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                <language>en</language><item><title>Estonia | SS to be given "freedom fighter" status</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1382681-ss-be-given-freedom-fighter-status</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;SS canonised,&quot; leads Tageszeitung, with a front-page photo of the leader of the Nazi organisation, Heinrich Himmler, on a visit to SS volunteers in Estonia [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/01112012-TAZ-v.jpg" length="11107" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:29:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Franco-Turkish spat over genocide law</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1325611-franco-turkish-spat-over-genocide-law</link><description><![CDATA[The French parliament’s vote which approved a private member’s bill making it a crime to negate the Armenian genocide has provoked an angry response from Ankara. The reaction to the initiative in the French press has been largely negative, while the Turkish media is much more outspoken. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/STEPHFF_Turkey-France.jpg" length="34050" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:29:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Habermas stokes debate on Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1152061-habermas-stokes-debate-europe</link><description><![CDATA[The future of democracy in Europe has once again come to the fore in the German press, with J&uuml;rgen Habermas adding weight to some of [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:01:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Law could lead to Communist Party&#039;s dissolution</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1143321-law-could-lead-communist-partys-dissolution</link><description><![CDATA[Twenty-two years after the 1989 revolution, &ldquo;the police will investigate the communists&rdquo; announces SME. Two months after a law made it a punishable offence to [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/SME-07112011-100.jpg" length="13296" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:18:29 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>France | Long history of a forgotten massacre (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1066201-long-history-forgotten-massacre</link><description><![CDATA[Exactly 50 years ago today, between 100 and 200 Algerians, who were taking part in a peaceful demonstration, were murdered by Paris police. After decades of official cover-up, the collective memory of the events of 17 October 1961 is finally being restored. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Ici-on-noie-les-algeriens-490.jpg" length="56701" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:08:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic - Netherlands | Cannabis: Medicine or hard drug?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1029041-cannabis-medicine-or-hard-drug</link><description><![CDATA[In the Netherlands, &quot;strong joints will be considered a hard drug&quot;, says Dutch daily De Volkskrant. The government recently decided that Dutch coffee shops will [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Volskstrant-06102011-100.jpg" length="36630" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:20:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ideas | Why Hamlet is no euro-federalist (Evenimentul zilei, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/889201-why-hamlet-no-euro-federalist</link><description><![CDATA[Although many commentators have called for it to be established, the United States of Europe remains a chimera, which is incompatible with the history and plurality of cultures on our continent, argues Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/hamlet-skul.jpg" length="34937" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:57:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Internet | We need a Euro-Google (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/846651-we-need-euro-google</link><description><![CDATA[What you can look up, you needn’t commit to memory. This old maxim is one that drives Google&#039;s business today. But the Internet revolution is still in its infancy, and soon the material of our everyday lives could be fodder for search engines. We should be cautious about what we hand over, warns FAZ. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/VLAHOVIC_europe-browser_0.jpg" length="104583" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:29:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Norway and after | Populism - handle with care (Trouw, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/797351-populism-handle-care</link><description><![CDATA[Although Anders Breivik was solely responsible for the atrocities in Norway, his far-fetched ideas clearly owe much to a culture of populism. A Dutch historian argues that the events which took place on 22 July ought to be considered in the context of political trends in Europe. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Wilders-extremism_0.jpg" length="118964" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:16:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Malta | Valleta to allow divorce from October</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/795981-valleta-allow-divorce-october</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Historic vote ushers in divorce,&rdquo; announces The Times of Malta. On 25 July, the Maltese parliament passed a law authorising divorce and remarriage. MPs voted [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Times-malta-26072011-100.jpg" length="35383" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:13:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | The Civil War is still an open wound (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/781661-civil-war-still-open-wound</link><description><![CDATA[75 years after Franco&#039;s coup against the young Spanish republic and the start of a bloody civil war, Spain has yet to write a definitive and undisputed history of the period. For El Pais, part of the right still cultivates a selective forgetfulness. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/18072011-spain-civil-war.jpg" length="56317" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:35:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Abortion debate flares up again</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/764161-abortion-debate-flares-again</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Abortion a phone call away&rdquo;, headlines Newsweek Polska, noting that while Poland has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe (only Malta and [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/newsweek-polska-08072011-100.jpg" length="41330" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:54:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Iceland | A new constitution, via Facebook (Sydsvenskan, Malmö)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/756151-new-constitution-facebook</link><description><![CDATA[Begun after the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent fall of the government under popular pressure, Iceland’s citizen revolution continues. The most recent example is that all internet users are called upon to draft the country’s next constitution. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/crowdsourcing-constitution.jpg" length="228764" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:33:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | One step up for the Angry Ones (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/747821-one-step-angry-ones</link><description><![CDATA[In having accepted to reopen the debate on transparency and property held by those in public office, it looks as if Spain&#039;s politicians are responding to some of the demands made by the Angry Ones movement. But if they&#039;re to build on these first successes, protestors must elaborate a coherent politcal project. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/spain-banner.jpg" length="45076" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:09:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | Back to the nation (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/701181-back-nation</link><description><![CDATA[The European Union was the best thing that could have happened to the continent. But over the years it has grown into a demon, uncontrollable and impossible to throw out of office. To avoid collapse, there is only one road open: back to the nation. And back to democracy. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/BROMLEY-broken-europe.jpg" length="173213" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:39:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Europe | Call for truce in war on drugs</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/691721-call-truce-war-drugs</link><description><![CDATA[The idea of legalising drugs has made the headlines of several European   dailies &ndash; The Independent of London, Tageszeitung in Berlin and  [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/20110603-Liberation-100_0.jpg" length="6803" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:52:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Political fiction | Onwards to Europe 2.0 (Die Welt, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/684501-onwards-europe-20</link><description><![CDATA[Forget the nation-state: Europe would be much better off if it were fundamentally reorganised – into powerful regions in the north and the Alps and picturesque bankrupts in the south (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Europe-reloaded.jpg" length="34843" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 17:32:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>United Kingdom | Minister blunders on rape question</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/662591-minister-blunders-rape-question</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;&rsquo;Rape is rape&rsquo; &ndash; (Radio Presenter) &ndash; &lsquo;No, it&rsquo;s not&rsquo;&rdquo; (Kenneth Clarke), headlines the Independent, quoting an interview which has provoked a national outcry. The [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/independent-19052011-100.JPG" length="31521" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 13:21:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands | European rabbis defend ritual slaughter</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/597261-european-rabbis-defend-ritual-slaughter</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Rabbis worried over ban on ritual slaughter,&rdquo; headlines De Volkskrant. On 12 April, a group of senior rabbis from several European countries organised a press [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Volkskrant-13042011-100.jpg" length="43176" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:36:02 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Opinion | Burqa ban - a false move (The Independent, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/593051-burqa-ban-false-move</link><description><![CDATA[Wearing the burqa in public places is now forbidden in France. For the Independent, the new law is a piece of electioneering from an embattled Nicolas Sarkozy, and will worsen the condition of Muslims in Europe. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/plantu-burqa2_0.jpg" length="108413" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:52:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Burqa ban | Islam in Europe - a real problem (Rzeczpospolita, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/593021-islam-europe-real-problem</link><description><![CDATA[The debate about secularism organised in France by the ruling right-wing UMP party has been decried by the Muslim community as a brutal attack on Islam, while the Left has seen it as a disguised attempt to curry favour with the supporters of the National Front. But no debate at all is a victory for extremism, argues a Polish editorialist. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Burqa-France_0.jpg" length="86990" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:36:29 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>IDEAS | The West, past its best</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/549551-west-past-its-best</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Is the West finished?&rdquo; asks French weekly Courrier International in its latest special edition. With the U.S. economy hotly pursued by Asia, Europe increasingly pushed [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Courrier-international-100.jpg" length="40007" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:09:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland/Germany | Bundestag reopens World War 2 wounds</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/502871-bundestag-reopens-world-war-2-wounds</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Historians lambast the Bundestag,&rdquo; headlines Gazeta Wyborcza, referring to the open letter signed by 68 historians from all over the world protesting the recent resolution [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Gazeta-15022011-100.JPG" length="26921" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:36:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Multiculturalism | Tolerance doesn&#039;t mean you say nothing (Spiked, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/498921-tolerance-doesnt-mean-you-say-nothing</link><description><![CDATA[First Merkel, then Cameron, now Sarkozy. Across Europe, multiculturalism and its legacy are in the dock. But according to sociologist Frank Furedi, multiculturalism is divisive because it promotes a watered down version of tolerance. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/islam-preacher.jpg" length="35624" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:16:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>United Kingdom | Multiculturalism takes another hit (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/492351-multiculturalism-takes-another-hit</link><description><![CDATA[A few months after Angela Merkel controversially argued that the multicultural society in Germany had “utterly failed”, David Cameron’s 5 February speech echoing the Chancellor’s sentiments has revived the debate about national identity in the British press. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/mutliculturalism-uk.JPG" length="174735" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:10:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Baltic states | Where minorites must hold their tongue (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/452271-where-minorites-must-hold-their-tongue</link><description><![CDATA[The linguistic rights of the sizeable Russian and Polish minorities in the three former Soviet republics, which joined the EU in 2004, are hardly recognised. A Dutch journalist deplores governmental intransigence on the issue of languages. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Riga-Russian-market.jpg" length="114207" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:40:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Integration | In the eighth circle of hell (Die Tageszeitung, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/441011-eighth-circle-hell</link><description><![CDATA[Thilo Sarrazin&#039;s controversial book on the dumbing down of Germany has ignited the debate on immigration. Russian emigré writer Wladimir Kaminer now joins the fray to warn against the dangerous habit of dividing society up into the strong and weak, productive and non-productive. Like it or not, he says, we stand or fall together. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/dante-inferno.jpg" length="47601" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | The immigration debate begins</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/419041-immigration-debate-begins</link><description><![CDATA[Ein sch&ouml;ner Land ([There is] A nicer country), says the front page of Tageszeitung&rsquo;s special issue on immigration and what it means &ldquo;to be German&rdquo; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/07122010-TAZ-100.jpg" length="21377" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:18:09 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Social issues | The counterproductive war on smokers (Revue Politika, Brno)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/418181-counterproductive-war-smokers</link><description><![CDATA[The European Commission is preparing a general ban on smoking in public areas. However, a Czech legal expert argues that the desire to legislate to improve public health could ultimately undermine civil liberties. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/smoking.jpg" length="70989" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:25:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Diplomacy | Not such wicked leaks (Libération, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/414871-not-such-wicked-leaks</link><description><![CDATA[For the celebrated novelist and intellectual Umberto Eco, the Wikileaks affair or &quot;Cablegate&quot; not only shows up the hypocrisy that governs relations between states, citizens and the press, but also presages a return to more archaic forms of communication. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/wikileaks-assange.jpg" length="83358" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:10:29 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Minorities | My week as a gypsy (Adevărul, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/383031-my-week-gypsy</link><description><![CDATA[What’s life like for the Roma in Romania? To find out, an Adevărul journalist dressed up as a gypsy for a week. He didn’t experience any direct discrimination, just general contempt. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/gypsy-sky.jpg" length="29077" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:01:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Diplomacy and the Shoah</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/373811-diplomacy-and-shoah</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Study of the liberation,&rdquo; headlines Tagesspiegel, on the 28 October publication of a new report on postwar Germany &ldquo;Das Amt und die Vergangenheit&rdquo; [The administration [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/10292010-Tagesspiegel-100.jpg" length="10094" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:39:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Anti-atomic groups nuke Merkel</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/341911-anti-atomic-groups-nuke-merkel</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The opponents of nuclear energy have got the government surrounded,&quot; says the Tagesspiegel after tens of thousands of people protested outside the Chancellery in Berlin [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/20092010-Tagesspiegel-100.jpg" length="11825" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:56:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European integration | I come not to bury the EU, but to save it</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/332831-i-come-not-bury-eu-save-it</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;My article was not supposed to be an obituary for the European Union; my aim was to awaken Europeans to the danger of the renationalisation [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:22:49 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European integration | The union needs leaders (Trouw, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/326661-union-needs-leaders</link><description><![CDATA[While the EU is slogging knee-deep through an economic crisis and a general state of political malaise, its leaders seem to lack the will to find a solution. Political scientist Rob de Wijk advises them to reverse this tendency in order to keep the Union from falling further into the abyss. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/MAYK_eu-leaders.jpg" length="61930" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:01:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Now Sarrazin baits the Jews</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/326281-now-sarrazin-baits-jews</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Sarrazin mutates into geneticist,&rdquo; headlines the Tageszeitung, re Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin&rsquo;s latest incendiary remarks. After jolting Germany with his book about Muslims&rsquo; failed [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/30082010-TAZ.jpg" length="11671" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:16:09 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | Social democrat&#039;s rant rocks Germany</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/325411-social-democrats-rant-rocks-germany</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;So that Germany doesn&rsquo;t become even more stupid&quot;, headlines Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The paper has entered the fray in the controversy surrounding a book by [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/27082010-FAZ.jpg" length="8747" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:55:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Number of illegal abortions triggers debate</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/325121-number-illegal-abortions-triggers-debate</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Polish abortions in clinics all over Europe&rdquo;, headlines Gazeta Wyborcza. The liberal daily reports on a &ldquo;citizens&rsquo; hearing&rdquo; in parliament with heads of clinics from [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/27082010-Gazeta-Wyb.jpg" length="9712" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:54:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Secularism | For the free movement of gods (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/315431-free-movement-gods</link><description><![CDATA[Confronted by a multiplicity of religions and their symbols, most states choose to forbid them. But in doing so, they are heading toward an impasse, claims Die Zeit while pleading for tolerance and pluralism. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ramadan-b.jpg" length="62172" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:07:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | Why Europe needs semi-citizens (Corriere della Sera, Milan)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/306331-why-europe-needs-semi-citizens</link><description><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposal to revoke the citizenship of naturalised felons has catapulted the immigration issue back onto the political agenda. Even as governments seek to adjust their legislation to an ever-changing situation, the EU ought to extend European citizenship to immigrants so as to make up for the inadequacies of the existing system. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/nationality-fr_0.jpg" length="63089" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:41:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Populism | Greater Switzerland just might take off</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/299141-greater-switzerland-just-might-take</link><description><![CDATA[The Swiss far-right wants to expand the country by annexing German, French, Austrian and Italian border regions, reports Gazeta Wyborcza. The Swiss People&rsquo;s Party (SVP) [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:06:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Religion and State  | Burqa, the cross we must bear (Der Standard, Vienna)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/298191-burqa-cross-we-must-bear</link><description><![CDATA[ The ban on the burqa in Belgium and France, now spreading to Spain, the UK, and even to universities in Egypt and Syria, points up the hypocrisy and double standards of Western Christian culture, writes German philosopher Andrea Roedig. If the burqa is an instrument of oppression, isn’t the cross we worship really a morbid fascination with torture? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/niqab-cross-3.jpg" length="18109" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:10:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Malta | Debate on divorce relaunched</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/290211-debate-divorce-relaunched</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Prime Minister insists the people will have a say on divorce&rdquo;: The Times of Malta reports that government leader Lawrence Gonzi has criticised a private [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/08072010-Times-Of-Malta.jpg" length="13742" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:36:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Smoking ban divides country</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/288531-smoking-ban-divides-country</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The non-smokers want to take over&quot; proclaims the headline of Die Tageszeitung following the July 4 referendum in Bavaria approving the ban on smoking in [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/06072010-Taz.jpg" length="12261" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:37:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Right seeks to overturn new abortion law</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/288301-right-seeks-overturn-new-abortion-law</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Autonomist rebellion against abortion law&rdquo;, headlines La Vanguardia, as the autonomous provinces of Murcia, Madrid and Navarra &ndash; governed by the right wing opposition Popular [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/06072010-La-Vanguardia.jpg" length="13149" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:47:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Sweden | Equality, no longer a public convenience (Fokus, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/281961-equality-no-longer-public-convenience</link><description><![CDATA[A long-standing pioneer in the field of gender equality, Sweden appears to have lost its enthusiasm for social reforms of benefit to women. None of the country&#039;s major political parties has tabled concrete proposals on the issue in the run-up to general elections this autumn. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ikea-restroom.jpg" length="29584" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:01:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Civil liberties | Big Brussels is watching you (De Standaard, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/270161-big-brussels-watching-you</link><description><![CDATA[The European Union believes that the high technology monitoring of its citizens&#039; movements is justified by the need to ensure their security. But not everyone is convinced that increased surveillance will act as a safeguard. Activists, like lawyer Raf Jespers, argue that technology is already violating the fundamental right to privacy. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/big-brussels.jpg" length="135273" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:33:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy / Netherlands | Dutch euthanasia directive doesn't travel</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/266591-dutch-euthanasia-directive-doesn-t-travel</link><description><![CDATA[What is the validity of a written &quot;euthanasia directive&quot; that details a Dutch citizen&#039;s wish to die for authorities in another European country? Answer: it [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100604volkskrant.jpg" length="7270" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:11:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Middle East | Author may ban Hebrew editions of his work</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/265381-author-may-ban-hebrew-editions-his-work</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Israel should be brought before the International Criminal Court:&quot; says Henning Mankell on the front page of Dagens Nyheter, arguing that the Israeli state is [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100603dagensnyheter.jpg" length="6022" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:02:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Europe | How the burqa spoiled the party</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/262441-how-burqa-spoiled-party</link><description><![CDATA[Condemned as &ldquo;sinister, frightening, misogynistic and oppressive&rdquo;, nothing &ldquo;seems to provoke more suspicion of Europe&#039;s 15 million Muslims than the face veil worn by a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100531newstatesman.jpg" length="6132" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 13:11:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
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