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                <language>en</language><item><title>Profile | Is Alexis Tsirpas a danger for Europe? (Der Freitag, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2057051-alexis-tsirpas-danger-europe</link><description><![CDATA[The leader of Greece’s leftist alliance SYRIZA is the new bright hope of Greek politics. Steering a course between pragmatism and the rhetoric of class warfare, he has unsettled Berlin, and not just those who back Angela Merkel&#039;s austerity policies.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:33:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>2057051</guid></item>
<item><title>Humour | Even the gods can't get their heads around this crisis (The Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2051601-even-gods-can-t-get-their-heads-around-crisis</link><description><![CDATA[Europe’s economic woes have forced us to try to understand the secret Olympian world of global finance. But now that we pay more attention to bond yields and stability mechanisms, isn’t it clear that the experts up on their lofty peaks don’t know what’s going on either?]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:15:55 +0100</pubDate><guid>2051601</guid></item>




<item><title>Eurovision 2012 | Baku intent on buying respectability (Eesti Päevaleht, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2034251-baku-intent-buying-respectability</link><description><![CDATA[This year’s Eurovision Song Contest is hosted by Azerbaijan, a country that is far from being a model democracy. An Estonian journalist takes a critical look at the deferential treatment enjoyed by the regime in Baku.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 12:05:37 +0100</pubDate><guid>2034251</guid></item>

<item><title>Eurozone crisis | The end of all-powerful Germany (To Vima, Athens)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2051621-end-all-powerful-germany</link><description><![CDATA[The advent of a new administration in Paris has shifted the balance of power in the European Union away from Berlin and German austerity — a development that has been welcomed in Athens as a source of renewed hope and a light at the end of the tunnel for the Greek population.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:35:55 +0100</pubDate><guid>2051621</guid></item>


<item><title>EU summit | A way out of the crisis begins here (France Inter, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2050271-way-out-crisis-begins-here</link><description><![CDATA[In their discussion on common investment and eurobonds at an extraordinary summit on 23 May, the EU27 set aside the opposition between “virtuous” and “spendthrift” states and took a further step towards economic integration.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:21:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>2050271</guid></item>



<item><title>EU summit | Growth - the new magic word (Trouw, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2042461-growth-new-magic-word</link><description><![CDATA[In recent months, EU leaders from all spectrums have embraced the notion of &quot;growth&quot;. But how can it be generated? Although a practical discussion on this issue has not yet really arisen, infrastructure projects could perhaps be part of a solution to the crisis.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 18:05:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>2042461</guid></item>



<item><title>EU summit | Hour of truth has come for Europe (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2040081-hour-truth-has-come-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Let Greece leave the euro? Save Spain’s banks? Continue to stand fast on austerity, or give growth a chance?  Plenty of questions that the leaders of the eurozone, meeting at the extraordinary summit on May 23, will have to find answers to if they want to preserve Europeans’ faith in the common project.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 12:46:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>2040081</guid></item>


<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Don't isolate the Germans (The Independent, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2033421-don-t-isolate-germans</link><description><![CDATA[In helping to bail out struggling eurozone economies, Angela Merkel has already gone well beyond what her electorate wants. And the eurobonds France’s new president François Hollande is pushing for might just be a step too far.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 15:53:13 +0100</pubDate><guid>2033421</guid></item>


<item><title>Profile | Sascha Lobo, nerd king in internet desert (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2026661-sascha-lobo-nerd-king-internet-desert</link><description><![CDATA[Revolt against data retention, distrust of Google and Facebook: in all things Internet, Germany is an “emerging nation”, says Sascha Lobo. The best-known blogger and Internet pioneer in the country is going through something similar.  He is sought after – and hated.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 12:27:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>2026661</guid></item>


<item><title>G8 | Spurring growth will be a huge task (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2026681-spurring-growth-will-be-huge-task</link><description><![CDATA[At the G8 in Camp David, the richest countries have agreed to boost growth, particularly in Europe. This requires a radical change in tack from the austerity policies pushed so far. Are the leaders ready?]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 16:33:39 +0100</pubDate><guid>2026681</guid></item>

<item><title>Debate | Europe's new soft right is winning (Aftonbladet, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2024941-europe-s-new-soft-right-winning</link><description><![CDATA[Triumphant a decade ago, today social democrats have been voted out office in most European countries — a change that is due to a lack of new proposals, but also and more importantly to the right’s appropriation of the language and ideas of social democracy.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 13:09:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>2024941</guid></item>



<item><title>Spain | Budgetary discipline will bear fruit (El Mundo, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2010301-budgetary-discipline-will-bear-fruit</link><description><![CDATA[Faced with a further worsening of the financial crisis, Mariano Rajoy&#039;s government tries to give pledges to markets while demanding EU support. But when comparing his situation to those of Portugal and Greece, we realize that there is no alternative, says El Mundo.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:11:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>2010301</guid></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Let's be more American! (Hospodářské noviny, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1997041-let-s-be-more-american</link><description><![CDATA[The Greek crisis and the lack of assertive action by European leaders has ended up clouding the greatest challenge to the future of the EU. The USA has the knack of finding effective solutions, and it is time to be inspired by the same spirit, argues a Czech columnist.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:05:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>1997041</guid></item>

<item><title>Eurovision | Rambo Amadeus, the cliché slayer (Tportal , Zagreb)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2009111-rambo-amadeus-cliche-slayer</link><description><![CDATA[The joyfully subversive turbo-funk singer will represent Montenegro at this year’s Eurovision with “Euro neuro” — a humorous and highly accurate enumeration of clichés about the Balkans and their relationship with the EU.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 14:44:54 +0100</pubDate><guid>2009111</guid></item>


<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Listen to the cry of Athens (La Repubblica, Rome)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1997681-listen-cry-athens</link><description><![CDATA[Instead of treating Greek officials as outcasts and their constituents like the plague, European leaders, and particularly Germans, would be better off listening. Because, in attempting to prioritise the needs of the economy over those of democracy, they are undermining the Union’s foundations.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:32:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>1997681</guid></item>
<item><title>Debate | The European grand coalition (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1997961-european-grand-coalition</link><description><![CDATA[Until now, ideological discussion has been off the menu in a Europe which lacked a genuine culture of debate. Now that we have a French President and a German Chancellor from opposing sides of the political divide, perhaps the EU can revive the interest of its citizens with public exchanges of views on important issues.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:08:07 +0100</pubDate><guid>1997961</guid></item>



<item><title>Greece | Life as murky as a thriller novel (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1988961-life-murky-thriller-novel</link><description><![CDATA[A novel about a serial-killer in Athens is so realistic that its author, Petros Markaris, had to warn readers that it should not be imitated. The reason : it’s about the tax-dodging Greek elite and the victims of the corrupted system.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:58:14 +0100</pubDate><guid>1988961</guid></item>

<item><title>Greek crisis | The euro exit is a bluff (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1989641-euro-exit-bluff</link><description><![CDATA[As speculation rages about a Greek exit from the eurozone, we must grasp that the country cannot survive without the single currency and that Europe cannot afford to let it leave. That&#039;s why everyone should put their cards openly on the table.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>1989641</guid></item>


<item><title>Ukraine | Euro 2012: A victim of power games (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1988511-euro-2012-victim-power-games</link><description><![CDATA[With less than a month left to go before the kick-off of the Euro 2012, the fate of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has poisoned relations between the EU and Ukraine — the co-organiser of the championship along with Poland. However, the issue of human rights is only one aspect of a story in which business interests have also played an important role.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:57:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>1988511</guid></item>



<item><title>Greece | The comedy of power (To Ethnos, Athens)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1983091-comedy-power</link><description><![CDATA[The Greeks, as well as everyone in EU, are waiting to see if the leaders of the three main parties can agree to form a government and avoid elections that would further aggravate the crisis. But for now, they seem rather more preoccupied with ensuring their own political futures.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:16:03 +0100</pubDate><guid>1983091</guid></item>



<item><title>Eurozone | Banks could sink the euro (NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1980751-banks-could-sink-euro</link><description><![CDATA[Forget the debate about austerity versus growth, the future of the single currency is being played out in the banking sector. As a result of the crisis, governments and financial institutions have become so interdependent that they have weakened each other.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:04:31 +0100</pubDate><guid>1980751</guid></item>

<item><title>Eurozone | Greek threat raises its head once more (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1969171-greek-threat-raises-its-head-once-more</link><description><![CDATA[The spectre of a Greek exit from the Eurozone has once again been raised by the political crisis in Athens: a scenario that is all the more dangerous for Spain, which is now more vulnerable, and one whose consequences would be geo-political as well as economic.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:42:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>1969171</guid></item>




<item><title>Germany | Enough "politically correct" films! (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1962061-enough-politically-correct-films</link><description><![CDATA[Reactions to the film Barbara show that &#039;feel-good&#039; films worry German film producers. The director, Dominik Graf, implores filmmakers to dare to challenge the highbrow cinema strangehold.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:05:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>1962061</guid></item>


<item><title>Eurozone | The growth imperative (Il Sole-24 Ore, Milan)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1961581-growth-imperative</link><description><![CDATA[The elections of May 6 have revealed the dramatic split between politicians and citizens. To prevent it from degenerating, we must abandon the obsession with austerity and discussions in small committees and restart the engine through the solidarity and integration that are the hallmarks of Europe, according to one columnist.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 17:48:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>1961581</guid></item>


<item><title>Natural gas | Shale gas no longer popular (Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1956611-shale-gas-no-longer-popular</link><description><![CDATA[France, Bulgaria, Romania and the Czech Republic have decided to suspend the exploitation of their shale gas fields for environmental reasons. Now that the EU is under pressure to adopt a similar position, Poland may be the last European country to continue seeking to develop this energy source.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:32:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>1956611</guid></item>


<item><title>Europe day | A crisis and no fireworks (De Standaard, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1953601-crisis-and-no-fireworks</link><description><![CDATA[While the EU celebrates its birthday on 9 May, European integration is in trouble: the euro crisis, the turmoil of enlargement and the financial crisis have stirred things up. Yet, says a Belgian political analyst, there is no reverse gear on the ship of Europe, only course corrections are possible.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:14:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>1953601</guid></item>



<item><title>Germany | Ossis return home (Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1944671-ossis-return-home</link><description><![CDATA[Having moved to the West in search of better jobs, residents of the former GDR are now returning home to take advantage of an up-turn in the economy of Germany’s eastern states, which has come in the wake of years of sluggish growth.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 13:14:10 +0100</pubDate><guid>1944671</guid></item>



<item><title>Economy | The Greek crisis will fast expose Hollande (Financial Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1944791-greek-crisis-will-fast-expose-hollande</link><description><![CDATA[Whether Hollande will maintain his anti-austerity stance and side with Greece or whether he will back German policy remains to be seen. No matter how much tweaking of EU fiscal agreements he can negotiate, the political storm brewing in Greece is likely test him sooner rather than later.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 17:03:07 +0100</pubDate><guid>1944791</guid></item>
<item><title>Greece | Who will restore order? (I Kathimerini, Athens)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1944741-who-will-restore-order</link><description><![CDATA[The elections of May 6 have shaken the Greek political landscape to its core and a majority capable of governing cannot be reached. Yet, notes Kathimerini, the politicians discredited by the electorate and their European partners are supposed to find the path to recovery.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:18:02 +0100</pubDate><guid>1944741</guid></item>






<item><title>Greece | On the road to chaos (I Kathimerini, Athens)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1938631-road-chaos</link><description><![CDATA[On May 6, the Greeks heavily punished the two traditional parties, who implemented the austerity programme, and let the radical left and far-right parties come into force into the Parliament. This result could lead to a powerless government and even violence, fears a columnist.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:52:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>1938631</guid></item>
<item><title>France | François Hollande, the dream and the reality (Libération, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1938861-francois-hollande-dream-and-reality</link><description><![CDATA[The Socialist candidate has become President of France with 51.62% of the vote, beating Nicolas Sarkozy. The leftist daily Liberation, which sees the outcome as a wager on the future, greets it with “great joy”. Faced with the crisis, though, the honeymoon may be short.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 15:59:28 +0100</pubDate><guid>1938861</guid></item>


<item><title>France | Who said anything about a revolution? (Financial Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1925851-who-said-anything-about-revolution</link><description><![CDATA[A hope for some and a bogeyman for others. The socialist favorite for the May 6 presidential election has launched a debate on an alternative economic policy in Europe. But to deliver on his pledge for growth, he will have to adapt to the realities of the market economy, writes the Financial Times.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 09:33:05 +0100</pubDate><guid>1925851</guid></item>

<item><title>Greece | World's best civil servant is Greek (Público, Lisbon)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1925451-world-s-best-civil-servant-greek</link><description><![CDATA[Whichever party wins the May 6 elections, reforming the state will be one of its major challenges. Yet in a way that is as encouraging as it is surprising, it was a Greek who was elected ‘Best Official in the World’ by an American institution.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 17:22:09 +0100</pubDate><guid>1925451</guid></item>

<item><title>Serbia | Brussels votes for stability (Jutarnji List, Zagreb)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1924711-brussels-votes-stability</link><description><![CDATA[On the eve of parliamentary and presidential elections in Serbia, the EU officially supports neither side. But compared to less Europhile opponents, the outgoing president, Boris Tadić, seems to remain the best possible choice.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 16:04:34 +0100</pubDate><guid>1924711</guid></item>

<item><title>Contemporary art | Paintbrush factory brightens Cluj-Napoca (România libera, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1921911-paintbrush-factory-brightens-cluj-napoca</link><description><![CDATA[Located in a former factory in Cluj, the Transylvanian capital, a contemporary art centre managed by several galleries and artists&#039; collectives is trying to break into the European art scene.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:00:27 +0100</pubDate><guid>1921911</guid></item>


<item><title>European Union | Will Europe vote Merkel out of office? (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1918921-will-europe-vote-merkel-out-office</link><description><![CDATA[France, Greece, Holland and Germany: Europe is facing five new elections, each of which could not be more different. But all of them come down to the crisis policies of Angela Merkel. The German Chancellor may be voted out of office.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 17:31:01 +0100</pubDate><guid>1918921</guid></item>


<item><title>Portrait | Economics with a human face (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1915831-economics-human-face</link><description><![CDATA[A former advisor to Václav Havel and a member of the Czech National Economic Council, the 35-year-old Prague man is the author of the international best-seller on the history of economics from the perspective of the Bible, myths and literature. His secret: a remarkable ability to sell himself along with his ideas.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 12:19:48 +0100</pubDate><guid>1915831</guid></item>

<item><title>United Kingdom | Bye bye Cool Britannia (La Repubblica, Rome)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1912411-bye-bye-cool-britannia</link><description><![CDATA[It is official, the UK is in recession. Formerly cool and generous, London, which will elect a new mayor on May 3, has become inegalitarian and cynical, notes La Repubblica. Although it boasts a record number of billionaires, the prosperous years of the Tony Blair era seem very far off.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 17:56:58 +0100</pubDate><guid>1912411</guid></item>

<item><title>Germany | Far right in green packaging (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1908331-far-right-green-packaging</link><description><![CDATA[Right-wing extremists linked to the far right NPD are increasingly making hay in politically innocuous organic farming, which they use as a means to spread neo-Nazi ideas in green packaging.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:52:07 +0100</pubDate><guid>1908331</guid></item>


<item><title>Greece | Far right reaps benefits from crisis (I Kathimerini, Athens)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1900671-far-right-reaps-benefits-crisis</link><description><![CDATA[Greek legislative elections scheduled for May 6, the first since the start of the financial crisis, could become a protest vote against austerity policies and the political parties that implement them. If so, this could benefit the far right, which, little by little, is gaining legitimacy.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:07:05 +0100</pubDate><guid>1900671</guid></item>




<item><title>Romania | A fertile land of opportunity (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1899531-fertile-land-opportunity</link><description><![CDATA[Attracted by the low cost of agricultural land, Farmers from elsewhere in the EU are taking the plunge to set up in Romania. In so doing they are contributing to a renewal of local agriculture which is increasingly oriented towards organic produce.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:17:45 +0100</pubDate><guid>1899531</guid></item>

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