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Sexual abuse: Irish Cardinal to consult Holy Spirit
18 March 2010PresseuropThe Irish Times -
Germany: Sandwiches, new star of the crisis
17 March 2010PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Denmark: EU must protect cartoonists from zealots
16 March 2010PresseuropBerlingske Tidende -
Romania: Hungarian minority celebrates World Day
15 March 2010PresseuropGandul -
Denmark: Ova trading condemned as "prostitution"
12 March 2010PresseuropInformation -
Italy: Children at school won’t prevent deportation
12 March 2010PresseuropLa Stampa -
Greece: Athens forced to reinvent itself
12 March 201014 1 La Vanguardia Barcelona -
Poland: Germans ain't so scary after all
11 March 2010PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Paedophilia: European Church in need of redemption
10 March 201047 2 El País Madrid -
Netherlands: Grassing on the neighbours
10 March 201079 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Ireland/Sweden: Plot to kill Swedish cartoonist foiled
10 March 2010PresseuropDagens Nyheter -
International Women's Day: A fight that's far from over
8 March 201038 2 Presseurop -
Poland: Hitler in abortion poster row
4 March 20101PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Poland: Strasbourg paves way for gay marriage
3 March 2010PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
France: Bill outlaws domestic squabbles
26 February 2010PresseuropLe Monde -
Outlook: Progress is so last year
25 February 201017 1 La Vanguardia Barcelona -
United Kingdom: British hospitals, not the place to be
25 February 2010PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
Economic crisis: Drop the European way of life
25 February 201019 6 Rzeczpospolita Warsaw -
Diaries: Private histories of the world
25 February 201022 Trouw Amsterdam -
Work: European Parliament out to mother mothers
24 February 2010PresseuropDagens Nyheter -
Democracy: Dealing with the far right the legal way
23 February 201036 1 Lidové noviny Prague -
France: French are still down in the mouth
22 February 2010PresseuropLe Monde -
Emigration: Life is elsewhere
17 February 201094 2 Newsweek Polska Warsaw -
Religion: Jewish and German, new generation
9 February 201016 2 Die Zeit Hamburg -
Denmark: Somali community takes on Islamists
8 February 2010PresseuropPolitiken -
Belgium: Poles, Africans, Gays - begone!
4 February 2010PresseuropTrouw -
European of the Week: Iana Matei, against human trafficking
3 February 201096 Adevărul Bucharest -
Italy: From hope trips to death trips
29 January 2010PresseuropLa Stampa -
Italy: Anti-Romanian sentiment in school
28 January 2010PresseuropGandul -
Czech Republic: Russians, nothing to be afraid of
28 January 201013 Respekt Prague -
Islam: Beyond the burqa
27 January 201036 6 Presseurop -
Czech Republic: Schoolkids to get lessons on debt
21 January 2010PresseuropLidové noviny -
France: The name of the Rosents
20 January 20101PresseuropLibération -
Portugal: A generation in danger
20 January 201038 1 Público Lisbon -
Belgium – Czech Republic: Buzz over new bishops
20 January 20101PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Denmark: Few burqas, much fuss
19 January 2010PresseuropJyllands-Posten -
Romania: Top exporter of call girls
19 January 20101PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
Czech Republic: Some cannabis with your main course?
15 January 2010337 3 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Romania: Swine-flu panic highly contagious
15 January 2010PresseuropRomânia libera -
Languages: 10 hot words for 2010
14 January 201052 1 La Repubblica Rome -
Bulgaria: Kafka at the customs
13 January 201034 1 Dnevnik Sofia -
France: Banning the burqa isn't easy
13 January 2010PresseuropLibération -
France: Back to the Calais "jungle"
12 January 2010PresseuropAujourd'hui en France - Le Parisien -
Austria: Jail time for asylum seekers
12 January 2010PresseuropDie Presse -
Italy : The grapes of wrath are ripe
11 January 2010104 La Stampa Turin -
Romania: Adopted into thin air
11 January 2010PresseuropRomânia libera -
Italy: Black Spartacus hits back at mafia
8 January 2010PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Netherlands: The secret life of asbestos
8 January 2010PresseuropTrouw -
Culture: Cities on the edge stand tall
7 January 2010277 2 Le Monde Paris -
Romania: Bucharest has knives out for junk food
7 January 2010PresseuropEvenimentul zilei
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. 
After a wave of similar revelations swept through the United States and Ireland, cases of past child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church and affiliated institutions are cropping up all over the continent. Following cautious and ultimately unsatisfactory reactions from the ecclesiastical top brass and the Vatican, national authorities have been compelled to take action. 
After coming under pressure from police, small producers of cannabis have been threatened with extinction. As a result, coffee shops are selling lower quality merchandise sourced from major criminals. 
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: 
Europeans are increasingly pessimistic about their future, reports La Vanguardia. Undermined by the crisis, they no longer believe that living conditions on their continent will continue to improve. 
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. 
In Germany, Italy and France, municipal authorities are collecting personal journals, which recount the real history of everyday existence. 
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.
In Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, more and more people are choosing to emigrate to other continents in a quest for better living conditions. An exodus that threatens the economic and social fabric of their countries of origin. 
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 
Designated "European of the year 2010" by Reader's Digest for rescuing 420 women from forced prostitution, Iana Matei manages a centre where the victims of human trafficking are given a chance to rebuild their lives. 
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. 
A French parliamentary commission recommends banning the burqa in certain public places. Though the issue is hotly contested in Denmark as well, the European press seems leery of actually outlawing the full Islamic veil. 
In the United Kingdom, they call them "the lost generation" – 16 to 25-year-olds entering the working world against a backdrop of economic crisis and recession, who experience major difficulties finding and keeping jobs, even when they are well qualified. Público warns that the phenomenon is also taking hold in Portugal.
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. 
To pick up a package of T-shirts purchased online, a Bulgarian journalist spent several hours, queuing at different counters, filling in forms, and participating in absurd dialogues. His account of half a day in the company of Customs Services agents prompted an outcry in the country. 
The African migrant workers’ riots in the province of Gioia Tauro, in Calabria, after two of them were shot with airguns, once again lifts the curtain on their deplorable living and working conditions. Now required to leave the city, these illegal immigrants in Rosarno as elsewhere, are often the only people to rise up against the mafias that reign supreme in several regions. 
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.