Power lobby nukes Merkel
"Let there be light," headlines the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, summarising the debate raging on electricity generation in Germany. While Angela Merkel is away on holiday, the big four companies of the energy sector – E.on, RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall – have gone on the warpath against her government's plan to tax nuclear fuel from next year. Claiming that the tax, which could bring in an estimated at 2.3 billion euros per year, will decimate their power plants, they have threatened to simply stop production. They also want the closure of all 17 German nuclear power plants to be pushed back beyond the 2021 shutdown date. Politically trapped by the country's "big lobbies", the chancellor must now go on an "energy tour" throughout the country in order to resell her strategy to voters, it says.
As Greece pimps its ancient monuments to bring in the tourists, lovers of cultural heritage are up in arms. But the country is only doing openly what the whole of Europe is: looting historic sites to drum up more ready cash. 
Asserting national values is central to the political project of the Hungarian PM. Since the start of the year, fifteen paintings, specially commissioned for an exhibition in the Castle of Buda, have been putting this ambition on show. 
The game has gone on for nearly two years: Athens pretends to comply with the demands of its creditors and partners, and they pretend to believe in Greece’s commitments. As the spectre of default comes nearer, however, the Greek bluff cannot go on much longer, writes an El Mundo editorialist.