New slaves of the building trade
The front page of Lidové Noviny leads with the headline: "Thousands of foreigners fall victim to slavery in the Czech Republic." Thousands of Ukrainians, Vietnamese and Mongolians are working for free in absolutely deplorable conditions, in particular in the building trade, explains the Prague daily. Officially, they are registered with shady "employment agencies," which are often run by their compatriots. The workers commit to huge loans to obtain work permits, and thereafter are unable to leave their jobs. "They must either hand over a huge sum, or escape," explains Lidové Noviny. "They are subject to humiliation, threats and violence on a daily basis – and there have even been cases of sexual abuse." The government is planning to solve the problem "following general elections in the autumn."
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.