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                <language>en</language><item><title>Portugal | Shopping in the troika era (Jornal de Negócios, Lisbon)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1484011-shopping-troika-era</link><description><![CDATA[Since Portugal has been subjected to an austerity regimen by the EU/ECB/IMF troika, Portuguese consumers have adapted their habits. The crisis is pushing consumers to save but also to be more creative. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/SAMPAIO-portugal-consomation_0.jpg" length="116218" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:05:02 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>France | Marseille, the new drug empire (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1476391-marseille-new-drug-empire</link><description><![CDATA[France’s second city will be European capital of culture in 2013. But for the moment, news from Marseille is dominated by feuds among Kalashnikov toting drug dealers who hold sway over entire neighbourhoods. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/marseille-police.jpg" length="39763" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:53:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Economic crisis | Poverty trap for middle classes of Europe (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1469391-poverty-trap-middle-classes-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment has hit record levels in the EU, putting nearly a quarter of those Europeans who until now had a decent standard of living at risk of sliding into social exclusion. The phenomenon is undermining the EU’s strategies against poverty. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/DARIO-EU-middle-class.jpg" length="97451" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:22:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Belarus | Azarenka's win, Lukashenko's Victoria (Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1468281-azarenka-s-win-lukashenko-s-victoria</link><description><![CDATA[Tennis player Victoria Azarenka, the recent winner of the Australian Open, is now one of the few Belarusians known outside her country. A PR opportunity for the dictator of Minsk. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ViktoriaArazenka.jpg" length="89445" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:08:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Poverty in a time of economic diktat (Libération, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1460301-poverty-time-economic-diktat</link><description><![CDATA[While negotiations on the write-down of Greek debt remain ongoing, Athens city hall is supplying two meals a day to jobless workers who are now threatened with famine in the wake of austerity measures: a situation that some Greeks readily compare with the occupation of the country during World War 2. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/greece-crisis_3.jpg" length="123794" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:39:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Tourism | What did you see in Auschwitz? (Télérama, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1444921-what-did-you-see-auschwitz</link><description><![CDATA[Every year more than a million people visit Auschwitz. In the run-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the liberation of the camp on 27 January, Télérama wonders: Is this mass tourism not to some extent a profanation of memory? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Visiting-Auschwittz.jpg" length="131278" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:20:32 +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>Immigration | Shipwrecks that no one mentions</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1408291-shipwrecks-no-one-mentions</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Maritime catastrophes in the Mediterranean,&quot; headlines Tageszeitung which takes a critical look at the media coverage devoted to the sinking of the Costa Concordia.
The  [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/TAZ-100.jpg" length="36624" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:35:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<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>Emigration | Population slumps in crisis stricken Spain</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1403561-population-slumps-crisis-stricken-spain</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Spain is no longer a land of welcome&rdquo;, writes El Mundo. According to the Madrid daily:

The  migration bubble that grew during the last decade [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:34:49 +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>Estonia | SS to be given "freedom fighter" status</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1382681-ss-be-given-freedom-fighter-status</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;SS canonised,&quot; leads Tageszeitung, with a front-page photo of the leader of the Nazi organisation, Heinrich Himmler, on a visit to SS volunteers in Estonia [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/01112012-TAZ-v.jpg" length="11107" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:29:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Employment | Does immigration lengthen dole queues?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1379031-does-immigration-lengthen-dole-queues</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Immigration does not cause unemployment,&rdquo; leads the Independent, following a report by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research that contradicts claims  that [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/120110independent.jpg" length="7769" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:35:38 +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>Emigration | Poles plump for life abroad</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1364861-poles-plump-life-abroad</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The million won&rsquo;t return&rdquo;, Tygodnik Powszechny warns on its front page, citing Central Statistical Office  data according to which some 1.1 million Poles have [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/TygodnikPowszechny-010612-v.jpg" length="12336" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:45:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Still living in Lenin Street (Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1355581-still-living-lenin-street</link><description><![CDATA[Twenty-one years after German reunification, many streets and squares of the former GDR are still named communist grandees. For a number of former dissidents and a journalist from Gazeta Wyborcza, it’s a puzzling phenomonen. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/film-lenin.jpg" length="19944" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:15:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy | The town that stood up to the mafia (El Mundo, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1319421-town-stood-mafia</link><description><![CDATA[Ercolano, in southern Italy, has become the first town to stop paying extortion money to the Camorra. A new freedom fiercely defended by the town&#039;s mayor and shopkeepers. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Ercolano-A.jpg" length="61659" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:00:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Franco-Turkish spat over genocide law</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1325611-franco-turkish-spat-over-genocide-law</link><description><![CDATA[The French parliament’s vote which approved a private member’s bill making it a crime to negate the Armenian genocide has provoked an angry response from Ankara. The reaction to the initiative in the French press has been largely negative, while the Turkish media is much more outspoken. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/STEPHFF_Turkey-France.jpg" length="34050" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:29:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Emigration | The Greek exodus to Australia (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1318891-greek-exodus-australia</link><description><![CDATA[For young Europeans from crisis stricken states, booming Australia has become a new land of opportunity. This is especially true for a new generation of Greek graduates, joining the largest expatriate Greek community in the world. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/greek-australia-A.jpg" length="39934" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:22:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | Europe's judges overturn asylum regulation</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1320021-europe-s-judges-overturn-asylum-regulation</link><description><![CDATA[An asylum seeker cannot be transferred to an EU state where he or she &ldquo;risks having to endure degrading or inhumane treatment,&rdquo; reports Die Tageszeitung. [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:53:09 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Xenophobia | Florence murders - crisis distills its poison (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1289151-florence-murders-crisis-distills-its-poison</link><description><![CDATA[The murder of two Senegalese traders in Florence is the latest manifestation of an upsurge of hatred in Europe. With the Utøya massacre, the vehement reactions to the Greek crisis, British isolationism and the rise of the extreme right, this trend has many forms — all of them equally alarming. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/italy-shooting.jpg" length="28465" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:04:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Schengen | For a Europe of borders</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1262801-europe-borders</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;EU countries are clinging to border controls&rdquo;, writes the Financial Times Deutschland as it sums up the views most member states take on the proposal [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/FTD-100.JPG" length="35727" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:38:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | Bulgarian passport opens doors to West (Trud, Sofia)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1258251-bulgarian-passport-opens-doors-west</link><description><![CDATA[Macedonians, Moldavians and Ukrainians are jostling to obtain a Bulgarian passport. Many plan to leave for other countries in the European Union, but first they must confront the Bulgarian administration. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Bulgaria-passport.jpg" length="120482" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:47:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>United Kingdom | Rioters point to excessive policing</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1249251-rioters-point-excessive-policing</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Blame  the police: why the rioters say they took part,&rdquo; headlines the  Guardian, as it unveils a major study into the cause of [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Guardian-05122011-100.jpg" length="40586" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:35:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Social crisis | Spain losing the roof over its head (El Mundo, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1242441-spain-losing-roof-over-its-head</link><description><![CDATA[Victims of unemployment, the housing bubble and bank loans too easily offered, thousands of families have been forced to abandon their homes. A symptom of the crisis that has rocked Spain, but also the crisis of a system in need of reform. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/spain-housing.jpg" length="38508" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:18:02 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | State of emergency in hospitals</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1241831-state-emergency-hospitals</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The  fight for survival. What more can be done?&rdquo; writes Pravda two days  after the collective resignation of 1,400 Slovak doctors to protest [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/111202pravda.jpg" length="7158" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:36:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | EU a closed door for refugees</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1193971-eu-closed-door-refugees</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Most EU countries reject refugees,&rdquo; writes Dagens Nyheter  in a report on member state policies on asylum seekers. Ten countries  take in 90% [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Dagens-Nyheter-21112011-100.jpg" length="11619" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:36:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Neo-Nazis - just another Ossi story? (Der Freitag, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1184131-neo-nazis-just-another-ossi-story</link><description><![CDATA[Germany has been rocked by revelations that an east German neo-Nazi cell has been responsible for the deaths of nine immigrants over the last decade. An author decries enduring East-West divisions that highlight the failures of German unification. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/neonazi-zwickau.jpg" length="31818" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:48:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Portugal | My neighbour, the Prime Minister (Expresso, Lisbon)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1181181-my-neighbour-prime-minister</link><description><![CDATA[In the suburban street in Lisbon that is home to Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, the crisis has come knocking. Expresso reports on the manner in which austerity measures imposed by their high-profile neighbour have affected the lives of middle-class Portuguese who live in the area. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/portugal-middle-class.JPG" length="173342" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:47:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Fear of a "Brown Army Faction"</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1168601-fear-brown-army-faction</link><description><![CDATA[After the Red Army Faction, leads Der Spiegel, is a &ldquo;Brown Army Faction&rdquo; now haunting Germany? Following the explosion in a house in the town [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/brief/german-brief.jpg" length="149730" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:41:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>INTEGRATION | Arabic, a European language like any other (Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1159591-arabic-european-language-any-other</link><description><![CDATA[A Swedish journalist of Palestinian origin embarks on a tour of Europe to take an inventory of the use of Arabic across the continent with surprising results. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/street-arab.jpg" length="93294" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:04:54 +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>Germany | Habermas stokes debate on Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1152061-habermas-stokes-debate-europe</link><description><![CDATA[The future of democracy in Europe has once again come to the fore in the German press, with J&uuml;rgen Habermas adding weight to some of [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:01:03 +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>Slovakia | Doctors mobilise against privatisation</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1147361-doctors-mobilise-against-privatisation</link><description><![CDATA[Although the project to transform 31 public hospitals into private companies has been shelved until after general elections next March, &ldquo;doctors are continuing to resign&rdquo;,&nbsp;headlines [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Pravda-08112011-100.jpg" length="40763" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:21:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Law could lead to Communist Party&#039;s dissolution</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1143321-law-could-lead-communist-partys-dissolution</link><description><![CDATA[Twenty-two years after the 1989 revolution, &ldquo;the police will investigate the communists&rdquo; announces SME. Two months after a law made it a punishable offence to [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/SME-07112011-100.jpg" length="13296" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:18:29 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany-Turkey | Bitter birthday</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1131861-bitter-birthday</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Bir problem mi var?&quot; Do I have a problem? The question posed in Turkish by Frankfurter Rundschau  is an apt reflection of the atmosphere [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/frankfurter-rundschau-03112-100.jpg" length="33781" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:50:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Wealth gap wider than ever</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1121391-wealth-gap-wider-ever</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The gap between rich and poor is widening in Spain&quot;, reports El Pa&iacute;s, which points out that economic inequality has reached &quot;a record high&quot; since [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/111031elpais.jpg" length="7228" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:52:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands | Deportation order prompts prompts CDA political crisis</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1121321-deportation-order-prompts-prompts-cda-political-crisis</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;CDA will have to save face&rdquo;, headlines De Volkskrant. The Christian-democratic party, a member of the Netherlands liberal-led coalition, has been destabilised by the fate [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/111031volkskrant.jpg" length="7067" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:19:10 +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>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>Bulgaria | White slave trade profits from the crisis (Sega, Sofia)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1070101-white-slave-trade-profits-crisis</link><description><![CDATA[Rendered desperate by poverty and a lack of secure employment, a large number of young women yield to the siren call of recruiters who make use of bogus offers of training and temporary jobs to lure them into prostitution. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/human-trafficking.jpg" length="111552" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:23:08 +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>France | Long history of a forgotten massacre (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1066201-long-history-forgotten-massacre</link><description><![CDATA[Exactly 50 years ago today, between 100 and 200 Algerians, who were taking part in a peaceful demonstration, were murdered by Paris police. After decades of official cover-up, the collective memory of the events of 17 October 1961 is finally being restored. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Ici-on-noie-les-algeriens-490.jpg" length="56701" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:08:18 +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>Germany | Hackers uncover state spyware</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1044681-hackers-uncover-state-spyware</link><description><![CDATA[Has the state abused spyware illegally to investigate alleged criminals? The question has been raised in Germany, where the hacker group Chaos Computer Club (CCC) [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:54:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | New poor seek humanitarian aid</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1029241-new-poor-seek-humanitarian-aid</link><description><![CDATA[Hardest hit by the draconian budget cuts imposed by the debt crisis, the most disadvantaged Greeks are seeking health care from humanitarian NGOs. Interviewed by [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:57:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic - Netherlands | Cannabis: Medicine or hard drug?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1029041-cannabis-medicine-or-hard-drug</link><description><![CDATA[In the Netherlands, &quot;strong joints will be considered a hard drug&quot;, says Dutch daily De Volkskrant. The government recently decided that Dutch coffee shops will [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Volskstrant-06102011-100.jpg" length="36630" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:20:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | In Varnsdorf, Roma are under pressure (Hospodářské noviny, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1024771-varnsdorf-roma-are-under-pressure</link><description><![CDATA[About half a kilometre from the German border, for several weeks now Varnsdorf has been the scene of far-right demonstrations against the Roma minority – about 500 people in a town of 16,000. The demonstrations bring into sharp focus the tensions between the townspeople and a community whose integration is still a problem. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Varnsdorf-Roma.jpg" length="131067" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:36:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
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