Member States
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8 February 20121PresseuropRomânia libera, Jurnalul Naţional, Adevărul, Revista 22
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Finland
Euroscepticism survives
8 February 20122PresseuropHelsingin Sanomat -
Romania
A spy in government
7 February 2012PresseuropAdevărul -
Slovakia
New wave of “Gorilla” demonstrations
6 February 2012PresseuropSME -
2 February 201214PresseuropLe Monde, Le Figaro, La Croix, Libération
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2 February 2012PresseuropNépszava
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Fiscal treaty
Ireland begins bitter referendum debate
1 February 20123PresseuropThe Irish Times -
Slovakia
A Gorilla tearing down the system
1 February 20127Respekt Prague -
Italy
Relax, Germans!
30 January 201223Die Zeit Hamburg -
26 January 201221Il Fatto Quotidiano Rome
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Romania
Baconschi, first head to roll
25 January 2012PresseuropAdevărul -
24 January 2012PresseuropDie Tageszeitung
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Central Europe
Vienna-Budapest, a journey into the past
23 January 201216Le Monde Paris -
23 January 20124PresseuropFinancial Times
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Hungary
Orbán revolution goes bust
20 January 20129Respekt Prague -
19 January 20122România libera Bucharest
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16 January 20121PresseuropAdevărul
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13 January 2012PresseuropPolska The Times, Gazeta Wyborcza, Rzeczpospolita
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12 January 201217Népszabadság Budapest
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9 January 2012PresseuropMagyar Hírlap
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Hungary
Orbán increasingly isolated
6 January 20129Presseurop -
5 January 201231La Stampa Turin
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European Union
Hungary is our business too
4 January 201239Le Monde Paris -
Hungary
Let us deal with Orbán
3 January 20129Heti Világgazdaság Budapest -
3 January 20122PresseuropHandelsblatt
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Romania
Revolution? What revolution?
21 December 20119Jurnalul Naţional Bucharest -
Hungary
Tug of war over media law
21 December 20111PresseuropPresseurop -
Czech Republic
In Prague, Europe is often far away
20 December 20116Lidové noviny Prague -
Czech Republic
Václav Havel – neither an angel nor God
19 December 20111Hospodářské noviny Prague -
Press review
Václav Havel – Europe has lost a father
19 December 2011PresseuropLa Repubblica, De Morgen, Libération & 4 others -
France
Jacques Chirac convicted
16 December 20112PresseuropLibération -
Sweden
Sitting on the fence
16 December 20115PresseuropPresseurop -
13 December 20115PresseuropLe Soir
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United Kingdom
Clegg’s sulk over Cameron’s EU veto
13 December 20113PresseuropThe Independent -
European Council
Hungary’s diplomatic zigzags
12 December 20111PresseuropNépszabadság -
Belgium
A government, it’s a start
6 December 20113PresseuropDe Standaard -
6 December 20115PresseuropThe Irish Times
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30 November 2011Respekt Prague
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Central Europe
Hungary’s bitter reunion with the IMF
25 November 201127Magyar Nemzet Budapest -
Portugal
General strike against austerity
24 November 20111PresseuropPúblico -
Debt Crisis
Belgium under the tutelage of Brussels?
23 November 20112PresseuropDe Morgen -
Slovakia
Defence minister out on his ear
23 November 2011PresseuropPravda -
Eurozone crisis
An Irish village says no to the banks
22 November 20116Irish Independent Dublin -
Press review
Rajoy won’t have time to celebrate victory
21 November 20115Presseurop -
Spain
An election for nothing
18 November 20116El País Madrid -
18 November 2011PresseuropCorriere della Sera
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15 November 2011PresseuropTo Ethnos
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Debt crisis
Greece and Italy, two parallel destinies
11 November 20115Eleftherotypia Athens -
10 November 20114La Stampa Turin
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Crisis eurozone
The real Greek tragedy – its rapacious oligarchs
9 November 20119Financial Times London
In appointing the head of the secret service to lead the government, President Băsescu is attempting to avoid early general elections. But, as the Romanian press points out, the controversial Mr Ungureanu is perhaps not the politician that is best equipped to put an end to protests against austerity and the country’s political class. 
A probable candidate for re-election, the French President seems intent on proposing an economic project calqued on the German model — a strategy which has surprised the French press. 
Explosive and mysterious, a file named “Gorilla” contains evidence of corruption in Slovakia’s political and economic elite. Two months away from early parliamentary elections, who stands to benefit from the revelations? 
Italy has long cursed Germany as a know-it-all, and yet respects it as the head of the class. With the arrival of the very proper Mr Monti this is changing, and Berlin will have to get used to some lessons from Rome. 
Austerity is to be followed by deregulation. Mario Monti has launched “Phase two” of his anti-crisis programme: a vast plan to open protected sectors of the economy, like taxis and road transport, to competition. An Italian economist welcomes the change, but warns that it is not without risks. 
Heirs to the Hapsburg Empire, Austria and Hungary have something else in common: an ambiguous relationship with history and a tendency to tolerate political excesses. Ten years after European sanctions against Vienna, why does the Budapest seem to be stuck in the 1930s? 
Leading a country heavily in debt, under pressure from the IMF and threatened with prosecution by the EU, the Hungarian Prime Minister is now facing an organised opposition. Feeling poorer every day, Hungarians have lost their faith in the PM's nationalist prescriptions. 
Thousands of people from all walks of life have been demonstrating all week in Bucharest as well as all over the country against both austerity measures and a political system gangrened by corruption. It is about time that the government took their complaints seriously, warns Romanian sociologist Mircea Kivu. 
By threatening Budapest with financial sanctions and infringement proceedings if the Hungarian government fails to change its policies on the economy and the judiciary, the EU seems to have begun a process that would allow it to get rid of Hungary’s Prime Minister, as it got rid of Berlusconi and Papandreou. But it won’t be that easy. 
The reinforcement of the executive branch of government and the weakening of checks and balances has been criticised by newspapers in Hungary and elsewhere in Europe at a moment when the country has been struck by a financial crisis that is steadily worsening as investors lose confidence in Budapest. 
To understand the current Hungarian government’s withdrawal into nationalism and identity, one must look back into the history of the country, argues an expert in Hungarian literature: particularly into the fragility of its bourgeoisie and the frustrations born of military defeats. 
The EU should not remain indifferent to PM Viktor Orbán’s drift towards authoritarian nationalism. As a community based on democratic as well as economic values, it ought to exert pressure on Budapest to keep the Hungarian government on the right path, argues Le Monde. 
Protests against the Hungarian prime minister, accused of a drift towards authoritarianism, are growing in Budapest. But while the international community is also starting to respond, the protests must avoid relying on foreign intervention, argues philosopher Gáspár Miklós Tamás. 
For most people in post-communist Europe, December is the month to commemorate the fall of the communist regimes. In Romania, the fall has become a story that a society living in a world of cheap illusions tells itself. 
Twenty years after the "return to Europe" championed by former President Václav Havel, who died on December 18, the debate about the Czech Republic's relationship with the EU is dominated by two political camps that are both devoid of real ideas about the union's future. 
The former Czech president did not seek power for power’s sake, but became indispensable during the next twenty-two years of his country’s post-communist development. A tribute from Prague daily Hospodářské noviny after his death on December 18th. 
The European press provides a nearly unanimous homage to Václav Havel the playwright, dissident and first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia. Havel died of cancer on December 18. He was 75. 
In seeking to tackle corruption by means of illegal wiretaps, the disgraced former defense minister violated the very democratic principles he wanted to defend. And his case has further undermined Slovaks' confidence in politicians as well the press. 
Financially weakened, Budapest has requested assistance from the International Monetary Fund, as part of a deal to be negotiated between now and January 2012. The Hungarian press wonders if the move amounts to an admission of failure on the part of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, or if it has resulted from a cabal against his independence policy? 
As Ireland looks back one year after the EU/IMF bailout, every Sunday the inhabitants of Ballyhea stage a silent protest, against those who plunged the country into recession. 
The landslide victory by the People’s Party (PP) in Spanish general elections on 20 November — 45% of the vote as opposed to 28% won by Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba’s socialists (PSOE) — has given Mariano Rajoy enormous power in a country, which the Spanish press notes, is deep in the doldrums. But in the context of the debt crisis, Rajoy is unlikely to benefit from much room for manoeuvre. 
Mariano Rajoy's right-wing Popular Party is set to win the Spanish general election this 20 November and apply more austerity. But as long as Germany fails to assume its responsibilities at a European level, the new government will be powerless to solve the country's crisis. 
In Athens and in Rome, the crisis has swept away elected leaders, replacing them with technocrats whose main mission is to implement austerity plans demanded by Brussels and the markets, which their predecessors were unable to apply. 
Berlusconi’s agony has brought down markets and pushed Italian bonds’rates above 7 per cent, threatening a credit crunch that would sink the whole eurozone. The only foreseeable solution is to quickly set up a unity government led by the widely respected former EU commissioner, writes La Stampa's editor in chief. 
A network of corrupt clans control key sectors of Greek economy, and stand to profit most from the country’s continued disarray, writes the author of McMafia.