Pakistan
How hard is your heart, Belgium?
18 August 2010
Presseurop
De Morgen 
De Morgen, 18 August 2010
“Belgium turns a deaf ear to Pakistan's cries for help,” headlines De Morgen. The daily takes issue with the attitude of the Flemish and federal governments, neither of which “have tabled projects to allocate emergency aid” beyond the two million euros sent by the country’s humanitarian aid fund. The newspaper quotes a UNICEF spokesman who points out that “the number of people dependent on emergency aid for survival now exceeds the combined figure for three major natural disasters in recent years – the 2005 tsunami, the earthquake in Pakistan the same year, and the recent disaster in Haiti.”
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.