Obstacles to a no CO2 EU
"CO2: Europe wants to set an example", Le Soir headlines. In December, Copenhagen will host an international conference on global warming, bringing together delegates from 190 countries to draft a new text to replace the Kyoto Protocol. In preparation for the summit, EU environment ministers have just met in Åre, Sweden. They reasserted Europe's goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 20 or even 30% by 2020 – and to assume the leadership of the summit. However, "aside from their determination to set an example, the Europeans disagree on many issues," Le Soir points out. France and Belgium support a carbon tax on high-emission products imported from countries outside the EU, but Germany opposes it. The amount each country will contribute to the budget has not been settled either. The final lap before Copenhagen is likely to be "an obstacle course", the Belgian daily predicts.
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. 
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: 
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.