Denmark
EU must protect cartoonists from zealots
16 March 2010
Presseurop
Berlingske Tidende 
Berlingske Tidende, 16 March 2010
"The EU must stop the Muhammad affair," headlines the Berlingske Tidende, after conservative Danish justice minister Lars Barfoed’s asked Brussels to amend the EU regulation on the mutual recognition of judgments. In the name of freedom of speech, the Danish government is flying to the rescue of the Danish papers that ran the infamous Muhammad cartoons on their websites. A number of them have been taken to court or threatened with lawsuits by the Prophet’s devotees in the UK, where the libel laws are notoriously favourable to even pettifogging plaintiffs.
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.