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                <language>en</language><item><title>Fiscal treaty | Ireland begins bitter referendum debate</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1468471-ireland-begins-bitter-referendum-debate</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Fiscal  treaty designed to avoid Irish referendum,&rdquo; headlines the Irish Times.  According to Irish law, all new EU treaties must be put to [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:47:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ireland | Squatters filling the ghost estates (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1386271-squatters-filling-ghost-estates</link><description><![CDATA[A new movement is occupying some of the hundreds of properties abandoned since the crash of 2008, a protest not just against homelessness, but also against the speculation that led to Ireland’s spectacular economic collapse. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ireland-squatter.jpg" length="36017" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:21:15 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Emigration | The Greek exodus to Australia (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1318891-greek-exodus-australia</link><description><![CDATA[For young Europeans from crisis stricken states, booming Australia has become a new land of opportunity. This is especially true for a new generation of Greek graduates, joining the largest expatriate Greek community in the world. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/greek-australia-A.jpg" length="39934" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:22:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | Europe's judges overturn asylum regulation</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1320021-europe-s-judges-overturn-asylum-regulation</link><description><![CDATA[An asylum seeker cannot be transferred to an EU state where he or she &ldquo;risks having to endure degrading or inhumane treatment,&rdquo; reports Die Tageszeitung. [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:53:09 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Europe's seven deadly sins (2/2) (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1294161-europe-s-seven-deadly-sins-22</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. The second part of Die Zeit&#039;s list of national egotisms that are harming the Community. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bosch-wrath.jpg" length="45197" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:11:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ireland | One year after bailout, a bitter budget</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1253671-one-year-after-bailout-bitter-budget</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Health,  social welfare and education face bulk of cuts,&rdquo; headlines the Irish  Times, as the government unveils another austerity budget, the fourth  [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/irish-times-06122011-100.jpg" length="40835" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:00:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Crisis tears us apart (The Irish Times, Dublin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1228381-crisis-tears-us-apart</link><description><![CDATA[Debt and austerity are the new reality for most Europeans. But for some, such a situation is an opportunity to turn a fast profit. In such a context, how can we still talk of nations and society? asks Irish columnist John Waters. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/sampaio-euro.jpg" length="21764" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:05:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt Crisis | Angela Dominatrix | Cartoon (The Sunday Business Post, Dublin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1228521-angela-dominatrix</link><description><![CDATA[Angela Dominatrix (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/schrank-discipline.jpg" length="67010" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:22:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | An Irish village says no to the banks (Irish Independent, Dublin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1198841-irish-village-says-no-banks</link><description><![CDATA[As Ireland looks back one year after the EU/IMF bailout, every Sunday the inhabitants of Ballyhea stage a silent protest, against those who plunged the country into recession. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Ballyhea_0.jpg" length="121931" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:47:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Breaking the circle | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/1160691-breaking-circle</link><description><![CDATA[Exit  Berlusconi. The last government leader among the PIIGS  &ndash;  a charming  acronym invented by the Anglophone media for European countries which  fail to live up to economic standards  &ndash;  has finally succumbed to the  only law that that he has been unable to subvert: the law of the  markets. 
To  date, this same law has already claimed the heads of Ireland&rsquo;s Brian  Cowen, Portugal&rsquo;s Jos&eacute; S&oacute;crates, Greece&rsquo;s George Papandreou and Spain&rsquo;s  Jos&eacute; Luis Zapatero. The Spanish Prime Minister, who has decided not to  run for a second term, will remain in power until 20 November elections  that his Socialist Party will probably lose. He thereafter plans to  leave politics.
As  unrelenting as a law of nature, the debt crisis has swept away  governments that have been too weak to resist its onset. The governments  are weak, because they have been forced to face the crisis alone: we  have seen how solidarity between eurozone partners is only triggered  when the survival of the single currency  &ndash;  that is to say everyone&rsquo;s  vital interest  &ndash;  is under threat. 
They  are weak, because they have been forced to adopt virtually  non-negotiable budgetary adjustments dictated by international  institutions (the IMF and the EU). They are weak, because they have been  deprived of the support of populations, which did not elect them to cut  back on social services. Finally, they are weak because they have been  unable to admit the truth, which is that in response to market attacks  the best they can do is attempt to limit the damage.
As  a result, these government&rsquo;s have been deprived of room for manoeuvre;  their role in this time of crisis, has been restricted to applying  decisions taken elsewhere and managing day-to-day business. Differences  and divisions that were significant in &ldquo;pre-crisis&rdquo; politics have been  wiped away, while politicians appear incapable of proposing  &ndash;  or even  imagining  &ndash;  solutions that go beyond standard orthodoxies.
In  the meantime, disoriented citizens have become sceptical about the  capacity of politics to respond to problems to the point where its  legitimacy is continually being eroded, and technocracy appears to be a  more effective option.
That  said, politicians still benefit from democratic legitimacy. The problem  is that the issues they are supposed to address extend beyond the  framework of national sovereignty, which is the foundation and the limit  of their field of action.
As  for supranational organisations like the EU, they could intervene more  effectively on these issues, were it not for their lack of democratic  legitimacy. Nation states are, not without justification, reluctant to  let go of their prerogatives. And were it not for the crisis that Europe  is currently experiencing, no one would have even have thought of  breaking free of this circle.
Translated from French by Mark McGovern
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:54:41 +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>Ireland | A people's president in a time of crisis</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1120651-people-s-president-time-crisis</link><description><![CDATA[Having secured the support of over a million voters to become the ninth President of Ireland, as the headline in Saturday&rsquo;s Irish Times points out, [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/111029irishtimes.jpg" length="6820" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:57:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Privacy | Europeans open the Facebook files (The Irish Times, Dublin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1078351-europeans-open-facebook-files</link><description><![CDATA[Is Facebook too curious about its users’ data? A series of complaints initiated by an Austrian law student have led to a data protection audit in Ireland, where the social networking site’s European HQ is based. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Facebook.jpg" length="128728" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:27:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Troika believes in Potemkin villages (Irish Independent, Dublin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1048321-troika-believes-potemkin-villages</link><description><![CDATA[In Greece, Ireland and Portugal, the EU and the IMF are living in their own fantasy of countries cured by austerity. But behind this facade, we’re beginning to see the reality of Europe’s banks filled with bad investments, writes the economic columnist David McWilliams. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/potemkin-village_0.jpg" length="75367" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:33:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ireland | Martin McGuinness - from IRA to the presidency (The Independent, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1004771-martin-mcguinness-ira-presidency</link><description><![CDATA[Northern Ireland deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has declared his candidacy for the Irish Republic’s presidential election of October 27. The Independent profiles a candidate whose career begins as IRA leader during the Troubles, to peacemaker, and politician. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Martin-McGuiness.jpg" length="86454" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:47:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Let Greece then Ireland default (Irish Independent, Dublin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1000101-let-greece-then-ireland-default</link><description><![CDATA[Growing rumours of a Greek default have spurred the markets, not sent them into freefall. This suggests that worse than default is agonising and dithering about the fate of the Eurozone, according to Irish economist David McWilliams. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/MAYK_ireland-greece.jpg" length="113606" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:04:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Eureca - the secret plan to save Greece</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1000321-eureca-secret-plan-save-greece</link><description><![CDATA[Reducing the debt mountain of Greece without provoking default to get the country permanently out of recession and social unrest: this is the &ldquo;secret German [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Tribune-28092011-100.jpg" length="41004" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:36:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Northern Ireland | Minister rages against bras for children</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/926981-minister-rages-against-bras-children</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Bras  on sale for girls as young as seven,&rdquo; headlines the Belfast Telegraph.  Airing concerns about &ldquo;the sexualisation of children&rdquo;, the Belfast daily [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Belfast-telegraph-08092011-100.jpg" length="41982" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:32:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ireland | The mad life of a post-bust country (The Irish Times, Dublin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/903591-mad-life-post-bust-country</link><description><![CDATA[How can citizens be forced to pay out €15 million for a shopping centre in a foreign land while seeing their own health services shut down due to budget restrictions? Such is the absurd situation the Irish face right now, a columnist deplores. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/shopping-dumbarton.jpg" length="36380" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:43:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | A Marshall plan for crisis-hit countries</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/845841-marshall-plan-crisis-hit-countries</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;New Marshall plan offers fresh chance,&quot; announces an enthusiastic Adevărul, in the wake of a European Commission decision to reduce the level of national government [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/adevarul-09082011-100.JPG" length="39865" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:13:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Credit markets defiant (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/834721-credit-markets-defiant</link><description><![CDATA[While Rome and Madrid are doing their utmost to reassure the markets as to their solvency, the European press remains sceptical about the capacity of Europe’s 27 member states and EU institutions to credibly address the crisis. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/AREND_italy-spain.jpg" length="98148" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:24:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Mini-Marshall Plan "unfair and divisive"</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/825131-mini-marshall-plan-unfair-and-divisive</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;EU Marshall Plan encourages bankrupts,&rdquo; complains the front page of DGP, which reports on a European Commission plan to increase EU funding for farming, regional [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Dziennik-02082011-100.jpg" length="29933" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:55:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Dublin and Lisbon to pay out less</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/790691-dublin-and-lisbon-pay-out-less</link><description><![CDATA[The new rescue plan for Greece is also good news for Ireland, according to the Irish Independent which headlines with a &ldquo;debt-saving deal of 800 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110722irishindependent.jpg" length="8811" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:59:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ireland | Taoiseach lambasts the Pope</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/787591-taoiseach-lambasts-pope</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Kenny accuses Pope of playing down rape, torture of children,&rdquo; headlines the Irish Independent. Just a week after the publication of the Cloyne report on [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/21072011-Irish-Independ-100.jpg" length="13186" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:27:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy | Berlusconi's shipwreck (La Repubblica, Rome)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/779011-berlusconi-s-shipwreck</link><description><![CDATA[Italy&#039;s sudden weakening in the markets has meant a blow to the credibility of Silvio Berlusconi, who has always said his country is doing fine. Today, with no sign of the Cavaliere, his government is hurriedly pushing through an austerity plan whose usefulness is far from assured. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Italy-Titanic-Bertrams.jpg" length="47508" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:39:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Paralysis | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/778231-paralysis</link><description><![CDATA[On Friday, July 15, heads of state and leaders of EU governments were due to hold an urgent meeting to discuss possible responses to the crisis in the eurozone. It was the wish of European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, who has been trying since his appointment to establish himself as the host of this prestigious Areopagus. Alas, Europe&rsquo;s leaders, with Angela Merkel at their head, have turned down the invitation, demonstrating their inability to act against what increasingly looks like a threat to the very existence of the European Union as we know it.
The wider situation has been grasped: Greece is nearing bankruptcy, despite belt-tightening and the money from the EU and the IMF; the Portuguese and Irish sovereign debts have been downgraded to &ldquo;junk&quot; by the rating agencies; and Italy is being forced, practically with a knife to her throat, to adopt a plan to cut 40 billion euros in spending. In response, the 17 states of the eurozone, as well as the European Central Bank and the Commission, are arguing over the strategy to adopt. &ldquo;Owing to a lack of political leadership, squabbles over the conditions for the banking sector&rsquo;s participation in the new aid package to Greece are leading nowhere. However, dear ministers, this is like nursing a cold when it&rsquo;s cancer that&rsquo;s the threat,&quot;&nbsp;lamented Le Monde after the last unsuccessful meeting of finance ministers.
Our leaders are, however working under mitigating circumstances &ndash; but those circumstances give even more reason for concern. The first, as Die Zeit explains, is that they must choose between, on one hand, domestic political pressure not to finance clearly useless bailouts that burden the people without troubling the banks &ndash; and, on the other, a financial sector that imposes its own rhythm, undermines states, and yet retains a strong argument: that its money is indispensable for financing state debts.
The second comes from across the Atlantic. On July 14 Standard &amp; Poor&#039;s threatened to downgrade the credit rating of the United States. In Washington, Obama has so far failed to end the budget standoff with the Republicans. The financial crisis shaking Europe is thus threatening to undermine America, which would just worsen the situation on our continent further. US officials, however, don&rsquo;t seem any more up to the task than the Europeans.
Whether indecisive, incompetent or simply paralysed by this challenge and the feeling of no longer being in control of the destiny of their countries, EU leaders must show determination. But it would take a very clever leader to show us the right way forward.
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 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:39:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Understand the banks and you save the euro (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/776021-understand-banks-and-you-save-euro</link><description><![CDATA[The fate of the euro is a matter of indifference to the financial markets. Investors are pulling their money out of Rome, Athens, Lisbon and Madrid. And Europe – especially Germany – is doing everything to drive off the financiers it so depends on. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/AREND-germany.jpg" length="119121" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:42:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Northern Ireland | Marching season sparks Belfast violence</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/772621-marching-season-sparks-belfast-violence</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Flames of hatred,&rdquo; headlines the Belfast Telegraph. The Northern Irish daily leads with a shock photograph of a riot police officer whose helmet is on [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Belfast-telegraph-13072011-100.jpg" length="37601" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:03:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | After Portugal, now Ireland is junked</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/772531-after-portugal-now-ireland-junked</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Irish debt cut to &#039;junk&#039; status as euro zone crisis deepens,&rdquo; headlines the Irish Times, the morning after Moody&rsquo;s downgraded Ireland&rsquo;s credit rating. The announcement [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Irish-times-13072011-100.jpg" length="39171" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:35:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Portugal's junk status gives Ireland jitters</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/761851-portugal-s-junk-status-gives-ireland-jitters</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Portugal downgrade raises fresh concerns over Ireland,&rdquo; headlines the Irish Times, after credit rating agency Moody&rsquo;s consigned Portuguese sovereign debt to junk status on 6 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Irish-times-07072011-100.jpg" length="39041" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:33:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ireland | Bailout is good business for IMF and EU</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/759251-bailout-good-business-imf-and-eu</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;IMF and EU to make &euro;9bn profit on bailout,&rdquo; headlines the Irish Independent. Such is the lucrative figure the international organisations stand to earn in [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/irish-independent-150.jpg" length="42996" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:46:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ideas | Towards a sovereign union (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/744021-towards-sovereign-union</link><description><![CDATA[The debt crisis has laid the foundations for an economic governance that will accelerate European integration. In future, says the Polish columnist Andrzej Talaga, member states should hand over more sovereignty to the EU. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/vlahovic-flag.jpg" length="40039" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:37:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Euro - what Brussels will do next (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/735751-euro-what-brussels-will-do-next</link><description><![CDATA[With the single currency at risk of collapse, the leaders of Europe’s 27 member states are set to meet for a European Council summit to finalise the details of a mechanism that is supposed to prevent a repeat of the Greek crisis. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Horsch-europe-greece.jpg" length="77391" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:05:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Northern Ireland | Golfer's victory marred by Belfast riots</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/733721-golfer-s-victory-marred-belfast-riots</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Rory: we deserve to live in peace,&rdquo; headlines the Belfast Telegraph. After two nights of sectarian violence that engulfed a Belfast neighbourhood on 21/22 June, [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Belfast-telegraph-23062011-100.jpg" length="43420" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:37:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Why the ECB won&#039;t allow restructuring (Mediapart , Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/729081-why-ecb-wont-allow-restructuring</link><description><![CDATA[For many economists, debt restructuring is the only possible outcome of the Greek crisis — an option that the European Central Bank has systematically refused to acknowledge. Médiapart argues that it would at least have the advantage of bringing much needed transparency to the banking sector. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Trichet-BCE.jpg" length="115007" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:52:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Cautious optimism over Ireland&#039;s future</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/726841-cautious-optimism-over-irelands-future</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Glimmer of hope as EU tweaks rules on our bailout&quot;, leads the Irish  Independent, which reports on a slightly more upbeat attitude in the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Irish-independent-21062011-100.jpg" length="45224" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:27:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Credit rating agencies go after euro (Libération, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/709611-credit-rating-agencies-go-after-euro</link><description><![CDATA[Considering that they failed to see the previous crises coming, Moody&#039;s, Standard &amp; Poor&#039;s and Fitch are suspected of wanting to destabilise the euro zone, and now they are threatening the strongest countries. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ajubel-graph.jpg" length="38866" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:26:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Strike two | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/698171-strike-two</link><description><![CDATA[Having already struck in Ireland, the debt crisis has now devoured a second government. Like the Irish, who&nbsp;unloaded Brian Cowen in February, the Portuguese opted to banish Jos&eacute; S&oacute;crates and his Socialist Party to the opposition benches on 5 June.
In Portugal and in Ireland, voters have punished administrations in power for failing to come up with an alternative to austerity measures  to reassure the markets (yes, them again) as to the solvency of their banks  and public finances and to reimburse the billions lent by the EU and the  IMF.
Strangely  enough, in Portugal and in Ireland, the new tenants in the control room  have decided to pursue the main objectives of the austerity packages  that cost their predecessors their jobs. As they say, &quot;We have no  choice:&quot; their ability to seek funds on the markets (which are needed to  finance public policy)  &ndash;  as well as the survival of the euro much  cherished by their European partners  &ndash;  are at stake.
Never  before in the history of the sovereign states of Europe have individual  countries had to contend with such reduced scope for man&oelig;uvre in such  key sectors as public finance and taxation: we have now reached a point  where it is difficult to distinguish between the policies of left-wing  and right-wing governments.
Never  before has European integration been such a concrete objective not only  for the public but also for political leaders  &ndash;  although it is  regrettable that the latter appear to be responding to events rather  than taking the initiative. All in all, Europeans are not pleased with  this situation. And they are making it known, both in polling stations  and in the street.
Translated from the French by Mark McGovern
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:23:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | EU - a confederacy of dunces (Jornal de Negócios, Lisbon)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/687141-eu-confederacy-dunces</link><description><![CDATA[In imposing austerity on indebted countries, the European Union and its leaders have shown themselves to be blind and even stupid. A Portuguese professor of law argues that they have put their partners in difficulty without obtaining any advantage for themselves. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/HADDAD_economy.jpg" length="36070" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 18:33:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Diplomacy | WikiLeaks comes to Ireland</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/686011-wikileaks-comes-ireland</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Revealed: how the US taps into our secrets,&rdquo; headlines the Irish Independent, in the first of a series of extracts from the &ldquo;Ireland Cables&rdquo; &ndash; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/20110531-IrishIndependent-100.jpg" length="7902" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 13:11:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ireland | Obama visits land of his ancestors</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/671361-obama-visits-land-his-ancestors</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Is f&eacute;idir linn,&rdquo; headlines the Irish Independent. On the occasion of his 24 hour visit to economically stricken Ireland, US president Barack Obama pronounced his [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/20110524-IrishIndependent-100.jpg" length="8502" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 12:07:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ireland | In raptures over Queen's visit</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/660211-raptures-over-queen-s-visit</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;A moment of healing,&rdquo; headlines the Irish Independent, on the second day of the visit of Britain&rsquo;s Queen Elizabeth to Ireland. On the first visit [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Irish-independent-18052011-100.jpg" length="43491" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 12:14:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Ireland will go bust (The Irish Times, Dublin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/657881-ireland-will-go-bust</link><description><![CDATA[With the Irish government on track to owe a quarter of a trillion euro by 2014, a prolonged and chaotic national bankruptcy is becoming inevitable, predicts renowned economist Morgan Kelly. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/mayk-hat.jpg" length="27850" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 14:16:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greek crisis | The bailouts are building a federal state (The Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/649631-bailouts-are-building-federal-state</link><description><![CDATA[The bailouts don’t work but they do allow the EU to build up centralised power at the expense of nation states, argues Times columnist Anatole Kaletsky. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/MIX_ET_REMI_bailouts_0.jpg" length="122320" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 16:56:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greek crisis | A crazy way to run civilisation (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/645031-crazy-way-run-civilisation</link><description><![CDATA[Despite a series of swingeing austerity budgets to calm the international markets, Greece yet again totters on the brink of bankruptcy. But should democracies determine economic policy according to what a few thousand  traders might, or might not, want? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Bank-greece_0.jpg" length="87638" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 16:31:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Lying will kill the euro (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/642541-lying-will-kill-euro</link><description><![CDATA[That’s not the way to save the euro, writes the Süddeutsche Zeitung. With their secretive meeting on the Greek crisis, EU finance ministers have gambled away the last confidence of EU citizens in their governments. This must have consequences. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/greece-crisis_1.jpg" length="98088" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 18:13:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>The European patient | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/642141-european-patient</link><description><![CDATA[In an image which highlights a key moment in the history of Europe, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy walk side by side  with their shoulders tensed and jaws set on edge, at a time when  conflict over how to protect the Eurozone from the threat posed by  Greece&rsquo;s virtual bankruptcy very nearly brought the German Chancellor  and the French President to the point of no return in their chaotic  relationship. However, two days later, Europe&rsquo;s finance ministers agreed  to establish a bailout mechanism worth 750 million euros: and so it was  that on the 9 May 2010, the European Union survived the most serious  crisis in its history.
A  year later, what is the happening in the Union? The euro is still  there, but Portugal has now become the third country, in the wake of  Greece and Ireland, to be forced to seek a bailout  to the tune of several billion euros. No state has gone bankrupt, but  austerity has become a common feature of all EU countries. Two  governments, in Ireland and in Portugal, have been ousted by the crisis,  and if elections were to be held today, power would certainly change  hands in France, Spain and perhaps even in Germany. In the course of a  year of uncertainty, Chancellor Merkel has become the dominant figure in  the Union without whom nothing can be decided. And this has been one of  the major consequences of the pressure on the euro: the emergence of a  Nordic bloc, centred on Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, which has  paved the way for a more austere EU, symbolised by the Euro-Plus Pact  and its provisions for better economic governance.
Europe  has been rescued, but it still remains in danger from multiple  symptoms: and this is not solely a matter of the economy. As a  consequence of the crisis, European populations are increasingly  attracted by the protest politics of eurosceptic and populist movements.  At the same time, national leaders have amplified and responded to this  phenomenon by focusing on territorial concerns  &ndash;  a state of affairs  that has been evident in the controversy over the application of the  Schengen Agreement, arguments about the status of foreign workers in the EU and a decline in the level of collaboration between member states and European institutions.
The  patient has shown surprising resilience: in the course of one year the  EU has drawn on unexpected resources and demonstrated its mastery of the  art of compromise in establishing bailout plans and the various  stability mechanisms. Little by little, the threat posed by the weakness  of the single currency has been allayed by the adoption of common  procedures, and member states&rsquo; attachment to the European project, which  has been sorely tested, has nonetheless been confirmed by the scale of  the efforts that have been made.
European  leaders, both in their member states and in Brussels will now have to  contend with an even greater responsibility. Within Europe, they will  have to present citizens with a political project that conserves a  social dimension in its response to societal challenges, and gives  greater meaning to an increasingly economic, monetary and legislative EU.  In the wider world, they will have to contribute positively to the  &quot;Arab spring,&quot; take on the challenge of globalisation, and assume  greater control of the destiny of 500 million people.
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 11:26:45 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Final rescue before renovation (Der Standard, Vienna)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/637211-final-rescue-renovation</link><description><![CDATA[How many failed states will still send out distress calls for help? The new bailout plan meant for Portugal ought to be the last, because Europe is going to have to reorganise the monetary union from top to bottom, says the Standard. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/VLAHOVIC_portugal-crisis.jpg" length="77916" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 18:16:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | Patient doing better than expected (Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/629621-patient-doing-better-expected</link><description><![CDATA[Amid a virtual consensus that the current crisis has cast doubts over the future of the European Union, Polish columnist Jacek Pawlicki argues that the EU’s ability to adapt along with the contribution made by its more recent members will ensure its continued survival. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/europe-sick.jpg" length="99537" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 19:23:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ireland | "Financial mania" caused bank collapse</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/608461-financial-mania-caused-bank-collapse</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The extent to which large parts of Irish society were willing to let the good times roll on until the very last minute, a feature [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Irish-times-20042011-100.jpg" length="27848" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:10:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
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