Nuclear plans put on need-to-know basis
"Nuclear waste to be kept secret," reads the SME headline. Reporting on a 9 March vote in the Slovak parliament that approved a law to "classify" nuclear industry data, the Bratislava daily points out that "people will have no way of knowing if nuclear power stations and storage facilities comply with safety regulations." Opposition MPs and NGOs contacted by SME describe the measure as "unconstitutional and contrary to European legislation." The ruling coalition has offered no explanation for what one political analyst terms "a violation of citizens' fundamental environmental rights." However, the newspaper notes that the issue will likely be raised in an upcoming debate on the construction of the third and fourth phases of the Mochovce power station, and suggests an alternative hypothesis to explain the adoption of the new law: the planned EU nuclear waste storage facility that could be located in Slovakia.
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.