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Poland: ‘Great relief for a few’
15 May 2013231PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Italy: ‘We don’t buy houses any more’
15 May 201347PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Opinion poll: Crisis in Spain, pessimism in France
7 May 20138954PresseuropEl País, Le Monde -
Slovakia: Crisis hones the art of belt-tightening
6 May 2013831PresseuropPravda -
France: Marriage puts a nation asunder
23 April 201343168 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Poland: “Take some leave, dad!”
18 April 2013222PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Pensions: A new life for your old age
3 April 201313812 Respekt Prague -
Spain: Hands off my house!
1 April 2013104531 Libération Paris -
International Women's Day: Too many men at the top of the EU
8 March 2013725PresseuropLa Croix -
Estonia: After the e-government, here come the e-citizens
8 March 20132064 Eesti Päevaleht Tallinn -
Lithuania: A single passport is no longer enough
31 January 20131121 Veidas Vilnius -
Portugal: The writing on the wall is Mandarin
29 January 201319927 Visão Lisbon -
Gender equality: Brussels moralises at its own peril
15 November 2012556 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Gender equality: Quotas for women, more than necessary
15 November 20127712 El País Madrid -
Senior citizens: Granny lives in Slovakia now
31 October 201245831 Welt am Sonntag Berlin -
Spain: Grannies and grandads fighting the crisis
26 October 201229715 Le Monde Paris -
Belgium: Brussels, a refuge for young French people
18 October 20122156 Slate.fr Paris -
Separatism: A symptom of the debt crisis
16 October 2012536PresseuropLa Tribune, De Standaard, Financial Times Deutschland, Financial Times Deutschland -
Emigration: The Germans are coming back to Poland
1 October 201230126 Uważam Rze Warsaw -
Greece: Russians bargain-hunting in Northern Aegean
25 September 20122533 I Kathimerini Athens -
Spain: Eurovegas won’t hit the jackpot
21 September 20123291 El País Madrid -
Profile: Bare breasts, heads high
20 September 20122039 Libération Paris -
Estonia: Austerity as a way of life
13 September 201210616 Eesti Ekspress Tallinn -
Spain: Workers’ cooperative defies crisis
29 August 2012262925 Público Madrid -
Greece: The future is app to us
15 June 20123476 The Guardian London -
Germany: Ossis return home
9 May 20122452 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Germany: Will the Pirates democratise Europe?
12 April 2012136941 Die Welt Berlin -
Ireland: Closing time on the nation’s pub culture
27 February 20126074 The Irish Times Dublin -
Emigration: “Good life does not come easily in Lithuania”
10 February 2012120 Veidas Vilnius -
Netherlands: I’m 15, I’ll start a business
17 January 2012395 De Groene Amsterdammer Amsterdam -
Ireland: Squatters filling the ghost estates
12 January 20124381 The Guardian London -
Spain: Low-cost life for all
9 January 201234014 El País Madrid -
Poland : Fear and loathing on November 11
10 November 20111713 Newsweek Polska Warsaw -
Austerity Europe: Greeks driven back to the land
19 October 20115274 The Independent London -
Occupy Movement: A hashtag revolution
18 October 20113868 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Poland: Palikot power transforms national politics
18 October 2011PresseuropWprost -
Balkans: Ikea, a Bulgarian idea of luxury
23 September 20112001 Standart Sofia -
Religion: Pope oversees a dwindling church
22 September 2011PresseuropTygodnik Powszechny -
Society: Immobile Europe
20 September 201123512 Dagens Nyheter Stockholm -
Northern Ireland: Minister rages against bras for children
8 September 2011PresseuropThe Belfast Telegraph -
United Kingdom: Austerity increases homelessness threat
31 August 2011PresseuropThe Guardian -
Central Europe: Ex-GDR, a new land for Poles and Czechs
29 August 2011186 Lidové noviny Prague -
Romania: The totalitarian tourist trail
18 August 201131PresseuropRomânia libera -
Latin America: The Spanish brain-drain
24 June 20112222 El País Madrid -
Greece: Life in a time of Troika
1 June 2011256 To Vima Athens -
Malta: Voters say yes to divorce
30 May 2011PresseuropThe Times of Malta -
Greece: Back home with mum
3 May 2011126 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Lifestyle: Hour of the hypocrites
4 April 2011208 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Denmark: End of line for Christiania’s flower children
7 March 20112107 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
United Kingdom: Why drugs are on a downer
25 February 2011224 The Guardian London
On April 23, France became the ninth European state to extend marriage and adoption rights to homosexual couples. However, unlike other countries, the measures provoked fierce hostility from sections of the public. A German newspaper tries to explain why. 
Enjoying your retirement under a tropical sun on the other side of the world is no longer the preserve only of western Europe’s wealthy elite. Increasing numbers of Czech pensioners are abandoning their homeland in order to “wipe out the winter." 
Publicly denouncing politicians who refuse to revise the law on mortgages, Spaniards lobbying against the soaring number of home evictions have adopted a technique used to put pressure on the Argentine military, nicknamed "the unmasking". 
After Estonia's efforts to push its government administration online, the country now plans to assign a digital identity to all its citizens. The goal? To help cement ties with business talent – both Estonians abroad and foreign expatriates with links to the east European nation. 
Ice dancer Deividas Stagniunas’ American partner has recently had her application for a Lithuanian passport turned down. The decision has reignited the debate on the identity of a country that is opening up to the rest of the world. 
One out of four Portuguese young people is unemployed. To find work, these youngsters are ready to become expatriates, and the languages they learn before leaving - German, Russian, Chinese or Arabic - draw a map of their new promised lands. 
How a country ensures equality is its own business. Brussels should not interfere. The meddling is hardly helping women, and Brussels is making itself even more unpopular by its moral interventionism, writes a German columnist. 
Despite regular calls to promote equality in the workplace, women continue to be under-represented at the highest corporate level. The European Commission is therefore right to impose quotas, writes a Spanish observer, who regrets that this measure is only temporary. 
Germany is getting greyer every year. But the country has a shortfall of trained nurses for pensioners, and care homes are expensive. Those outside Germany are much cheaper – and German families are sending their seniors into them. 
Picking up grandchildren from school, donating cash to balance their children’s household budgets, and taking time to demonstrate against the austerity policies advocated by Brussels: Spain’s abuelos have emerged as a pillar of strength in a faltering society. 
Billionaire Bernard Arnault is not the only one leaving France to set up shop in Belgium. Every year, thousands of young French graduates, attracted by a more accessible job market and better living conditions, are emigrating to the country. 
For years, West Germany was a prime destination for Polish immigrants. But today, it's the Germans who are crossing the River Oder in search of work in Poland. 
Second homes, hotels, land and football clubs… Greece, and particularly the region of Thessaloniki, is being swept by a tide of Russian money. A financial windfall which could have an impact on the privatisation of the country’s infrastructure. 
In 2016, a “European Las Vegas” should open outside Madrid. In response, Catalonia is launching Barcelona World, a super-park attraction. In Europe, however, these entertainment venues imported from America rarely live up to their economic promises. 
The women of the Femen association, noted for their bare-breasted feminist demonstrations, are the best-known activists in Ukraine. But some, such as Inna Shevchenko, have been pressured into leaving the country. Now settled in Paris, they have opened a training centre in order to instruct followers from the world over. 
The most recent entrants in the Eurozone have come to terms with the austere management of the country’s finances and their own personal spending, to the point where not putting a penny astray has become a point of national pride. 
Unemployment is non-existent in Marinaleda, an Andalusian village in southern Spain that is prosperous thanks to its farming cooperative. In a country in the grip of austerity, the village mayor, Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, heads a grassroots resistance movement. 
Amidst continuing economic gloom, a new generation of young Greek tech entrepreneurs is nevertheless making in-roads into global markets, and hoping to change the country’s notoriously state-sector reliant culture. 
Having moved to the West in search of better jobs, residents of the former GDR are now returning home to take advantage of an up-turn in the economy of Germany’s eastern states, which has come in the wake of years of sluggish growth. 
Overnight the Pirate Party has become a third political force in Germany, and has become much more than a dragnet trawling protest voters. According to Die Welt, the Pirate Party could be the pioneer of a new democracy in the post-industrial era, and indeed throughout Europe. 
With one closing every two day, the pub, once Ireland’s number-one attraction, is suffering a steep decline. But it’s not just a deep and long recession that’s to blame, but also cultural change, reports the Irish Times. 
In a time of crisis with high unemployment, young Lithuanians are following in the footsteps of their emigrant ancestors. Tens of thousands have left the country in search of a better life, mainly in the British Isles and Scandinavia. The weekly Veidas reports: 
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. 
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.
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. 
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. 
The long awaited opening of the Swedish brand’s first shop in Sofia has been spoiled by controversy over prices — an opportunity for Bulgarian journalist Martin Karbovski to poke fun at his compatriots’ taste for novelty at all costs... 
Upping sticks to work elsewhere is a natural part of life in the United States. But not in Europe, where people are often afraid to move away from their home turf. A Swedish journalist argues that this lack of mobility is a handicap in the current crisis. 
More and more Poles are settling in the former East Germany, filling the void left by the flight of East Germans to the West following the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Lidové noviny is calling on Czechs to do the same, and so to help blur the borders of central Europe. 
Faced with record unemployment and poor job prospects, a generation of young Spaniards is decamping to the economic boomtowns of Latin America
Gone are the days of going out and shopping, trouble-free travel and early evening drinks in outdoor cafes. Bills and surgery have been postponed, and no more private tuition for the kids. Laid-low by the crisis, Greeks have learned to rein in their lifestyles, and everyday living in the country has become a sad affair. 
Confronted by unemployment and the economic crisis, young Greeks are being forced to give up their nascent independence and return home to live with their parents, where they benefit from the same ethos of familial support whose excesses have contributed much to the crisis. 
Can we reconcile a Western lifestyle with respecting the environment? Hardly, says the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung". Voting for Green parties is not enough to resolve the contradictions faced by a growing number of Europeans, as evidenced by the Green surge in Germany. 
Freetown Christiania is no longer free. After forty years, the last hippie enclave in Europe is bowing to the laws of the free market, writes Gazeta Wyborcza. 
In Britain, the number of young people taking drugs has fallen by 30% in the last fifteen years. Is the drop due to declining quality, or tales of celebrity breakdown? - 1 of 3
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