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                <language>en</language><item><title>Trade | German exports soar, but not for long</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1494381-german-exports-soar-not-long</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Germany exporting more than ever,&quot; boasts German daily S&uuml;ddeutsche Zeitung. Despite the crisis, &quot;the German economy exported over &euro;1 trillion in 2011,&quot; the paper says. [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:30:09 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Garage Europe | Cartoon (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1491681-garage-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Garage Europe (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/pepsch-greece-490_0.jpg" length="118145" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:10:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cultural heritage | How Europe hawks its monuments (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1491121-how-europe-hawks-its-monuments</link><description><![CDATA[As Greece pimps its ancient monuments to bring in the tourists, lovers of cultural heritage are up in arms. But the country is only doing openly what the whole of Europe is: looting historic sites to drum up more ready cash. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/germany-parthenon.jpg" length="180647" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>France-Germany | Merkel seeks to save marriage of convenience</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1487271-merkel-seeks-save-marriage-convenience</link><description><![CDATA[With 80 days left to run before the first round of French presidential elections, the German Chancellor has joined the campaign alongside her most precious ally in Europe,  Nicolas Sarkozy — an initiative judged risky on both sides of the Rhine. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/SCHOT_merkozy.jpg" length="80021" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:51:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Angela's commandments | Cartoon (The Economist, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1477441-angela-s-commandments</link><description><![CDATA[Angela's commandments (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/shrank-slate.jpg" length="37233" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:36:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Call us Nazis if it makes you happy (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1476831-call-us-nazis-if-it-makes-you-happy</link><description><![CDATA[“Hitler”, “Occupying Power&quot; – it’s always the same. Berlin is asserting its stance on the euro crisis and, in turn, is being abused with comparisons to the Nazis. Die Zeit ponders how Germans should respond. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/protest-nazi.jpg" length="32461" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:35:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Beijing tells Merkel "to do her homework"</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1476751-beijing-tells-merkel-do-her-homework</link><description><![CDATA[Angela Merkel was outgunned in Beijing. &ldquo;People&rsquo;s Republic of China gets rid of Chancellor,&rdquo; headines Handelsblatt,  in its report on Angela Merkel&rsquo;s three-day visit [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:10:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany-China | At the market in Beijing | Cartoon (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1474351-market-beijing</link><description><![CDATA[At the market in Beijing (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/Horsch-Merkel-China.jpg" length="49520" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:23:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Economy | Sarkozy fascinated by German model</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1473991-sarkozy-fascinated-german-model</link><description><![CDATA[A probable candidate for re-election, the French President seems intent on proposing an economic project calqued on the German model — a strategy which has surprised the French press. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/SCHNEIDER_merkozy.jpg" length="107306" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:03:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Council | Locomotive | Cartoon (Le Temps, Geneva)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1464991-locomotive</link><description><![CDATA[Locomotive (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/CHAPPATTE-allemagne-490.jpg" length="138515" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:59:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Council | Angela Merkel has gone too far</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1464371-angela-merkel-has-gone-too-far</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The woman who went out into the cold&rdquo;: the expression in S&uuml;ddeutsche Zeitung refers to the undeniably frosty reception for Angela Merkel&rsquo;s performance at the [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:08:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | No-one wants a German budget commissar</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1460271-no-one-wants-german-budget-commissar</link><description><![CDATA[The idea of pinning the second Greek bail-out on the acceptance by Athens of supervision by a European budget commissioner, a German proposal unveiled on the eve of the January 30 European Council meeting, is nothing less than a violation of state sovereignty, according to the European press. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/merkel_papademos_0.jpg" length="247222" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:02:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy | Relax, Germans! (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1460071-relax-germans</link><description><![CDATA[Italy has long cursed Germany as a know-it-all, and yet respects it as the head of the class. With the arrival of the very proper Mr Monti this is changing, and Berlin will have to get used to some lessons from Rome. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Monti-Merkel.jpg" length="69756" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:28:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Go for it, Angela | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/1451031-go-it-angela</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;My vision is one of political union&rdquo;: the remark made by Angela Merkel in an interview granted to the Europa  supplement produced by six European dailies is worth noting for several  reasons. The German Chancellor had already spoken of this objective on  the occasion of the CDU party conference but not with such clarity. This time she offered details of the future union&rsquo;s institutional architecture.
First  and foremost, it is noteworthy because it effectively answers a  question that we have been asking for some time. Do European leaders,  and in particular Europe&rsquo;s most influential leader, have a vision for  the future of the EU? The procrastination and improvised initiatives  that have become a feature of the debt crisis appear to indicate the  opposite.
Secondly,  it is noteworthy because it featured in an unprecedented joint  publication which presented the Chancellor&rsquo;s &ldquo;vision&rdquo; to ten million  European readers, and in particular to her European partners, and it is  also addressed to them, which brings us to a third point. Now that she  has finally explained where she wants to steer the EU, it is time for  Mrs Merkel to embark on the &ldquo;long process&rdquo; she has described.
However,  this will imply a change in attitude, because Berlin&rsquo;s reluctance to  support some of the key measures to overcome the crisis cited by its  partners  &ndash;  Eurobonds, the reinforcement of the European Central Bank and  the European Financial Stability Facility  &ndash;  and its stubborn demand for  diziplin  and budgetary austerity at a time when the weaker members of the EU are  stranded in the doldrums do not demonstrate a desire for greater unity.
However,  if Mrs Merkel proves to be as effective at convincing European leaders  to accept her &ldquo;vision&rdquo; as she has been at imposing her line on the  crisis, this political union is likely to see the light of of day. Which  is why we almost feel like saying: go for it, Angela.
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:54:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Save the euro - get rid of Germany (The Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1449971-save-euro-get-rid-germany</link><description><![CDATA[By foisting fiscal austerity on its Eurozone partners while stubbornly refusing an enhanced role for the ECB, and greater mutual support on national debt, Germany is a greater hindrance than a help to the single currency, argues Anatole Kaletsky. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/brookes-merkel.jpg" length="44179" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:54:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Ingo Schulze - 10 theses about the crisis (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1451011-ingo-schulze-10-theses-about-crisis</link><description><![CDATA[It is the madness that has become self-evident: for years, the public sphere has been plundered and democracy ruined. The German writer Ingo Schulze has had enough. Here he sets out ten reasons to take himself seriously again. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/beppegiacobbe-cloud.jpg" length="32805" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:43:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Underground Europe | Cartoon (Cicero, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1447071-underground-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Underground Europe (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/Mohr-hungary-UE-490.jpg" length="53539" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:03:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Davos ski-lift | Cartoon (24 heures, Lausanne)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1440781-davos-ski-lift</link><description><![CDATA[Davos ski-lift (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/BURKI-davos-490_0.jpg" length="95931" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:02:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | The Greek trap (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1436611-greek-trap</link><description><![CDATA[In Athens, the war of nerves over the debt haircut is nearing a finale. The negotiations between private creditors and the government, however, are taking some dangerous stumbles. Before Greece gets €130 billion in aid, it must show some success with its reforms. And that, with all the good will in the world, cannot be achieved. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/BLEIBEL_grece.jpg" length="113991" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:44:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Berlin police hooked on mobile phones</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1436461-berlin-police-hooked-mobile-phones</link><description><![CDATA[Since  2008, the Berlin police has collected data on 4.2 million mobile phone  connections, reports German daily Tageszeitung. Most of the data has [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/taz-24012012-100.JPG" length="39137" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:52:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | After the downgrades comes the downward spiral (Financial Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1399301-after-downgrades-comes-downward-spiral</link><description><![CDATA[In the wake of the collective downgrading of 9 eurozone countries, including France, it’s become clear that the EU’s policy of rescue funds coupled with fiscal austerity has exhausted itself. It’s time for Angela Merkel and her partners to find a credible outcome, writes Wolfgang Münchau. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bojesen-stocks.jpg" length="20164" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:11:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | France relegated to 2nd division (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1399761-france-relegated-2nd-division</link><description><![CDATA[Standard &amp; Poor&#039;s 13 January downgrade of France’s credit rating is a double blow: Nicolas Sarkozy and his presidential election rivals will come under even greater pressure from the markets while the North-South divide in Europe has grown significantly wider. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bertrand-aaa.jpg" length="18731" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:30:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ménage à trois | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/1391991-menage-trois</link><description><![CDATA[Changes  are afoot in Europe. If the initial signs are anything to go by, the  &ldquo;Merkozy&rdquo; duo, which took de facto control of the eurozone when the debt  crisis became a threat to the survival of the single currency, has been shaken up by the arrival a third musketeer. 
Appointed  at the last minute, when Italy was on the brink of default and  threatening to sink the euro, Mario Monti appears to be determined to  restore Rome&rsquo;s position  &ndash;  neglected during the reign of his predecessor,  Silvio Berlusconi, who had neither the credibility or the desire to  represent the interests of the eurozone&rsquo;s third largest economy  &ndash;  in the  vanguard of Europe.
Feted  by the Italian press, the entrance of the former European commissioner,  who, unlike Silvio Berlusconi, benefits from remarkable prestige  abroad, has been good news in many respects. First and foremost, it is  good news because the entente between Berlin and Paris has been prompted  by the need for a response to the crisis rather than by any elective  affinity between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy. The German  Chancellor and the French President have never presented any collective  vision for the future of the euro or Europe likely to inspire the rank  and file of their European partners. On the contrary, they have always  given the impression that they are playing by ear.
Secondly,  because a further addition to Euroland&rsquo;s &ldquo;executive board&rdquo; will make it  more representative by increasing its albeit limited legitimacy.  Finally, it will help to establish a balance: as economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi noted on the occasion of the recent Sarkozy-Monti meeting in Paris, France will now have an ally  in its dealings with Germany, which to date, whether it be voluntary or  not, has continued to predominate and to impose its preferred solution  to the crisis  &ndash; &nbsp; discipline and austerity  &ndash;  on its European partners.
And  with regard to austerity, Mario Monti, like Nicolas Sarkozy, is  insisting that his country has suffered enough, and that growth should  now be the priority. Through the European Financial Stability Facility  and the European Central Bank, the EU is supposed to be the driving  force behind this growth, and Germany has been asked not to stand in the  way. This is a vision that is shared the countries of Southern Europe  &ndash;   and in particular by Spain  &ndash;  for which &ldquo;Il Professore&rdquo; has become  something of a spokesman, notably on the occasion of his warning to Germany about the resentment that could be provoked by an excessive rigidity on the part of Berlin.
However,  the trio that is now emerging still remains fragile: Sarkozy will have  to fight for a new mandate in April, while Merkel must justify her  policies to an increasingly weak coalition, and Monti, who is unelected,  depends on an eclectic majority whose members (notably the  Berlusconians and the Northern League) could &ldquo;pull out&rdquo; if there is any  prospect that they might regain control. So, regardless of its  abilities, the new trio will have little time rescue Europe from the  ongoing crisis. And perhaps this is a blessing, because measures to  ensure the survival of the euro are now a matter of urgency.
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:07:29 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Monti takes on Merkozy</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1387691-monti-takes-merkozy</link><description><![CDATA[Two days after French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit, Mario Monti traveled to Berlin on 11 January for discussions on saving the Eurozone with Angela Merkel. The Italian PM, who advocates a more flexible approach to the crisis, succeeded in obtaining the support of the German Chancellor. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/monti-strasbourg.jpg" length="29440" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:19:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | The battle goes on | Cartoon (De Groene Amsterdammer, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1386951-battle-goes</link><description><![CDATA[The battle goes on (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/bertrams-battle.jpg" length="32671" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:53:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Arms industry | Greece still splashes out billions on defence (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1383501-greece-still-splashes-out-billions-defence</link><description><![CDATA[Frigates, tanks and submarines: Greece may be teetering on the brink, but the bite of austerity hasn’t come near its military. And Germany is profiting from it. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/greece-army.jpg" length="35066" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:08:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>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>Finance | Tobin tax: Sarkozy rides alone</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1374541-tobin-tax-sarkozy-rides-alone</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Tobin Tax: Just bluffing,&quot; headlines French financial daily La Tribune following assurances by French President Nicolas Sarkozy that France &quot;will not wait for the other [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/LaTribune-01092012-v.jpg" length="12691" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:07:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Bailouts | Against all the rules (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1365941-against-all-rules</link><description><![CDATA[He who makes mistakes must pay the price. Ever since the crisis erupted five years ago, this key law of the market economy has been trampled on. Politicians must now decide between prosperity and morality, writes Die Zeit. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bank-rules.jpg" length="65876" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:36:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Still living in Lenin Street (Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1355581-still-living-lenin-street</link><description><![CDATA[Twenty-one years after German reunification, many streets and squares of the former GDR are still named communist grandees. For a number of former dissidents and a journalist from Gazeta Wyborcza, it’s a puzzling phenomonen. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/film-lenin.jpg" length="19944" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:15:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | President Wulff hanging by a thread</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1349831-president-wulff-hanging-thread</link><description><![CDATA[The net is tightening on Germany&rsquo;s Federal President. Propelled into office against the wishes of public opinion by Angela Merkel in 2010, the very discreet [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Handelsblatt-01032012-v.jpg" length="10652" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:20:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Does doom await in 2012? (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1346951-does-doom-await-2012</link><description><![CDATA[In the wake of a terrible year in 2011, the worst may be yet to come warns political analyst José Ignacio Torreblanca. The crisis could force EU member states to choose between Greece and Great Britain. And once again, everything will be decided in Germany. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Casandra-2012.jpg" length="36336" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:16:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | The new 2012 calendar | Cartoon (24 heures, Lausanne)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1314011-new-2012-calendar</link><description><![CDATA[The new 2012 calendar (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/BURKI_NOEL-490.jpg" length="105034" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:00:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Interview | Andrzej Stasiuk's European lesson (Wprost, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1319171-andrzej-stasiuk-s-european-lesson</link><description><![CDATA[Why do the Germans and the Poles have a hard time getting along? How does one recognise a Pole? Is there a way to help Germany better &quot;dominate&quot; the EU? A hard to pigeon-hole Polish writer provides some leads. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Andrzej-Stasiuk-A.jpg" length="52856" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:00:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Euro | The birth of the divine currency | Cartoon (Neues Deutschland, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1325631-birth-divine-currency</link><description><![CDATA[The birth of the divine currency (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/ hachfeld xmasjpg.jpg" length="48029" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:00:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Employment | Germany welcomes working immigrants</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1324311-germany-welcomes-working-immigrants</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Welcome to Germany&rdquo;, announces Handelsblatt. &ldquo;For the first time in decades, the number of people arriving in Germany has exceeded the number of those leaving.&rdquo; [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:54:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Diplomacy | Who to call in Europe | Cartoon (Liberté, Alger)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1318621-who-call-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Who to call in Europe (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/dilem_tel-europe-490.jpg" length="69420" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:53:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Entente discordiale | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1307441-entente-discordiale</link><description><![CDATA[Entente discordiale (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/SCHRANK_2011-12-16-b-M.jpg" length="73338" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:34:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Xenophobia | Florence murders - crisis distills its poison (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1289151-florence-murders-crisis-distills-its-poison</link><description><![CDATA[The murder of two Senegalese traders in Florence is the latest manifestation of an upsurge of hatred in Europe. With the Utøya massacre, the vehement reactions to the Greek crisis, British isolationism and the rise of the extreme right, this trend has many forms — all of them equally alarming. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/italy-shooting.jpg" length="28465" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:04:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Europe's seven deadly sins (1/2) (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1287951-europe-s-seven-deadly-sins-12</link><description><![CDATA[The politicians of Europe love to flourish the flag of Community togetherness. But in their day-to-day politicking they give the lie to their supposed virtues. Die Zeit has compiled a cheat-sheet of national egotisms that are harming the Community. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bosch-gluttony.jpg" length="45845" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:50:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Transnistria | Stooges' ballot in Tiraspol (România libera, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1268081-stooges-ballot-tiraspol</link><description><![CDATA[The secessionist region of Moldova is to hold presidential elections on 11 December — a vote that will be marked by a strange bargain between its Russian protector and Germany, which aims to resolve a conflict that has been deadlocked for 20 years. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/tiraspol-statue_4.jpg" length="39416" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:44:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | Union of fear</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1267821-union-fear</link><description><![CDATA[For the first time since the start of the debt crisis, Greece has not been at the centre of discussions at the European Council. But [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:37:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Council | Unity dearly bought (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1268111-unity-dearly-bought</link><description><![CDATA[Without doubt, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have taken a big step nearer their goal of a fiscal union. But at what price? Britain remains outside it. The salvation or the disintegration of the Union is now approaching. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/cameron-flag.jpg" length="21933" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:21:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | Goodbye Britain</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1267001-goodbye-britain</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;27-member Europe is finished,&quot; headlines Le Monde, in the wake of the agreement concluded in Brussels by the 17 Eurozone states and six other European [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/111209lemonde.jpg" length="6528" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:43:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Sarko, Merko, Euro | Cartoon (The New York Times, New York)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1263401-sarko-merko-euro</link><description><![CDATA[Sarko, Merko, Euro (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/DANZIGER-490_0.jpg" length="40924" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:55:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Farewell sweet sovereignty... (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1262391-farewell-sweet-sovereignty</link><description><![CDATA[If approved by the Twenty-Seven, the fiscal union proposed by Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy would be a decisive new stage on the path to European federalism. But are all willing to pay the price: the surrender of the budgetary autonomy of states? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Europe-sovereignism.jpg" length="126483" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:50:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Schengen | For a Europe of borders</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1262801-europe-borders</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;EU countries are clinging to border controls&rdquo;, writes the Financial Times Deutschland as it sums up the views most member states take on the proposal [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/FTD-100.JPG" length="35727" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:38:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | The economic order that inspires Merkel (Libération, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1262991-economic-order-inspires-merkel</link><description><![CDATA[Angela Merkel’s drive to impose discipline and sanctions in the Eurozone is not a bid to establish German hegemony, but simply an extension of the economic doctrine that provided the basis for Germany’s economic miracle: “ordoliberalism”. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Chapatte-mere-fouettarde_0.jpg" length="113227" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:26:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Economy | Portugal, glittering prize for emerging nations (Expresso, Lisbon)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1255321-portugal-glittering-prize-emerging-nations</link><description><![CDATA[To cut its debt, Portugal’s government has embarked on a far-reaching privatisation program. Brazilian, Chinese and Angolans are the main candidates for taking over its national enterprises. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/portugal_0.jpg" length="82387" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:33:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Who will follow Merkel and Sarkozy?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1255171-who-will-follow-merkel-and-sarkozy</link><description><![CDATA[At a 5 December meeting in Paris, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy agreed on a plan to save the euro from catastrophe, which they will be asking the EU’s 27 member states to approve at a summit on 8-9 December. The European press, however, thinks they’re not out of the woods yet. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/SCHRANK_Merkozy.jpg" length="98964" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:13:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
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