Obama's whistle-stop visit criticized
Jyllands-Posten reports that "the world's most powerful man will be coming to the Copenhagen climate conference," but regrets that he will not be there at the right time. According to the Danish daily, Barack Obama has opted to attend the conference on 9 December "when no other heads of state will be present," before continuing on to Oslo where he will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. "The risk is that other major leaders like Chinese President, Hu Jintao, and Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, will be reluctant to come to the event," warns Jyllands-Posten, which worries that a no-show by such big hitters "will undermine the possiblity of an agreement on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions." No such criticism can be said to apply to French President Nicolas Sarkozy who has announced that he will not accept a "face-saving agreement." He is also visiting Brazil on 26 November in a bid to obtain the support of the countries of the Amazon region for the European position. "Although he lacks a mandate to negociate on behalf of his European colleagues," Le Figaro notes Nicolas Sarkozy is determined to push through a deal". And not ruin his chances of being hailed as the architect of a climate deal.
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.