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Portugal: The new wild west
11 February 2011PresseuropVisão -
Euthanasia: The taste for death
2 February 20111613 Wprost Warsaw -
Tourism: Chinese are the new Americans
25 January 2011285 La Repubblica Rome -
Lifestyle: Multi-locality, a new reality
17 December 20104552 Respekt Prague -
Cities: Gated communities, German style
1 December 20101923 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Spain: Fuentes-Sánchez, or Sánchez-Fuentes?
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Democracy: Tea Party crosses the Atlantic
1 November 2010621 Público Lisbon -
Health care: Poland leads in medical tourism
2 September 20102PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Democracy: The Germany that says Nein
1 September 201094 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Germany / France: Can a city live down a dark past?
25 August 201035 La Vanguardia Barcelona -
Job market: To be young… and doomed
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Portugal: Lisbon, the empty capital
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Spain: Barcelona bans burqa in public places
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Economic crisis: Disunited in stereotypes
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Italy: Vampire haunted Volterra
27 April 20101951 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Drugs: Mephedrone, the agony and the Ecstasy
26 April 20101981 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Denmark: Beggar thy frauding neighbour
7 April 201060 Politiken Copenhagen -
Bulgaria: Welcome the Greeks bearing euros
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Monarchy: Royals still rattling their jewellery
31 March 2010109 Rzeczpospolita Warsaw -
Marriage: Divorce European style
25 March 2010PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Marriage: All the nice girls love a Russian
24 March 2010241 Lidové noviny Prague -
Romania: Wombs for rent
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Germany: Sandwiches, new star of the crisis
17 March 2010PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Greece: Athens forced to reinvent itself
12 March 2010141 La Vanguardia Barcelona -
Poland: Germans ain't so scary after all
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International Women's Day: A fight that's far from over
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Diaries: Private histories of the world
25 February 201022 Trouw Amsterdam -
Religion: Jewish and German, new generation
9 February 2010162 Die Zeit Hamburg -
Czech Republic: Russians, nothing to be afraid of
28 January 201013 Respekt Prague -
Romania: Top exporter of call girls
19 January 20101PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
Czech Republic: Some cannabis with your main course?
15 January 20103373 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Languages: 10 hot words for 2010
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Culture: Cities on the edge stand tall
7 January 2010172 Le Monde Paris -
Christmas : Who killed Santa?
24 December 20091241 Presseurop -
Language: French takes leave of Belgium
22 December 2009154 Le Monde Paris -
Czech Republic: Santa go home
21 December 2009PresseuropLidové noviny -
United Kingdom: Private city – keep out
21 December 20091211 The Guardian London -
Nightlife: Paris, city of... lights out
16 December 200912 Cafebabel.com Paris -
ESTONIA: Get an e-life
9 December 2009311 Eesti Ekspress Tallinn -
Moldova: Christmas with the Europeans
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Netherlands: Party-pooper Amsterdam
19 November 200921 Trouw Amsterdam -
After 1989: Blooming boho Berlin
9 November 200963 Les Inrockuptibles Paris -
Spain: The blight on Barcelona
4 November 200924 Le Monde Paris -
Hungary: 13 reasons not to be cheerful
12 October 2009442 Heti Világgazdaság Budapest -
Netherlands: Squares crack down on squatters
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Romania: New tourism likes it dark
1 September 2009Evenimentul zilei Bucharest -
Tourism: On yer bike!
21 August 2009202 Cafebabel.com Paris -
Organic farming: Wwoofing holidays
14 August 2009Cafebabel.com Paris -
Travel: I like driving in your car
7 August 2009Cafebabel.com Paris -
Bulgaria: Kidnapping doing a brisk trade
5 August 2009PresseuropDer Spiegel
Many Europeans are looking abroad for help to end their lives, while more and more countries are allowing euthanasia. Is the penchant for death winning the battle against the right to life? asks the Polish weekly Wprost. 
Buoyed by the emergence of China’s middle class, the growing wave of travelers from China could revitalise the European tourist industry. But businesses in the sector have yet to adapt to their new customers. 
A growing number of Europeans enjoy parallel lives - living in Prague and working in Paris or living in Vienna while having a girlfriend in Stockholm. Known as having “multiple habitats,” the phenomenon has piqued the interest of sociologists. 
Rich man, poor man: as the wealth gap widens in Berlin, the well-heeled are fencing themselves in. They feel safe in their gated communities – if only it weren’t for the neighbours…. The envy. And the protest. 
Will Barack Obama hold out against the reactionary groundswell? The US mid-term elections on 2 November also have a bearing on Europe, where grass-roots anxieties are fuelling the rise of populist parties. 
A wave of protest has overrun Germany. People everywhere are coming out against politicians’ pet projects. Democracy seems alive and kicking, but oftentimes self-interest and the general welfare collide head-on. And this naysaying spree could stymie the country’s modernisation. 
How does a city that symbolises Nazism or French collaboration bear such an enduring burden? Nuremberg and Vichy are each struggling in their own way to live down the past. 
Rundown buildings and the high price of a square metre are driving away young people and transforming the Portuguese capital into a ghost town to the point where it would be completely devoid of life were it not for the annual influx of students brought to the city by the Erasmus programme. 
"United in diversity": for many years the motto of the EU held sway on a continent that had been marked by war. However, the economic crisis has prompted a resurgence of age-old European antagonisms. 
For many years this small Tuscan town has attracted visitors drawn to its Etruscan past and medieval monuments. But in the last few months, it has become the haunt of thousands of teenage fans of the Twilight saga, whose fictional vampires are supposed to live here. 
Mephedrone - otherwise known as miaow-miaow - is increasingly prevalent on the European nightclub scene. The drug, which is legal and easy to obtain, is now considered dangerous after the recent deaths of young users in the United Kingdom and Sweden — which is why several countries are currently planning to ban it. 
Following the example of Copenhagen, more and more Danish local authorities are encouraging local citizens to inform on neighbours involved in benefit fraud. Politiken deplores a shift in policy, which it believes will undermine the rule of law. 
Hard hit by the recession, the bargain hunting citizens of northern Greece are spending their euros across the border in neighbouring Bulgaria, where business is booming for local traders and dentists. 
Every year European royal families receive more and more public money, while the nature of their personal fortunes often remains a well-guarded secret. In the wake of controversy sparked by recent revelations about undisclosed assets belonging to the King of Belgium, Rzeczpospolita reports that the question of regal coffers and what they should contain is once again in the news.
Women from the ex-Soviet Union have been a boon to international dating services for some time now. Now it’s the men’s turn to beguile European women, observes Lidové noviny in amazement. 
The urban renewal project in the Greek capital has been hit by new government measures designed to remedy the disastrous state of the nation's finances. Without funding, city planners must explore other options, starting with the fight against cars and chaotic development. 
Exactly 100 years after its launch, International Women's Day offers an occasion for reflection on the role of feminism and the campaign for the liberation of women, whose evolving objectives no longer command the consensus they enjoyed in previous decades. The European press reports: 
In Germany, Italy and France, municipal authorities are collecting personal journals, which recount the real history of everyday existence. 
The Jewish community in Germany, estimated at 200,000, faces its greatest postwar upheaval, what with the immigration waves from the former Soviet republics and a new generation for whom the Holocaust and Israel are faraway matters, writes Die Zeit 
Close to 20 years after the departure of the Red Army, growing numbers of Russians are choosing to live in Prague. Some are businessmen with links to the Kremlin, who worry the Czech government, but there are also students and entrepreneurs seeking a new life outside modern day Russia. 
As of New Year’s Day 2010, Czechs in possession of small quantities of narcotics need no longer fret about trouble with the law. That comes as no surprise in a country in which marijuana is, for many, part of everyday life, remarks Polish journalist Mariusz Szczygiel. 
Every year a slew of new words – Anglicisms, for the most part – emerge and enrich – or contaminate, depending on how you look at it – the Italian language. With its marked penchant for neologisms, the press then willingly takes over and spreads the word(s). Italian linguist Linda Rossi Holden looks at 10 such Anglicisms that might osmose into Italian in 2010. 
Unloved and unrepentant: Europe's rebellious port cities have always been marked by a strong sense of their own identity. In 2006 six of them grouped together to form "Cities on the edge," a cultural network that celebrates pride in local differences. 
A children’s idol and overhyped end-of-year media star in the West, Santa Claus also gets no end of flak. The jolly old white-beard is said to have a pernicious influence on kids: Pagan icon, ambassador of capitalism, brazen hedonist...the European press lets fly. 
Not just in international institutions but everywhere in Brussels the French language continues to lose ground to English. As Le Monde's Belgian correspondent explains, in a country with no lingua franca, the language of Shakespeare allows speakers to avoid choosing between French and Flemish. 
In the name of urban regeneration, entire swathes of cities like London and Liverpool are now under private ownership and policed by private security firms. Writing in the Guardian, Anna Minton reports on a new Britain where seemingly innocuous activities such as eating or taking photographs are now forbidden. 
Once a nightclubber's paradise, Paris has lost much of its old magic. Chief culprits are anti-noise laws, smoking bans and sky-high rents. But a group of nightlife professionals are striking back, cafebabel.com reports. 
In politics, health care, education, Estonia has been in the vanguard of internet use in every area of public life for years now. But all this e-life could be taking its toll on real life, cautions an editorialist. 
Under a wet blanket of prohibitions, regulations and “zero tolerance”, the Dutch capital is losing its reputation for tolerance and openmindedness along with its lively subculture. But those opposed to the “normalcy” crusade are gradually gaining a hearing, reports Trouw.
Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Berlin has been blasting borders right, left and centre. Art, music and the “new tribes” are flourishing on the rubble of the past. A tour of the freest city in Europe. 
Over the past 20 years the Catalan capital has been building up its image as a rich, modern, dynamic city where the living is good. But there are limits to what urban marketing can do, and several recent scandals have tarnished this glowing reputation, much to the local authorities’ dismay. 
A recent national survey has ranked Hungarians among the most pessimistic peoples on the planet. Taking a broad look at the different profiles that participate in the collective gloom — from those who lost out in the 1989 regime change to thwarted ideologues — sociologist Elemér Hankiss explores the range of Hungarian despondency. 
Memorials for massacres, genocides and catastrophes of all kinds are magnets for tourists. Every year, places such as Hiroshima, Chernobyl, Ground Zero, and Auschwitz attract millions of visitors. In Romania, the Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Sighet prison aims to show visitors some of the horrors of the totalitarian state.
An Italian government's eco-initiative bicycle bonanza, a London flapjack-and-bike-fix cafe and biking festivals across the continent-just some of the two-wheeled fun to spin your summer. 
Each year thousands of voulunteers lend a hand on one of the organic farms in the global Wwoof network, in exchange for bed and board. Roll up your sleeves and Wwoof! 
Forget no-frills airlines. Forget inter-railing. Car sharing is becoming an even simpler solution to explore Europe on a budget. Economical, ecological, and you might even make some new friends along the way.