Suriname President welcome, behind bars
“Putsch leader Bouterse is president,” headlines Trouw in the wake of the election of Desi Bouterse in the Republic of Suriname. The former Chairman of the National Military Council and leader of a putsch that overthrew the South American country’s government in 1980 is a pariah in the Netherlands, where he was tried in absentia in 2000 and sentenced to 11 years for drug trafficking. Bouterse is also suspected to be behind the 1982 killing of 15 opponents of the military regime known as the “December murders.” A tribunal on the killings is still in progress in Paramaribo, the capital of the former Dutch colony, which won independence in 1975. “The only welcome he will receive will be in a prison cell,” warned the Dutch Minister of Justice, Maxime Verhagen, quoted by the daily.
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.