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                <language>en</language><item><title>Eurozone crisis | Davos ski-lift | Cartoon (24 heures, Lausanne)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1440781-davos-ski-lift</link><description><![CDATA[Davos ski-lift (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/BURKI-davos-490_0.jpg" length="95931" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:02:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Europe's seven deadly sins (1/2) (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1287951-europe-s-seven-deadly-sins-12</link><description><![CDATA[The politicians of Europe love to flourish the flag of Community togetherness. But in their day-to-day politicking they give the lie to their supposed virtues. Die Zeit has compiled a cheat-sheet of national egotisms that are harming the Community. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bosch-gluttony.jpg" length="45845" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:50:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Switzerland  | Swiss voters seek the centre</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1090001-swiss-voters-seek-centre</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Switzerland awakens to a new parliament,  very different from the one forecast by the opinion polls,&quot; writes  Swiss daily Le Temps following federal [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/le-temps-24102011-100.jpg" length="40073" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:57:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Switzerland: "Welcome to the eurozone"</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/923571-switzerland-welcome-eurozone</link><description><![CDATA[In the wake of months of debate on the soaring value of the Swiss franc, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) has decided to peg the country’s currency to the euro. At a time when the single currency is experiencing the darkest days in its history, the decision has prompted surprise and curiosity in Europe. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/euro-suisse_0.JPG" length="87807" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:22:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Switzerland | Bank secrecy feels the squeeze</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/887921-bank-secrecy-feels-squeeze</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Switzerland forced to hand over names to the IRS,&rdquo; trumpets Le Temps, reporting that Washington has &ldquo;gathered sensitive information that has led it to accuse [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/LeTemps-26082011-100.jpg" length="12092" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:40:01 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Switzerland | Fallout from the plunging euro (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/852591-fallout-plunging-euro</link><description><![CDATA[Although it&#039;s not part of the eurozone, the Swiss Confederation is not immune to the storm that has overtaken the single currency. Beginning with the overvaluation of the Swiss franc, it has brought a rain of disaster for exports and tourism. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/switzerland-euro.jpg" length="174602" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:45:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Infrastructures | Holes in the great train network (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/760521-holes-great-train-network</link><description><![CDATA[The European Commission has identified ten rail infrastructure projects as a priority, aiming to facilitate the flow of passengers and merchandise, all the while accelerating European integration. An ambition that is facing political and public opposition. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/train-europe.jpg" length="75371" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:15:07 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Rome-Berlin, new anti-nuke axis (Corriere della Sera, Milan)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/718451-rome-berlin-new-anti-nuke-axis</link><description><![CDATA[Germany is phasing out nuclear power and Italy has rejected its reintroduction. This about-face by two founding members of the European Union could encourage other member states to turn the nuclear page and to develop renewable energies. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ballaman-power.jpg" length="40084" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:42:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Political fiction | Onwards to Europe 2.0 (Die Welt, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/684501-onwards-europe-20</link><description><![CDATA[Forget the nation-state: Europe would be much better off if it were fundamentally reorganised – into powerful regions in the north and the Alps and picturesque bankrupts in the south (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Europe-reloaded.jpg" length="34843" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 17:32:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Switzerland | Voters keep assisted suicide alive</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/655871-voters-keep-assisted-suicide-alive</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Ban on assisted suicide rejected,&rdquo; leads the Neue Z&uuml;rcher Zeitung  after the electorate administered a slap to the Federal Democratic  Union (UDF, Conservative) [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Neuz-Zurcher-Zeitung-100.jpg" length="34211" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 15:19:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Austria | Goodbye to standby</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/586231-goodbye-standby</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Turn Green!&quot; headlines Falter, which devotes its front page to recent gains made by environmentalist parties in Europe. In the wake of the Green successes [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/falter-06042011-100.jpg" length="40351" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:36:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Euthanasia | The taste for death (Wprost, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/487531-taste-death</link><description><![CDATA[Many Europeans are looking abroad for help to end their lives, while more and more countries are allowing euthanasia. Is the penchant for death winning the battle against the right to life? asks the Polish weekly Wprost. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/catheter-hospital.jpg" length="16968" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:31:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Tourism | Chinese are the new Americans (La Repubblica, Rome)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/476511-chinese-are-new-americans</link><description><![CDATA[Buoyed by the emergence of China’s middle class, the growing wave of travelers from China could revitalise the European tourist industry. But businesses in the sector have yet to adapt to their new customers. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Chinese-Postdam.jpg" length="78139" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:34:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Democracy | It takes conflict to build a world (Berliner Zeitung, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/374231-it-takes-conflict-build-world</link><description><![CDATA[Whether it’s against austerity packages, pension reforms or nuclear waste shipments, protests have overrun the streets of Europe. Has democracy reached the end of the line? No, says futurist Matthias Horx, it’s time for the political establishment to come down off their high horse and accept real participatory democracy. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/castor-germany.jpg" length="49639" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:42:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | Tax evaders forced to pay up</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/371951-tax-evaders-forced-pay</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Tax evaders with secret accounts in Switzerland hand over 260 million euros to inland revenue,&rdquo; headlines P&uacute;blico. Acting on information supplied by their colleagues in [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/101027publicoes.jpg" length="8053" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:59:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Exhibitions | Art - the bigger the better (De Standaard, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/366021-art-bigger-better</link><description><![CDATA[An immense inflatable mannequin, thousands of empty cans, a 17-metre high tower: several of the works currently on display in Belgium point to the trend for gigantism in contemporary art. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/art-inflatable.jpg" length="17822" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:08:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Switzerland | Light at end of longest rail tunnel</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/362401-light-end-longest-rail-tunnel</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Switzerland has fulfilled its promise to Europe,&quot; writes Le Temps: &ldquo;by cutting the world&rsquo;s longest railway tunnel [57 km] through the Alps.&rdquo; The Geneva daily [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/brief/gothard_1.jpg" length="92725" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:30:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European of the Week | No downfall for Bruno Ganz (România libera, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/356761-no-downfall-bruno-ganz</link><description><![CDATA[Every year the European Film Academy honours a practitioner of the “seventh art” for the entirety of his or her past work. This year the lifetime achievement award goes to Swiss actor Bruno Ganz. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Bruno-Ganz.jpg" length="28522" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:43:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Mix&amp;amp;Remix, L&amp;#039;Hebdo (Lausanne) | A lesson in diplomacy | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/326801-lesson-diplomacy</link><description><![CDATA[A lesson in diplomacy (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/MIX_ET_REMI_Khadafi-460.jpg" length="77912" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:30:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Burki, 24 heures (Lausanne) | As simple as E=mc² | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/321371-simple-emc</link><description><![CDATA[As simple as E=mc² (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/BURKI_Suisse-460.jpg" length="93843" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:16:15 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Switzerland | An embarrassment of Swiss</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/320201-embarrassment-swiss</link><description><![CDATA[The Tribune de Gen&egrave;ve reports on the decision of the Swiss Federal Council to dismiss accession to the EU or the European Economic Area, and [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/20082010-Tribune-Geneve.jpg" length="10924" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:42:02 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Europe à la carte | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/320011-europe-la-carte</link><description><![CDATA[To no one&#039;s great surprise, Switzerland has decided to maintain its neutrality. As a European country that has elected to remain outside the EU, its political policy on the continent is based on 120 bilateral agreements signed with individual member states. Even if these texts are often daunting and excessive in their wording, the Swiss government maintains that they guarantee &quot;the country&#039;s interests&quot;. 
The Swiss Confederation is not the only European country to avoid the sport of putting all of one&#039;s eggs into a single basket. To the north, Norway, which has since 1992 been a part of the European Economic Area (the EEA, composed of the 27 member states plus Liechtenstein and Iceland), holds on to its cherished independence, while adopting nearly all European community directives. Sweden has refused to adopt the euro, but certain rebel Swedish cities in fact freely use it. The United Kingdom plays both sides of the European membership question with disconcerting ease: &quot;I am part of the Union, but I don&#039;t want its single currency, which doesn&#039;t mean that I can&#039;t have my say.&quot; In short, for many countries it is a case of &quot;I love you, but marrying you is out of the question&quot;. 
Membership in the Union is not -&nbsp;and must not become&nbsp;- obligatory, but it doesn&#039;t seem to have the same meaning for members and their neighbours: there are those who swear by the Union, those who take it half-seriously, and those who reap some benefits by association... the list of variations is long. 
Instead of following the example of Norway, which is, in the words of editor Eva-Lie Nielssen, a &quot;clandestine passenger in the EU, but with a business class seat&quot;, wouldn&#039;t it be better to acknowledge this state of affairs and propose a series of options for limited membership in the Union, such as the adoption of its single currency? It would be like riding in the same train, but not necessarily in the same car, and perhaps not even in the same class. And countries could simply choose the dishes they prefer from the European menu. Iulia Badea Gu&eacute;rit&eacute;e
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 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:00:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | France joins the heavy gang (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/318681-france-joins-heavy-gang</link><description><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy has put France squarely in Europe&#039;s extremist camp with his new hardline stance on security and immigration. But other countries have found far less confrontational answers to the same problems (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/roma-France.jpg" length="56557" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:48:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ballaman, La Liberté (Fribourg) | We shall not be moved | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/317331-we-shall-not-be-moved</link><description><![CDATA[We shall not be moved (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/BALLAMAN_suisse-adh-460.jpg" length="74464" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:10:45 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Switzerland | Le Petit Suisse stuck in Europe's rump (Le Figaro, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/317011-le-petit-suisse-stuck-europe-s-rump</link><description><![CDATA[The Swiss are about to reveal their future stance in their increasingly fraught relations with Brussels. One thing is sure, they are not about to join the anytime soon (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/BALLAMAN_suisse-europe.jpg" length="68133" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:23:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Drugs | No to 'shooting galleries' in France</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/315081-no-shooting-galleries-france</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Fillon shot up on repression&quot; reads the headline of Lib&eacute;ration, following the Prime Minister&#039;s opposition to the opening of experimental medically-supervised centres for hard-drug consumption, [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/13082010-Liberation.jpg" length="12472" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:04:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Mix&amp;amp;Remix, L&amp;#039;Hebdo (Lausanne) | Cantankerous neighbours | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/300381-cantankerous-neighbours</link><description><![CDATA[Cantankerous neighbours (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/MIX_ET_REMI_Suisse.jpg" length="78400" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:29:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Populism | Greater Switzerland just might take off</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/299141-greater-switzerland-just-might-take</link><description><![CDATA[The Swiss far-right wants to expand the country by annexing German, French, Austrian and Italian border regions, reports Gazeta Wyborcza. The Swiss People&rsquo;s Party (SVP) [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:06:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Switzerland / United States | Swiss reject Polanski extradition</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/293041-swiss-reject-polanski-extradition</link><description><![CDATA[Headlining with &quot;Roman Polanski can leave Switzerland a free man,&quot; Tages-Anzeiger reports on the 12 July release from house arrest of the film director who [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/13072010-Tages-Anzeiger.jpg" length="10750" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:08:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany / Austria / Switzerland | Hey teacher, don't leave our kids alone</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/280431-hey-teacher-don-t-leave-our-kids-alone</link><description><![CDATA[Germany, Switzerland and Austria are &ldquo;battling over schoolteachers&rdquo;, headlines Die Presse, alarmed at dwindling numbers of teachers in all three countries. By 2025 about half [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/24062010DiePresse.jpg" length="11141" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:01:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU-Libya | How Gadaffi blackmails Europe (Rue89, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/273351-how-gadaffi-blackmails-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Libya, the nerve centre of migration towards southern Europe, blows hot and cold with Europe. Now that Europeans are asking for his help in curbing immigration, the Libyan leader is dictating his terms and, as Rue89 puts it, &quot;toying with their nerves&quot;. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/kadhafi-Europe.jpg" length="147038" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:36:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Burki, 24 heures (Lausanne) | Easter big bang | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/221431-easter-big-bang</link><description><![CDATA[Easter big bang (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/Burki-big-bang.jpg" length="162982" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:53:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Far Right in Europe (1) | Golden age of the new populists (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/214311-golden-age-new-populists</link><description><![CDATA[A number of European countries are seeing a renaissance of far right movements. While those in the East espouse Fascist ideologies, the Western brands target multiculturalism and Islam in particular. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/far-right-europe.JPG" length="200026" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:54:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Switzerland | Conservatives in illegal immigrant love-in</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/203221-conservatives-illegal-immigrant-love</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Conservatives discover their love of illegal immigrants,&quot; announces Tages-Anzeiger in the wake of the Swiss national council&#039;s decision to grant the children of undocumented migrants [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Tages-Anzeiger-04032010.jpg" length="32792" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:20:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Switzerland / Libya | Europe supine as Gaddafi blackmails</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/196541-europe-supine-gaddafi-blackmails</link><description><![CDATA[The Libyan police were on the point of storming the Swiss embassy in Tripoli on 22 February when Colonel Gaddafi&rsquo;s ultimatum ran out. The nation&rsquo;s [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Tags-Anzeiger-23022010.jpg" length="36212" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:37:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Invisible diplomacy | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/194501-invisible-diplomacy</link><description><![CDATA[Ever since it aspired to become more than a mere common market, the European Union has been embarrassed by its inability to exert influence in the sphere of world affairs  &ndash;  a syndrome that the miracle cure of the Lisbon Treaty was designed to remedy once and for all. However, now that the treaty has finally been implemented, recent diplomatic disputes, with Libya on the one hand and Israel on the other, show that we have yet to enter a new era of European solidarity in relations with non-EU countries, nor can we expect to see collective diplomatic action on behalf of the Union.
The regime in Tripoli has closed its borders to Schengen area passport holders in reprisal for Switzerland&#039;s decision to blacklist Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his entourage  &ndash;  the latest episode in a conflict that began in 2008, with the arrest in Geneva of the volatile colonel&#039;s son for mistreatment of his servants. In Europe, no questions are being asked about the Libyan leader&#039;s extreme response to the Swiss arrests  &ndash;  which included slapping jail sentences on two Swiss businessmen and urging the UN to abolish Switzerland. On the contrary, EU heads of state continue to fall over each other in their attempts to call on or host visits from Gaddafi. Now that the conflict has resulted in a ban on visas for Europeans, instead of taking the opportunity to put an end to Libyan coercion, they are more than prepared to let Berne sort out its troubles alone.
This is all the more regrettable in view of Europe&#039;s aspiration to act as a standard bearer for human rights, equality, and the rule of law. For the moment at least, it seems the EU is unlikely to make a fuss when such universal values are threatened. In another incident, the Israeli secret service has been accused of stealing the identities of 11 EU passport holders to allow its agents to assassinate a Hamas leader in Dubai. Demands by the states concerned  &ndash;  the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Germany  &ndash;  for an explanation from Israeli authorities have simply been ignored. Israel&#039;s discourteous attitude is all the more surprising when you consider that, unlike Libya, it is supposed to be an ally  &ndash;  and for some, a future member &ndash; of the European Union. But do not expect Catherine Ashton, Europe&#039;s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, to pick up the phone and call Tripoli or Tel Aviv, if only to express the European Union&#039;s &quot;astonishment&quot; at such hostile behaviour. She is still too busy searching for Haiti in her largely unused copy of the world atlas. Gian Paolo Accardo
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<item><title>Diplomacy | Europe sucked into Berne and Tripoli spat</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/192561-europe-sucked-berne-and-tripoli-spat</link><description><![CDATA[Europe has been yanked into the diplomatic tug-o&rsquo;-war between Switzerland and Libya: in retaliation for Bern&rsquo;s &ldquo;blacklisting&rdquo; of 188 Libyan &ldquo;undesirables&rdquo; (including the country&rsquo;s leader [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/la-Tribune-Geneve-17022010.jpg" length="45850" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:54:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Horsch, Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich) | Black sheep come home | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/191501-black-sheep-come-home</link><description><![CDATA[Black sheep come home (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/100216horsch.jpg" length="44129" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:32:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany/Switzerland | Tax money has no smell (Der Spiegel, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/182351-tax-money-has-no-smell</link><description><![CDATA[€2.5m for the names of 1500 Germans hiding money in Switzerland. The deal the German government might make with an informant has ignited a moral powder keg: can the state bend the law to suit its interests? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bank-vault.jpg" length="37720" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:06:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Chappatte, Le Temps (Geneva) | Angela goes a-hunting | Cartoon (, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/181831-angela-goes-hunting</link><description><![CDATA[Angela goes a-hunting (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/chappatte100202.jpg" length="52788" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:54:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Tax evasion | Falciani strikes again</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/180551-falciani-strikes-again</link><description><![CDATA[Having already supplied French authorities with a list of 3,000 French citizens with Swiss bank accounts last August, Herv&eacute; Falciani is planning a similar initiative [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Frankfurter-Rundschau-01022010.JPG" length="33286" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:43:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Visions of Europe (3) | Europe 2034 (Fokus, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/161561-europe-2034</link><description><![CDATA[Swedish essayist Kjell Albin Abrahamsson imagines that in 25 years every European country will be in the EU – except Turkey. Armed with a common energy policy and, at long last, a single voice – the EU will take the helm in international diplomacy. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/2034.jpg" length="89997" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:58:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Visions of Europe (2) | Saying "Adieu" to the continent (The Daily Telegraph, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/159931-saying-adieu-continent</link><description><![CDATA[Furious with a £14 billion contribution to the bureaucrats of far-off Brussels, lagging behind Norway in GDP, some Englanders have had enough with the European project. Dreaming of the day when Britain becomes an offshore paradise for global investors, Tory MEP Daniel Hannan gives 10 reasons to leave the EU. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/england-anti-eu_0.JPG" length="150363" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:30:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Switzerland | Intellectuals over-rule the people</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/158831-intellectuals-over-rule-people</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Experts want to limit the impact of direct democracy,&quot; announces Die Presse. A prominent group of intellectuals, the Club Helv&eacute;tique, is attempting to overturn a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/die-presse-211209.jpg" length="43995" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:16:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | National identity is... (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/154491-national-identity</link><description><![CDATA[The national identity debate started up by the French government – in sync with the referendum to ban new minarets in Switzerland – has caused no end of controversy. After all, admonishes the press, European societies have a proven penchant for turning against immigrants. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/liberte-stone.jpg" length="42714" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:01:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Religion | Is Islam good for Europe? (El Mundo, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/148911-islam-good-europe</link><description><![CDATA[The Swiss referendum on minarets has re-ignited the debate about Islam in Europe. While Muslim philosopher Tariq Ramadan stresses Muslims’ cultural contributions to Europe, journalist Arcadi Espada argues that religion is not a desirable calling card in Europe. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/religions.jpg" length="197496" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:06:17 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Switzerland | Populism storms the minarets (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/147481-populism-storms-minarets</link><description><![CDATA[The ban on building new minarets on mosques approved by Swiss voters on 29 November is an “in-your-face” attack on Muslim residents. But it also points up a socio-political problem that concerns every country on the continent, opines the European press. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/switzerland-minaret.jpg" length="12126" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:00:01 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Literature | Kafka's Trial in the dock</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/143291-kafka-s-trial-dock</link><description><![CDATA[Kafka himself could hardly have imagined a trial like this one. For the first time since 1945, reports Die Zeit, German and Israeli cultural institutions [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/241109-Die-Zeit.jpg" length="32343" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:19:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Finance | Italy settles Swiss account (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/136211-italy-settles-swiss-account</link><description><![CDATA[The tax amnesty Berlusconi’s government recently announced, with a view to repatriating hidden hoards in Swiss banks, is causing strife with Switzerland, which Rome accuses of abetting tax dodgers. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ubs_0.jpg" length="125990" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:33:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germans in Switzerland | Taming the northern newcomers (Die Tageszeitung, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/124681-taming-northern-newcomers</link><description><![CDATA[The German  Finance Minister who has a hard line on tax havens is especially unpopular among the Swiss, and he is not alone. His compatriots who have chosen to live in Switzerland are often criticized for being too loud, too pushy, and too arrogant. A new “integration course” in Zürich is aiming to change all that. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/swiss-fan.jpg" length="27548" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:18:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
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