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                <language>en</language><item><title>Netherlands | I'm 15, I'll start a business (De Groene Amsterdammer, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1402671-i-m-15-i-ll-start-business</link><description><![CDATA[Whether it’s making iPhone apps or delivering organic food on a bicycle, junior entrepreneurs are creating their own lucrative business in the Netherlands, with or without assistance from their school. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/young-bussinessman.jpg" length="69928" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:59:37 +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>Spain | Low-cost life for all (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1375731-low-cost-life-all</link><description><![CDATA[With the crisis in full swing, and pay packages as low as 1000 euros gross per month, there&#039;s no lifestyle choice other than that of austerity. It&#039;s a trend that&#039;s changing consumer habits. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bajo-coste.jpg" length="78651" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:01:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland   | Fear and loathing on November 11 (Newsweek Polska, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1154571-fear-and-loathing-november-11</link><description><![CDATA[The annual Independence March organised in Warsaw on November 11 by right wing and nationalist groups is likely to grind to a halt this year. The left wing 11 November Coalition is urging its supporters to block the march, and confrontation seems unavoidable. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/antifa-poland.jpg" length="72008" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:50:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Austerity Europe | Greeks driven back to the land (The Independent, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1072441-greeks-driven-back-land</link><description><![CDATA[As strikes bring the country to a halt, and politicians dither over the fate of the eurozone&#039;s most stricken economy, Greeks are being forced to turn back the clock to make ends meet. A report from the island of Naxos, in the Cyclades. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/greece-land_0.jpg" length="152491" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:00:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Occupy Movement | A hashtag revolution (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1070281-hashtag-revolution</link><description><![CDATA[The “Occupy” movements springing up around the world are a new form of political participation: the unorganised citizen is calling for an ongoing dialogue with institutions such as political parties and trade unions, from which authority is slowly draining. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/hashtag-revolution-faz_0.jpg" length="122969" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:20:41 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Palikot power transforms national politics</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1068491-palikot-power-transforms-national-politics</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Palikot&rsquo;s revolution&rdquo;, headlines Wprost weekly on the movement which garnered over 10 percent of the vote in the recent Polish election, making it the third [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/wprost-1810201-100.jpg" length="40536" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:43:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Balkans | Ikea, a Bulgarian idea of luxury (Standart, Sofia)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/982751-ikea-bulgarian-idea-luxury</link><description><![CDATA[The long awaited opening of the Swedish brand’s first shop in Sofia has been spoiled by controversy over prices — an opportunity for Bulgarian journalist Martin Karbovski to poke fun at his compatriots’ taste for novelty at all costs... (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Ikea-Bulgaria.jpg" length="71626" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:21:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Religion | Pope oversees a dwindling church</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/976501-pope-oversees-dwindling-church</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The  Church dies in Europe,&rdquo; headlines Tygodnik Powszechny on the occasion  of Benedict XVI&rsquo;s visit to Germany starting September 22. Statistics  published [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Tygodnik-Powszechny-2209201-100.jpg" length="41633" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:01:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Society | Immobile Europe (Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/969111-immobile-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Upping sticks to work elsewhere is a natural part of life in the United States. But not in Europe, where people are often afraid to move away from their home turf. A Swedish journalist argues that this lack of mobility is a handicap in the current crisis. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/COST_static-europe.jpg" length="54669" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:29:48 +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>United Kingdom | Austerity increases homelessness threat</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/899481-austerity-increases-homelessness-threat</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Homelessness could spread to middle class&rdquo;, headlines the Guardian, following a report by Crisis, a UK&nbsp;charity. The 120 page study points to &ldquo;a direct link [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110831guardian.jpg" length="5913" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:46:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Central Europe | Ex-GDR, a new land for Poles and Czechs (Lidové noviny , Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/894801-ex-gdr-new-land-poles-and-czechs</link><description><![CDATA[More and more Poles are settling in the former East Germany, filling the void left by the flight of East Germans to the West following the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Lidové noviny is calling on Czechs to do the same, and so to help blur the borders of central Europe. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Neuruppin-Germany.jpg" length="74054" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:51:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | The totalitarian tourist trail</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/867711-totalitarian-tourist-trail</link><description><![CDATA[Following the example of China and North Korea, Romania will soon have its own tourist trail devoted to the glories of Communism. More than 20 [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:30:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Latin America | The Spanish brain-drain (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/739811-spanish-brain-drain</link><description><![CDATA[Faced with record unemployment and poor job prospects, a generation of young Spaniards is decamping to the economic boomtowns of Latin America (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/spain-unemployment_3.jpg" length="35878" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:17:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Life in a time of Troika (To Vima, Athens)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/689391-life-time-troika</link><description><![CDATA[Gone are the days of going out and shopping, trouble-free travel and early evening drinks in outdoor cafes. Bills and surgery have been postponed, and no more private tuition for the kids. Laid-low by the crisis, Greeks have learned to rein in their lifestyles, and everyday living in the country has become a sad affair. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Grece-life.jpg" length="134855" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:13:29 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Malta | Voters say yes to divorce</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/683211-voters-say-yes-divorce</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Yes to divorce,&rdquo; headlines the Times of Malta following the May 28 referendum in which 52.6% of ballots cast were in favour of introducing divorce [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/20110530-TimesOfMalta-100.jpg" length="7395" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 12:15:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Back home with mum (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/632561-back-home-mum</link><description><![CDATA[Confronted by unemployment and the economic crisis, young Greeks are being forced to give up their nascent independence and return home to live with their parents, where they benefit from the same ethos of familial support whose excesses have contributed much to the crisis. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/greece-crisis_0.jpg" length="93363" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 17:14:09 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Lifestyle | Hour of the hypocrites (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/582921-hour-hypocrites</link><description><![CDATA[Can we reconcile a Western lifestyle with respecting the environment? Hardly, says the &quot;Sueddeutsche Zeitung&quot;. Voting for Green parties is not enough to resolve the contradictions faced by a growing number of Europeans, as evidenced by the Green surge in Germany. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/suv-green.jpg" length="48233" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:47:17 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Denmark | End of line for Christiania's flower children (Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/532361-end-line-christiania-s-flower-children</link><description><![CDATA[Freetown Christiania is no longer free. After forty years, the last hippie enclave in Europe is bowing to the laws of the free market, writes Gazeta Wyborcza. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Christiania_0.jpg" length="201042" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:43:17 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>United Kingdom | Why drugs are on a downer (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/516741-why-drugs-are-downer</link><description><![CDATA[In Britain, the number of young people taking drugs has fallen by 30% in the last fifteen years. Is the drop due to declining quality, or tales of celebrity breakdown? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/winehouse-cigarette.jpg" length="29497" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:19:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Portugal | The new wild west</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/499381-new-wild-west</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Because they are unemployed, because they want to consume, or simply because they wish to take advantage of the high tide, the Portuguese, are selling [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/936*.jpg" length="35066" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:51:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Euthanasia | The taste for death (Wprost, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/487531-taste-death</link><description><![CDATA[Many Europeans are looking abroad for help to end their lives, while more and more countries are allowing euthanasia. Is the penchant for death winning the battle against the right to life? asks the Polish weekly Wprost. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/catheter-hospital.jpg" length="16968" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:31:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Tourism | Chinese are the new Americans (La Repubblica, Rome)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/476511-chinese-are-new-americans</link><description><![CDATA[Buoyed by the emergence of China’s middle class, the growing wave of travelers from China could revitalise the European tourist industry. But businesses in the sector have yet to adapt to their new customers. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Chinese-Postdam.jpg" length="78139" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:34:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Lifestyle | Multi-locality, a new reality (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/433621-multi-locality-new-reality</link><description><![CDATA[A growing number of Europeans enjoy parallel lives - living in Prague and working in Paris or living in Vienna while having a girlfriend in Stockholm. Known as having “multiple habitats,” the phenomenon has piqued the interest of sociologists. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/respekt-postele.jpg" length="30022" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:24:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cities | Gated communities, German style (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/412161-gated-communities-german-style</link><description><![CDATA[Rich man, poor man: as the wealth gap widens in Berlin, the well-heeled are fencing themselves in. They feel safe in their gated communities – if only it weren’t for the neighbours…. The envy. And the protest. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/carloft-berlin.jpg" length="31676" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:16:15 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Fuentes-Sánchez, or Sánchez-Fuentes?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/377981-fuentes-sanchez-or-sanchez-fuentes</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Government unleashes war on surnames&rdquo;, leads El Peri&oacute;dico de Catalunya, on the ruling socialist party&rsquo;s attempt to extend its &ldquo;equality policy&rdquo; to family names. In [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/05112010-El-Periodico-100.jpg" length="16260" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:38:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Democracy | Tea Party crosses the Atlantic (Público, Lisbon)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/373971-tea-party-crosses-atlantic</link><description><![CDATA[Will Barack Obama hold out against the reactionary groundswell? The US mid-term elections on 2 November also have a bearing on Europe, where grass-roots anxieties are fuelling the rise of populist parties. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/rally-teaparty.jpg" length="43339" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:09:45 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Health care | Poland leads in medical tourism</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/329271-poland-leads-medical-tourism</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Medical tourism has become Poland&rsquo;s specialty&rdquo;, Rzeczpospolita excitedly leads on its front page. In the first half-year, some 120,000 foreigners visited Poland to use medical [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/02092010-Rzeczpospolita.jpg" length="11694" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:59:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Democracy | The Germany that says Nein (Der Spiegel, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/328591-germany-says-nein</link><description><![CDATA[A wave of protest has overrun Germany. People everywhere are coming out against politicians’ pet projects. Democracy seems alive and kicking, but oftentimes self-interest and the general welfare collide head-on. And this naysaying spree could stymie the country’s modernisation. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/stuttgart-protest.jpg" length="48980" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:23:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany / France | Can a city live down a dark past? (La Vanguardia, Barcelona)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/324041-can-city-live-down-dark-past</link><description><![CDATA[How does a city that symbolises Nazism or French collaboration bear such an enduring burden? Nuremberg and Vichy are each struggling in their own way to live down the past. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/podium-nurnberg.jpg" length="30461" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:26:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Job market | To be young... and doomed</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/317051-be-young-and-doomed</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Europe fears for its lost generation,&quot; the Czech daily Hospod&aacute;řsk&eacute; noviny declares, leading with the claim that the level of youth unemployment is now the [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:44:49 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Portugal | Lisbon, the empty capital (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/309401-lisbon-empty-capital</link><description><![CDATA[Rundown buildings and the high price of a square metre are driving away young people and transforming the Portuguese capital into a ghost town to the point where it would be completely devoid of life were it not for the annual influx of students brought to the city by the Erasmus programme. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/windows-lisbon.jpg" length="55743" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:41:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Barcelona bans burqa in public places</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/273201-barcelona-bans-burqa-public-places</link><description><![CDATA[Barcelona&rsquo;s mayor, Jordi Hereu, yesterday announced &ldquo;a decree to ban the use of the burqa and the niqab in public buildings&rdquo;, reports El Peri&oacute;dico de [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Periodico-15062010.jpg" length="47613" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:23:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Economic crisis | Disunited in stereotypes (Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/260571-disunited-stereotypes</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;United in diversity&quot;: for many years the motto of the EU held sway on a continent that had been marked by war. However, the economic crisis has prompted a resurgence of age-old European antagonisms. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/cliche-entropa.jpg" length="45490" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 16:11:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy | Vampire haunted Volterra (Der Spiegel, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/239961-vampire-haunted-volterra</link><description><![CDATA[For many years this small Tuscan town has attracted visitors drawn to its Etruscan past and medieval monuments. But in the last few months, it has become the haunt of thousands of teenage fans of the Twilight saga, whose fictional vampires are supposed to live here. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Volterra-twilight_0.jpg" length="131611" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:18:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Drugs | Mephedrone, the agony and the Ecstasy (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/238921-mephedrone-agony-and-ecstasy</link><description><![CDATA[Mephedrone - otherwise known as miaow-miaow - is increasingly prevalent on the European nightclub scene. The drug, which is legal and easy to obtain, is now considered dangerous after the recent deaths of young users in the United Kingdom and Sweden — which is why several countries are currently planning to ban it. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Mephedrone.JPG" length="142411" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:22:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Denmark | Beggar thy frauding neighbour (Politiken, Copenhagen)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/226442-beggar-thy-frauding-neighbour</link><description><![CDATA[Following the example of Copenhagen, more and more Danish local authorities are encouraging local citizens to inform on neighbours involved in benefit fraud. Politiken deplores a shift in policy, which it believes will undermine the rule of law. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/denouncement-neighbour_0.jpg" length="153742" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:00:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Bulgaria | Welcome the Greeks bearing euros (Standart, Sofia)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/222221-welcome-greeks-bearing-euros</link><description><![CDATA[Hard hit by the recession, the bargain hunting citizens of northern Greece are spending their euros across the border in neighbouring Bulgaria, where business is booming for local traders and dentists. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/greece-bulgaria.jpg" length="175458" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:00:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Monarchy | Royals still rattling their jewellery (Rzeczpospolita, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/221181-royals-still-rattling-their-jewellery</link><description><![CDATA[Every year European royal families receive more and more public money, while the nature of their personal fortunes often remains a well-guarded secret. In the wake of controversy sparked by recent revelations about undisclosed assets belonging to the King of Belgium,  Rzeczpospolita reports that the question of regal coffers and what they should contain is once again in the news. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/monarchy.jpg" length="135059" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:08:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Marriage | Divorce European style</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/217851-divorce-european-style</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Let&#039;s divorce, Italian style, darling,&quot; headlines Mlad&aacute; fronta DNES in the wake of a 24 March proposal by the European Commission to introduce new legislation [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/100325dnes.jpg" length="7136" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:44:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Marriage | All the nice girls love a Russian (Lidové noviny , Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/217151-all-nice-girls-love-russian</link><description><![CDATA[Women from the ex-Soviet Union have been a boon to international dating services for some time now. Now it’s the men’s turn to beguile European women, observes Lidové noviny in amazement. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/russian-lovers.jpg" length="161292" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:47:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Wombs for rent</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/214501-wombs-rent</link><description><![CDATA[The economic crisis and rising unemployment have prompted the appearance of unusual small ads in the back pages of the Romanian press, where &quot;womb for [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/adevarul.JPG" length="50220" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:13:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Sandwiches, new star of the crisis</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/211841-sandwiches-new-star-crisis</link><description><![CDATA[The crisis has landed on German workers&rsquo; lunches. According to the German Hotel and Restaurant Association, reports the S&uuml;ddeutsche Zeitung, staff canteens are the eating [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Suddeutsche-Zeitung-17032010.jpg" length="33306" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:38:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Athens forced to reinvent itself (La Vanguardia, Barcelona)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/208831-athens-forced-reinvent-itself</link><description><![CDATA[The urban renewal project in the Greek capital has been hit by new government measures designed to remedy the disastrous state of the nation&#039;s finances. Without funding, city planners must explore other options, starting with the fight against cars and chaotic development. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Athens-urbanism_0.jpg" length="226684" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:14:45 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Germans ain&#039;t so scary after all</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/207721-germans-aint-so-scary-after-all</link><description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, merely three percent of Poles thought Poland had no enemies. Today, that view is shared by 20 percent of those surveyed, daily [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Rzeczpospolita-11032010.jpg" length="37997" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:53:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>International Women&amp;#039;s Day | A fight that&#039;s far from over (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/205541-fight-thats-far-over</link><description><![CDATA[Exactly 100 years after its launch, International Women&#039;s Day offers an occasion for reflection on the role of feminism and the campaign for the liberation of women, whose evolving objectives no longer command the consensus they enjoyed in previous decades. The European press reports: (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/feminism-europe.jpg" length="117976" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:37:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Diaries | Private histories of the world (Trouw, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/197451-private-histories-world</link><description><![CDATA[In Germany, Italy and France, municipal authorities are collecting personal journals, which recount the real history of everyday existence. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/personal-journals-archives.jpg" length="141797" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:35:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Religion | Jewish and German, new generation (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/186261-jewish-and-german-new-generation</link><description><![CDATA[The Jewish community in Germany, estimated at 200,000, faces its greatest postwar upheaval, what with the immigration waves from the former Soviet republics and a new generation for whom the Holocaust and Israel are faraway matters, writes Die Zeit (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/jewish-germany.jpg" length="116685" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:19:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Russians, nothing to be afraid of (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/178281-russians-nothing-be-afraid</link><description><![CDATA[Close to 20 years after the departure of the Red Army, growing numbers of Russians are choosing to live in Prague. Some are businessmen with links to the Kremlin, who worry the Czech government, but there are also students and entrepreneurs seeking a new life outside modern day Russia. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/czech-play_3.jpg" length="33812" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:31:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
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