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                <language>en</language><item><title>Schengen | Bucharest and Sofia must try harder, again</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1493921-bucharest-and-sofia-must-try-harder-again</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Can the CMV report open the door to Schengen?&quot; questions the front page of Romanian daily Rom&acirc;nia Liberă, referring to the interim report of the [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:15:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Can Agent Ungureanu save his country?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1491321-can-agent-ungureanu-save-his-country</link><description><![CDATA[In appointing the head of the secret service to lead the government, President Băsescu is attempting to avoid early general elections. But, as the Romanian press points out, the controversial Mr Ungureanu is perhaps not the politician that is best equipped to put an end to protests against austerity and the country’s political class. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/minister-espion-romania_0.JPG" length="47447" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:58:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Finland | Euroscepticism survives</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1490881-euroscepticism-survives</link><description><![CDATA[The EU has favourably greeted the election, on January 5, of pro-EU conservative Sauli Niinist&ouml; as President of Finland. He won against another Europhile, environmentalist [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:56:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | A spy in government</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1487361-spy-government</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Operation Ungureanu&quot; &nbsp;has begun, headlines Adevărul:  on 7 February, the young (age 43) intelligence service chief, Mihai  Răzvan Ungureanu, is to take over [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:52:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>France-Germany | Merkel seeks to save marriage of convenience</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1487271-merkel-seeks-save-marriage-convenience</link><description><![CDATA[With 80 days left to run before the first round of French presidential elections, the German Chancellor has joined the campaign alongside her most precious ally in Europe,  Nicolas Sarkozy — an initiative judged risky on both sides of the Rhine. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/SCHOT_merkozy.jpg" length="80021" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:51:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Institutions | Maastricht 20 years on: Eurocrat blues (Le Temps, Geneva)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1483951-maastricht-20-years-eurocrat-blues</link><description><![CDATA[The European Commission and its civil servants gained unprecedented powers with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty on February 7 1992. Two decades later, the economy’s primacy over politics and the advent of the crisis has destroyed their dreams and turned them into scapegoats. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/MAYK_depressed-europe.jpg" length="60691" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:49:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | New wave of "Gorilla" demonstrations</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1483441-new-wave-gorilla-demonstrations</link><description><![CDATA[On February 3, &ldquo;the Gorilla was hunted across the squares&rdquo; of Slovakia, leads SME. A week after a first demonstration against the corruption depicted in [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:14:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Economy | Sarkozy fascinated by German model</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1473991-sarkozy-fascinated-german-model</link><description><![CDATA[A probable candidate for re-election, the French President seems intent on proposing an economic project calqued on the German model — a strategy which has surprised the French press. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/SCHNEIDER_merkozy.jpg" length="107306" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:03:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Protests against far-right theatre director</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1473021-protests-against-far-right-theatre-director</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Anti-fascist protest disrupted by counter demonstration,&rdquo; headlines the daily N&eacute;pszava in the wake of incidents that marked a demonstration involving several thousand people, who gathered [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:33:01 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Fiscal treaty | Ireland begins bitter referendum debate</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1468471-ireland-begins-bitter-referendum-debate</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Fiscal  treaty designed to avoid Irish referendum,&rdquo; headlines the Irish Times.  According to Irish law, all new EU treaties must be put to [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:47:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | A Gorilla tearing down the system (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1468351-gorilla-tearing-down-system</link><description><![CDATA[Explosive and mysterious, a file named “Gorilla” contains evidence of corruption in Slovakia’s political and economic elite. Two months away from early parliamentary elections, who stands to benefit from the revelations? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Gorila-Slovakia.jpg" length="71105" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:38:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Council | The Don Quixotes of Brussels (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1464941-don-quixotes-brussels</link><description><![CDATA[At best, the measures adopted at the January 30 summit – the fiscal treaty and the economic growth plan – are meant, at best, to overcome the mistakes of the past year and a half, says columnist Xavier Vidal-Folch. At worst, they’re part of a recurring sham. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/FABER_europa.jpg" length="52920" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:25:41 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Council | Angela Merkel has gone too far</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1464371-angela-merkel-has-gone-too-far</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The woman who went out into the cold&rdquo;: the expression in S&uuml;ddeutsche Zeitung refers to the undeniably frosty reception for Angela Merkel&rsquo;s performance at the [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:08:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Fiscal compact | Prague keeps its distance</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1463771-prague-keeps-its-distance</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Neither yes or no. The  Czech Republic stands alone in the union,&rdquo; announces Hospod&aacute;řsk&eacute; Noviny  in the wake of yesterday&rsquo;s adoption of the [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:32:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU Summit | Poland not 100% happy</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1463451-poland-not-100-happy</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Eurosummits with and without Poland&rdquo;, leads Gazeta Wyborcza  on the compromise reached at the January 30 EU summit which allows  Poland to participate [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:22:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | No-one wants a German budget commissar</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1460271-no-one-wants-german-budget-commissar</link><description><![CDATA[The idea of pinning the second Greek bail-out on the acceptance by Athens of supervision by a European budget commissioner, a German proposal unveiled on the eve of the January 30 European Council meeting, is nothing less than a violation of state sovereignty, according to the European press. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/merkel_papademos_0.jpg" length="247222" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:02:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy | Relax, Germans! (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1460071-relax-germans</link><description><![CDATA[Italy has long cursed Germany as a know-it-all, and yet respects it as the head of the class. With the arrival of the very proper Mr Monti this is changing, and Berlin will have to get used to some lessons from Rome. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Monti-Merkel.jpg" length="69756" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:28:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Save the euro - get rid of Germany (The Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1449971-save-euro-get-rid-germany</link><description><![CDATA[By foisting fiscal austerity on its Eurozone partners while stubbornly refusing an enhanced role for the ECB, and greater mutual support on national debt, Germany is a greater hindrance than a help to the single currency, argues Anatole Kaletsky. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/brookes-merkel.jpg" length="44179" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:54:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy | The hour of deregulation has come (Il Fatto Quotidiano, Rome)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1446681-hour-deregulation-has-come</link><description><![CDATA[Austerity is to be followed by deregulation. Mario Monti has launched “Phase two” of his anti-crisis programme: a vast plan to open protected sectors of the economy, like taxis and road transport, to competition. An Italian economist welcomes the change, but warns that it is not without risks. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/altan-italy.jpg" length="89525" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:12:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania  | Baconschi, first head to roll</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1440711-baconschi-first-head-roll</link><description><![CDATA[Amidst continuing demonstrations against  austerity measures in Bucharest, the Romanian government is cleaning  house. The Foreign Minister, Teodor Baconschi, was informed of his [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:58:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Berlin police hooked on mobile phones</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1436461-berlin-police-hooked-mobile-phones</link><description><![CDATA[Since  2008, the Berlin police has collected data on 4.2 million mobile phone  connections, reports German daily Tageszeitung. Most of the data has [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/taz-24012012-100.JPG" length="39137" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:52:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Croatia | A small "yes" to EU</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1432971-small-yes-eu</link><description><![CDATA[On 22 January, Croats voted in favour of ratifying the Treaty of Accession to the EU, prompting a sigh of relief in Brussels. The record voter abstention rate, however, must give cause for concern, notes the Croatian press. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/croatia-ue.jpg" length="88754" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:06:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Central Europe | Vienna-Budapest, a journey into the past (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1432681-vienna-budapest-journey-past</link><description><![CDATA[Heirs to the Hapsburg Empire, Austria and Hungary have something else in common: an ambiguous relationship with history and a tendency to tolerate political excesses. Ten years after European sanctions against Vienna, why does the Budapest seem to be stuck in the 1930s? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/orban-30s.jpg" length="154365" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:34:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Suspense over Athens debt talks</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1431401-suspense-over-athens-debt-talks</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Greek  debt holders lay down limit for losses,&rdquo; headlines the Financial Times,  after talks broke off in the early hours of January 21 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/ft-100.jpg" length="40439" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:56:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Croatia | Joining the Union with little enthusiasm (Tportal , Zagreb)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1420461-joining-union-little-enthusiasm</link><description><![CDATA[On January 22, Croatia must ratify by referendum the Treaty of Accession to the EU. But the campaign, coming just as the country is about to enter a Europe in crisis, has been marked by second thoughts and a new nationalist rhetoric. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/corax-croatia.jpg" length="21633" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:39:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Orbán revolution goes bust (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1420471-orban-revolution-goes-bust</link><description><![CDATA[Leading a country heavily in debt, under pressure from the IMF and threatened with prosecution by the EU, the Hungarian Prime Minister is now facing an organised opposition. Feeling poorer every day, Hungarians have lost their faith in the PM&#039;s nationalist prescriptions. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/budapest-sale.jpg" length="30527" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:29:15 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Who are the Indignados of Bucharest? (România libera, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1416691-who-are-indignados-bucharest</link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of people from all walks of life have been demonstrating all week in Bucharest as well as all over the country against both austerity measures and a political system gangrened by corruption. It is about time that the government took their complaints seriously, warns Romanian sociologist Mircea Kivu. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/romania-demo_0.jpg" length="121737" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:20:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary-EU | Viktor Orbán dodges MEPs questions</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1414811-viktor-orban-dodges-meps-questions</link><description><![CDATA[Invited  to respond to questions from MEPs meeting in Strasbourg on 18 January,  the Hungarian Prime Minister pledged to change controversial legislation  [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/nepszava-100.jpg" length="39953" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:06:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Parliament | Hurricane Schulz replaces Buzek the Calm</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1409481-hurricane-schulz-replaces-buzek-calm</link><description><![CDATA[The election of Martin Schulz as new president will pave the way for a change of atmosphere in the European Parliament. In the wake of the reign of the consensus-building Pole, Jerzy Buzek, the German socialist is intent on shaking up institutions in Brussels. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/horsch-schulz_0.jpg" length="89700" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:18:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary-EU | Brussels starts power struggle with Orbán</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1409941-brussels-starts-power-struggle-orban</link><description><![CDATA[After quibbling for several weeks, the European Commission launched three legal actions against the Hungarian government. But who will back down first – Budapest or Brussels? The Hungarian press is not expecting any great changes. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/Orban.jpg" length="97711" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:39:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | Myth of equality at an end (Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1404381-myth-equality-end</link><description><![CDATA[Whether it’s the planned European treaty, the S&amp;P downgrade of nine eurozones states or reprimands issued to Hungary, recent events in the EU have highlighted how powerful countries are now imposing their law on their smaller neighbours. Polish columnist Jacek Żkowski aims to set the record straight. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/KAZANEVSKY_inegalités.jpg" length="118011" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:25:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Anti-austerity revolt in Bucharest</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1399591-anti-austerity-revolt-bucharest</link><description><![CDATA[Sixty injured and many shops ransacked are the result of a demonstration held in Bucharest on January 15 to demand the resignation of Romanian President [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/120116adevarul.jpg" length="8330" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:38:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Martial law generals found guilty, but too late</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1390881-martial-law-generals-found-guilty-too-late</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The generals are criminals,&rdquo; headlines Polska The Times the  day after a court in Warsaw found the instigators of martial law in  Poland [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Polska-TheTimes-01132012-v.jpg" length="11140" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:12:41 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Brussels launches "Operation Dump Orbán" (Népszabadság, Budapest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1388001-brussels-launches-operation-dump-orban</link><description><![CDATA[By threatening Budapest with financial sanctions and infringement proceedings if the Hungarian government fails to change its policies on the economy and the judiciary, the EU seems to have begun a process that would allow it to get rid of Hungary’s Prime Minister, as it got rid of Berlusconi and Papandreou. But it won’t be that easy. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/orban-barroso.jpg" length="36634" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:38:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Arms industry | Greece still splashes out billions on defence (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1383501-greece-still-splashes-out-billions-defence</link><description><![CDATA[Frigates, tanks and submarines: Greece may be teetering on the brink, but the bite of austerity hasn’t come near its military. And Germany is profiting from it. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/greece-army.jpg" length="35066" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:08:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis  | Merkozy struggles to end austerity</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1379161-merkozy-struggles-end-austerity</link><description><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are afraid to &quot;attack the heart of the problem&quot; of the debt crisis, deplores Polish daily [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:40:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Viktor Orbán gives his side of story</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1374201-viktor-orban-gives-his-side-story</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Orb&aacute;n: &#039;now is the time to consolidate,&#039;&quot; headlines Magyar H&iacute;rlap, which like most Hungarian newspapers, has devoted its front page to the interview accorded by [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/MagyarHirlap-01092012-v.jpg" length="12204" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:21:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Orbán increasingly isolated (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1365471-orban-increasingly-isolated</link><description><![CDATA[The reinforcement of the executive branch of government and the weakening of checks and balances has been criticised by newspapers in Hungary and elsewhere in Europe at a moment when the country has been struck by a financial crisis that is steadily worsening as investors lose confidence in Budapest. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/orban-.jpg" length="47016" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:09:07 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Orbán is the product of a fraught history (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1360941-orban-product-fraught-history</link><description><![CDATA[To understand the current Hungarian government’s withdrawal into nationalism and identity, one must look back into the history of the country, argues an expert in Hungarian literature: particularly into the fragility of its bourgeoisie and the frustrations born of military defeats. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/orban-painting.jpg" length="39375" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:36:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | Hungary is our business too (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1355601-hungary-our-business-too</link><description><![CDATA[The EU should not remain indifferent to PM Viktor Orbán’s drift towards authoritarian nationalism. As a community based on democratic as well as economic values, it ought to exert pressure on Budapest to keep the Hungarian government on the right path, argues Le Monde. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/cibel-hungary.jpg" length="33083" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:48:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Looking Ahead | 2012 cannot be worse than 2011 (Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1351731-2012-cannot-be-worse-2011</link><description><![CDATA[2011 was such a bad year for Europe that 2012 can only be an improvement. However, Gazeta Wyborcza columnist Jacek Pawlicki points out that the European Union is now threatened by social tensions prompted by measures that enabled it to survive an unprecedented crisis. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/RUBEN_2012-bis.jpg" length="54989" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:58:41 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Let us deal with Orbán (Heti Világgazdaság, Budapest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1351841-let-us-deal-orban</link><description><![CDATA[Protests against the Hungarian prime minister, accused of a drift towards authoritarianism, are growing in Budapest. But while the international community is also starting to respond, the protests must avoid relying on foreign intervention, argues philosopher Gáspár Miklós Tamás. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Budapest01022012.jpg" length="46182" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:58:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | President Wulff hanging by a thread</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1349831-president-wulff-hanging-thread</link><description><![CDATA[The net is tightening on Germany&rsquo;s Federal President. Propelled into office against the wishes of public opinion by Angela Merkel in 2010, the very discreet [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Handelsblatt-01032012-v.jpg" length="10652" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:20:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Council | Little Denmark faces high-stakes EU Presidency (Politiken, Copenhagen)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1346851-little-denmark-faces-high-stakes-eu-presidency</link><description><![CDATA[At the height of the debt crisis, a small country, which is not a member of the Eurozone, has taken on the EU’s six monthly rotating presidency. Danish daily Politiken argues that Copenhagen should take advantage of its marginal status in adopting the role of mediator for a community that is tearing itself apart. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/COST_Dk-EU.jpg" length="43485" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:21:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Does doom await in 2012? (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1346951-does-doom-await-2012</link><description><![CDATA[In the wake of a terrible year in 2011, the worst may be yet to come warns political analyst José Ignacio Torreblanca. The crisis could force EU member states to choose between Greece and Great Britain. And once again, everything will be decided in Germany. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Casandra-2012.jpg" length="36336" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:16:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Employment | Germany welcomes working immigrants</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1324311-germany-welcomes-working-immigrants</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Welcome to Germany&rdquo;, announces Handelsblatt. &ldquo;For the first time in decades, the number of people arriving in Germany has exceeded the number of those leaving.&rdquo; [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:54:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Revolution? What revolution? (Jurnalul Naţional, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1315731-revolution-what-revolution</link><description><![CDATA[For most people in post-communist Europe, December is the month to commemorate the fall of the communist regimes. In Romania, the fall has become a story that a society living in a world of cheap illusions tells itself. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Romania-revolution-b.jpg" length="55907" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:59:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Tug of war over media law</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1315041-tug-war-over-media-law</link><description><![CDATA[Hungary&#039;s recently passed media law is unconstitutional, the Constitutional Court ruled on December 19. The court &quot;rejected several provisions, including an article obliging journalists to [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:20:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Climate change | EP reassesses emissions market</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1314551-ep-reassesses-emissions-market</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;EU  revises the CO2 market to put an end to cut-price pollution,&quot; leads El  Pa&iacute;s, the day after the Environment Committee of the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:50:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | In Prague, Europe is often far away (Lidové noviny , Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1310861-prague-europe-often-far-away</link><description><![CDATA[Twenty years after the &quot;return to Europe&quot; championed by former President Václav Havel, who died on December 18, the debate about the Czech Republic&#039;s relationship with the EU is dominated by two political camps that are both devoid of real ideas about the union&#039;s future. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/CezchRep-EU.jpg" length="41669" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:24:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
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