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Germany: The immigration debate begins
7 December 20101PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Belgium - Bulgaria: Sofia and Brussels in Roma mix-up
6 December 201011PresseuropDe Morgen -
Social issues: The counterproductive war on smokers
6 December 20103029 Revue Politika Brno -
Football: European fury over World Cup racket
3 December 2010PresseuropLe Soir -
Diplomacy: Not such wicked leaks
2 December 20101003511 Libération Paris -
HIV/AIDS: Everything's coming up roses
1 December 2010PresseuropThe Independent -
Italy: Universities in revolt
1 December 2010PresseuropLa Repubblica -
Cities: Gated communities, German style
1 December 20101923 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Northern Ireland: Observe the sons of Ulster marching to Poland
30 November 201096 Przekrój Warsaw -
Belgium: UN condemns conditions for asylum-seekers
30 November 2010PresseuropDe Standaard -
Emigration: Portugal’s lost generation
25 November 2010431 Público Lisbon -
Denmark: MEPs slam Danish immigration law
18 November 20101PresseuropJyllands-Posten -
Europe / Turkey: Lure of the Bosphorus
17 November 2010154 Le Monde Paris -
University: Education for all... but who pays?
15 November 2010893 Dagens Nyheter Stockholm -
Romania: Disappearing EU Roma funds
12 November 2010PresseuropTrouw -
United Kingdom: Student rage hits London
11 November 20101PresseuropThe Guardian -
Xenophobia: What's gone wrong in Denmark?
11 November 20103733 Frankfurter Rundschau Frankfurt -
Minorities: My week as a gypsy
10 November 201012311 Adevărul Bucharest -
Netherlands : Europe is kind to squatters
9 November 20101PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Religion: Pope on the ropes
8 November 201080 Presseurop -
Sweden: Who's got it in for Malmö?
5 November 201050 Fokus Stockholm -
Spain: Fuentes-Sánchez, or Sánchez-Fuentes?
5 November 2010PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Poland / Lithuania: Why Warsaw and Vilnius are at loggerheads
4 November 201054 Rzeczpospolita Warsaw -
Greece: Panic over letter bomb attacks
3 November 2010PresseuropTa Nea -
Czech Republic: Young doctors flee the country
2 November 2010PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Democracy: Tea Party crosses the Atlantic
1 November 2010621 Público Lisbon -
Germany: Diplomacy and the Shoah
29 October 2010PresseuropDer Tagesspiegel -
Czech Republic: No mercy for neo-Nazis
28 October 2010337 Respekt Prague -
Asylum rights: Refugee system is collapsing
28 October 2010221PresseuropDie Presse -
Asylum seekers: The Albanians are coming!
27 October 2010PresseuropDe Morgen -
Ireland: Abortion drugs on the net
26 October 20101PresseuropThe Irish Times -
Greece | Turkey: Armed EU to keep out migrant flow
26 October 2010136 The Guardian London -
Italy: No-one wants Neapolitan rubbish
21 October 20101PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Czech Republic : Anti-Roma arsonists get life
21 October 2010PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Social Security: 20 weeks off for Europe's future mums?
20 October 201021PresseuropDagens Nyheter -
Roma: Commission won't sue Paris after all
20 October 2010PresseuropRomânia libera -
Immigration: Europe's far from splendid isolation
19 October 20101112 El País Madrid -
Germany: Mutti Merkel handbags Multikulti
18 October 20101021 Presseurop -
Greece: Illegal immigrants flee crisis
14 October 2010PresseuropI Kathimerini -
Racism: Muslims become Germany's whipping boy
14 October 2010PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Population: It’s time to make babies
13 October 20101673 Le Figaro Paris -
Integration: What happens to all the Roma funds?
13 October 201028PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
Spain: Sagrada Familia survives the tunnel
13 October 2010PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Generic medicine: EC accused of doing Big Pharma’s bidding
11 October 2010441PresseuropThe Guardian -
France: Illegal police database targeted Roma
8 October 2010PresseuropLe Monde -
Belgium: Catholic university drops the C word
7 October 2010PresseuropDe Standaard -
Immigration: Frontex launches first expulsion charter
4 October 201063PresseuropLe Monde -
Balkans: Neither here nor there
30 September 201024 Adevărul Bucharest -
ROMA: Brussels goes soft on Sarkozy
30 September 20101PresseuropDie Presse -
Black market: Lithuania's taxes go up in smoke
29 September 2010481 Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius
The European Commission is preparing a general ban on smoking in public areas. However, a Czech legal expert argues that the desire to legislate to improve public health could ultimately undermine civil liberties. 
For the celebrated novelist and intellectual Umberto Eco, the Wikileaks affair or "Cablegate" not only shows up the hypocrisy that governs relations between states, citizens and the press, but also presages a return to more archaic forms of communication. 
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. 
Life is not always easy for the 30,000 Polish nationals living in Northern Ireland. But in Belfast, a former Loyalist paramilitary has decided to raise awareness among his fellow Protestants, who are hostile to the presence of foreign Catholics, by bringing them to Auschwitz. 
Portugal has never had so many graduates, but at the same time, it has never been so hard for young people to find work. Faced with a choice between dead-end jobs and a ticket to another life, they are leaving in droves — a lost generation in the making. 
They were born and raised in Germany, France and Belgium. But now, faced with the difficulty of finding work and a career in those countries, more and more European Turks are choosing to move to Istanbul. 
There is nothing anodyne about the violent student protests in London, writes Dagens Nyheter, now that the controversy surrounding the hike in college fees has raised the question of the cost of university education for the masses. 
The Danish parliament has recently toughened up laws regarding family reunification for immigrants. German daily Frankfurter Rundschau fears that this marks yet another step towards in an openly aggressive anti-immigrant policy, one which could spread throughout Europe. 
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. 
In attacking Spanish legislation he deems hostile to traditional family values and lamenting the decline of Catholicism in Europe, the Pope has added further fuel to the debate on religion. The European press is less than convinced. 
In recent months, a lone gunman has spread fear in the streets of Malmö, drawing attention to a changing city that is struggling to overcome its negative image and ingrained complexes. 
With growing bitterness, Poland believes that its partnership with Lithuania is one built on empty promises. At the heart of the debate - the rights of the Polish minority in the Baltic state. 
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 minimum of 22 years in prison for burning down a Roma family home… Respekt argues that the sentence meted out to four Czech arsonists will set an example in the national and European-wide drive to combat the extreme right. 
The numbers of immigrants seeking passage through the porous Turko-Greek border has quadrupled in the past year. With the Greek government unable to cope, Frontex, Europe’s external borders agency is to deploy armed guards to the region. 
Five years after hundreds of migrants besieged the two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla remain symbols of the EU’s closed borders and closed minds, even of a global system of apartheid, say two academics. 
In the debate on the role of foreigners and Muslims in Germany, Angela Merkel has called into question the model of integration which has held sway for several decades — a new position, which the German press believes is indicative of a shift to the right in Berlin. 
To counter the decline in Europe’s population, we will have to take stock of two important points, insists the former president of France’s Institute for Demographic Studies: demographic change is proceeding at a different rate in individual countries, and immigration alone is not the solution. 
A nest of vipers, a powderkeg of ancient hatreds or the cradle of Western civilisation — Europe doesn't know how to view its troublesome southeastern corner. One thing is sure though, it keeps getting its stance wrong. 
The crisis may have brought Lithuania to its knees, but business is booming on the black market. Armed with his calculator and a sense of adventure, Marius Jokubaitis set out to discover just how much tax revenue petrol and cigarette smugglers are diverting from the state.