EU earns pat on head from Russia
The European Union has decided to follow the Obama administration’s example and reset relations with Russia in order to get over the Georgian crisis and natural gas disputes with Ukraine, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reports. Wednesday’s EU-Russia summit in Stockholm saw some promising declarations, with President Dimitry Medvedev announcing that both parties would soon sign a new co-operation and partnership agreement. Even before the summit commenced, Russia agreed on the principle of inform Brussels at least two weeks ahead of any cuts in gas supplies to Ukraine. Russian politicians are happy, because they recently convinced Slovenia to build the South Stream pipeline, and earlier managed to persuade Sweden and Norway not to block the Nord Stream project. Both pipelines will increase Europe’s growing dependence on Russian natural gas.
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.