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                <language>en</language><item><title>Schengen | Bucharest and Sofia must try harder, again</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1493921-bucharest-and-sofia-must-try-harder-again</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Can the CMV report open the door to Schengen?&quot; questions the front page of Romanian daily Rom&acirc;nia Liberă, referring to the interim report of the [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:15:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Can Agent Ungureanu save his country?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1491321-can-agent-ungureanu-save-his-country</link><description><![CDATA[In appointing the head of the secret service to lead the government, President Băsescu is attempting to avoid early general elections. But, as the Romanian press points out, the controversial Mr Ungureanu is perhaps not the politician that is best equipped to put an end to protests against austerity and the country’s political class. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/minister-espion-romania_0.JPG" length="47447" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:58:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Climate | Snowed in | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1487661-snowed</link><description><![CDATA[Snowed in (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/kazanevsky-froid-490.jpg" length="181926" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:06:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | A spy in government</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1487361-spy-government</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Operation Ungureanu&quot; &nbsp;has begun, headlines Adevărul:  on 7 February, the young (age 43) intelligence service chief, Mihai  Răzvan Ungureanu, is to take over [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:52:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania  | Baconschi, first head to roll</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1440711-baconschi-first-head-roll</link><description><![CDATA[Amidst continuing demonstrations against  austerity measures in Bucharest, the Romanian government is cleaning  house. The Foreign Minister, Teodor Baconschi, was informed of his [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:58:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>The price of austerity | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/1421131-price-austerity</link><description><![CDATA[Who  says Romanians have a gift for enduring austerity? Just before the  protests by the &quot;Indignados&quot; of Bucharest broke out, a Romanian  columnist was shocked that the Financial Times would suggest that his  countrymen were &ldquo;familiar with austerity&rdquo;, while others in Europe were  expressing their admiration of Romanians&rsquo; endurance under the measures  imposed by the IMF. The &euro;13 billion loan signed back in 2009 has  certainly saved the country&rsquo;s growth, but at what cost?
Demonstrations  have accompanied each of the austerity measures adopted by the Romanian  government: a VAT hike, lower wages for civil servants, a 60-hour  working week... Each time, the group affected has come out into the  streets. But the discontent of recent days, which erupted following the  resignation of the highly popular Under-secretary of State Raed Arafat  in protest against the privatisation of the public health system, has  touched all Romanians, and both right and left have flooded into the  streets to take on the entire political class. They have, it seems,  reached the limits of their proverbial ability to put up with the  sacrifices. The government remains unmoved.
Having  endured the speeches of politicians who repeat the  &ldquo;austerity-solidarity&rdquo; mantra and blame their failures on Europe instead  of trying to combine austerity and growth, the Romanians have said  &ldquo;enough!&quot;
The  protests in Romania are nothing more or less than a reflection of a  discontent that could engulf the entire European Union. In truth,  Europeans&rsquo; support for the sacrifices being asked of them, without any  clear perspective being outlined or the situation explained, is fading  fast. &ldquo;For the European project to stay alive, something else is  needed,&rdquo; wrote Luca Niculescu in Revista 22 following the December 9 EU  summit. Making peoples already hit hard by the crisis understand that  stability requires austerity remains a tough sell. &ldquo;There will be more  demonstrations,&rdquo; Niculescu predicts. It&#039;s blindingly obvious.
To  remedy the situation, leaders must change tack. They must stop calling a  summit at every &ldquo;critical&rdquo; moment. They should just explain, patiently,  that the disappearance of the single currency would mean much more than  a return to the peseta, the franc or the mark, and understand, as the  Dutch philosopher Paul Scheffer has emphasised, that citizens&rsquo; support  cannot be won without solid arguments. For the death of the euro would  mean, quite simply, the end of the Union.
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:53:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Who are the Indignados of Bucharest? (România libera, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1416691-who-are-indignados-bucharest</link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of people from all walks of life have been demonstrating all week in Bucharest as well as all over the country against both austerity measures and a political system gangrened by corruption. It is about time that the government took their complaints seriously, warns Romanian sociologist Mircea Kivu. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/romania-demo_0.jpg" length="121737" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:20:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Raed Arafat: A reluctant rebel (Qmagazine, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1409981-raed-arafat-reluctant-rebel</link><description><![CDATA[The revolt currently shaking Bucharest is inspired by Raed Arafat, a doctor of Palestinian origin who protested against the privatisation of the country&#039;s health system. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/arafat-Raed_0.jpg" length="141371" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:12:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Anti-austerity revolt in Bucharest</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1399591-anti-austerity-revolt-bucharest</link><description><![CDATA[Sixty injured and many shops ransacked are the result of a demonstration held in Bucharest on January 15 to demand the resignation of Romanian President [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/120116adevarul.jpg" length="8330" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:38:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Forgotten miners in the Valley of Tears (Die Tageszeitung, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1392021-forgotten-miners-valley-tears</link><description><![CDATA[In Ceausescu&#039;s times thousands of Romanians, drawn by high wages, flocked to the coalfields of the Jiu Valley. Today many of the mines in the valley are closed and the miners have been left to fend for themselves. Many are sliding into criminality. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Petrila-Jiu-Valley.jpg" length="26668" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:59:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Revolution? What revolution? (Jurnalul Naţional, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1315731-revolution-what-revolution</link><description><![CDATA[For most people in post-communist Europe, December is the month to commemorate the fall of the communist regimes. In Romania, the fall has become a story that a society living in a world of cheap illusions tells itself. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Romania-revolution-b.jpg" length="55907" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:59:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania  | Secret CIA prison in Bucharest</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1263021-secret-cia-prison-bucharest</link><description><![CDATA[S&uuml;ddeutsche Zeitung has revealed  that the CIA had a secret prison in Romania. The German daily has  collected testimony from several American secret [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Suddeutsche-Zeitung-100.jpg" length="33326" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:21:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Who will follow Merkel and Sarkozy?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1255171-who-will-follow-merkel-and-sarkozy</link><description><![CDATA[At a 5 December meeting in Paris, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy agreed on a plan to save the euro from catastrophe, which they will be asking the EU’s 27 member states to approve at a summit on 8-9 December. The European press, however, thinks they’re not out of the woods yet. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/SCHRANK_Merkozy.jpg" length="98964" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:13:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Austria | Credit crunch comes to the East</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1209671-credit-crunch-comes-east</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The Austrian Financial Market Authority and the National Bank of Austria put a brake on credit for the East,&rdquo; headlines Die Presse,  in the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Die-Presse-24112011-100.jpg" length="40508" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:19:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | The crisis and three Europes (România libera, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1169311-crisis-and-three-europes</link><description><![CDATA[The EU may well soon be split up between the performers, the lame, and the laggards, worries Romanian political scientist Alina Mungiu-Pippidi. And let’s not count on a fake European identity to bring everyone together. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/europe-speed_0.jpg" length="102060" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:35:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Iceland | Reykjavik to allow Romanian workers</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1155471-reykjavik-allow-romanian-workers</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Iceland has decided to open up its labour market fully to Romanian [and Bulgarian] citizens from 1st January 2012&quot;, reports Timpul. The Moldovan daily is [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:50:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania-Greece | Orthodox church at the gates of purgatory (România libera, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1151801-orthodox-church-gates-purgatory</link><description><![CDATA[In Bucharest and in Athens, the exacerbation of the economic crisis has undermined public tolerance for the privileges enjoyed by the Orthodox Church. If things do not change, warns România Liberă, the organisation runs the risk of paying a heavy cultural tribute. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/romania-orthodox.jpg" length="81918" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:20:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | Idea of non-eurozone gains support</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1127631-idea-non-eurozone-gains-support</link><description><![CDATA[In the context of increased integration of the Eurozone, &quot;In Bucharest and London politicians are considering launching a group of non-eurozone countries&quot;, announces Adevărul. The [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:22:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>River transport | The Danube is running dry (NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1101321-danube-running-dry</link><description><![CDATA[The Danube, Europe&#039;s second longest river, is one of the most poorly navigable rivers on the continent. Despite the EU’s Danube Strategy, the summer drought has resulted in even lower water levels, resulting in an enormous traffic jam. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/danube-drought.jpg" length="123650" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:42:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Băsescu snubs ex-king's speech</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1101111-basescu-snubs-ex-king-s-speech</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;King Michael&rsquo;s speech delivers a historic message on the Romanians that we ought to be,&rdquo; headlines Jurnalul Naţonal,  in the wake of the former [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/jurnalul-national-26102011-100.jpg" length="39248" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:50:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania  | Just how many Roma are there?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1077531-just-how-many-roma-are-there</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Will we ever know the exact number  of Roma in Romania?&quot; That&#039;s the question posed by conservative  Romanian daily Jurnalul National.  &quot;In [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Jurnalul-National-20102011_0.jpg" length="41755" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:55:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | Europeans up sticks (Adevărul, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1058131-europeans-sticks</link><description><![CDATA[The crisis is forcing more and more Europeans to emigrate. For young people in Mediterranean countries, as well as for those in Eastern Europe, it&#039;s the north of the continent where salvation lies. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ares-suitcase.jpg" length="27385" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:15:07 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>CAP | The crusade of Commissioner Cioloş</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1053321-crusade-commissioner-ciolos</link><description><![CDATA[The European Commissioner for Agriculture, Dacian Cioloş, presented the draft reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in Brussels on 12 October. 
Adevărul notes that [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:10:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Panic in Giurgiu city</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1048421-panic-giurgiu-city</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Welcome to Giurgiu, the city terrorised by the Gypsy mafia,&quot; headlines Romanian daily Evenimentul zilei. The paper highlights the law of silence that reigns on [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Evenimentul-zilei-12102011-100.jpg" length="43302" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:15:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Austria | Czech Republic | Banks battening down the hatches</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1044561-banks-battening-down-hatches</link><description><![CDATA[Confronted with a euro crisis that is not going away, a leading Austrian bank has decided to act. &quot;Erste Bank is getting ready for the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Die-Presse-11102011-100.jpg" length="39153" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:30:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Crooked judges in corruption scandal</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1040781-crooked-judges-corruption-scandal</link><description><![CDATA[The Romanian justice system has been rocked by yet another scandal, announces Rom&acirc;nia liberă  in a report bearing the headline: &ldquo;Rotten system. 11 supreme [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/111010rl.jpg" length="7464" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:56:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Nokia ducks out, thanks to Apple</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1008821-nokia-ducks-out-thanks-apple</link><description><![CDATA[Nokia is closing its plant in Jucu, in Transylvania. The announcement made on September 28 will take effect before year&rsquo;s end and will see 2,200 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110930adevarul.jpg" length="7977" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:54:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Shifting borders | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/981821-shifting-borders</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;In Europe, principles are not what  they once were,&quot; writes Rom&acirc;nia libera  on the eve of the meeting of European ministers. On September 22, the  ministers decided to postpone the accession of Romania and Bulgaria  to the Schengen area, having failed to reach a compromise with the Netherlands  and Finland, which are demanding more guarantees in the fight against  corruption and crime. In Bucharest and Sofia the governments feel betrayed,  as they feel they had worked hard to do just what was asked of them  &ndash; in vain.&nbsp;
Beyond the national perspective, however,  everything today indicates that Europe has become a kind of labyrinth  in which no one recognises his own borders. The external frontiers,  the Schengen area, pressed hard on their Greek or Italian flanks, are  reinforced on one side with barbed wire (between Greece and Turkey)  or with increased sea patrols (in the Mediterranean) &ndash; all without any  guidelines having been drawn up at European level.
Internal borders, which theoretically are now largely symbolic administrative  lines, are in turn subject to manoeuvring that undermines the very principle  of free movement throughout the area. Denmark has restored its border  controls, ostensibly to fight cross-border crime, and France has done  the same to prevent Tunisians from crossing over from Italy. Finally,  other borders, these ones political, forced up by domestic issues, are  popping up where they were not necessarily expected: in the Netherlands,  in Finland and in Denmark, pushed for by Geert Wilders and his party,  by the &quot;True Finns&quot;, and by the Danish People&#039;s Party. &nbsp;
&ldquo;I blame Europe and Italy for  being asleep, for not being aware of the nationalist and centrifugal  forces that are tugging it apart.  We have not remembered the lesson from the Balkans: it&#039;s enough simply  to identify an enemy of the people for a people short of reference points  to take it on as truth,&rdquo; writes the Italian Paolo Rumiz  in his book On the Frontiers of Europe (ed. Hoebeke, 2011). He  might have added that it risks abandoning part of its soul to wander  between these more or less shifting borders, and lose itself.&nbsp;
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:58:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Bulgaria | Romania | Congratulations, you failed the Schengen test (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/978281-congratulations-you-failed-schengen-test</link><description><![CDATA[The citizens of Romania and Bulgaria should be delighted by the rejection of Schengen membership applications submitted by Bucharest and Sofia, which have been vetoed by the Netherlands. Dutch daily De Volkskrant argues that it will be the spur they need to step up the fight against corruption and organised crime. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/roumanie-schengen.jpg" length="131644" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:35:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Dictionary dispute over terms of abuse</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/977021-dictionary-dispute-over-terms-abuse</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;&#039;Tigan&#039; [Gypsy] and &#039;jidan&#039; [kike]  will be revised in the new DEX,&quot; the dictionary of reference for  the Romanian language, leads Romanian daily [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/jurnalul-national-22092011-100.jpg" length="40056" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:47:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania-Netherlands | Bucharest triggers War of the Tulips (Adevărul, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/964011-bucharest-triggers-war-tulips</link><description><![CDATA[Upset by the Dutch refusal to accept Romania into the Schengen area, the Romanian authorities have decided on strict border controls for tulips. A reaction that&#039;s a trifle excessive, but justified, writes an angry editorialist. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/tulip--romania.jpg" length="125274" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:20:49 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Gold fever hits Bucharest (Revista 22, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/953961-gold-fever-hits-bucharest</link><description><![CDATA[As the economic crisis drives up the value of gold on world markets, the Romanian state intends to hitch a ride by reopening the mine fields at Roşia Montană in association with a Canadian firm. So far, the project has dug up more controversy than gold. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Rosia-Montana.jpg" length="110153" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:36:02 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Economic crisis | Youthful members of the full-time precariat (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/953511-youthful-members-full-time-precariat</link><description><![CDATA[The crisis has accelerated the emergence of a new social class in Europe. Dubbed &quot;the precariat&quot; by sociologists, it is made up of young people with no prospect of a decent job or a reasonable standard of living. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/precarita.jpg" length="207636" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:40:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Inside Europe last leper's colony (Evenimentul zilei, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/940541-inside-europe-last-leper-s-colony</link><description><![CDATA[In Tichileşti, in the Danube delta, 19 patients continue to live in Europe’s last leper colony. Evenimentul Zilei reports from a location that was long kept secret by Romanian authorities. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Tichilesti-Leper-Hospital.jpg" length="108909" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:49:12 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Discipline, spelling and singing order of day</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/939581-discipline-spelling-and-singing-order-day</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Romania  today sends to school a new generation of astronauts, of pilots and of  every other profession one dreams of at 6-7 years [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Jurnalul-national-12092011-100.jpg" length="32726" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:16:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Nuclear waste, an explosive subject (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/928691-nuclear-waste-explosive-subject</link><description><![CDATA[Romania’s only nuclear power station has been operating here, close to the Black Sea, since 1996. Now the construction of a nearby facility to store radioactive waste has added to the concerns of local people, who are worried about the consequences of a possible nuclear disaster. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Cernavoda.jpg" length="134882" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:22:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Schengen Zone | The millionaires of Europe's eastern frontier (The New York Times, New York)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/913961-millionaires-europe-s-eastern-frontier</link><description><![CDATA[Despite billions invested in hi-tech surveillance equipment, the borders of Romania and Bulgaria remain some of Europe’s most porous. Sumptuous villas built by customs officers might provide a clue as to why. A report. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bulgaria-schengen.jpg" length="118791" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:05:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ideas | Why Hamlet is no euro-federalist (Evenimentul zilei, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/889201-why-hamlet-no-euro-federalist</link><description><![CDATA[Although many commentators have called for it to be established, the United States of Europe remains a chimera, which is incompatible with the history and plurality of cultures on our continent, argues Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/hamlet-skul.jpg" length="34937" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:57:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | TB is alive and well</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/884441-tb-alive-and-well</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Why does Romania hold the European record for TB?&rdquo; asks Rom&acirc;nia Libera.&nbsp;According to the statistics, 20,000 Romanians currently suffer from this disease, a rate of [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110825rl.jpg" length="7681" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:11:31 +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>Spain | Back to work permits for Romanians</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/849131-back-work-permits-romanians</link><description><![CDATA[The EU &quot;accepts Spain&rsquo;s limits on the access of Romanians&rdquo; to the Spanish labour market, headlines the daily La Raz&oacute;n, announcing that the European Commission [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/La-razon-10082011-100.jpg" length="40377" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:43:34 +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>Ukraine | The invasive generosity of Budapest and Bucharest</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/837251-invasive-generosity-budapest-and-bucharest</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Kiev is beginning to have serious problems with its neighbours,&rdquo; writes the Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta, reporting on Ukraine&rsquo;s annoyance with the granting of passports [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:41:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Who is to gain from weak recovery?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/829351-who-gain-weak-recovery</link><description><![CDATA[On 3 August, the Romanian Minister for Finance will have to take &quot;the weightiest political decision of the year.&quot; &nbsp;As the Rom&acirc;nia liberă headline points [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Romania-libera-100.jpg" length="20705" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:48:22 +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>Romania | No more privileges for &#039;89 revolutionaries</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/812731-no-more-privileges-89-revolutionaries</link><description><![CDATA[Some of them really did take to the streets in December 1989 to bring down Nicolae Ceausescu&rsquo;s regime, but many others simply &ldquo;forged revolutionary certificates&rdquo; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Revista22-29072011-100.JPG" length="29571" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:31:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Exam disaster for Google generation</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/754931-exam-disaster-google-generation</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The  true worth of the Google generation: academic disaster,&quot; headlines  Evenimentul zilei. The Romanian daily reports that half the students who  sat [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/EZ_04072011-100.jpg" length="16327" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:37:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>A town in Europe | Sibiu - could almost be Bavaria (Adevărul, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/712281-sibiu-could-almost-be-bavaria</link><description><![CDATA[Persecuted during the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Sibiu has since bandaged its wounds and today it has become one of Romania’s leading cultural cities — a metamorphosis hailed by the editor in chief of Adevărul. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Sibiu.jpg" length="72523" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:10:15 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Schengen Area | Sofia and Bucharest kept waiting</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/705071-sofia-and-bucharest-kept-waiting</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Europe wants us in Schengen. But when? When pigs fly&hellip;&quot; The popular Sofia daily Trud  sets the tone for reports on yesterday&rsquo;s EU decision [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110610trud_1.jpg" length="7145" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:00:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>E.coli panic | Madrid accuses Brussels of stinginess</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/700111-madrid-accuses-brussels-stinginess</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Spain is importing a little cucumber&quot; headlines La Raz&oacute;n, in a play on words emphasising the &ldquo;chump change&rdquo; Spanish farmers are getting back as compensation [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/La-razon-080062011-100.jpg" length="36250" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:33:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
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