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Austerity: Portugal gasps as tax hikes announced

"Portuguese government opens door to new tax increase in 2011", headlines Diário de Noticias. The Lisbon daily, like much of the national press, is given […]

24 September 2010

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Recession: Has Ireland entered the double dip?

“Tougher budget in prospect as economy shrinks,” headlines the Irish Times, one day after statistics revealed that Ireland’s GDP contracted 1.2 per cent in the […]

24 September 2010

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Netherlands: The Queen is speechless

"A completely different Prinsjedag [Day of the Princes]" headlines De Volkskrant. The daily reports on the public holiday full of pomp and circumstance, which is […]

21 September 2010

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Sweden: Far right enters the Parliament

The centre-right coalition have made history by holding onto power in this weekend's election, but what no one saw coming was the emergence of the 'angry white men' of Sweden's far-right as serious players

20 September 2010
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Czech Republic: Party sells its members for a few cents

"The ODS is selling its members for millions," booms Hospodářské noviny. After the Czech government reduced state subsidies for political parties by 5%, politicians are […]

17 September 2010

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United Kingdom: A Catholic and a German

The Independent calls Pope Benedict’s visit to Britain a Mission Improbable. Even without the gaffe by Cardinal Kasper, who compared touching down in multicultural London […]

17 September 2010
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From Luxembourg: Paris, open to ridicule

Stung by Nicolas Sarkozy's remarks suggesting that European Commissioner Viviane Reding allow the Roma to settle in her home country of Luxembourg, the press of […]

16 September 2010
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Economic crisis: Portugal in debt peril

Since January, the "Portuguese state has accumulated debt at a rate of 2.5 million euros per hour", headlines Público. The calculations have been made by […]

16 September 2010

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Espagne: Police pull plug on ETA pipeline

The leadership ring of Ekin (a political communication pipeline for the ETA via leftist nationalist abertzale groups, has been broken up, leads Basque daily El […]

15 September 2010

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El Correo
Northern Ireland: Real IRA to go after the City

“Real IRA says it will target UK bankers,” headlines the Guardian. In an interview with the London daily, the dissident Irish republican group, which is […]

15 September 2010

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The Guardian
France: Presidency accused of violating press freedom

"Presidency has violated the law protecting the confidentiality of journalists' sources," headlines Le Monde, announcing its intention to file formal charges in order to ensure […]

14 September 2010

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Le Monde
Austerity: Britain bracing for wave of strikes

“Are we heading for another winter of discontent?” headlines The Independent, alluding to a massive wave of strikes in winter 1978 to 1979 that brought […]

13 September 2010

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The Independent
FRANCE: What happened to Nicolas Sarkozy?

“The incredible shrinking President,” headlines The Economist. For the London weekly, Nicolas Sarkozy was once Napoleon on horseback, but now he is only a pair […]

10 September 2010

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The Economist
Economy: Poland makes leaps in competitiveness

Poland has overtaken large southern European economies in terms of competitiveness, enthuses Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. According to the recently published World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness […]

10 September 2010

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Austria: Corruption probe targets slick politician

"Investigators want to know more," announces Der Standard. For the second time in seven days, on 8 September Karl-Heinz Grasser was questioned in connection with […]

9 September 2010

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Poland: New evidence of CIA “Black Holes”

"Did the CIA torture in Poland?" headlines Rzeczpospolita after Associated Press provided further evidence confirming the existence between 2001-2003 of a secret CIA prison in […]

9 September 2010
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Economic crisis: Has the run on Ireland begun?

“Government bond yields jump amid fears about Irish banks,” leads the Irish Times. For the second day running, the yield on Irish government 10-year bonds […]

8 September 2010

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The Irish Times
Greece: Papandreou in crisis cabinet reshuffle

This is “the big reshuffle”, according to Ta Nea. The Athenian daily’s front page shows prime minister George Papandreou’s “3 aces +1” after his cabinet […]

7 September 2010

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Spain: ETA ceasefire meets with scepticism

"ETA announces truce,” headlines El Correo the day after the terrorist group issued a cease-fire communiqué. Along with the rest of the Spanish press, however, […]

6 September 2010

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El Correo
Low Countries: Belgium and Netherlands in post-election rut

“Crisis in the Low Countries” headlines De Volkskrant. Almost three months after elections in Holland and Belgium, negociations on the formation of new governments have […]

6 September 2010

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France: Back from beach, back on the street

Pensions, political sleaze scandals, Roma…as expected, a turbulent back-to-work September lies in store for the French government, heralds Libération, headlining its coverage of mounting protest […]

6 September 2010

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Italy: Expo 2015, a Milanese fiasco

"Is Milan in danger of losing Expo 2015?", asks Il Post, after revelations came to light concerning a litany of problems. Mired in "delays in infrastructure […]

3 September 2010
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Czech Republic: Backroom antics at Ministry of Defence

"The vice-minister: how we cheated" headlines Mladá Fronta DNES, which secretly recorded a business meeting between a high-ranking official of the Czech Defence ministry and […]

3 September 2010

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United Kingdom: Tony Blair reveals all (well, almost)

Leading with the main front-page story in today’s British press, The Independent reports on the publication of Tony Blair’s “long-awaited memoirs.” In a number of […]

1 September 2010

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The Independent
Economic crisis: Zombie bank pushes Ireland to brink

“Anglo claims €25bn is total cost,” headlines the Irish Times, one day after the bank reported losses of €8.2 billion for the first half of […]

1 September 2010

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The Irish Times
Denmark: Right wants monitors for Swedish poll

"VKO insists Swedish elections should be supervised," headlines Jyllands-Posten. The Danish daily reports on the concern expressed by leaders of the three main right-wing Danish […]

31 August 2010
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Belgium: Political atmosphere turns sour

“PS and N-VA spoiling for a fight,” headlines De Standaard, which reports that two months after general elections, negotiations on the formation of a coalition […]

31 August 2010

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De Standaard
Slovakia: Random killing spree or race crime?

The entire front page of SME is devoted to a single story: on 30 August in Bratislava, “a gunman shot seven of his neighbours before […]

31 August 2010

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Poland: Solidarity’s dispersed legacy

Solidarity – a movement supported by almost 10 million members in 1981, and with less than 600,000 members today – will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1980 “August Agreements” that led to the creation of the first independent labour representation in the Soviet-dominated bloc. The anniversary has sparked a heated debate in the Polish press.

30 August 2010
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Northern Ireland: State and church protected terrorist priest

“Claudy, a grotesque perversion of justice,” headlines the Belfast Telegraph. Northern Ireland is reeling from an official report published August 24 that confirms that a […]

26 August 2010

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The Belfast Telegraph
Italy: The Axeman goeth

"He resigned", Il Riformista headlines ironcially after the death of Francesco Cossiga. A former premier, president, interior and defence minister, Cossiga has been one of […]

18 August 2010

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Il Riformista
Poland: Dirty business

"Poland is throwing away thousands of euros a day " bemoans Gazeta Wyborcza. For a month now the EU has been fining Poland 40,000 euros […]

17 August 2010

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Gazeta Wyborcza
Transparency: Spain finally falls into line

In its enthusiastic report on a law to "regulate citizens’ right to know", El País welcomes new legislation on transparency and citizens’ access to information, […]

16 August 2010

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El País
Belgium: A government, sometime soon

“Breeze of optimism,” headlines La Libre Belgique in its report on the gruelling negotiations which took place at the weekend between representatives of Flemish and […]

16 August 2010
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Slovakia: No round for Greece

"The Slovak revolt," sums up Lidové Noviny, after parliament's refusal to endorse the participation of Slovakia (valued at €816 million) in a loan of 110 […]

12 August 2010
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Firefighting: Europe works together as fires blaze

As southern Europe braces itself for forest fires a crack EU firefighting squad has been brought together, reports the New York Times. For the first time, […]

11 August 2010
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Poland: Warsaw’s cross row

“Bring down the palace, it obscures the view of the cross!” and “Move the cross to church, Poland is a secular country!”, these slogans could […]

10 August 2010

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Gazeta Wyborcza
Central Europe: Better flood prevention required

"The water carried away people, houses [and] cars" is how Lidové Noviny summarises the sudden and violent floods which hit the northern Czech Republic on […]

9 August 2010

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Lidové noviny
Romania: The leaf of discord

"Romania, what a mess", is how Academia Caţavencu summarises the "scandal" of the summer. The logo created by the Spanish advertising agency THR, commissioned for […]

6 August 2010

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Academia Caţavencu
CZECH REPUBLIC: Anti-communists rehabilitated

Milan Paumer funeral changes attitudes to the resistance", headlines Mlada Fronta DNES, in the wake of the burial of a famous anti-communist rebel. The Czech Republic’s main […]

5 August 2010

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Mladá Fronta DNES
POLAND: Former President in CIA bases charge

Ex-president Aleksander Kwaśniewski may face the State Tribunal on war crime charges, Rzeczpospolita reports. Prosecutors investigating alleged CIA secret prisons in Poland may file similar […]

5 August 2010
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Greece: The great tax fraud hunt is now on

To refill the public coffers and fulfil its international obligations, George Papandreou’s government is pulling out all the stops – and cracking down on Greek tax evaders.

4 August 2010
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France: Sarkozy, the descent into chaos?

In the wake of recent events which have seen French President declare war on “foreign born” delinquents and disturbing scenes of an eviction of African squatters near Paris, a writer in the Guardian argues that the Sarkozy adminstration has been characterised by increasingly widespread social disorder.

3 August 2010
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Poland / Russia: Tension surface over Smolensk crash

Poland runs into “the Russian obstacle”, reports Gazeta Wyborcza. Quoting Polish PM Donald Tusk, the Warsaw daily explains that, “The Russians are not handing over […]

3 August 2010

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Gazeta Wyborcza
Austria: Haider’s stash sparks reform

Die Presse reports that the Austrian government is set to “outlaw anonymous donations to political parties” after revelations that Jörg Haider, the deceased leader […]

3 August 2010

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Netherlands: Coalition with Wilders looks likely

Two months after the general elections, a minority government consisting of liberals VVD and Christian democrats CDA with the support of the extreme-right PVV is […]

2 August 2010
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De Volkskrant
Italy: The long fall of Berlusconi

The European press is convinced that the definitive rift between the Italian leader and his main ally Gianfranco Fini announced on 29 July will herald a full-blown crisis in the system of power controlled by Il Cavaliere. Shaken by scandals and, according to Fini, the "moral question" they raise, his political movement is falling apart, while Italy’s influence in Europe, which was already weak, continues to wane.

30 July 2010
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France / Romania: Roma in the firing line

In the wake of a spate of violent incidents, the French president has announced his intention to attack “the problem of the behaviour of certain elements in the Rom and itinerant community,” recommending that foreign troublemakers be deported to their country of origin — a controversial policy in both France and Romania, which highlights the European dimension of this issue.

28 July 2010
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Greece: Revolutionary Sect issues death threats

One week after the July 19 assassination of journalist Sokratis Giolias, Greek terrorist movement Revolutionary Sect has delivered a letter to Ta Nea, claiming responsibility […]

28 July 2010

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Portugal: Lisbon to sell off state companies to Emirates

“Arab funds interested in Portuguese privatizations”, writes i. The Lisbon daily explains that megafunds from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) "are shopping in Portugal", as […]

27 July 2010

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