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                <language>en</language><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>Health | Deflated | Cartoon (L'Hebdo, Lausanne)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1360861-deflated</link><description><![CDATA[Deflated (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/mixremix-implant.jpg" length="44993" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:30:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>History | Sixty-Eight Publishers - books of dissent (Lidové noviny , Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1321271-sixty-eight-publishers-books-dissent</link><description><![CDATA[They published Václav Havel and all those Czechoslovak writers banned by the communist regime. Forty years ago, Zdena and Josef Škvorecký created in Toronto one of the most important publishing houses of the Eastern European resistance. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/68publishers-A-b.jpg" length="74930" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:00:19 +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>
<item><title>Schengen | Liechtenstein takes down its borders</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1310231-liechtenstein-takes-down-its-borders</link><description><![CDATA[On 19 December, Liechtenstein became the 26th member of the Schengen area, following approval by the EU in March. &quot;It&#039;s a great day for Liechtenstein&quot; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Volksblatt-12202011-v.jpg" length="13153" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:44:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Václav Havel - neither an angel nor God (Hospodářské noviny, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1306291-vaclav-havel-neither-angel-nor-god</link><description><![CDATA[The former Czech president did not seek power for power’s sake, but became indispensable during the next twenty-two years of his country’s post-communist development. A tribute from Prague daily Hospodářské noviny after his death on December 18th. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/VaclavHavel-b.jpg" length="29479" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:32:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Václav Havel - Europe has lost a father</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1306911-vaclav-havel-europe-has-lost-father</link><description><![CDATA[The European press provides a nearly unanimous homage to Václav Havel the playwright, dissident and first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia. Havel died of cancer on December 18. He was 75. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/Vaclav-Havel19122011_0.jpg" length="58533" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:31:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | With or without Europe?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1267241-or-without-europe</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The EU is dead, long live the new EU. But where are the Czechs?&rdquo; wonders Hospod&aacute;řk&eacute; noviny in a comment piece on the European summit, [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:07:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Austria | Credit crunch comes to the East</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1209671-credit-crunch-comes-east</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The Austrian Financial Market Authority and the National Bank of Austria put a brake on credit for the East,&rdquo; headlines Die Presse,  in the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Die-Presse-24112011-100.jpg" length="40508" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:19:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | The "Looney" is dead</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1160271-looney-dead</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Ivan Martin Jirous, fierce eccentric and tender poet, is gone,&quot; writes Lidov&eacute; noviny the day after the death, at age 67, of the legendary Czech [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/111111lidovenoviny_1.jpg" length="6422" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:03:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Refuseniks and problem cases of the non-eurozone (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1154301-refuseniks-and-problem-cases-non-eurozone</link><description><![CDATA[As the eurozone crisis deepens, the countries outside of it are trying to come up with ways not to lose control of their destinies inside the EU. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/MAYK-euro-respekt_0.jpg" length="59391" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:15:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | They forget about growth (Les Echos, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1113691-they-forget-about-growth</link><description><![CDATA[The agreement reached by the seventeen states of the eurozone is leaving out one crucial issue: growth. Two problems therefore remain unresolved: the lack of a common macroeconomic policy and the divisions between the member countries. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/factory-shoe.jpg" length="47463" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:00:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Austria | Czech Republic | Banks battening down the hatches</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1044561-banks-battening-down-hatches</link><description><![CDATA[Confronted with a euro crisis that is not going away, a leading Austrian bank has decided to act. &quot;Erste Bank is getting ready for the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Die-Presse-11102011-100.jpg" length="39153" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:30:34 +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>Czech Republic | In Varnsdorf, Roma are under pressure (Hospodářské noviny, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1024771-varnsdorf-roma-are-under-pressure</link><description><![CDATA[About half a kilometre from the German border, for several weeks now Varnsdorf has been the scene of far-right demonstrations against the Roma minority – about 500 people in a town of 16,000. The demonstrations bring into sharp focus the tensions between the townspeople and a community whose integration is still a problem. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Varnsdorf-Roma.jpg" length="131067" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:36:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Bosses want an end to corruption</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/963751-bosses-want-end-corruption</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Business  elite loses patience with corruption&ldquo;, headlines Hospod&aacute;řsk&eacute; noviny,  which publishes an interview with Andrej Babi&scaron;, one of the Czech  Republic&rsquo;s most [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/HN-19092011-100.jpg" length="38182" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:46:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Nuclear superpower at heart of Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/928001-nuclear-superpower-heart-europe</link><description><![CDATA[At a time when several European countries are rethinking the nuclear option, the Czech Republic is poised to become a &quot;superpower&quot; in atomic energy. &quot;The [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Hospodarske-noviny-08092011-100.jpg" length="42482" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:17:09 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Fatty army to go on a diet</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/900421-fatty-army-go-diet</link><description><![CDATA[There  is no underestimating the weight of the Czech military. &ldquo;The soldiers  are too fat and will have to be given medical treatment,&rdquo; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110831ln.jpg" length="6771" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:32:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Central Europe | Ex-GDR, a new land for Poles and Czechs (Lidové noviny , Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/894801-ex-gdr-new-land-poles-and-czechs</link><description><![CDATA[More and more Poles are settling in the former East Germany, filling the void left by the flight of East Germans to the West following the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Lidové noviny is calling on Czechs to do the same, and so to help blur the borders of central Europe. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Neuruppin-Germany.jpg" length="74054" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:51:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Czech Republic&#039;s rating increases</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/884371-czech-republics-rating-increases</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The credibility of the Czech Republic is growing. This puts us above Italy,&rdquo; rejoices Hospod&aacute;řsk&eacute; noviny, after Standard &amp; Poor`s increased the country`s credit rating [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110825hn.jpg" length="7567" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:45:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic-Slovakia | A Soviet take on the Prague Spring</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/875821-soviet-take-prague-spring</link><description><![CDATA[On August 21, on the 43rd anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops under the command of Moscow, the Czech press considers [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:11:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Government quails at Facebook abuse</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/868181-government-quails-facebook-abuse</link><description><![CDATA[Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas is facing yet another problem in the shape of the education minister&rsquo;s aide Ladislav B&aacute;tora, who, as the Mlad&aacute; Fronta [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110818idnes.jpg" length="6215" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:23:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Time to shoulder the euro (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/844131-time-shoulder-euro</link><description><![CDATA[Despite the pressure on the single currency and the current financial storm, one Czech journalist says it’s time for the Czech Republic to adopt the euro. A surprising proposal, perhaps, but one that she says is based on rational facts. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/KAZANEVSKY_euro-shinning.jpg" length="160940" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:22:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>A town in Europe | Slavonice, Moravia's bohemian outpost (Lidové noviny , Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/779071-slavonice-moravia-s-bohemian-outpost</link><description><![CDATA[In its tumbledown Renaissance splendour, this town on the Czech-Austrian frontier has become a haven for intellectuals and artists who come from Prague in search of authenticity. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Slavonice.JPG" length="124612" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:53:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Belgium | We need a velvet divorce (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/728711-we-need-velvet-divorce</link><description><![CDATA[In 1992, Czechoslovakia separated peacefully into two countries. Today neither Czechs nor Slovaks regret the decision. Maybe it&#039;s time Belgium did the same thing, says De Volkskrant’s Central and Eastern Europe correspondent. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/cost-belgium_0.jpg" length="187719" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:48:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | &quot;Social Armageddon&quot; in Prague</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/719461-social-armageddon-prague</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;A typically Czech strike&quot;, headines Lidov&eacute; noviny, referring to &ldquo;The Good Soldier Schweik&rdquo;, the unfinished novel by Czech writer and satirist Jaroslav Ha&scaron;ek that features [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110617ln.jpg" length="7803" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:07:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Prague paralysed by transport strike</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/716191-prague-paralysed-transport-strike</link><description><![CDATA[For Hospod&aacute;řsk&eacute; noviny, the strike organised for June 16 by the public transport unions in protest against the austerity measures of the Nečas government, and [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110616hn.jpg" length="6952" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:56:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Prague braces for anti-austerity strike</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/709301-prague-braces-anti-austerity-strike</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Government vs. Unions 1-0. Round two next Thursday&rdquo;: on its front-page, Hospod&aacute;řsk&eacute; noviny  reports on one of the biggest ever transport strikes in the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/13062011-Hospodarske-No-100.jpg" length="12583" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:14:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Nuclear energy | Let Brussels look after it (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/703431-let-brussels-look-after-it</link><description><![CDATA[Leaving nuclear safety to Member States to deal with is no longer tenable. Joint surveillance would give credibility to proponents of nuclear energy and at the same time limit lobbying from the energy giants. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/BURKI-nucleaire.jpg" length="155115" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:18:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Instant repatriation for national artworks</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/688591-instant-repatriation-national-artworks</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;State repatriates artworks amid ownership fears,&rdquo; headlines Lidov&eacute; noviny. On 31 May, following the seizure of several paintings by authorities in France and Austria, the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Lidove-Noviny-01062011-100.jpg" length="40202" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:28:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Party financing loophole for corruption</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/628051-party-financing-loophole-corruption</link><description><![CDATA[In the wake of an endless series of corruption scandals, &quot;the Czech Republic has been reprimanded for a lack of transparency in political party financing,&quot; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Hospodarske-Noviny-02052011-100.jpg" length="40096" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 13:43:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Labour market | Work in Germany? Yes, maybe (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/626561-work-germany-yes-maybe</link><description><![CDATA[On 1 May, the doors will open wide for Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans now free to work in Germany. But no one expects a stampede. Quite the opposite: German companies will have to woo the new guest workers ardently and assiduously. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/work-solar.jpg" length="30066" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:38:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic-Poland | Hectares of contention</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/617421-hectares-contention</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Local authorities refuse to hand over dozens of hectares to Poles,&rdquo; reports Lidov&eacute; Noviny. The Prague daily explains that to redress errors made when the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110426lidovenoviny_1.jpg" length="6692" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:33:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Mr Clean Hands faces defeat</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/609281-mr-clean-hands-faces-defeat</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Truce to last until next war&rdquo;. For Prague daily Lidov&eacute; noviny,  Prime Minister Petr Nečas&rsquo; 19 April cabinet reshuffle will do little to  [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/lidove-noviny-20042011-100.jpg" length="45722" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:58:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Country on verge of nervous breakdown</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/599211-country-verge-nervous-breakdown</link><description><![CDATA[The  Czech Republic &ldquo;is the land of the cockroach,&ldquo; [for Czechs a  &ldquo;cockroach&rdquo; is a stool pigeon] announces Lidov&eacute; noviny, in reference to [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Lidove-noviny-14042011-100.jpg" length="42637" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:16:07 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Corruption at heart "clean" government</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/588361-corruption-heart-clean-government</link><description><![CDATA[The  new Public Affairs party (VV), &nbsp;a member of the Czech ruling coalition,  is close to imploding after being hit by a corruption [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/HN-07042011-100.jpg" length="45788" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:51:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Central Europe | The wilted charms of the euro (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/583111-wilted-charms-euro</link><description><![CDATA[Europe’s sovereign debt crisis has dampened enthusiasm for the single currency in most of the countries of Central Europe. Today, only the Baltic States are still eager to join the Eurozone, writes &quot;Rzeczpospolita&quot;. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/AREND_euro.jpg" length="89802" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:48:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | The irreducible autonomy of Silesia (Hospodářské noviny, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/578111-irreducible-autonomy-silesia</link><description><![CDATA[Silesians. They have their own language, a long history and they live in one of the richest regions of Poland. Today their calls for autonomy are echoing louder and louder. When they enjoyed unexpected success in regional elections last autumn for the first time in twenty years, Warsaw woke up to a problem in its territories along the Czech border. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/silesia-flag.jpg" length="40094" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:09:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Europact | What's in it for Eastern Europe? (Adevărul, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/572781-what-s-it-eastern-europe</link><description><![CDATA[The EU’s 27 member states have adopted a pact for the euro that will provide a collective guarantee for the single currency. However, a former Romanian diplomat argues that Brussels will still have to find the courage and the means to implement it. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/euro_4.jpg" length="75120" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:28:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Military commando versus public television</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/547201-military-commando-versus-public-television</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;A scandal. An armed commando has invaded Czech Television&rdquo;, leads Lidov&eacute; noviny in the aftermath of a raid launched by a military police unit with [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Lidove-noviny-14032011-100._0.jpg" length="42599" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:08:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Outrage over VAT hike for pension reform</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/541251-outrage-over-vat-hike-pension-reform</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;While 100,000 people are saving books, the government is saving its reform,&quot; headlines Mlad&aacute; Fronta DNES,  referring to the petition launched by Czech publishers [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/MFDNES-10032011-100.jpg" length="15738" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:58:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | The poor man of Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/524501-poor-man-europe</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Why are we the poor man of Europe?&quot; asks Revista 22 on its front page,  noting that Romania is stuck in its second year [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Revista-22-100.jpg" length="585130" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:47:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Police call for more moonlighting</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/522091-police-call-more-moonlighting</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Police by day, mason by night&quot;: Lidov&eacute; noviny sums up the appeal made on March 1 by police unions to take on second jobs. Following [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Lidove-Noviny-02032011-100.jpg" length="16507" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:15:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Schoolkids taught to &quot;compete&quot; with China</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/520761-schoolkids-taught-compete-china</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The new plan: schools to train pupils to succeed in competition with Chinese,&rdquo; announces Mlad&aacute; Fronta DNES.  The Czech National Economic Council (NERV) has [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/MF-DNES-03012011-100.jpg" length="12896" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:23:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>North Africa | Libya&#039;s revolution, Europe&#039;s shame (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/513971-libyas-revolution-europes-shame</link><description><![CDATA[Faced with the massacres perpetrated by the Gaddafi regime against its own people, how can the EU content itself with calling for “restraint”, while spending more time worrying about an influx of refugees? Madrid daily El País publishes an indignant editorial. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Lybia-Europe_0.jpg" length="78360" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:59:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU-Libya | High noon with Gaddafi</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/510711-high-noon-gaddafi</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;If the EU continues to support the protests, Libya will stop cooperating with it on illegal immigration.&quot; As summed up by La Repubblica, this is [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:59:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Doctor exodus averted</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/506441-doctor-exodus-averted</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The doctors have won. They got higher wages and a promise to reform the health system&quot;, leads Hospod&aacute;řsk&eacute; noviny, after Czech doctors had resigned en [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Hospodarske-Novivy-100_0.JPG" length="29398" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:50:28 +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>IDEAS | Why Arab revolution isn't 1989 again (Lidové noviny , Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/498041-why-arab-revolution-isn-t-1989-again</link><description><![CDATA[The parallel between the popular unrest in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, and the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 is an uneasy one. How can the foundations for democracy in the Arab world be compared with those of Eastern Europe? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/egypt-1989.jpg" length="89870" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:07:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Austerity MPs don&#039;t like the medicine</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/497841-austerity-mps-dont-medicine</link><description><![CDATA[The government&rsquo;s austerity package has prompted &quot;amazement at the first pay cheques for this year,&rdquo; headlines Lidov&eacute; noviny.  Police representatives demanded the resignation of [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Lidove-Noviny-100.jpg" length="42328" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:30:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
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