Swine-flu panic highly contagious
Authorities in France may have announced the end of the Influenza A (H1N1) epidemic, but in Romania controversy over the virus is very much in the headlines, reports România Liberă. After an initial period of several weeks during which it remained largely indifferent to the threat of an epidemic, the Romanian population has now been seized by panic that has brought chaos to hospitals and vaccination centres. At the same time, general practitioners in the country are encouraging people to eat "plenty of foods which build up the immune system – spicy sausage, garlic, brandy etc." To date, the virus has only claimed 100 lives, however, one of the victims – 37-year-old actor Toni Tecuceanu – was quite well-known: and the number of deaths is comparatively high when compared to some other countries. The newspaper also reports that today "a large number of associations will file complaints against the Secretary of State for Health," who has been criticized for threatening to fire hospital doctors that refuse to get the vaccine, and making the vaccination of children compulsory – a decision, which has enraged parents who are opposed to the programme.
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.