Immigration
Fortress Europe just got tougher
19 August 2010
Presseurop
Svenska Dagbladet 
Svenska Dagbladet, 19 August 2010
Getting into the EU is "like getting through the eye of a needle," claims Svenska Dagbladet. "EU efforts to establish a common immigration policy" are beginning to bear fruit, it reports. The Stockholm Programme, which was approved during the Swedish presidency of the EU, has paved the way for an increase in the number of charter flights deporting illegal immigrants. This year, Fontex (the EU agency responsible for border security) has organised 27 such flights. However, the daily notes that a report by Human Rights Watch has criticised the lack of transparency that surrounds these deportations.
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.