Debates
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Minorities: My week as a gypsy
10 November 201012311 Adevărul Bucharest -
Germany: Diplomacy and the Shoah
29 October 2010PresseuropDer Tagesspiegel -
Germany: Anti-atomic groups nuke Merkel
20 September 2010PresseuropDer Tagesspiegel -
European integration: I come not to bury the EU, but to save it
7 September 2010PresseuropIl Sole-24 Ore -
European integration: The union needs leaders
30 August 2010322 Trouw Amsterdam -
Germany: Now Sarrazin baits the Jews
30 August 2010PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Immigration: Social democrat's rant rocks Germany
27 August 20101PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Poland: Number of illegal abortions triggers debate
27 August 20101PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Secularism: For the free movement of gods
13 August 20101282 Die Zeit Hamburg -
Immigration: Why Europe needs semi-citizens
2 August 2010731 Corriere della Sera Milan -
Populism: Greater Switzerland just might take off
22 July 20106363PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Religion and State : Burqa, the cross we must bear
21 July 201030114 Der Standard Vienna -
Malta: Debate on divorce relaunched
8 July 2010PresseuropThe Times of Malta -
Germany: Smoking ban divides country
6 July 2010PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Spain: Right seeks to overturn new abortion law
6 July 2010PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Sweden: Equality, no longer a public convenience
25 June 201049 Fokus Stockholm -
Civil liberties: Big Brussels is watching you
9 June 2010108 De Standaard Brussels -
Italy / Netherlands: Dutch euthanasia directive doesn’t travel
4 June 20102PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Middle East: Author may ban Hebrew editions of his work
3 June 2010PresseuropDagens Nyheter -
Europe: How the burqa spoiled the party
31 May 20101PresseuropNew Statesman -
Culture: The fickle heart of Europe
13 May 2010541 Hospodářské Noviny Prague -
History: The Holocaust, a part of who we are
8 May 2010324 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Religion: Half Europe for crucifix, against veil
28 April 2010PresseuropABC -
EUROPEAN OF THE WEEK: Necla Kelek, defending democracy
16 April 201015 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Democracy: Non-revolutionary revolutions
2 April 201059 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Climate science: An insurance policy against global warming
19 March 2010PresseuropThe Economist -
European of the week: Miriam Meckel, life after burn-out
19 March 20101 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Sexual abuse: Irish Cardinal to consult Holy Spirit
18 March 2010PresseuropThe Irish Times -
Denmark: Ova trading condemned as "prostitution"
12 March 2010PresseuropInformation -
Poland: Hitler in abortion poster row
4 March 20101PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Poland: Strasbourg paves way for gay marriage
3 March 2010PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Economic crisis: Drop the European way of life
25 February 2010186 Rzeczpospolita Warsaw -
Democracy: Dealing with the far right the legal way
23 February 2010361 Lidové noviny Prague -
Italy: From hope trips to death trips
29 January 2010PresseuropLa Stampa -
Switzerland: Intellectuals over-rule the people
21 December 2009PresseuropDie Presse -
European Union: Islam, top of a heap of prejudices
16 November 2009PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Berlin Wall: Lest we forget Poland...
9 November 2009142 Polska The Times Warsaw -
Environmentalism: Judge decides Greenness is godliness
4 November 2009PresseuropThe Independent -
United Kingdom: Drug debate does Johnson’s Nutt in
2 November 2009PresseuropThe Guardian -
Hungary: Forced integration for Roma?
27 October 200928 Heti Világgazdaság Budapest -
Sweden : Church greenlights gay marriage
23 October 2009PresseuropDagens Nyheter -
Czech Republic: Condoms to accompany Pope's visit
23 September 2009PresseuropLidové noviny -
European Commission: The three next big things
22 September 2009El País Madrid -
World War 2: Warsaw and Moscow, rethinking 1939
31 August 20091 Presseurop -
Marriage: Mr and Mr Smith
17 July 200918 Cafebabel.com Paris -
Assisted reproduction: Dutch maternity on ice
16 July 2009PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
Police blunder: Libération up in arms against flash-balls
15 July 2009PresseuropLibération -
COMMEMORATION: Srebrenica, in the headlines once a year
13 July 2009Trouw Amsterdam -
Homosexuality: Lithuanian TiT declares war on gays
13 July 2009PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Germany: Civil service still spooked
10 July 2009PresseuropDer Tagesspiegel
What’s life like for the Roma in Romania? To find out, an Adevărul journalist dressed up as a gypsy for a week. He didn’t experience any direct discrimination, just general contempt. 
While the EU is slogging knee-deep through an economic crisis and a general state of political malaise, its leaders seem to lack the will to find a solution. Political scientist Rob de Wijk advises them to reverse this tendency in order to keep the Union from falling further into the abyss. 
Confronted by a multiplicity of religions and their symbols, most states choose to forbid them. But in doing so, they are heading toward an impasse, claims Die Zeit while pleading for tolerance and pluralism. 
Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposal to revoke the citizenship of naturalised felons has catapulted the immigration issue back onto the political agenda. Even as governments seek to adjust their legislation to an ever-changing situation, the EU ought to extend European citizenship to immigrants so as to make up for the inadequacies of the existing system. 
The ban on the burqa in Belgium and France, now spreading to Spain, the UK, and even to universities in Egypt and Syria, points up the hypocrisy and double standards of Western Christian culture, writes German philosopher Andrea Roedig. If the burqa is an instrument of oppression, isn’t the cross we worship really a morbid fascination with torture? 
A long-standing pioneer in the field of gender equality, Sweden appears to have lost its enthusiasm for social reforms of benefit to women. None of the country's major political parties has tabled concrete proposals on the issue in the run-up to general elections this autumn. 
The European Union believes that the high technology monitoring of its citizens' movements is justified by the need to ensure their security. But not everyone is convinced that increased surveillance will act as a safeguard. Activists, like lawyer Raf Jespers, argue that technology is already violating the fundamental right to privacy. 
How should we define Mitteleuropa? For Czech academic Jiri Travnicek, the region of Central Europe is characterised by an ever changing relationship with history, geography and culture. A Hospodářské noviny interview. 
Sixty-five years after the end of the conflict, the memory of the World War II lives on in the work of new generations of historians, but also, as De Volkskrant points out, because the shoah plays a fundamental role in our European identity.
The Turkish-German writer Necla Kelek is a vehement defender of democracy. Her criticism of Islam has sparked controversy amongst many German intellectuals. Der Spiegel wonders whether she is unjustly vilified by her critics. 
Power, hitherto held by parties, governments and parliaments, is passing into the hands of citizens’ movements of every stripe. Is this Hannah Arendt’s dream come true in which everyone participates in public affairs? asks historian Marek Beylin. 
Until her nervous breakdown, Miriam Meckel, a high profile professor, broadcaster, and PR agent, was widely considered a role model in her native Germany. Her bestselling book about the experience warns of the perils of a non-stop communication society, and has reignited the debate about Germany's much vaunted work ethic. 
The belief that we can recover from the economic crisis without compromising our "European Way of Life" is quite simply a pipe dream argues, Polish columnist Marek Magierowski. 
Should extremist parties be banned? A recent decision by the Czech Republic's Supreme Administrative Court to dissolve the far-right Workers Party has prompted renewed debate about the limits of democracy.
Almost everyone remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall as the moment that marked the end of communism in Europe, but five months earlier, the first free elections in Poland had already paved the way for change. Journalist Jacek Stawiski complains that our sense of history has been skewed by a fondness for dramatic images.
The Hungarian press is heatedly debating what to do about Roma, the main perpetrators – and victims – of the recent crime wave in Hungary. Essayist Eszter Babarczy makes a modest proposal in the weekly HVG: put the kids in boarding school to help them make their way in Hungarian society.
The re-election of José Manuel Barroso represents an opportunity to “complete” Europe over the next five years and make it a real global player. According to political analyst José Ignacio Torreblanca, the president's focus should be on three major issues: internal cohesion, enlargement and the European Neighbour Policy. 
On 1st September, Polish, German and Russian leaders will attend a ceremony to remember the German invasion of Poland, which triggered the start of the Second World War. But behind the scenes, Warsaw and Moscow are involved in a war of words about the responsibility of the Soviet Union in the tragic events of 1939. 
Same sex couples continue to benefit from more extensive civil rights almost everywhere Europe. But de jure gay marriages are only authorized in five countries. Cafebabel.com sets out to map "gay-friendly" Europe. 
Fourteen years after the massacre of more than 8,000 of its inhabitants, the Bosnian city, overshadowed by economic problems, is still struggling to get back on its feet. In a bid to dynamize the economy and build for the future, a multi-ethnic association financed by the Netherlands is training the town's young people, reports Trouw.