I’m no bully, declares Brown
In the wake of revelations in the Observer that Gordon Brown’s “volcanic eruptions of foul temper” have frightened Downing Street staff, The Times leads with a report on “the culture of fear” that reigns at the heart of Britain’s government. “Most civil servants… are afraid to challenge the way Downing Street is run,” the London daily reports. According to an internal survey leaked to the paper, a third of Cabinet staff want to leave, 6 per cent wish to quit “as soon as possible”, while less than half feel “it is safe to speak up”. The survey also found that “bullying or harrassment was reported by 7 per cent of the Cabinet Office’s 1,270 staff”, a figure which would seem to support claims made by Christine Pratt of the National Bullying Helpline that Downing Street employees had phoned her hotline to complain of workplace mistreatment. Mr Brown has denied all allegations that he has verbally, and even physically, abused staff. The “story is all wrong”, he has declared.
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.