The big cleanup begins
The countries bordering the Baltic Sea pledge to clean up what experts call the “most polluted sea in the world”, reports Helsingin Sanomat. At a Helsinki summit meeting of over 400 experts and NGO and business representatives convened by the Baltic Sea Action Group (BSAG, an independent foundation based in the Finnish capital), "The heads of state and representatives of the countries that share these waters pledged to reduce or eliminate waste disposal in the sea,” including detergents and fertilisers containing phosphates and nitrates, respectively. "The states are promising less than the organisations," however, regrets the Helsinki daily: in other words, public- and private-sector organisations are more committed to the cause than national governments. Turun Sanomat, the Finnish daily based in Turku, reports that Warsaw and Moscow pledge to build a “network of sewerage plants to reduce the discharge of polluted wastewater”. And over in Tallinn, the daily Postimees hails the Estonian announcement of a law "to protect the Baltic Sea environment from now to 2014".
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: 
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. 
Agree to new austerity measures or risk being kicked out of the eurozone: that’s the alternative presented to Athens on the day the euro group is meeting. It’s a situation Greek politicians have failed to avoid, regrets To Vima.