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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>Railways | Greater European network on track</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1077461-greater-european-network-track</link><description><![CDATA[On 19 October, the European Commission presented its project  for the integration of European transport networks. Endowed with a  budget of 37.7 billion [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Vanguardia-20102011-100.jpg" length="39368" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:52:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Estonia-Russia | The apartments that lead to Schengen (Postimees, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1001461-apartments-lead-schengen</link><description><![CDATA[Following a trend that has intrigued local authorities and real estate agents, more and more Russians are buying apartments without ever setting foot in them. The reason for this strange behaviour is that owning a home in Estonia makes it easier to apply for a Schengen visa. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/tallinn-real-estate.jpg" length="127677" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:40:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cinema | Estonia's signature melancholy (Postimees, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/963861-estonia-s-signature-melancholy</link><description><![CDATA[Since independence, Estonian film makers appear to be incapable of producing anything other than films where melancholy plays the leading role, remarks Postimees, which argues that a certain dolefulness has become the hallmark of culture made in Estonia. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/tuukrid-vihmas-estonian-culture.jpg" length="105663" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:33:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>1991-2011 | A Baltic triumph (IQ The Economist, Vilnius)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/872211-baltic-triumph</link><description><![CDATA[In August 1991, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia declared their independence from a collapsing USSR. Despite a few hiccups along the way, twenty years on they have definitively turned the page on Communism and come back to their roots in Europe. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Baltes-1991.jpg" length="46508" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:37:30 +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>Estonia | Some nationality disorder (Postimees, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/637081-some-nationality-disorder</link><description><![CDATA[Since 1991, Estonia has tens been home to tens of thousands of “non-citizens” — Russian-speakers who settled in Estonia in Soviet times. Their numbers are decreasing, but too slowly. Is this Moscow&#039;s fault? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/estonia-gray-passport_0.jpg" length="106437" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 17:32:43 +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>Estonia | Expats reluctant to return (Eesti Päevaleht, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/612051-expats-reluctant-return</link><description><![CDATA[Recently launched by the government in Tallinn, an initiative that aims to bring home some of the 200,000 Estonians who have recently left the country to work abroad has been greeted with scepticism by expatriates from the Baltic state. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/estonia-talents_0.jpg" length="85259" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:37:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Urbanism | Digging deep for a better life (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/600091-digging-deep-better-life</link><description><![CDATA[From the eastern Baltic to the western straits, Scandinavians are building everything underground: roads, tunnels, and even huge shopping malls. Polish weekly Polityka reports. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Helsinki-underground.jpg" length="175336" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:16:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Nuclear energy | Chernobyl to Fukushima - media gets it wrong (Postimees, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/556251-chernobyl-fukushima-media-gets-it-wrong</link><description><![CDATA[In 1986, Estonians were Soviet citizens and had no idea what was going on at Chernobyl. Today they are members of the European Union, but whether they are better informed is questionable, writes the daily Postimees. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/screen-disaster.jpg" length="35029" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:07:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Estonia | Voters re-elect Austerity Ansip</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/532121-voters-re-elect-austerity-ansip</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;As predicted, the centre-right Reform party which won 33 seats has topped the poll&quot; in Estonian general elections, reports Postimees. The daily also notes an [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/postimees-07032011-100_0.jpg" length="41584" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:25:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Two towns in Europe | Valka-Valga, two sides to the story (Postimees, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/505361-valka-valga-two-sides-story</link><description><![CDATA[A walk from Valka to Valga not only takes you from Lativa to Estonia, but you also have the impression of traveling from one era to another. Postimees reports on a quarrel between the old guard and the new in one of Europe’s far-flung border towns. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Valka-Valga.jpg" length="70696" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:35:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Estonia | The most Soviet Western state? (Postimees, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/478531-most-soviet-western-state</link><description><![CDATA[With the adoption of the euro on 1st January, Estonia, now a member of NATO, the EU and the Eurozone, became the most &quot;Western&quot; of the Nordic countries. However, the country’s drive to join Europe has been marked by political reflexes reminiscent of the Soviet past that it would prefer to set aside. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Tallinn.jpg" length="60015" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:51:41 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>OLIVER | Hangover | Cartoon (Der Standard, Vienna)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/472681-hangover</link><description><![CDATA[Hangover (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/oliver-hangover.jpg" length="55905" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:36:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Estonia | Tallinn builds up cyber army</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/461821-tallinn-builds-cyber-army</link><description><![CDATA[Concerned about the cyber assault on its institutions in 2007, Estonia has formed a volunteer cyber-army unit, the Cyber Defence League (CDL), to protect the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/14012011-Rzeczpospolita-100.jpg" length="16845" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:52:31 +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>Single Currency | Has Estonia boarded a sinking ship?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/446751-has-estonia-boarded-sinking-ship</link><description><![CDATA[On New Year&rsquo;s Day, Estonia became the 17th member of the eurozone. &ldquo;Switching to the euro isn&rsquo;t going to fundamentally change the lives of Estonians, [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:49:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Pharmaceutical industry | European guinea pigs</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/441931-european-guinea-pigs</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the next big step in globalisation, and there&rsquo;s good reason to wish that it wasn&#039;t,&rdquo; remarks Vanity Fair. American pharmaceuticals companies are increasingly testing [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:26:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Baltic states | Following Estonia's lead (Atgimimas, Vilnius)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/427171-following-estonia-s-lead</link><description><![CDATA[On 1st January, Estonia will become the first Baltic state to join the euro zone — a development which an Estonian political scientist believes will offer a strong motivation to neighbouring Latvia and Lithuania to follow in its footsteps and also encourage more cooperation between the three countries. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/baltic-cooperation.jpg" length="77991" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:05:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European of the Week | No downfall for Bruno Ganz (România libera, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/356761-no-downfall-bruno-ganz</link><description><![CDATA[Every year the European Film Academy honours a practitioner of the “seventh art” for the entirety of his or her past work. This year the lifetime achievement award goes to Swiss actor Bruno Ganz. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Bruno-Ganz.jpg" length="28522" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:43:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Fires | The ghost of Chernobyl again floating over Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/314611-ghost-chernobyl-again-floating-over-europe</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Natural catastrophes and nuclear energy: the danger has been pushed back&quot;, reads the headline of Die Tageszeitung, depicting the image of a Russian forest contaminated [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/12082010-Taz.jpg" length="11544" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:18:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Estonia | Crowns, euros, roubles... and chaos (Eesti Päevaleht, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/312711-crowns-euros-roubles-and-chaos</link><description><![CDATA[In the Estonian town of Narva, situated on the Russian border, the coming changeover to the euro (on 1 January, 2011) has already created discord among the members of the Russian-speaking community. It would seem that Tallinn authorities somehow neglected to inform them of this event, which has pleased bankers no end, as they extract a maximum of profit from the confusion surrounding the exchange rates of the crown, the euro and the rouble. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bridge-narva.jpg" length="34518" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:24:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Communications | OSCE warns of shrinking media freedoms</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/305021-osce-warns-shrinking-media-freedoms</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Media freedom is threatened in most European countries&rdquo;, headlines the EUobserver. The warning comes from the 56-member Organisation for Co-operation and Security in Europe (OSCE), [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/30072010-euobserver.jpg" length="9579" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:35:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Baltic states and the crisis (4) | Estonia, top of the class (Hospodářské noviny, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/254491-estonia-top-class</link><description><![CDATA[Notwithstanding the crisis, Estonia will almost certainly be the next state to join the eurozone in January 2011. In a bid to understand the secret of its success, Czech daily Hospodářské noviny examines the country&#039;s social and economic model. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Estonia-euro.jpg" length="166403" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 15:50:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Universities | Estonians see spies everywhere</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/246351-estonians-see-spies-everywhere</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Last month a conference of budding ethnologists and folklorists in Tartu was suddenly disrupted by two policemen,&rdquo; recounts Eesti P&auml;evaleht. The cops were snooping on [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100506eestipaevaleht_1.jpg" length="6464" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 16:53:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Baltic states and the crisis (1) | Running for the euro (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/231041-running-euro</link><description><![CDATA[The worst is over for the Baltic States. For the first time since the beginning of the financial crisis, Moody&#039;s has upped its ratings outlooks for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia: a sign that the three republics will soon be able to join the eurozone. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/baltic-states.JPG" length="129907" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:23:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Athens' neighbours anxious about aftermath (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/229491-athens-neighbours-anxious-about-aftermath</link><description><![CDATA[Several countries are on tenterhooks about the latest developments in the Greek economy, either because their economies are closely bound up with Athens’ or because they fear the Greek crisis will delay their accession to the eurozone. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/greece-albania-bulgaria.jpg" length="125193" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:08:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Estonia | Blank front pages fight anti-press laws</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/213791-blank-front-pages-fight-anti-press-laws</link><description><![CDATA[To protest a bill aimed at curtailing  press freedoms, three major Estonian dailies published blank front pages  in their March 18 editions, reports [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Postimees-19032010.jpg" length="32163" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:45:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Single currency | Euro, go east! (Handelsblatt, Düsseldorf)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/193751-euro-go-east</link><description><![CDATA[With its monetary union weakened by the crisis, the EU shouldn’t be afraid of enlarging the eurozone. Handelsblatt recommends rapidly integrating the more dynamic economies to the east, which have been scorned for too long as the weakest links in the system. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Eastern-euro.jpg" length="158049" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:49:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Baltic Sea | The big cleanup begins</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/189031-big-cleanup-begins</link><description><![CDATA[The countries bordering the Baltic Sea pledge to clean up what experts call the &ldquo;most polluted sea in the world&rdquo;, reports Helsingin Sanomat. At a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Helsingin-Sanomat-11022010.jpg" length="43344" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:44:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Estonia | Life&#039;s a gas on the Russian border (Postimees, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/182811-lifes-gas-russian-border</link><description><![CDATA[At the border crossing in the town of Narva, people queue for over two days to take advantage of cheaper petrol prices in Russia. With the Estonian economy faltering, small-time smuggling is on the rise. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/estonia-russia-gasoline.jpg" length="126831" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:17:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>ESTONIA | Get an e-life (Eesti Ekspress, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/152541-get-e-life</link><description><![CDATA[In politics, health care, education, Estonia has been in the vanguard of internet use in every area of public life for years now. But all this e-life could be taking its toll on real life, cautions an editorialist. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/e-stonia.jpg" length="137248" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:38:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Central and Eastern Europe | World Bank&#039;s forsees debt gloom</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/149681-world-banks-forsees-debt-gloom</link><description><![CDATA[Lean years are in the offing for Central and Eastern Europe, warns the World Bank in its latest report, cited by today&rsquo;s Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/091204-dziennik.jpg" length="6079" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:04:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Central and Eastern Europe | Some post-communist dos and don&#039;ts (Hospodářské noviny, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/148741-some-post-communist-dos-and-donts</link><description><![CDATA[Jobs, government, infrastructure: in the wake of 1989, the countries of the former communist block had to re-invent themselves. As Czech daily Hospodářské Noviny notes, the different strategies they chose resulted in some initiatives that were well-prepared and some that were wholly unsavoury. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/post-communist.jpg" length="181146" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:51:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU-Russia | Sweden pushed onto Baltic chessboard</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/139701-sweden-pushed-baltic-chessboard</link><description><![CDATA[The EU-Russian summit in Stockholm has prompted some reflections on Sweden&rsquo;s foreign and defence policy in the Svenska Dagbladet: &ldquo;Now that the Lisbon Treaty is [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Svenka-dagbladet-181109.JPG" length="39764" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:18:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Gas | Green light for Nord Stream</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/132781-green-light-nord-stream</link><description><![CDATA[Sweden and Finland&#039;s November 5th approval of the route of the future Nord Stream gas pipeline, which passes through their coastal waters, has set aside [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/dagens-nyheter-091106.jpg" length="7322" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:55:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Citizenship | Doing away with the national question (Postimees, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/111461-doing-away-national-question</link><description><![CDATA[Now that the borders have disappeared and its powerful Russian minority is calling for enfranchisement, Estonia is rethinking its concept of “cohabitation”. Postimees argues that this is something all countries should do, especially in light of latter-day immigration. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/citizenship-medal_0.jpg" length="43123" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:01:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Shipping  | Estonia turns its back on the sea</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/106061-estonia-turns-its-back-sea</link><description><![CDATA[Fifteen years after the MS Estonia cruise ferry sank in the Baltic Sea on 28 September 1994, claiming 852 lives, &ldquo;we still do not know [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:02:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Estonia | A man&#039;s place is now in the home (Eesti Päevaleht, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/101041-mans-place-now-home</link><description><![CDATA[Being a house husband is not always great fun for an Estonian. The economic crisis, which has mainly hit male occupations, is redefining roles within the family. Perhaps the time has come to strike a new balance, posits the Estonian daily Eesti Päevaleht. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/couple-estonnien.jpg" length="194744" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:14:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Spies still come in from the cold (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/86471-spies-still-come-cold</link><description><![CDATA[On the 17 August 2009, two members of the Russian embassy in Prague were charged with spying and expelled from the country. The very next day, two Czech diplomats working in Moscow were sent home in retaliation. This episode illustrates the lingering tensions between Russia and ex-satellite countries that have since joined the EU and NATO. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/spy-bridge.jpg" length="27223" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:12:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>History | Condemning totalitarianism of all colours (Revista 22, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/82381-condemning-totalitarianism-all-colours</link><description><![CDATA[The 23rd August is &quot;European Day of Rememberance for the Victims of Nazism and Stalinism&quot;, to condemn totalitarianism. A noble cause perhaps, but one which has provoked controversy in Russia, where Stalin is still a national hero. They point out that Russia in fact saved many lives threatened by Nazism. Yet the Russians remain cagey about their Soviet Union archives, a stumbling block for ex-Soviet states to really understand their totalitarian pasts. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/baltic-chain.jpg" length="36212" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:16:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Regional cooperation | Baltic Blues (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/77821-baltic-blues</link><description><![CDATA[Several years ago, the Baltic became the EU’s internal sea. But what kind of a sea is it? A shallow, closed, poor, one that divides rather than connects. On economic as well as environmental issues, the future of the Baltic states is bound in cooperation with neighbouring countries and with the European Union. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/baltic-fishing.jpg" length="43550" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:15:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Financial Crisis | Surprising change for developing countries</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/75741-surprising-change-developing-countries</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The economies of central Europe are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but Romania will not be at the front [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:12:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Central and Eastern Europe | Lean years are back (Gandul, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/74961-lean-years-are-back</link><description><![CDATA[The financial crisis in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, which until recently were posting record growth rates, has forced governments to slash budgets, starting with public service salaries — and cabinet ministers are leading the way. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/vaches-maigres.jpg" length="114951" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:42:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>National identity | Estonia&#039;s solidarity deficit (Postimees, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/65861-estonias-solidarity-deficit</link><description><![CDATA[On national holidays, Estonians band together under the flag, but everyday life in their country is often marked by a reluctance to communicate with strangers. For a columnist in the daily Postimees, it is a lack of sociability that has made Estonia one of the unhappiest countries in Europe. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/festival-danse-estonie.jpg" length="154418" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:02:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Estonia | New message : Hallo, you&#039;re fired</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/44141-new-message-hallo-youre-fired</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;It made it, the new employment contract law,&rdquo; announces Estonian daily Eesti P&auml;evaleht. The new legislation significantly loosens up dismissal notice requirements in the country: [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:35:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Estonia | A monumental fall out</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/34031-monumental-fall-out</link><description><![CDATA[Two years after a bronze statue of a Soviet soldier was moved amid vehement protests by the country&rsquo;s ethnic Russian minority, Estonia is now inaugurating [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:19:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cities | Tallinn, one hand in its pocket (Eesti Päevaleht, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/31641-tallinn-one-hand-its-pocket</link><description><![CDATA[In 2011, Tallinn becomes European capital of culture. Without money and above all without any ideas, all the Estonian capital has been doing is to keep a jealous on fellow Baltic capital Vilnius, in Lithuania, which has organised this event successfully. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Tallinn-traditions_1.jpg" length="72113" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:16:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
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