Pull a holiday sickie, your boss pays
According to a new ruling by the European Court of Justice, employees now have the right to ask for statutory leave to be reallocated if it is interrupted by illness, reports the Daily Telegraph. The ruling is a new interpretation of the European Working Time Directive, following the case of Francisco Pereda, a Madrid city council worker, who was injured shortly before his annual leave was due to start and was refused a request to move his holiday. Employment lawyers warn it would be costly for businesses, with “unscrupulous” employees seeking to “bolster their holiday entitlement by simply claiming to have a cold or flu while on leave. ”According to the conservative daily, they further lament that this "could effectively be interpreted as meaning that you are only sick on your employer’s time, and not your own".
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.