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                <language>en</language><item><title>Finland | Euroscepticism survives</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1490881-euroscepticism-survives</link><description><![CDATA[The EU has favourably greeted the election, on January 5, of pro-EU conservative Sauli Niinist&ouml; as President of Finland. He won against another Europhile, environmentalist [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:56:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Look behind you, Lucas and Mario (Financial Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1171901-look-behind-you-lucas-and-mario</link><description><![CDATA[The arrival of technocratic governments in Greece and Italy may well calm jittery markets, but could also help boost populist political parties who point to the democratic deficit at the heart of the EU, argues Gideon Rachman. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ingram-pinn.jpg" length="136300" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:07:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>With TINA at the helm | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/1136881-tina-helm</link><description><![CDATA[Ever since the debt crisis began to threaten the stability of the single currency, the &ldquo;Merkozy&rdquo; duo has taken over the bridge of the good ship Euro. Not by virtue of any agreement among the member states, but due to a simple conclusion: &ldquo;There Is No Alternative&rdquo; &ndash; T.I.N.A., to quote a certain Iron Lady.
Or perhaps there is. There&rsquo;s the European Commission, guardian of the treaties and of the &ldquo;economic government&rdquo; of the EU, as its President, Jose Manuel Barroso, recently repeated. But when it comes to the eurozone, it&rsquo;s the Eurogroup &ndash; the Ministers of Economy, i.e. national governments &ndash; that has taken over. Again, therefore, Paris and Berlin.
The recent appointment of European Council President Herman Van Rompuy as &ldquo;Mr. Euro&rdquo;, with the blessing of Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, strengthens the role of member states in the economic governance of &ldquo;Euroland&rdquo;, with Germany and France in the lead.
The catch is that this set-up isn&rsquo;t based on any agreement and that the decisions taken by &ldquo;Merkozy&rdquo; seem increasingly to be evading any debate, even within the eurozone itself. Indeed, no other country is able to influence the discussions or to act as counterweight to a steamroller increasingly unencumbered by courtesies when addressing one&rsquo;s peers, as shown by the angry and hostile tone in which the proposed referendum in Greece was greeted by &ldquo;Merkozy&rdquo;.
Among the other &ldquo;big&rdquo; countries, Italy, the third-largest economy in the eurozone, finds itself in the hot seat because of the precariousness of its government and its public finances. Meanwhile Spain, in the middle of an election campaign, is not out of the rut yet.&nbsp; 
Hammered by the debt crisis, they are, like Portugal and Ireland, well distant from the &ldquo;triple A&rdquo; of the rating agencies that seems to confer supernatural powers on countries that still have it. Which, incidentally, explains why the French president is obsessed with keeping his country in the most prized circle of the moment. In the eurozone, the other members of this triple-A club &ndash; Austria, Finland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands &ndash; either pack a light punch or are aligned with the Franco-German duo.
While Merkel and Sarkozy may be able to avoid the most threatening whirlpools, however, they seem to have no clear idea of where they want to steer the good ship Euro &ndash; and they have no mandate for it either. This lack of clarity and legitimacy weighs heavily over the uncharted course of the crisis and gives the impression that they&rsquo;re navigating by sight. Steering through the storm, we&rsquo;re not willing to hand the helm over unless those who take it can guide the ship and crew safely to harbour.
Translated from the French by Anton Baer
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:41:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU not out of the woods | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/1112671-eu-not-out-woods</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;With the exception of the creation of eurobonds, we got everything we were expecting&quot;. If the banker quoted by Le Monde  is to believed, the agreement reached on the night of 26-27 October on  the devaluation of Greek debt, the recapitalisation of the banks, and  the reinforcement of the European Financial Stability Facility will be  enough to resolve the Eurozone crisis. 
However,  the experience of previous agreements hammered out after difficult  negotiations should encourage us to hedge our bets. Markets move in  mysterious ways, and there is a risk that this latest summit will have  been for nothing. With this in mind, it is still too early to draw any  conclusions as to its final outcome. 
However,  in a context where the response of European leaders was informed by the  fact that the fate of the EU was at stake, a quick look at the European  political landscape in the wake of the October 23 and 26 summits should be sufficient to tell us  that the political crisis, which was obscured by the financial crisis,  is only beginning. 
As  many commentators have noted, we are now embarked on a path towards the  greater integration of the Eurozone, and this is a move which will  generate a lot of uncertainty.
The  highly publicised discussions between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy  have demonstrated that the Paris-Berlin axis is once again the main  motor of Europe. But we are no longer in a Europe with just six or 12  member states, and this motor will have less horsepower in the wake of  successive EU enlargements and the creation of powerful internal  organisations like the European Central Bank. 
The  spat between Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron, and the Commons debate  on a UK referendum to decide on Britain&rsquo;s membership of the EU are  evidence that London is also seeking to redefine its role in what is now  a shifting architecture. &quot;Merkozy&quot; will be uneager to offer concessions  to the British, who have exerted a long-standing influence on the  liberal development of the European Commission, without assuming all the  political responsibilities that this would imply. 
However,  the UK is not the only country to wonder about its role in Europe. The  nine other EU members which are not in the euro, and in particular  Poland and Sweden, are already grumbling about the inception of what  will become a two-speed Europe. The Schengen Area and initiatives for  European defence have already set a precedent for EU initiatives with a  variable geometry. But they do not involve such a developed level of  governance as the one implied by the control of national budgets and the  appointment of a European minister of finance. 
And  here, we are touching on the main point about the instability to come:  the economic government that Berlin and Paris are aiming to establish,  with support from the Netherlands and Finland, will affect the  sovereignty of states and raise the question of democratic control  &ndash;  an  issue raised by sociologist J&uuml;rgen Habermas in a forthcoming essay from  which Presseurop has published a number of extracts.
From  this point of view, the EU has now embarked on a dangerous transition,  in which its leaders will have to demonstrate their political  effectiveness and at the same time keep an eye on the practicalities of  democracy: especially when you consider that the ratification process  for the 21 July agreement has already shown that national parliaments  are very slow when they are required to respond to financial markets.&nbsp; 
Worse still, as Timothy Garton Ash pointed out this week  in his analysis of the debates in the UK and German parliaments,  national democracies are expressing conflicting demands that have caused  the EU to stall.&nbsp; 
But  given that no one is ready to establish a European democracy based on a  parliament that is elected from transnational lists which take up a  position on transnational debates, decisions will continue to be taken  by political leaders who meet behind closed doors, and they will  continue to be approved by parliaments that have been first and foremost  elected to deal with national issues. The euro may be saved, &nbsp;but the  EU is still not out of the woods.
Translated from the French by Mark McGovern
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:22:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Finland will pay for Greece</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1024451-finland-will-pay-greece</link><description><![CDATA[After  weeks of talks, Finland has obtained financial guarantees from Greece  for its participation in the European Stability Mechanism (the ESM is  [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Helsingin-sanomat-05102011-100.jpg" length="36749" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:05:17 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Nokia ducks out, thanks to Apple</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1008821-nokia-ducks-out-thanks-apple</link><description><![CDATA[Nokia is closing its plant in Jucu, in Transylvania. The announcement made on September 28 will take effect before year&rsquo;s end and will see 2,200 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110930adevarul.jpg" length="7977" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:54:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Finland | Finland says yes to European stability fund</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1004601-finland-says-yes-european-stability-fund</link><description><![CDATA[A bill to reinforce the European Financial Stability Facility was adopted by the Finnish Parliament on September 28, by 103 votes to 66. The first [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Helsingin-Sanomat-29092011-100.jpg" length="37988" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:42:09 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Shifting borders | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/981821-shifting-borders</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;In Europe, principles are not what  they once were,&quot; writes Rom&acirc;nia libera  on the eve of the meeting of European ministers. On September 22, the  ministers decided to postpone the accession of Romania and Bulgaria  to the Schengen area, having failed to reach a compromise with the Netherlands  and Finland, which are demanding more guarantees in the fight against  corruption and crime. In Bucharest and Sofia the governments feel betrayed,  as they feel they had worked hard to do just what was asked of them  &ndash; in vain.&nbsp;
Beyond the national perspective, however,  everything today indicates that Europe has become a kind of labyrinth  in which no one recognises his own borders. The external frontiers,  the Schengen area, pressed hard on their Greek or Italian flanks, are  reinforced on one side with barbed wire (between Greece and Turkey)  or with increased sea patrols (in the Mediterranean) &ndash; all without any  guidelines having been drawn up at European level.
Internal borders, which theoretically are now largely symbolic administrative  lines, are in turn subject to manoeuvring that undermines the very principle  of free movement throughout the area. Denmark has restored its border  controls, ostensibly to fight cross-border crime, and France has done  the same to prevent Tunisians from crossing over from Italy. Finally,  other borders, these ones political, forced up by domestic issues, are  popping up where they were not necessarily expected: in the Netherlands,  in Finland and in Denmark, pushed for by Geert Wilders and his party,  by the &quot;True Finns&quot;, and by the Danish People&#039;s Party. &nbsp;
&ldquo;I blame Europe and Italy for  being asleep, for not being aware of the nationalist and centrifugal  forces that are tugging it apart.  We have not remembered the lesson from the Balkans: it&#039;s enough simply  to identify an enemy of the people for a people short of reference points  to take it on as truth,&rdquo; writes the Italian Paolo Rumiz  in his book On the Frontiers of Europe (ed. Hoebeke, 2011). He  might have added that it risks abandoning part of its soul to wander  between these more or less shifting borders, and lose itself.&nbsp;
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:58:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Economic crisis | Youthful members of the full-time precariat (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/953511-youthful-members-full-time-precariat</link><description><![CDATA[The crisis has accelerated the emergence of a new social class in Europe. Dubbed &quot;the precariat&quot; by sociologists, it is made up of young people with no prospect of a decent job or a reasonable standard of living. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/precarita.jpg" length="207636" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:40:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Poor accounting in Helsinki (Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/888681-poor-accounting-helsinki</link><description><![CDATA[Finland set a dangerous precedent for Europe by requiring, for purely political reasons, that  Greece guarantees the loan to redress its finances. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/finlande-eco1.jpg" length="24439" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:24:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Finland destabilizes bailout plan</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/869981-finland-destabilizes-bailout-plan</link><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Finland puts bomb under EU bailout plans&rsquo;, headlines De Volkskrant, reporting on Finland&#039;s demand that Greece put up collateral against Helsinki&#039;s participation in the Greek [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/19082011-DeVolkskrant-100.jpg" length="12476" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:53:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Finland | Katainen forms compromise government</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/734771-katainen-forms-compromise-government</link><description><![CDATA[For the new Finnish government, &ldquo;the endurance test has begun,&rdquo; headlines Lapin Kansa, following the inauguration of the government led by conservative Jyrki Katainen. Constructed [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/lapin-kansa-23062011-100.jpg" length="43052" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:56:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Finland | Nokia: communications breakdown? (Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/732311-nokia-communications-breakdown</link><description><![CDATA[The mobile phone manufacturer is a source of national pride, but it&#039;s struggling to keep pace with the competition. This highlights a technology gap that that has become a handicap for the entire country. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/nokia-finland.jpg" length="144448" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:27:46 +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>Debate | Transatlantic populism (De Morgen, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/640521-transatlantic-populism</link><description><![CDATA[The rise of populist parties on the Old Continent seems to echo the success of the Tea Party in the United States. But the two movements have different histories, writes the Boston correspondent for De Morgen. The result, though, is the same: governments threatened with paralysis. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/krauze-populism.jpg" length="15356" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 18:12:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Democratic test | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/614191-democratic-test</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We, the people&rdquo;: the European Constitutional  Treaty has often been criticised for overlooking this inspiring opening  sentence of the U.S. Constitution. What that appears to suggest is a  lack of democracy in the European Union. Today, the people are speaking  out, and their message is a hard one for Europe&rsquo;s leaders to hear.
On April 17, nearly 20 percent of Finns voted for a  eurosceptic party opposed to financial support for Eurozone countries  in difficulty. A year before the presidential election in France, the  leader of the National Front, Marine Le Pen, has every chance of making  it through to the second round. Her programme: dumping the euro,  protectionism and closing the borders. In the Netherlands, under  pressure from the popular Geert Wilders, the government is going after  tougher conditions for residency for foreigners, including nationals of  the European Union. And it is partly to limit electoral damage that  Angela Merkel has tightened up the conditions for German participation  in stabilising the euro zone.
For the last fifteen or twenty years the  anti-Europeans have been on the margins and extremist parties were a  problem primarily within national borders; even the crisis caused by the  J&ouml;rg Haider party taking seats in Austria&rsquo;s government had few ripples  across Europe. But today, in contending for power or as players that  cannot be shut out from national governments, these groups, which are  attracting more and more voters, are weighing heavily on the overall  functioning of the European Union.
Not federal enough to act in a coordinated manner  or to remain independent of the political calculations of member states,  and yet too federal to build close links to citizens, the EU finds  itself in an unprecedented bind: the political trend that is developing  flies in the face of what, ever since the Second World War, it has  considered its values ​​&ndash; and what seemed to be the inevitable course of  history. For our national and European leaders, the challenge is an immense one.
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:00:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Unworthy of ourselves (De Morgen, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/613771-unworthy-ourselves</link><description><![CDATA[What is the source of the obnoxious atmosphere sweeping across Europe? At a time when populations are more and more inward looking and political leaders irresponsible, Europe is increasingly a cause for scandal. A Belgian columnist sets the record straight. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/krauze-class.jpg" length="35986" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:02:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Populism | Springtime for the anti-euro brigades (Berliner Zeitung, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/607541-springtime-anti-euro-brigades</link><description><![CDATA[The success of the True Finns party in the Finnish general elections is further proof that eurosceptics are making themselves increasingly heard on a European as well as a national scale. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/anti-euro.jpg" length="34977" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:58:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Finland | What can the True Finns truly do? (Aamulehti, Tampere)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/604761-what-can-true-finns-truly-do</link><description><![CDATA[The 19 percent won by the True Finns on April 17 is a political earthquake for the Finns and a worry for the rest of Europe. But the party of Timo Soini will have to negotiate to impose its ideas, and stay united through the inevitable compromises. This will not happen all by itself, observes the daily Aamulehti. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/finland-balloon.jpg" length="29667" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:43:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone | Finns to decide fate of euro rescue</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/600991-finns-decide-fate-euro-rescue</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Finns threaten euro rescue plans,&rdquo; headlines Financial Times Deutschland.  Referring to the European Financial Stability Facility, the German  business daily explains that general [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110415ftd.jpg" length="6753" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:50:52 +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>Far right | Timo Soini, True Finn in sheep&#039;s clothing (Fokus, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/541411-timo-soini-true-finn-sheeps-clothing</link><description><![CDATA[With two months left to run before general elections, the anti-immigration, eurosceptic populist leader is moving ahead in the polls. Taking advantage of a nice-guy image, Timo Soini could undermine Finland’s political establishment. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Timo-Soini_0.jpg" length="105835" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:56:28 +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>PISA ranking | Even Finland has dunces</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/420971-even-finland-has-dunces</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;One in ten schoolboys has difficulty reading,&rdquo; reports Aamulehti. In the wake of the publication of the OECD&rsquo;s PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) survey [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/101208aamulehti.jpg" length="7482" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:26:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Alliances | Nordic countries huddle together (EUobserver.com, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/418891-nordic-countries-huddle-together</link><description><![CDATA[As the world gets bigger, and the rush for the resources beneath the Artic sea intensifies, the countries of Europe’s far North are seeking common cause. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Finlander-bear-Pye.jpg" length="117524" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:18:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Far Right | The fear factor (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/343311-fear-factor</link><description><![CDATA[The Sweden Democrats’ breakthrough at the polls on 19 September is no anomaly: throughout northern European, in societies hitherto admired for their tolerance and cohesion, overtly xenophobic parties are now riding a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/far-right-sweden.jpg" length="54120" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:35:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Nuclear Energy | The great atomic bluff (Internazionale, Rome)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/230651-great-atomic-bluff</link><description><![CDATA[Constant hold-ups, skyrocketing costs, faulty construction…Finland’s new Olkiluoto reactor, touted as the great white hope for Europe’s nuclear sector, is looking more and more like a great white elephant – and casting a fat black shadow over the whole industry. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/epr-olkiluoto_0.jpg" length="41387" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:31:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Agencies | Too many, too much (La Tribune, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/216901-too-many-too-much</link><description><![CDATA[Immigration, fisheries, GMOs… 28 agencies are supposed to provide support for EU member states and their citizens. But they are being criticized for their high running costs and poor management practice. La Tribune reports on the issues that Brussels is planning to set right. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/organismes-europeens-fraude_0.jpg" length="38638" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:35:16 +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>Discrimination | Roma and Africans not welcome</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/153501-roma-and-africans-not-welcome</link><description><![CDATA[Times are hard for Europe&#039;s minorities. According to a newly published EU-MIDIS survey from the European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), certain communities suffer more than [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Irish-examiner-101209.JPG" length="39374" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:30:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>CAP | The great European sugar swindle (International Herald Tribune, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/137561-great-european-sugar-swindle</link><description><![CDATA[Nowhere in the world is sugar more expensive than in the European Union. There are two reasons for this – generous CAP subsidies that prop up this €7bn industry…and lucrative scams perpetrated by the beneficiaries, Europe’s own sugar companies. A report from the International Herald Tribune. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/sugar-spoon.jpg" length="31874" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:47:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Gas | Gazprom makes offers no-one refuses (Polska The Times, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/136041-gazprom-makes-offers-no-one-refuses</link><description><![CDATA[Current or former heads of government, European commissioners, national energy company chiefs — in Brussels, the Russian energy giant has fielded a formidable team of lobbyists to defend its interests and projects, which are not always compatible with European initiatives. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/gazprom.jpg" length="118390" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:50:07 +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>Scandinavia | Putting our eggs in the Nordic basket (Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/129141-putting-our-eggs-nordic-basket</link><description><![CDATA[Timed to coincide with the main session of the Nordic Council, Swedish historian Gunnar Wetterberg&#039;s proposal to unite the five states of northern Europe under one symbolic monarch, was launched by Stockholm daily Dagens Nyheter on October 27. Although it has failed to achieve unanimous support, it has caused a stir in the national press. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/union-nordique_3.jpg" length="26800" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:19:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Winter of discontent (Adevărul, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/122601-winter-discontent</link><description><![CDATA[Hard hit by the economic crisis, and without a government since mid-October, Romania has fallen on hard times, to the point where some of its institutions have been left without electricity. While politicians battle to gain control of the government, the gap in living standards between the country and other states in the EU continues to widen. The editor of Adevarul looks on in dispair. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/froid-hiver-roumanie.jpg" length="122703" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:33:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Electricity | Is the nuclear industry in meltdown? (Der Spiegel, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/121101-nuclear-industry-meltdown</link><description><![CDATA[Politicians and electric company executives the world over are dreaming of a “nuclear renaissance”. But a spate of hitches at Olkiluoto 3, the new flagship reactor in Finland, go to show that this is not on the cards, believes Der Spiegel, which also doubts that modernising old nuclear power stations is a viable alternative. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Doel-central.jpg" length="95926" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:33:21 +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>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>Poland | Warsaw turns to nuclear</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/50811-warsaw-turns-nuclear</link><description><![CDATA[Poland is making plans for its first ever nuclear power plant. Warsaw daily Polska has learned that the Ministry of Finance is inviting energy companies [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:13:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Iran | Nokia-Siemens and the Mullahs</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/40471-nokia-siemens-and-mullahs</link><description><![CDATA[In June, it was revealed that in 2008 Nokia-Siemens Networks sold Iran technology the regime has since used to analyse and censor information on the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Die-tageszeitung-290609.jpg" length="10595" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:32:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Iranian Elections | Nokia-Siemens accused in censorship row</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/36411-nokia-siemens-accused-censorship-row</link><description><![CDATA[Now that Iran has activated its digital arsenal to prevent the free circulation of news, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) finds itself at the centre of [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:19:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
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