Political bad science
Science dominates the modern world, writes science blogger Frank Swain in the Guardian, but few of us know where European election candidates stand on science issues. Swain submitted a questionnaire to the UK’s main parties. “The results are disturbing,” he says. While Conservatives and New Labour ignore this vital subject in their manifestos, key members of Eurosceptics Ukip insist that the concept of manmade climate change is “a conspiracy”. The Greens propose a ban on research involving embryonic stem cells and the importation of genetically modified organisms. For a party with a progressive reputation, it is “uninterested in seeing if research produces evidence of benefits contrary to their beliefs”. This, he argues, could have “disastrous consequences”.
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.