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                <language>en</language><item><title>United Kingdom | Bye bye Cool Britannia (La Repubblica, Rome)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1912411-bye-bye-cool-britannia</link><description><![CDATA[It is official, the UK is in recession. Formerly cool and generous, London, which will elect a new mayor on May 3, has become inegalitarian and cynical, notes La Repubblica. Although it boasts a record number of billionaires, the prosperous years of the Tony Blair era seem very far off. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 17:56:58 +0100</pubDate><guid>1912411</guid></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><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:10:15 +0100</pubDate><guid>712281</guid></item>
<item><title>Museums | Antwerp bets on the MAS (De Morgen, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/666121-antwerp-bets-mas</link><description><![CDATA[Inaugurated on 17 May, Antwerp’s new metropolitan museum has become a talking point for its architecture. But will it, as its designers have hoped, bring lasting change to the Flemish city? Planner and columnist Filip Canfyn is not convinced. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 16:29:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>666121</guid></item>
<item><title>A city in Europe | Nostalgia for Bucharest&#039;s golden age (Dilema Veche, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/598051-nostalgia-bucharests-golden-age</link><description><![CDATA[Nicknamed &quot;Little Paris&quot;, the Romanian capital is getting a little uglier every day, carved up by building sites that are as mammoth as they are meaningless. But some parts of the town have retained their charm, and it wouldn’t take much to give the city a human face. The architect Teodor Frolu reports. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:12:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>598051</guid></item>
<item><title>Denmark | End of line for Christiania's flower children (Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/532361-end-line-christiania-s-flower-children</link><description><![CDATA[Freetown Christiania is no longer free. After forty years, the last hippie enclave in Europe is bowing to the laws of the free market, writes Gazeta Wyborcza. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:43:17 +0100</pubDate><guid>532361</guid></item>
<item><title>A town in Europe | How Palomares survived the bomb (Público, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/519421-how-palomares-survived-bomb</link><description><![CDATA[Victim of the accidental fall on its soil of four American nuclear bombs in 1966, Palomares in Spain is trying to make a fresh start and to get back onto the tourist trail by opening a museum. But a question remains: what to do with the irradiated earth? (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:45:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>519421</guid></item>
<item><title>Two towns in Europe | Valka-Valga, two sides to the story (Postimees, Tallinn)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/505361-valka-valga-two-sides-story</link><description><![CDATA[A walk from Valka to Valga not only takes you from Lativa to Estonia, but you also have the impression of traveling from one era to another. Postimees reports on a quarrel between the old guard and the new in one of Europe’s far-flung border towns. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:35:20 +0100</pubDate><guid>505361</guid></item>
<item><title>Travel | Krakow and Warsaw, sibling rivals (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/375121-krakow-and-warsaw-sibling-rivals</link><description><![CDATA[The eternal rivalry between Poland’s former and the current capitals has lead to intense competition in the field of tourism. It is a hard-fought battle in which visitors to the two cities will be the main winners. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:40:41 +0100</pubDate><guid>375121</guid></item>
<item><title>Urban planning | The metamorphosis of Prague (Hospodářské noviny, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/368291-metamorphosis-prague</link><description><![CDATA[Environmental activists devote much of their activity to protecting the countryside, but in future preserving cities from aesthetic pollution will become an even greater priority, argues British philosopher Roger Scruton, citing Prague - the &quot;spiritual centre of Europe&quot; - as the perfect example. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:24:24 +0100</pubDate><guid>368291</guid></item>
<item><title>A town in Europe | Berlin, the new Tel Aviv (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/333171-berlin-new-tel-aviv</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;You’ve never experienced a city like this one before,” they say. Berlin is the European city of choice for Israelis. Above and beyond bitter remembrances of expulsion and extermination, what they seek there now is, first and foremost, fun. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:48:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>333171</guid></item>
<item><title>Germany / France | Can a city live down a dark past? (La Vanguardia, Barcelona)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/324041-can-city-live-down-dark-past</link><description><![CDATA[How does a city that symbolises Nazism or French collaboration bear such an enduring burden? Nuremberg and Vichy are each struggling in their own way to live down the past. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:26:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>324041</guid></item>
<item><title>Hungary-Slovakia | Two towns divided by a consonant (Libération, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/321501-two-towns-divided-consonant</link><description><![CDATA[Komarno and Komarom are twin towns divided by the Danube and centuries of rancour between Slovaks and Hungarians. But this flashpoint of nationalist tension that spilled over into an international incident last year is not all what it seems... (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:51:18 +0100</pubDate><guid>321501</guid></item>
<item><title>Portugal | Lisbon, the empty capital (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/309401-lisbon-empty-capital</link><description><![CDATA[Rundown buildings and the high price of a square metre are driving away young people and transforming the Portuguese capital into a ghost town to the point where it would be completely devoid of life were it not for the annual influx of students brought to the city by the Erasmus programme. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:41:57 +0100</pubDate><guid>309401</guid></item>
<item><title>Heritage | Istanbul, all a facade (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/302501-istanbul-all-facade</link><description><![CDATA[For years the Turkish government has been deliberately gutting Istanbul’s old town rather than restoring it, writes the Süddeutsche Zeitung. UNESCO now intends to strike Istanbul off the World Cultural Heritage list, seeing as politicians have done nothing but stymie efforts to preserve its historic monuments. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:58:15 +0100</pubDate><guid>302501</guid></item>
<item><title>A town in Europe | Oberammergau, a passion for the Passion (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/264181-oberammergau-passion-passion</link><description><![CDATA[For nearly four centuries, the inhabitants of this Bavarian village have performed a Passion Play every ten years to ward off the danger of the plague: a highly colourful event, which attracts tourists from all over the world. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:22:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>264181</guid></item>
<item><title>Morocco | Has Marrakech sold out to Europe? (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/258081-has-marrakech-sold-out-europe</link><description><![CDATA[8,000 foreigners, for the most part Europeans, have moved to Marrakech over the past few years. Their very presence and purchasing power are changing the face of the age-old Moroccan city. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 16:15:29 +0100</pubDate><guid>258081</guid></item>
<item><title>Italy | Vampire haunted Volterra (Der Spiegel, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/239961-vampire-haunted-volterra</link><description><![CDATA[For many years this small Tuscan town has attracted visitors drawn to its Etruscan past and medieval monuments. But in the last few months, it has become the haunt of thousands of teenage fans of the Twilight saga, whose fictional vampires are supposed to live here. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>239961</guid></item>
<item><title>Norway | Bergen, rain and booze and rock 'n' roll (Politiken, Copenhagen)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/221721-bergen-rain-and-booze-and-rock-n-roll</link><description><![CDATA[Rainy Bergen has seen the likes of Röyksopp, Sondre Lerche and Kings of Convenience promote interest in the Norwegian music scene. In the shadow of Oslo, the port city cultivates its independence. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:11:17 +0100</pubDate><guid>221721</guid></item>
<item><title>Belgium | Bombay on Scheldt (De Morgen, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/215361-bombay-scheldt</link><description><![CDATA[The Orthodox Jewish monopoly on the cutting and distribution of gem stones in the world diamond capital Antwerp is now a thing of the past. Since the 1980s, the industry has been increasingly dominated by the Indian Jain community: a change reflected by the transformation of the Flemish city. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:25:08 +0100</pubDate><guid>215361</guid></item>
<item><title>A town in Europe | The Ruhr - from coal to culture (Der Spiegel, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/204081-ruhr-coal-culture</link><description><![CDATA[The Ruhr region has seen the rise and fall of the coal industry in the space of 170 years. Now, during its stint as 2010 European Capital of Culture, it aims to complete its modernisation process. But its cities are running out of funds, reports Der Spiegel. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:53:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>204081</guid></item>
<item><title>A town in Europe | Cieszyn, a border run through it (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/184661-cieszyn-border-run-through-it</link><description><![CDATA[It is not easy to celebrate a common past in a town that has been divided by history. However, in spite of tensions between Poles and Czechs, life in Cieszyn and Český Těšín is beginning to benefit from the border that separates the two towns. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:27:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>184661</guid></item>
<item><title>Hungary | A kvetch about Pécs (Hírszerzö, Budapest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/175081-kvetch-about-pecs</link><description><![CDATA[The Hungarian city of Pécs, this year’s European Capital of Culture along with Istanbul and Essen, is having a hard time getting out from under Budapest’s long shadow. Is the country incapable of staging an event worthy of Europe’s interest? wonders the Hungarian news portal Hírszerzö. (Article)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:46:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>175081</guid></item>
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