Eastern Europe, a nuclear dustbin?
Highly radioactive waste from nuclear power plants across the EU may finally be stored in Central or Eastern Europe, headlines Warsaw daily Polska. This option is outlined in a plan being drawn up by the European Repository Development Organisation (ERDO). A single underground repository for EU nuclear waste could bring savings of between 15 and 25 billion euro. The real issue, however, is the location of such a facility which, according to EU experts, would have to be able to store 25.6 tons of nuclear waste by 2040 on a subsidy of around €5m per year. Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Lithuania, as well as Poland, Italy and Holland are currently negociating transit routes and the hosting of the eventual site. For Jerzy Niewodniczański, former chairman of Poland’s Atomic Energy Agency, “The best location would be one that currently has a high unemployment rate, because building such a facility would create hundreds of new jobs."
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.