EU-wide healthcare still in waiting room
"Spain and Romania against reimbursement of medical tourism expenses," reports the Spanish edition of Adevărul. Health ministers from Europe's 27 member states have failed to reach agreement on a proposed directive for cross-border health care, which would enable patients to pick and choose between Europe's health services. The proposal, backed by France, Sweden and the UK, has prompted fierce opposition from Spain, which rallied support from Romania and Poland. In the columns of El País, Spanish Minister for Health Trinidad Jiménez described the proposal "as a threat to public health care," which is not a "purely commercial" service. The proposal would incur high costs for countries like Spain, which is home to large communities of pensioners from elsewhere in Europe.
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.