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Finland: Creation of an innovation nation
5 February 20138247 The Economist London -
United Kingdom: Don’t expect an immigrant tsunami in 2014
29 January 201317412 New Eastern Europe Cracow -
Czech Republic: The hospital from where you don’t return
3 January 20133316 Mladá Fronta DNES Prague -
Foreign aid: EU money only benefits the corrupt
21 December 201242616 De Standaard Brussels -
Central Europe: Where has the region’s solidarity gone?
13 December 2012814 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
EU crisis: Outlook mixed for Europe’s party politics
4 December 20129710 Financial Times London -
Balkans: Hague verdicts stoke old war feud
3 December 20121835 Tygodnik Powszechny Cracow -
Unemployment: The Neets, a generation in need
28 November 201291454 Trouw Amsterdam -
Profile: Olli Rehn, austere guardian of budgetary discipline
9 November 20128822 Les Echos Paris -
Health: The Robin Hood doctors of Greece
29 October 2012400629 The New York Times New York -
Greece: 21st century Nazis
30 August 20122308160 The Independent London -
Euro 2012: Could Poland finally be cool?
8 June 20127624 Newsweek Polska Warsaw -
Institutions: European Parliament - a democratic deficit
19 March 201224919 The Economist London -
Emigration: Irish migrants returning to Liverpool
16 March 20121692 The Guardian London -
Africa: Biofuels won’t feed the people
15 March 201211147 La Repubblica Rome -
Eurozone crisis: The great European fire sale
21 February 201250857 The Independent London -
Cyprus: The holiday island that turned Russian
2 February 20122626 The Guardian London -
Belarus: Azarenka’s win, Lukashenko’s Victoria
1 February 201257 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Ideas: Explaining the eurozone crisis to children
21 December 201155720 Il Sole-24 Ore Milan -
Debt crisis: Portugal swings right... into more austerity
6 June 2011932 Público Lisbon -
E.coli: New food scare, same old mistakes
3 June 20111682 De Standaard Brussels -
Democracy: It takes conflict to build a world
1 November 20101471 Berliner Zeitung Berlin -
Democracy: Tea Party crosses the Atlantic
1 November 2010621 Público Lisbon
Once dependent on Nokia’s world success in telecoms, Finland has diversified its economy and put new business start-ups at the heart of its future. The next challenge will be to keep this new generation of entrepreneurs at home. 
Ahead of the end of immigration controls on Romania and Bulgaria in January 2014, some UK ministers are thinking of running a campaign to deter a repeat of the 2004 “wave” of immigration when eight former communist countries gained EU working rights. But the eurozone crisis makes this prospect less likely. 
In the mountains of Bohemia, near the Polish border, lies a small hospital - the only one of its kind in Europe: The Biological Defence Centre in Těchonín is designed to treat the poor unfortunates who contract the world's most dangerous viruses or fall victim to a biological terrorist attack. 
According to the European Court of Auditors, it’s almost impossible to check how EU aid money is spent by developing countries. As a major EU aid fraud scandal hits Uganda, commentators in Kampala wonder why European donors continue to funnel cash into a corrupt country. 
Exactly 10 years ago, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were given the right to enter the EU. But despite close economic ties and a sense of shared destiny, different political developments prevent them from having real weight in the Union. 
By picking Pierluigi Bersani as the centre-left Democratic Party’s candidate for premier, Italian voters have challenged the notion that the eurozone crisis is uprooting the established party political systems of southern Europe. 
The acquittal of two Croat generals and a Kosovar ex-prime minister has reignited the dispute over a much-contested subject in the former Yugoslavia: who was the victim and who the aggressor in the war nearly 20 years ago? 
Fourteen million European young people are neither working nor in school. Their number is growing because of the economic crisis, with disparities according to the countries. Sociologists worry of the social and health consequences of this phenomenon. 
Popular in his home country of Finland and much feared elsewhere in Europe, the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs maintains a low profile. However, with the introduction of new supervisory rules for budgets, his emerging role as a key player in Europe’s economic governance will make it difficult for him to avoid the limelight. 
Successive austerity budgets have left hundreds of thousands of Greece’s unemployed without health cover, or even the means to pay for life saving medicine, a desperate situation which an underground network of doctors is seeking to alleviate. 
While the Paralympic Games begin today in London, in Athens, the ultra-right Golden Dawn party, is promoting hate-attacks against people with disabilities and homosexuals, having already targeted immigrants and ethnic minorities, says one UK commentator. In this atmosphere, which echoes the rise of Nazism in Germany, the Greek government and EU are turning a blind eye. 
The Euro 2012 football European kicks off in Poland’s brand-new stadiums. For Newsweek Polska, this competition hosted with Ukraine is an occasion to celebrate the country’s new image, but there is still progress to be made. 
Although elected by universal suffrage, MEPs are not sovereign. Most of the time they must leave the last word to national governments. With everyone wanting a more democratic EU, its representative body still remains a weak link, writes The Economist's Charlemagne. 
Unemployment in crisis-stricken Ireland has pushed emigration to its highest levels for 20 years. Many are making the British port city their destination - a place where over three-quarters of its natives can claim Irish ancestry. 
Seeking to meet new regulations on low-carbon emission fuels, Europeans are battling over millions of hectares of African land in order to grow biofuels. This is detrimental to food crop production, warn NGOs. 
All over Europe, nations are looking for a quick way to raise cash. All of them seem to have the same idea - to sell off state assets. 
Ten of thousands of Russians are making Cyprus their home from home. A trend that raises questions about Nicosia’s diplomatic and pecuniary relations with Moscow. 
Tennis player Victoria Azarenka, the recent winner of the Australian Open, is now one of the few Belarusians known outside her country. A PR opportunity for the dictator of Minsk. 
"Hey Dad, what's the euro crisis?" Rather than explaining interest rates and public debt, the best way to answer is to trot out the well-known tale of The Three Little Pigs and the big bad wolf, suggests Giovanni Majnoni. 
Even it has won the general election of 5 June, Portugal's conservative opposition will not be able to avoid implementing radical austerity measures concocted by the EU and IMF in order to head off its sovereign debt debt crisis. The same measures which cost outgoing Prime Minister José Sócrates his job. 
There is no doubt that E. coli bacteria are dangerous. But the panic stricken response of authorities and consumers to the current outbreak of infections is largely pointless. A Belgian editorialist complains about the damage not only to the European economy but also to the spirit of Europe. 
Whether it’s against austerity packages, pension reforms or nuclear waste shipments, protests have overrun the streets of Europe. Has democracy reached the end of the line? No, says futurist Matthias Horx, it’s time for the political establishment to come down off their high horse and accept real participatory democracy. 
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.