya: European diplomacy disarmed
21 March 20111191 Presseurop -
Europe-Libya: The moral test of fire
18 March 20111152 Presseurop -
Nuclear energy: Merkel the panic merchant
18 March 20111327 Coulisses de Bruxelles Brussels -
Economy: Obama to save Ireland
18 March 20111PresseuropIrish Independent -
Libye: Europe unties Gaddafi’s hands
17 March 20113145 La Repubblica Rome -
Libya: Sarkozy pushes EU onto warpath
11 March 2011341PresseuropPresseurop -
EU-Libya: Insurgent leader looking for help
10 March 2011PresseuropABC -
Libya: Romanian mercenaries to rescue Gaddafi?
10 March 20111PresseuropJurnalul Naţional -
European funds: South and East fight for the money
9 March 201154 De Standaard Brussels -
Netherlands-Oman: Beatrix goes it alone
9 March 2011PresseuropTrouw -
Belarus: Lukashenko, our own merciless dictator
8 March 20113553 The Independent London -
Libya: NATO ready to intervene
8 March 2011PresseuropPúblico -
EU-Libya: Brussels tackles Libyan interests in Europe
8 March 2011PresseuropCorriere della Sera
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. 
Symbolic as the death of the al-Qaeda leader is, it does not mark the end of the fight against terrorism, nor of its consequences for our way of life, writes Le Monde. 
With its military advisors already in Benghazi, Nato's military involvement in the civil war in Libya is deepening. But as Colonel Gaddafi’s forces dig in, the outcome could hardly be more difficult to discern. 
The military operations in Libya have shown that NATO is no longer able to control the course of world events. And the EU is incapable of taking over for the same reasons: faultlines among its members, and American reluctance to get involved. 
The Libyan crisis has brought to light the contradictions that mark the European Union: in industrial policy, international relations and immigration, national interest and its corollary, lack of solidarity, prevail. 
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. 
Two years after the popular uprising christened the “Twitter Revolution” that drove the communists from power in Moldova, disillusionment has set in, writes a Moldovan journalist. 
As representatives from 40 countries and international organisations gather in London to forge a consensus on Libya after Gaddafi, Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman argues that the war will have repercussions going well beyond the fate of the Libyan dictator. 
A popular Sofia daily takes issue with the Bulgarian government, which has dubbed the allied intervention in Libya "a military adventure," and argues that Bulgaria has every reason to join with its real friends in seeking revenge on the Libyan dictator. 
America is reluctant to lead Operation Odyssey Dawn, but fractious Europe lacks the resources and faces complications, with Germany and NATO ally Turkey dragging their feet. 
Initially ignored by Europe, the Mediterranean region was subsequently the focus of several integration projects, all of which failed to produce results. The current crisis, now striking its southern shores, is a testament to the need for a new approach. 
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. 
Europe’s attitude in response to the vicious repression of the Libyan uprising is reminiscent of its cowardly behaviour during the Bosnian War, writes Italian intellectual Adriano Sofri. While their leaders dither, European governments appear to be washing their hands of a tragedy that is taking place on their doorstep. 
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. 
While Europe's eyes are on Middle East revolutions, a dictator in the east quietly crushes his opposition. But voices are beginning to make themselves heard.