Netherlands battles with Q fever
A new plague, Q fever or Coxiella infection, is threatening to ravage livestock herds in the Netherlands. In the coming weeks, all non-vaccinated pregnant ewes and goats will be slaughtered whether they are infected or not, reports NRC Handelsblad. Present in the country since 2007, the disease, which is highly contagious to animals and humans, causes miscarriages in infected animals and is often spread by birthing products. Six people are known to have died from Q fever in 2009, explains the daily, which notes that the planned measure "will bring back memories of the traumatic slaughter of 10 million pigs during the foot-and-mouth epidemic of 1997 and 1998." According to NRC, the imminent "massacre" could have been avoided if the government had implemented a proper testing and prevention campaign in 2007.
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.