Drug debate does Johnson’s Nutt in
Britain’s Home Secretary Alan Johnson is facing a bad trip this Monday with the government’s drug advisory body threatening to melt down, leads the Guardian. A controversy erupted over the weekend following Mr Johnson’s decision to push out the body’s chairman, Professor David Nutt, for “campaigning against government policy”, particularly in relation to the classification of cannabis. Although Mr Johnson reclassified cannabis from a class C to class B drug – with heavier penalties for possession- earlier this year, Professor Nutt has publicly argued that cannabis, in addition to ecstasy and LSD, is less harmful than alcohol and cigarettes. Mr Nutt’s ousting led this weekend to two further resignations from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which accuses Johnson of “distorting scientific evidence on cannabis” for political ends. “It is thought the group's members may use a meeting next Monday to announce a mass resignation,” the London daily reports, which “would be a severe embarrassment for the government”.
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.