Anti-missile shield resurfaces in Romania
"Who is the anti-missile shield protecting us from?” wonders România liberă the day after the country’s Supreme Defence Council decided to host American interceptors on Romanian territory from 2015 on. The daily reminds its readers that it was Barack Obama who had “invited Bucharest to contribute to the revised version of the American shield”. This adjusted American plan will “significantly improve the country’s security,” Romanian president Traian Băsescu has declared, insisting that the system is not “directed against Russia”. România liberă points out that the former project to set up bases in Poland and the Czech Republic was dropped as unviable last autumn because it was “too close to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad”. However, “American officials have made firm approaches to Moscow, offering to include Russia within a general shield system designed to ward off potential threats from Iran and North Korea.”
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.