MEPs stick up for Christians
The European Parliament is taking a stand for Christians persecuted throughout the world, notes Warsaw-based Rzeczpospolita with satisfaction. In the wake of recent events in Egypt, where six Coptic Christians were shot dead as they were leaving a local church after mass, a resolution was adopted on 21 January, condemning persecution of Christians and calling on EU institutions and the Council of Europe to address the problem when holding talks with Egypt. Malaysia was also cited, following attacks against Christian places of worship there. Some politicians hope that the EU Parliament resolution will be a first step to bringing Christians under the protective umbrella of EU diplomacy. According to Jonathan Rocho from International Christian Concern (ICC), the situation for Christians in Muslim and communist countries like China, Vietnam and Cuba is turning from bad to worse, with beatings, arbitrary evictions and murder on the rise. However, some fear that measures might further aggravate already tense relations between Christianity and Islam.
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.