The last squat in Prague
Describing the June 30 police swoop to empty Prague's last squat Milada, Respekt reports on what it terms "an attack against the last vestige of nonconformism in a gloomy city." The country's media remains divided over the question of Milada: some commentators see it as a symbol of an endangered subculture, while others claim it is an insult to the country's tax payers. Controversy erupted when the Minister for Human Rights, a former rocker and anti-communist activist, Michael Kocáb, came to the rescue of the squatters with an offer of accommodation in a building in central Prague to made available for the token rent of one Czech crown. The Prague weekly notes that an unintended consequence of this "humanitarian" initiative may be to bring about "a laughable end to squatting in the Czech Republic."
Drive Greece out of the euro, and build a federal Europe behind a protective firewall? Italian columnist Barbara Spinelli warns that this idea, which appears to be gaining ground with a number of European leaders, would not only fail to resolve the crisis but would also put an end to Europe’s common culture. 
At 89 years of age, he is a fixture at anti-austerity demonstrations. A member of the Greek communist party for 70 years, he has also been a national icon since the day in 1941 when he climbed the Acropolis at night to tear down the Nazi flag. 
In a meeting that lasted into the small hours of Tuesday, February 21, the Eurogroup finally adopted a second bailout plan for Greece of €130 billion with an additional €107 billion in cancelled debt. But failing a genuine economic development plan, this sum will not be sufficient to put the country back on its feet, warns Greek daily To Ethnos.