Islam, top of a heap of prejudices
“Every other European agrees with the statements ‘there are too many immigrants in Europe’ and ‘Islam is a religion of intolerance’. 43% consider homosexuality immoral. Nearly a third assume ‘there is a natural hierarchy between whites and blacks’, and one fourth feel ‘the Jews have too much sway’.” This is the Tageszeitung’s summing-up of the findings of the Heitmeyer Study, a survey of “Group-focused Enmity in Europe” conducted by the University of Bielefeld. 8,000 people were polled in the UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Poland and Hungary. Thesis: prejudices tend to come in a pack, those amenable to one are likely to succumb to others too. While the most pervasive preconceptions vary from country to country, one minority group faces common antagonism in the Community: the Muslims, “the enemy of centuries past”, comments the Berlin-based daily, adding: “Europe ought to combat this prejudice as much as it does anti-Semitism.”
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.