Dinosaurs come out against Green Cameron
Neither Europe nor the dreaded Lisbon Treaty has so far scuppered David Cameron’s resurgent Tories, but perhaps his espousal of environmentalism will. The front page of the Independent reports on the re-emergence of Tory dinosaurs like Ann Widdecombe from the fertile and clement Thatcher Age, who are snapping at Cameron’s urgings, on the eve of the COP15 summit, to find an “effective, binding and fair deal to cut carbon emissions that includes all major economies". Also in the pages of the London daily, former shadow Home secretary David Davis believes a policy of tough targets to cut carbon emissions, which Mr Cameron supports, is "destined to collapse". "The ferocious determination to impose hair-shirt policies on the public – taxes on holiday flights, or covering our beautiful countryside with wind turbines…is bound to cause a reaction in any democratic country," he writes.
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.