Anti-PiS Tory MEP flushed out
Having already threatened to split the party in the 90’s, Europe, it seems, may prove fatal for David Cameron’s British Conservatives. The UK’s Daily Telegraph reports on the expulsion from the party of the EP’s new vice-president – Edward McMillan-Scott. McMillan-Scott, the Tories’ longest-serving MEP, ran for the post against the official candidate put forward by new eurosceptic grouping Conservative and Reformist Group (ECR) of which the Conservatives are now, controversially, a member. “Mr McMillan-Scott,” the Telegraph reports, “has not hidden his unease” with the Tories’ new Right-wing East European allies, particularly Poland’s Law and Justice Party (PiS). The PiS, having already banned homosexual marches for being " sexually obscene”, is suspected in Tory circles of having links with “extremism.” The ECR, the Telegraph continues, “was formed after Mr Cameron promised to take the Conservatives out of the pro-integration and largely federalist European People's Party.”
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.