Society
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Portugal
Shopping in the troika era
6 February 201214Jornal de Negócios Lisbon -
3 February 20124Le Monde Paris
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Economic crisis
Poverty trap for middle classes of Europe
1 February 201214El País Madrid -
1 February 2012Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw
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30 January 201214Libération Paris
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Tourism
What did you see in Auschwitz?
26 January 20127Télérama Paris -
Romania
Raed Arafat: A reluctant rebel
18 January 2012Qmagazine Bucharest -
Immigration
Shipwrecks that no one mentions
18 January 20122PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Netherlands
I’m 15, I’ll start a business
17 January 2012De Groene Amsterdammer Amsterdam -
Emigration
Population slumps in crisis stricken Spain
17 January 2012PresseuropEl Mundo -
12 January 20121The Guardian London
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11 January 2012PresseuropDie Tageszeitung
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Employment
Does immigration lengthen dole queues?
10 January 20123PresseuropPresseurop -
Spain
Low-cost life for all
9 January 201214El País Madrid -
Emigration
Poles plump for life abroad
6 January 2012PresseuropTygodnik Powszechny -
Germany
Still living in Lenin Street
4 January 20124Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
29 December 20114El Mundo Madrid
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Press review
Franco-Turkish spat over genocide law
23 December 201113PresseuropYeni Şafak, Milliyet, Zaman & 3 others -
Emigration
The Greek exodus to Australia
22 December 201115The Guardian London -
Immigration
Europe’s judges overturn asylum regulation
22 December 20115Presseurop -
14 December 201110La Stampa Turin
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Schengen
For a Europe of borders
8 December 2011PresseuropFinancial Times Deutschland -
Immigration
Bulgarian passport opens doors to West
7 December 20113Trud Sofia -
United Kingdom
Rioters point to excessive policing
5 December 20111PresseuropThe Guardian -
Social crisis
Spain losing the roof over its head
2 December 20119El Mundo Madrid -
Slovakia
State of emergency in hospitals
2 December 2011PresseuropPravda -
Immigration
EU a closed door for refugees
21 November 20115PresseuropDagens Nyheter -
18 November 20114Der Freitag Berlin
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Portugal
My neighbour, the Prime Minister
17 November 20111Expresso Lisbon -
Germany
Fear of a “Brown Army Faction”
14 November 20111PresseuropDer Spiegel -
INTEGRATION
Arabic, a European language like any other
11 November 20115Svenska Dagbladet Stockholm -
10 November 20113Newsweek Polska Warsaw
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Germany
Habermas stokes debate on Europe
9 November 20117PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Romania-Greece
Orthodox church at the gates of purgatory
9 November 20115România libera Bucharest -
8 November 20112PresseuropPravda
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7 November 20113PresseuropSME
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Germany-Turkey
Bitter birthday
3 November 20115PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
31 October 20112PresseuropEl País
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31 October 2011PresseuropDe Volkskrant
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Romania
Just how many Roma are there?
20 October 2011PresseuropJurnalul Naţional -
Austerity Europe
Greeks driven back to the land
19 October 20114The Independent London -
18 October 20113Sega Sofia
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Occupy Movement
A hashtag revolution
18 October 20118Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
18 October 2011PresseuropWprost
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17 October 201110Le Monde Paris
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Romania
Panic in Giurgiu city
12 October 20111PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
Germany
Hackers uncover state spyware
11 October 20111PresseuropPresseurop -
6 October 2011PresseuropEUobserver.com
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Czech Republic – Netherlands
Cannabis: Medicine or hard drug?
6 October 20111PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Czech Republic
In Varnsdorf, Roma are under pressure
5 October 20112Hospodářské noviny Prague
Since Portugal has been subjected to an austerity regimen by the EU/ECB/IMF troika, Portuguese consumers have adapted their habits. The crisis is pushing consumers to save but also to be more creative. 
France’s second city will be European capital of culture in 2013. But for the moment, news from Marseille is dominated by feuds among Kalashnikov toting drug dealers who hold sway over entire neighbourhoods. 
Unemployment has hit record levels in the EU, putting nearly a quarter of those Europeans who until now had a decent standard of living at risk of sliding into social exclusion. The phenomenon is undermining the EU’s strategies against poverty. 
Tennis player Victoria Azarenka, the recent winner of the Australian Open, is now one of the few Belarusians known outside her country. A PR opportunity for the dictator of Minsk. 
While negotiations on the write-down of Greek debt remain ongoing, Athens city hall is supplying two meals a day to jobless workers who are now threatened with famine in the wake of austerity measures: a situation that some Greeks readily compare with the occupation of the country during World War 2. 
Every year more than a million people visit Auschwitz. In the run-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the liberation of the camp on 27 January, Télérama wonders: Is this mass tourism not to some extent a profanation of memory? 
The revolt currently shaking Bucharest is inspired by Raed Arafat, a doctor of Palestinian origin who protested against the privatisation of the country's health system. 
Whether it’s making iPhone apps or delivering organic food on a bicycle, junior entrepreneurs are creating their own lucrative business in the Netherlands, with or without assistance from their school. 
A new movement is occupying some of the hundreds of properties abandoned since the crash of 2008, a protest not just against homelessness, but also against the speculation that led to Ireland’s spectacular economic collapse. 
With the crisis in full swing, and pay packages as low as 1000 euros gross per month, there's no lifestyle choice other than that of austerity. It's a trend that's changing consumer habits. 
Twenty-one years after German reunification, many streets and squares of the former GDR are still named communist grandees. For a number of former dissidents and a journalist from Gazeta Wyborcza, it’s a puzzling phenomonen. 
Ercolano, in southern Italy, has become the first town to stop paying extortion money to the Camorra. A new freedom fiercely defended by the town's mayor and shopkeepers. 
The French parliament’s vote which approved a private member’s bill making it a crime to negate the Armenian genocide has provoked an angry response from Ankara. The reaction to the initiative in the French press has been largely negative, while the Turkish media is much more outspoken. 
For young Europeans from crisis stricken states, booming Australia has become a new land of opportunity. This is especially true for a new generation of Greek graduates, joining the largest expatriate Greek community in the world. 
The murder of two Senegalese traders in Florence is the latest manifestation of an upsurge of hatred in Europe. With the Utøya massacre, the vehement reactions to the Greek crisis, British isolationism and the rise of the extreme right, this trend has many forms — all of them equally alarming. 
Macedonians, Moldavians and Ukrainians are jostling to obtain a Bulgarian passport. Many plan to leave for other countries in the European Union, but first they must confront the Bulgarian administration. 
Victims of unemployment, the housing bubble and bank loans too easily offered, thousands of families have been forced to abandon their homes. A symptom of the crisis that has rocked Spain, but also the crisis of a system in need of reform. 
Germany has been rocked by revelations that an east German neo-Nazi cell has been responsible for the deaths of nine immigrants over the last decade. An author decries enduring East-West divisions that highlight the failures of German unification. 
In the suburban street in Lisbon that is home to Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, the crisis has come knocking. Expresso reports on the manner in which austerity measures imposed by their high-profile neighbour have affected the lives of middle-class Portuguese who live in the area. 
A Swedish journalist of Palestinian origin embarks on a tour of Europe to take an inventory of the use of Arabic across the continent with surprising results. 
The annual Independence March organised in Warsaw on November 11 by right wing and nationalist groups is likely to grind to a halt this year. The left wing 11 November Coalition is urging its supporters to block the march, and confrontation seems unavoidable.
In Bucharest and in Athens, the exacerbation of the economic crisis has undermined public tolerance for the privileges enjoyed by the Orthodox Church. If things do not change, warns România Liberă, the organisation runs the risk of paying a heavy cultural tribute. 
As strikes bring the country to a halt, and politicians dither over the fate of the eurozone's most stricken economy, Greeks are being forced to turn back the clock to make ends meet. A report from the island of Naxos, in the Cyclades. 
Rendered desperate by poverty and a lack of secure employment, a large number of young women yield to the siren call of recruiters who make use of bogus offers of training and temporary jobs to lure them into prostitution. 
The “Occupy” movements springing up around the world are a new form of political participation: the unorganised citizen is calling for an ongoing dialogue with institutions such as political parties and trade unions, from which authority is slowly draining. 
Exactly 50 years ago today, between 100 and 200 Algerians, who were taking part in a peaceful demonstration, were murdered by Paris police. After decades of official cover-up, the collective memory of the events of 17 October 1961 is finally being restored. 
About half a kilometre from the German border, for several weeks now Varnsdorf has been the scene of far-right demonstrations against the Roma minority – about 500 people in a town of 16,000. The demonstrations bring into sharp focus the tensions between the townspeople and a community whose integration is still a problem.