Express uncovers EU plot against pensioners
Britain’s senior citizens will be shaking in their slippers with revelations in The Daily Express of “a devastating new round of meddling by Brussels.” One of the aims of Solvency II – a series of new EU proposals affecting pension funds – is that it will oblige companies to invest employee pension money in safer investment sectors like government bonds. For the eurosceptic Express, however, “EU bureaucrats” are actually “devastating the retirement plans of hundreds of thousands of people.” And this, as its headline indicates, by at least 20%. Adding insult to injury, millions of “state employees, including MPs and civil servants,” are immune from the effects of this dark piece of legislation from Brussels, “because they still have gold-plated final-salary pensions underwritten by the taxpayer.” Last night, pension campaigners “were outraged”, the Express warns.
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.