Poles to say Yes, if Ireland does first
“President Kaczyński has promised me that he will sign the Lisbon Treaty if the Irish first endorse it in a referendum,” European Parliament president Jerzy Buzek reveals in an interview for Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. The president’s aides say he may sign the treaty even on the same day that the Irish referendum is held, that is, 2 October. Provided, of course, that the Irish electorate votes yes. Mr Buzek adds that Brussels has no emergency plan if the referendum fails. “There’s no need for plan B. We will stay with the Nice Treaty, but that means arresting further integration. Arresting, in a way, the success of all of us.” Referring to the election of a new president of the European Commission, Mr Buzek says he supports José Manuel Barroso because the EU “needs a Commission president as soon as possible and for that president to be as strong as possible.” “EU citizens expect concrete action from us: dealing with the crisis, stimulating economic growth, countering protectionism, ensuring better financial supervision, and that can’t be done without an efficient Commission and Parliament,” believes the European Parliament president.
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.