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                <language>en</language><item><title>Lithuania | Nurses go Norway (Lietuvos Rytas, Vilnius)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1311511-nurses-go-norway</link><description><![CDATA[Faced with the economic crisis, Lithuanian medical staff are increasingly leaving to work in Norway, where salaries are much higher. Although they do not become exiles, they do have to contend with a permanent schedule of return journeys between Oslo and Vilnius. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Norway-nurses.jpg" length="61710" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:44:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Banks | The crash that has rocked Lithuania</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1216071-crash-has-rocked-lithuania</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Gamblers or victims?&rdquo; wonders the front-page of Vieidas,   commenting on the two principle shareholders of Snoras, Lithuanian   Raimondas Baranauskas and Russian [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/111125veidas.jpg" length="10100" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:18:01 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Railways | Greater European network on track</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1077461-greater-european-network-track</link><description><![CDATA[On 19 October, the European Commission presented its project  for the integration of European transport networks. Endowed with a  budget of 37.7 billion [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Vanguardia-20102011-100.jpg" length="39368" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:52:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Lithuania | Basketball, a question of independence (Libération, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/922691-basketball-question-independence</link><description><![CDATA[The particular fervour gripping Lithuania, which is currently hosting EuroBasket 2011, is part of a long tradition in a Baltic country that has expressed its identity on the basketball court since Soviet times. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/basketball-lithuania.jpg" length="117883" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:34:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Lithuania-Poland    | School strike suspended, tensions remain</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/914501-school-strike-suspended-tensions-remain</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;PM puts the strike on hold,&rdquo; headlines Polska The Times as Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk flew to Lithuania on Sunday in reaction to the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Polska-times-05092011-100.jpg" length="37845" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:24:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>1991-2011 | A Baltic triumph (IQ The Economist, Vilnius)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/872211-baltic-triumph</link><description><![CDATA[In August 1991, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia declared their independence from a collapsing USSR. Despite a few hiccups along the way, twenty years on they have definitively turned the page on Communism and come back to their roots in Europe. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Baltes-1991.jpg" length="46508" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:37:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Lithuania-Austria | Release of KGB officer creates chill</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/783311-release-kgb-officer-creates-chill</link><description><![CDATA[There is a chill in relations between Vilnius and Vienna. &ldquo;Lithuania demands a sentence,&rdquo; says Lithuanian daily Vilniaus diena concerning Mikhail Golovatov, a former KGB [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/19072011-Vilniaus-Diena-100.jpg" length="11918" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:22:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Jobs | Youth unemployment endemic in Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/742451-youth-unemployment-endemic-europe</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;No jobs for the young in Europe&quot; leads the daily Politiken, which quotes Eurostat figures showing that one in five Europeans under 25 is unemployed&nbsp; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110627politiken.jpg" length="6847" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:18:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Theatre | New talent comes from the East (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/680721-new-talent-comes-east</link><description><![CDATA[Europe has lost six great names in the performing arts, but their succession is assured by a new generation of directors, most of whom hail from Central and Eastern Europe. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/theatre-est.jpg" length="69458" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 19:07:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Russia-EU | Who will open this window on Europe? (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/645901-who-will-open-window-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Residents of a region that considers itself to be a “window on Europe,” the population of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which is located between Poland and Lithuania, want Moscow to establish closer links with the EU. In particular, they are hoping for an end to a requirement for visas for European travel: an “iron curtain” that separates them from Western modernity. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Kaliningrad.jpg" length="100208" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 17:30:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Lithuania | Rubbish champions (Veidas, Vilnius)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/626491-rubbish-champions</link><description><![CDATA[Each year, every Lithuanian throws out 500 kilos of household waste and “forgets” to sort the recyclables. Slowly, though, attitudes are starting to change. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/lithuania-rubbish.jpg" length="51289" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:43:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Labour market | Work in Germany? Yes, maybe (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/626561-work-germany-yes-maybe</link><description><![CDATA[On 1 May, the doors will open wide for Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans now free to work in Germany. But no one expects a stampede. Quite the opposite: German companies will have to woo the new guest workers ardently and assiduously. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/work-solar.jpg" length="30066" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:38:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Lithuania | Demonstrating against the nuclear spectre</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/619391-demonstrating-against-nuclear-spectre</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;No to atomic.&rdquo; On 26 April, 25 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe, close to 300 people gathered outside the Lithuanian parliament to protest against the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Lietuvos-Rytas-27042011-100.jpg" length="46206" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:43:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Central Europe | The wilted charms of the euro (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/583111-wilted-charms-euro</link><description><![CDATA[Europe’s sovereign debt crisis has dampened enthusiasm for the single currency in most of the countries of Central Europe. Today, only the Baltic States are still eager to join the Eurozone, writes &quot;Rzeczpospolita&quot;. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/AREND_euro.jpg" length="89802" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:48:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland-Lithuania | Polish-Lithuanian education feud</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/577201-polish-lithuanian-education-feud</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Polish-Lithuanian relations hit rock bottom&rdquo;,&nbsp;cries Rzeczpospolita commentator&nbsp;Jerzy Haszczyński&nbsp;&nbsp;as Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė signed an amendment to the education law on 30 March, which, according to [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110331rzeczpospolita.jpg" length="6663" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:16:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Nuclear energy | Chernobyl to Fukushima - media gets it wrong (Postimees, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/556251-chernobyl-fukushima-media-gets-it-wrong</link><description><![CDATA[In 1986, Estonians were Soviet citizens and had no idea what was going on at Chernobyl. Today they are members of the European Union, but whether they are better informed is questionable, writes the daily Postimees. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/screen-disaster.jpg" length="35029" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:07:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Baltic states | Where minorites must hold their tongue (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/452271-where-minorites-must-hold-their-tongue</link><description><![CDATA[The linguistic rights of the sizeable Russian and Polish minorities in the three former Soviet republics, which joined the EU in 2004, are hardly recognised. A Dutch journalist deplores governmental intransigence on the issue of languages. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Riga-Russian-market.jpg" length="114207" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:40:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Pharmaceutical industry | European guinea pigs</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/441931-european-guinea-pigs</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the next big step in globalisation, and there&rsquo;s good reason to wish that it wasn&#039;t,&rdquo; remarks Vanity Fair. American pharmaceuticals companies are increasingly testing [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:26:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Baltic states | Following Estonia's lead (Atgimimas, Vilnius)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/427171-following-estonia-s-lead</link><description><![CDATA[On 1st January, Estonia will become the first Baltic state to join the euro zone — a development which an Estonian political scientist believes will offer a strong motivation to neighbouring Latvia and Lithuania to follow in its footsteps and also encourage more cooperation between the three countries. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/baltic-cooperation.jpg" length="77991" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:05:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland / Lithuania | Why Warsaw and Vilnius are at loggerheads (Rzeczpospolita, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/376751-why-warsaw-and-vilnius-are-loggerheads</link><description><![CDATA[With growing bitterness, Poland believes that its partnership with Lithuania is one built on empty promises. At the heart of the debate - the rights of the Polish minority in the Baltic state. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/polish-parade-vilnius.jpg" length="87957" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:34:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Black market | Lithuania&#039;s taxes go up in smoke (Lietuvos Rytas, Vilnius)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/348541-lithuanias-taxes-go-smoke</link><description><![CDATA[The crisis may have brought Lithuania to its knees, but business is booming on the black market. Armed with his calculator and a sense of adventure, Marius Jokubaitis set out to discover just how much tax revenue petrol and cigarette smugglers are diverting from the state. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Kopelnitsky.jpg" length="33812" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:24:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Stability pact | That figures</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/318101-figures</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The European Commission has agreed to study an alternative model for calculating its public debt,&quot; reveals P&uacute;blico, speaking of the letter signed by nine member [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:20:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Fires | The ghost of Chernobyl again floating over Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/314611-ghost-chernobyl-again-floating-over-europe</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Natural catastrophes and nuclear energy: the danger has been pushed back&quot;, reads the headline of Die Tageszeitung, depicting the image of a Russian forest contaminated [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/12082010-Taz.jpg" length="11544" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:18:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>History | Grunwald, the battle that changed Central Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/294671-grunwald-battle-changed-central-europe</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Grunwald transformed Poland from a periphery to a European centre&rdquo;, writes Polska on its front page. 600 years ago, the flower of European knighthood clashed [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:04:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Baltic States and the crisis (3) | Lithuania, no country for old men (The New York Times, New York)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/236711-lithuania-no-country-old-men</link><description><![CDATA[Severely affected by the economic crisis, no other country, apart from Ireland, has effected more severe public spending cuts than Lithuania. While austerity has yet to elicit the same level of protest as seen in Greece or in Spain, it has had a tremendous personal and social cost. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/lithuania-austerity.jpg" length="194053" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:02:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Baltic states and the crisis (1) | Running for the euro (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/231041-running-euro</link><description><![CDATA[The worst is over for the Baltic States. For the first time since the beginning of the financial crisis, Moody&#039;s has upped its ratings outlooks for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia: a sign that the three republics will soon be able to join the eurozone. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/baltic-states.JPG" length="129907" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:23:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>University | Schools feel cost of crisis (Adevărul, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/220521-schools-feel-cost-crisis</link><description><![CDATA[The education sector in Europe has been hard hit by cuts in budgets, personnel and investment. Some universities, e.g. in the UK, might even have to be closed down. And some leading institutions could soon lose their top international rankings. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/education-crisis.jpg" length="107714" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:10:17 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Baltic Sea | The big cleanup begins</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/189031-big-cleanup-begins</link><description><![CDATA[The countries bordering the Baltic Sea pledge to clean up what experts call the &ldquo;most polluted sea in the world&rdquo;, reports Helsingin Sanomat. At a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Helsingin-Sanomat-11022010.jpg" length="43344" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:44:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Crime | The war on cigarette smuggling (Rzeczpospolita, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/174211-war-cigarette-smuggling</link><description><![CDATA[One cigarette in every ten sold in the European Union has been illegally imported. To combat the booming business in smuggled tobacco from Eastern Europe and Asia, Brussels has decided to tighten security on the EU&#039;s external borders. Poland is in the front line of the war on the cigarette smugglers. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/cigarette-crush.jpg" length="57503" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:54:01 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Lithuania | CIA's little helpers</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/160571-cia-s-little-helpers</link><description><![CDATA[There are at least two secret CIA sites in Lithuania where top-ranking Al-Queda operatives may have been held and interrogated between 2002-2006, concluded an investigating [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Gazeta-231209.jpg" length="37763" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:12:01 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Central and Eastern Europe | World Bank&#039;s forsees debt gloom</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/149681-world-banks-forsees-debt-gloom</link><description><![CDATA[Lean years are in the offing for Central and Eastern Europe, warns the World Bank in its latest report, cited by today&rsquo;s Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/091204-dziennik.jpg" length="6079" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:04:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU-Russia | Moscow's charm offensive (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/146561-moscow-s-charm-offensive</link><description><![CDATA[After tensions triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union and post-9/11, the hour has come for rapprochement between Europe and Russia. Favoured by the United States’ relative unconcern and the absence of major present-day flashpoints between the two powers, their reconciliation is being approached pragmatically – and in many areas on the Kremlin’s initiative. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/putin-medvedev-water.jpg" length="32413" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:16:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Tourism | Kosmopolitan Kaliningrad (Cafebabel.com, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/141011-kosmopolitan-kaliningrad</link><description><![CDATA[Sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland, the once forbidding Russian exclave of Kaliningrad now benefits from federal money and oil revenues. Cafebabel.com reports from a city that now offers that familiar mix of Moscow trash and flash. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/kaliningrad-bus-stop.jpg" length="54986" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:12:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU-Russia | Sweden pushed onto Baltic chessboard</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/139701-sweden-pushed-baltic-chessboard</link><description><![CDATA[The EU-Russian summit in Stockholm has prompted some reflections on Sweden&rsquo;s foreign and defence policy in the Svenska Dagbladet: &ldquo;Now that the Lisbon Treaty is [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Svenka-dagbladet-181109.JPG" length="39764" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:18:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Lithuania | You say Waldemar, I say Valdemar</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/133621-you-say-waldemar-i-say-valdemar</link><description><![CDATA[The Polish community of Lithuania has lost its battle to have names spelled in Polish fashion on passports, following a ruling by the Lithuanian Constitutional [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/rzeczpospolita-091109.jpg" length="6653" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:28:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Gas | Green light for Nord Stream</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/132781-green-light-nord-stream</link><description><![CDATA[Sweden and Finland&#039;s November 5th approval of the route of the future Nord Stream gas pipeline, which passes through their coastal waters, has set aside [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/dagens-nyheter-091106.jpg" length="7322" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:55:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Minorities | Letter opens Poland-Lithuania rift</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/103981-letter-opens-poland-lithuania-rift</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;A Polish-Lithuanian skirmish in Brussels,&rdquo; announces Gazeta Wyborcza, reporting on an open letter by 10 Polish MEPs sent to Euro-parliament president Jerzy Buzek appealing for [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/gazeta-wyborcza-090925.jpg" length="6468" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:33:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>History | Condemning totalitarianism of all colours (Revista 22, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/82381-condemning-totalitarianism-all-colours</link><description><![CDATA[The 23rd August is &quot;European Day of Rememberance for the Victims of Nazism and Stalinism&quot;, to condemn totalitarianism. A noble cause perhaps, but one which has provoked controversy in Russia, where Stalin is still a national hero. They point out that Russia in fact saved many lives threatened by Nazism. Yet the Russians remain cagey about their Soviet Union archives, a stumbling block for ex-Soviet states to really understand their totalitarian pasts. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/baltic-chain.jpg" length="36212" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:16:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Turkey | Go East (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/79961-go-east</link><description><![CDATA[The EU rose out of the ashes of war. Perhaps, with a little patience and pragmatism, a Middle Eastern Union is not such a distant fantasy. And Turkey, as East-West linchpin, is well-placed to be that unifying force. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/turkey-arab_4.jpg" length="135053" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:17:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Regional cooperation | Baltic Blues (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/77821-baltic-blues</link><description><![CDATA[Several years ago, the Baltic became the EU’s internal sea. But what kind of a sea is it? A shallow, closed, poor, one that divides rather than connects. On economic as well as environmental issues, the future of the Baltic states is bound in cooperation with neighbouring countries and with the European Union. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/baltic-fishing.jpg" length="43550" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:15:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Financial Crisis | Surprising change for developing countries</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/75741-surprising-change-developing-countries</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The economies of central Europe are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but Romania will not be at the front [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:12:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Central and Eastern Europe | Lean years are back (Gandul, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/74961-lean-years-are-back</link><description><![CDATA[The financial crisis in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, which until recently were posting record growth rates, has forced governments to slash budgets, starting with public service salaries — and cabinet ministers are leading the way. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/vaches-maigres.jpg" length="114951" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:42:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Gas pipeline | Russians pressurise Poland into gas deal</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/73311-russians-pressurise-poland-gas-deal</link><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Russia pulls on the gas lever again,&rsquo; headlines Polska, describing the final stages of pending Polish-Russian talks on long-term gas supplies to Poland. According to [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/polska-100809.PNG" length="33999" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:25:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>TOWER OF BABEL | Short in height but walking tall (Cafebabel.com, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/72571-short-height-walking-tall</link><description><![CDATA[Sarkozy and Berlusconi are short men. But in certain European countries, a lack of height is not necessarily a handicap, as these expressions show. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Henning-Studte-petit-grand_0.jpg" length="62104" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:47:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Nuclear power hopes on the back burner</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/68891-nuclear-power-hopes-back-burner</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Polish hopes of obtaining power from a nuclear plant as early as 2018 will misfire&quot; if Lithuania shelves its plans for the construction of the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:46:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Belarus | A university in exile (Cafebabel.com, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/67541-university-exile</link><description><![CDATA[After being closed down by the goverment in 2004, Minsk&#039;s European Humanities University is now based in Lithuania, with some help from the EU. Its aim is to educate the elite that will run the democratic Belarus of the future. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/EHU-Minsk-2004.jpg" length="93420" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:26:02 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>ex-soviet bloc | Dear Barack, just a reminder... (Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/56131-dear-barack-just-reminder</link><description><![CDATA[Leading politicians from Central and Eastern Europe have sent an open letter to the US president urging him to pursue &quot;a firm and principled policy towards Russia&quot;. At stake is America&#039;s credibility in a region it wholeheartedly embraced in the 90&#039;s, but which now, according to the signatories, it takes for granted. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/obama-prague.jpg" length="27929" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:27:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Homosexuality | Lithuanian TiT declares war on gays</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/52861-lithuanian-tit-declares-war-gays</link><description><![CDATA[After a first reading, the Lithuanian parliament has passed amendments to the penal code criminalising the promotion of same-sex relationships. &ldquo;If the amendments get through [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:59:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cities | Tallinn, one hand in its pocket (Eesti Päevaleht, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/31641-tallinn-one-hand-its-pocket</link><description><![CDATA[In 2011, Tallinn becomes European capital of culture. Without money and above all without any ideas, all the Estonian capital has been doing is to keep a jealous on fellow Baltic capital Vilnius, in Lithuania, which has organised this event successfully. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Tallinn-traditions_1.jpg" length="72113" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:16:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
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