Denmark
Roma are Copenhagen's undesirables
6 July 2010
Presseurop
Politiken
Politiken, 6 July 2010
"Copenhagen wants to get rid of the Roma," announces Politiken. The Danish daily explains that the Social-Democrat mayor of the capital has asked for government assistance, including the use of force, in order to expel the 200 to 400 Roma who live there. "The situation is untenable," he maintains, explaining that the number of burglaries has risen in the neighbourhoods where they have taken up residence.
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.