Gordon Brown is falling down, falling down
Only the day after the UK vote in the European elections, expectation is rampant that Prime Minister Gordon Brown is on the verge of resigning. With his Labour party standing to come a disastrous third in the number of seats won for the Strasbourg parliament, in addition to a hammering in local elections taking place at the same time, the resignation of four cabinet ministers in recent days is looking fatal. The latest to quit, welfare secretary James Purnell, has added insult to injury by publishing an open letter inviting him to “stand aside”. Writing in The Guardian, Polly Toynbee, columnist and former staunch ally, evokes “a half-killed prime minister staggering along with knives in his back. “...the leader cannot stay,” sighs the left wing daily’s editorial. Meanwhile, the beleaguered Brown has sought to salvage what remains of his crumbling premiership with an impromptu cabinet reshuffle, only to receive resignations of Defence secretary, John Hutton, and now, Transport secretary, Geoff Hoon, The Guardian reports.
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.