Siberia: France’s dustbin
“EDF’s secret dump,” headlines Libération on the front page, pointing the finger at the state-controlled Éléctricité de France (the world’s largest utility company). According to an exposé in the Parisian daily, 13% of the radioactive material produced in France is discreetly deposited out in the open air in Siberia. More precisely, in the Tomsk-7 atomic complex in Seversk, a town of 30,000 inhabitants and off limits to journalists. “Every year since the mid-1990s, another 108 tonnes of depleted uranium from French reactors is deposited in containers on a big parking lot under the open sky,” after a long 8,000-km haul by boat and by train. This transfer of radioactive material is the upshot of an industrial choice that France is one of the few nuclear powers to have made: to reprocess and recycle nuclear waste, explains Libération, recalling that the atomic industry officially vaunts its 96% recycling record. A documentary on this special report will be broadcast this 13 October on the Franco-German channel Arte.
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: 
The new Eurogroup meeting on February 9 is not enough to banish the spectre of a Greek bankruptcy. While Athens may largely be responsible for the crisis, the EU and its partners are not blameless themselves. La Stampa argues that their confused messages and the absence of any strategy have transformed a resolvable problem into an explosive chaos. 
Two camps, two theories, and two visions of France: 18 years after the massacre of 800,000 Tutsis, the precise role played by Paris is still the subject of heated debate, fueled by the findings of successive criminal investigations.