Cuban junket for Ceauşescu nostalgics
"Want to go back to communism? We'll send you to Cuba!" On its front page, Adevarul has commenced preparations for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the communist regime. To mark the launch of a series of articles entitled "The end of the Ceauşescus," the Bucharest daily has announced a photo essay competition. Readers are invited to visit the newspaper website and to upload a photo accompanied by a story dating from before 31 December 1989. The first prize in the "Return to communism" competition is a week for two in Havana. "Send us your pictures of the Golden Age, and we will send you back to communism," announces Adevarul. The daily also insists that this is not mere European communism, but "Tropical communism with palm trees and sun kissed beaches!"
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.