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                <language>en</language><item><title>Eurozone crisis | Beijing tells Merkel "to do her homework"</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1476751-beijing-tells-merkel-do-her-homework</link><description><![CDATA[Angela Merkel was outgunned in Beijing. &ldquo;People&rsquo;s Republic of China gets rid of Chancellor,&rdquo; headines Handelsblatt,  in its report on Angela Merkel&rsquo;s three-day visit [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:10:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Transnistria | Stooges' ballot in Tiraspol (România libera, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1268081-stooges-ballot-tiraspol</link><description><![CDATA[The secessionist region of Moldova is to hold presidential elections on 11 December — a vote that will be marked by a strange bargain between its Russian protector and Germany, which aims to resolve a conflict that has been deadlocked for 20 years. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/tiraspol-statue_4.jpg" length="39416" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:44:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany-Syria | Damascus spying with European technology</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1143221-damascus-spying-european-technology</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Is Syria using German technology to spy on protestors?&rdquo; asks Der Spiegel. The Hamburg weekly has looked into the matter following revelations by Bloomberg that [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:40:16 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Sweden | Two journalists, one minister, lots of petrol</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1069261-two-journalists-one-minister-lots-petrol</link><description><![CDATA[The trial of two Swedish journalists accused of terrorism, which opens on October 18 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is getting a lot of press coverage [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Svenska-dagbladet-18102011-100.jpg" length="40268" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:30:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU-China | No desire to die Chinese (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1053921-no-desire-die-chinese</link><description><![CDATA[Italian writer Antonio Scurati believes that the boom in Chinese investment in Europe and the influence of Chinese capitalism on the European economy are a threat to the freedom and sovereignty of Europeans and for their social and cultural model. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/RUBEN-china-europe_0.jpg" length="74088" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:02:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eastern Partnership | The East, not on the EU's mind (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1005581-east-not-eu-s-mind</link><description><![CDATA[As the Eastern Partnership summit opens in Warsaw, the EU, which is caught up in the ongoing financial crisis, appears to have little enthusiasm for the project, launched by Poland in 2008. As for the partner countries, they continue to present a wide spectrum of political systems, ranging from dictatorship to democracy. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/VLAHOVIC-eastern-partnership.jpg" length="82253" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:18:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Libyan war | A time for accolades, and payback</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/907121-time-accolades-and-payback</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The Libyan gold lode,&rdquo; headlines Gazeta Wyborcza the day after international conference in Paris put a &ldquo;symbolic end&rdquo; to the war in Libya. &ldquo;The meeting [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Gazeta-Wybor-02092011-100.jpg" length="11831" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:41:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Press review | Libya: after the war, the oil scramble (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/905011-libya-after-war-oil-scramble</link><description><![CDATA[Lurking behind the public agreement on display among the participants at the Paris conference on “New Libya&quot; is a shadowy struggle that France, Italy and the UK have already started in the race to exploit the country&#039;s resources. So say the French, Italian and British newspapers. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/herrmann-libya.jpg" length="37128" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:15:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Belarus | Europe's banks help bail-out Lukashenko</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/893581-europe-s-banks-help-bail-out-lukashenko</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;RBS  helped bankroll Europe&#039;s last dictator,&rdquo; headlines The Independent, as  it emerged that the majority state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland and  other [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/TheIndependent-29082011-100.jpg" length="13057" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:33:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Somalia | How Europe can help (ABC, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/862301-how-europe-can-help</link><description><![CDATA[No more talk: Europe must act now to relieve famine in the Horn of Africa. It can start by helping to restore order in a country racked by decades of civil war. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Somalia-EU.jpg" length="72194" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:49:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Balkans | Smalltime smugglers' war in Kosovo (NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/813511-smalltime-smugglers-war-kosovo</link><description><![CDATA[As the border post went up in flames, NATO troops moved in to prevent an escalation of hostilities. The tension on the border between Kosovo and Serbia, a smuggling flashpoint, has once again reached fever pitch. A Dutch columnist argues that the solution should be more talks and subsidies for legal businesses. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/kosovo-29072011.jpg" length="128042" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:32:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>International Aid | How to really help Somalia</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/809641-how-really-help-somalia</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The United Nations does its fighting famine airlift number,&rdquo; headlines German daily Tageszeitung referring to the landing in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, of a plane [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Taz-28072011-100.jpg" length="36615" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:09:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>France-Afghanistan | Free after 18 months with the Taliban</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/749861-free-after-18-months-taliban</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Free at last,&rdquo; headlines French daily Lib&eacute;ration, following the release June 29 of two French journalists who were held hostage for 547 days by the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110630liberation.jpg" length="7323" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:24:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>China – Germany | Tokens of friendship</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/743331-tokens-friendship</link><description><![CDATA[Wen Jiabao bearing &ldquo;gifts before the summit,&rdquo; headlines Berliner Zeitung. The release of two dissidents, the artist Ai Weiwei and the civil rights activist Hu [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110627berlinerzeitung.jpg" length="5404" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:18:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Malta | In the forgotten camps (Mediapart , Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/703671-forgotten-camps</link><description><![CDATA[Along with the Italian island of Lampedusa, the Maltese Archipelago has become a favoured destination for hundreds of Africans fleeing the fighting in Libya. But on arrival, what they see of Europe is an unsanitary hangar where they vainly wait for political asylum. French news website Mediapart reports. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/hangar-malte.JPG" length="63159" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:48:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Libyan War | How much longer?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/703221-how-much-longer</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The West should realise that Libya is not Kosovo,&rdquo; runs the front page headline in Dutch daily De Volksrant following a NATO meeting on the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/volkskrant-09062011-100.jpg" length="36382" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:28:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU-US | At last, Obama woos Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/703191-last-obama-woos-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Long-ignored by Barack Obama in the beginning of his term in favour of Asia and Arab nations, Europe is back on the US President&rsquo;s priority [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:21:17 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Strauss-Kahn affair | Who said Europe should run the IMF? (The Independent, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/664651-who-said-europe-should-run-imf</link><description><![CDATA[In the wake of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s catastrophic fall from grace, the International Monetary Fund is looking for a new chief. But would a European really be up to the job solving the eurozone’s enduring troubles? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/strausskahn-shanmugaratnam.jpg" length="27664" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 17:15:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Strauss-Kahn affair | Why the IMF should stay European (Le Figaro, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/665341-why-imf-should-stay-european</link><description><![CDATA[At a time when the eurozone is in danger of breaking up, Europe must not surrender the leadership of the International Monetary Fund for the benefit of Asia or Latin America, pens an editorialist in Le Figaro, who suggests that the person best qualified to take over the job of Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the French Minister of Finance, Christine Lagarde. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/strausskahn-lagarde_2.jpg" length="22380" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 16:44:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Syria-EU | Carte blanche for Assad (SME, Bratislava)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/650001-carte-blanche-assad</link><description><![CDATA[While determined to bring at end to Muammar Gaddafi&#039;s violence against the Libyan people, Europe has been largely silent about the terror exacted by the Basher Al Assad regime in Syria. And the sanctions against his regime announced on the 10 May are further proof of Europe&#039;s powerlessness. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Tom-Assad.jpg" length="76420" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 16:33:45 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Russia-EU | Who will open this window on Europe? (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/645901-who-will-open-window-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Residents of a region that considers itself to be a “window on Europe,” the population of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which is located between Poland and Lithuania, want Moscow to establish closer links with the EU. In particular, they are hoping for an end to a requirement for visas for European travel: an “iron curtain” that separates them from Western modernity. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Kaliningrad.jpg" length="100208" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 17:30:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>After Bin Laden | Europe&#039;s day of shame (Handelsblatt, Düsseldorf)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/632441-europes-day-shame</link><description><![CDATA[In the fight against terror, writes the Düsseldorfer Handelsblatt, America stands alone. Europe, preoccupied with how it can withdraw from Afghanistan, should be ashamed of its inaction. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/obama-osama.jpg" length="165068" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 18:16:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Africa | Françafrique debate heats up</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/601731-francafrique-debate-heats</link><description><![CDATA[Lib&eacute;ration  reveals &ldquo;the French army&rsquo;s role&rdquo; in the capture of Laurent Gbagbo by  forces loyal to the new President of Ivory Coast Alassane [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/brief/cover-liberation.jpg" length="45543" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:38:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ivory Coast | Exit Gbagbo, with French nudge</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/594941-exit-gbagbo-french-nudge</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Gbagbo&rsquo;s fall is a victory for France and the UN,&quot; announces Le Figaro,  in the wake of the arrest of the former Ivory Coast [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Figaro-12042011-100.jpg" length="46061" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:21:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Diplomacy | Saving Private Ashton (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/580901-saving-private-ashton</link><description><![CDATA[While the Libyan crisis unfolds before gates of Europe, the High Representative for EU foreign policy is totally absent from the scene. &quot;One wonders if the post still makes sense,&quot; writes analyst Jose Ignacio Torreblanca. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ashton-soldier.jpg" length="98170" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:30:07 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Diplomacy | Paris and London torpedo EU foreign policy (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/578381-paris-and-london-torpedo-eu-foreign-policy</link><description><![CDATA[The initiative taken by France and the United Kingdom — two countries which occupy key posts in the European External Action Service — has fragmented the emerging structure of European diplomacy to the point where some commentators have remarked that the EU’s foreign policy should be directly entrusted to Paris and London. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/libya-fighter.jpg" length="29346" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:23:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Libyan war | Whose Odyssey Dawn is it anyway?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/564021-whose-odyssey-dawn-it-anyway</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The war in Libya has divided Italy and France&rdquo;, writes Corriere della Sera,  which chronicles growing tensions in Rome vis-&agrave;-vis the desire of Paris [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Corriere-2203201-100.JPG" length="11960" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:05:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>LIBYA | A just war - but just what kind? (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/562741-just-war-just-what-kind</link><description><![CDATA[The primary objective of Operation Odyssey Dawn – to protect Libyan civilians – is a just one, says the European press. But the other issues – oil, the fall of Gaddafi and the image of Nicolas Sarkozy – are not neglected. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Libya-Odyssey-Dawn.jpg" length="66793" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:37:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU-Libya | European diplomacy disarmed (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/562781-european-diplomacy-disarmed</link><description><![CDATA[Europeans are leading the way in the fight against the Libyan regime, but without the European Union, which has been sidelined by member states that are determined to safeguard their prerogatives and an incoherent German foreign policy. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/TOM_Libya-European-Union.jpg" length="87222" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:45:41 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Europe-Libya | The moral test of fire (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/559621-moral-test-fire</link><description><![CDATA[A few hours after the UN approved military operations against Libya, the regime in Tripoli announced a cease-fire. This decision might well simplify a situation the European press deems risky, while supporting an eventual war there. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Libya-europe.jpg" length="69610" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:22:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Nuclear energy | Merkel the panic merchant (Coulisses de Bruxelles, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/558831-merkel-panic-merchant</link><description><![CDATA[The German Chancellor strikes again, quips Brussels pundit Jean Quatremer. Having sowed panic in the Eurozone last year, Angela Merkel has now succeeded in transforming the Japanese nuclear tragedy in Fukushima into a global nuclear energy crisis. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/merkel-nuclear.jpg" length="65695" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:04:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU-Libya | Insurgent leader looking for help</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/540551-insurgent-leader-looking-help</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Europe is more worried about oil than Libyan lives&rdquo;: ABC leads on its front page with remarks delivered by the leader of the Libyan uprising, [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/ABC-10032011-100.jpg" length="36459" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:38:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European funds | South and East fight for the money (De Standaard, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/538811-south-and-east-fight-money</link><description><![CDATA[As the EU prepares a programme of economic and political support for a North Africa in the throes of change, some member states are arguing that Europe&#039;s Eastern Neighbourhood Policy, particularly with regard to the Caucasus, shouldn&#039;t be forgotten. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/partage-politique-voisinage.jpg" length="84944" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:55:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands-Oman | Beatrix goes it alone</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/538281-beatrix-goes-it-alone</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Calm reception in Oman,&rdquo; headlines Trouw  following the arrival of the Netherlands&rsquo; Queen Beatrix in Muscat  (Oman) for a private dinner with Sultan [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Trouw-03092011-100.jpg" length="40222" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:33:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>North Africa | Europe&#039;s new frontier (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/521091-europes-new-frontier</link><description><![CDATA[Thirty years ago nobody could have foreseen the process that brought the Warsaw Pact countries into the European Union. Now that the same is happening to Arab nations, the EU must offer them the same opportunity to strengthen democracy: the true prospect of membership. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/arab-revolution-libya.jpg" length="87379" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:17:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Libyan crisis | Malta asks for help</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/518871-malta-asks-help</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Gonzi calls for aid,&quot; headlines the Times of Malta.  Faced with a huge influx of Western refugees from Libya, the Valleta  daily reports [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Times-Malta-28022011-100.JPG" length="35706" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:30:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Arab revolutions | Europe&#039;s not so wonderful example (Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/515891-europes-not-so-wonderful-example</link><description><![CDATA[What must a North African currently following news from the “European community of shared values” be thinking? It’s not just that the community&#039;s support for the fight for freedom around the Mediterranean has been half-hearted. It’s that it is taking its own members’ violations of the values the community espouses rather calmly. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/europe-libya.jpg" length="72154" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:05:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>North Africa | Libya&#039;s revolution, Europe&#039;s shame (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/513971-libyas-revolution-europes-shame</link><description><![CDATA[Faced with the massacres perpetrated by the Gaddafi regime against its own people, how can the EU content itself with calling for “restraint”, while spending more time worrying about an influx of refugees? Madrid daily El País publishes an indignant editorial. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Lybia-Europe_0.jpg" length="78360" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:59:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Arab revolutions | What is really awaiting Europe (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/510771-what-really-awaiting-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Terrorism, immigration, the economy: for Europeans, the wave of revolts that have shaken the Arab world is fraught with dangers that are not altogether clear. El País has tried to unravel truth from falsehood. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Arab-revolution.jpg" length="104936" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:44:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Arab revolutions | Lady Ashton misses the boat (Libération, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/506921-lady-ashton-misses-boat</link><description><![CDATA[On 16 February, Catherine Ashton announced an aid package that will deliver a total of €258 million to Tunisia by 2013. Libération points out that the EU only gave its support for the Tunisian revolution when huge numbers of Tunisian boat people arrived on the coast of Lampedusa. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/european-union-diplomacy.jpg" length="39527" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:47:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Military | Misunderstanding over Dutch mission</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/503191-misunderstanding-over-dutch-mission</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We want to fight the Taliban say Kunduz police,&rdquo; reports Volkskrant. According to the Dutch daily, Afghan police are &ldquo;very puzzled by the Dutch mission.&rdquo; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Volkskrant-15022011-100.JPG" length="30952" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:56:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands-Iran | Diplomatic anger over secret burial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/494011-diplomatic-anger-over-secret-burial</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Relations with Iran at all time low,&rdquo; headlines Volkskrant  in the wake of news that Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal,  currently on a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Volkskrant-08022011-100.jpg" length="38638" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:26:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Europe - Egypt | Everybody&#039;s favourite dictator</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/490731-everybodys-favourite-dictator</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The henchmen of Mubarak,&quot; leads the Tageszeitung, publishing on its front page a picture of five European leaders smiling and shaking hands with Egyptian President [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/taz-03022011-100.jpg" length="33647" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:57:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU-Egypt | An opportunity not to be missed (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/484291-opportunity-not-be-missed</link><description><![CDATA[After the cacophony and the hesitation that followed the “Jasmine Revolution” in Tunisia, the EU once more seems paralysed in the face of an uprising against the Egyptian regime of Hosni Mubarak. All the same, notes the European press, it’s another chance to support democracy in its Mediterranean “backyard”. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Cairo-20110128-2.jpg" length="38466" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:16:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Iran | Diplomatic crisis after Dutch citizen executed</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/483771-diplomatic-crisis-after-dutch-citizen-executed</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Infamous Iran,&rdquo; on its front page De Volkskrant  reports on the reaction of Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Uri  Rosenthal, in the wake [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/31012011-Volkskrant-100.jpg" length="13295" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:12:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU-Belarus | Minsk tries to bargain with Brussels</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/483411-minsk-tries-bargain-brussels</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Lukashenka bargaining with the EU&rdquo;, leads Dziennik Gazeta Prawna as European Union foreign ministers are to decide what kind of sanctions to impose on Belarus [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:53:17 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Diplomacy | Frattini's Egyptian mission plan</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/481051-frattini-s-egyptian-mission-plan</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Egypt&#039;s day of reckoning,&rdquo; headlines the Independent, on what should prove to be a critical weekend for Hosni Mubarak&rsquo;s tottering regime. With millions of protestors [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110128independent.jpg" length="6500" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:48:01 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands | New mission to Afghanistan</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/479741-new-mission-afghanistan</link><description><![CDATA[Less than a year after discord over the Afghanistan issue led to the collapse of the previous government, the Netherlands is preparing to send a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/27012011-Trouw-100.jpg" length="11608" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:38:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Kosovo | Hashim Thaçi, the big fish of Pristina (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/475881-hashim-thaci-big-fish-pristina</link><description><![CDATA[As the Council of Europe prepares to demand an investigation into the shady underworld dealings of Kosovo PM Hashim Thaçi, secret Nato documents leaked to British daily The Guardian provide more shocking revelations about a prized Western ally. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Hashim-Thaci_0.jpg" length="51011" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:09:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EU-Uzbekistan | Our man in Tashkent (De Standaard, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/474051-our-man-tashkent</link><description><![CDATA[When talking to dictators, Europe applies a double standard: quick to snap at Lukashenko of Belarus, it plays much nicer with Karimov of Uzbekistan, as it did with Ben Ali. But is it really worth the trouble? asks political analyst Bruno De Cordier. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Karimov-Barroso.jpg" length="65062" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:07:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
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