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                <language>en</language><item><title>Cultural heritage | How Europe hawks its monuments (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1491121-how-europe-hawks-its-monuments</link><description><![CDATA[As Greece pimps its ancient monuments to bring in the tourists, lovers of cultural heritage are up in arms. But the country is only doing openly what the whole of Europe is: looting historic sites to drum up more ready cash. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/germany-parthenon.jpg" length="180647" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Orbán makes an exhibition of himself (SME, Bratislava)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1487771-orban-makes-exhibition-himself</link><description><![CDATA[Asserting national values is central to the political project of the Hungarian PM. Since the start of the year, fifteen paintings, specially commissioned for an exhibition in the Castle of Buda, have been putting this ambition on show. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/orban-paintings.jpg" length="149905" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:02:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Call us Nazis if it makes you happy (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1476831-call-us-nazis-if-it-makes-you-happy</link><description><![CDATA[“Hitler”, “Occupying Power&quot; – it’s always the same. Berlin is asserting its stance on the euro crisis and, in turn, is being abused with comparisons to the Nazis. Die Zeit ponders how Germans should respond. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/protest-nazi.jpg" length="32461" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:35:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Theatre | A play about Breivik is essential for our time (Politiken, Copenhagen)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1451651-play-about-breivik-essential-our-time</link><description><![CDATA[Can the radical manifesto of the killer of Oslo and Utøya really be staged? A theatre project in Copenhagen has raised strong protests in Norway and Denmark. But hearing the words of Breivik’s Manifesto 2083 is vital for understanding our times, responds its director, Christian Lollike. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/breivik-actor.jpg" length="28267" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:53:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Ingo Schulze - 10 theses about the crisis (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1451011-ingo-schulze-10-theses-about-crisis</link><description><![CDATA[It is the madness that has become self-evident: for years, the public sphere has been plundered and democracy ruined. The German writer Ingo Schulze has had enough. Here he sets out ten reasons to take himself seriously again. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/beppegiacobbe-cloud.jpg" length="32805" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:43:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Press | A newspaper for the Europe of tomorrow</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1446041-newspaper-europe-tomorrow</link><description><![CDATA[Six major European dailies, well-known to the readers of Presseurop -- Le Monde, El Pa&iacute;s, Gazeta Wyborcza, S&uuml;ddeutsche Zeitung, The Guardian and La Stampa  [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:30:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Interview | "Web is foundation of young people's lives" (Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1440601-web-foundation-young-people-s-lives</link><description><![CDATA[As the Polish government prepares to sign the anti-piracy ACTA treaty, thousands of young internet users have taken to the streets in protest. Like most of their fellow Europeans, they fear it may “label their existential choices and free expression of identity as piracy,” explains internet anthropologist Piotr Cichocki. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/acta-poland.jpg" length="88942" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:55:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Internet | Right to be forgotten law welcomed</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1440901-right-be-forgotten-law-welcomed</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;A monumental measure&quot; for personal data protection on the internet will be proposed Wednesday by the European Union Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:08:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Portugal | Guimarães - can culture beat the crisis? (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1440381-guimaraes-can-culture-beat-crisis</link><description><![CDATA[A former textile industry boom town, Guimarães is using its 2012 European Capital of Culture status to resurface after over twenty years in the economic doldrums. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Guimaraes-2012.jpg" length="174052" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:31:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Internet | ACTA non grata</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1436031-acta-non-grata</link><description><![CDATA[Several days of internet user and web hacker protests against the ACTA agreement, which obliges its 39 signatory states to actively prosecute web piracy, &ldquo;have [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Gazeta-24012012-100.JPG" length="38344" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:46:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cinema | The secret of Denmark's success (Público, Lisbon)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1421171-secret-denmark-s-success</link><description><![CDATA[At a time when the drive for austerity has led most countries to cut back on cultural budgets, the Danish film industry remains one of the most successful in Europe thanks to a pro-active policy of grants and support for young film makers. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/denmark-film.jpg" length="35288" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:47:49 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | EU can no longer play the war card (De Morgen, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1416561-eu-can-no-longer-play-war-card</link><description><![CDATA[European leaders have used the threat of war to justify policies undertaken to save the euro. But this argument no longer works, argues Dutch philosopher Paul Scheffer. The hearts and minds of Europeans must be won with valid arguments. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/miterrand-kohl-1984.jpg" length="74165" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:44:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Scotland | "Devo max" - the formula that could save the UK (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1391091-devo-max-formula-could-save-uk</link><description><![CDATA[While most Scots reject a complete break with the UK, they favour a form of autonomy which would include powers to raise their own taxes. The reluctant English should accept this, argue Simon Jenkins. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Ecosse-Cameron-b.jpg" length="56556" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:40:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Nationality | Multiple citizenship, way of the future (The Economist, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1382341-multiple-citizenship-way-future</link><description><![CDATA[In an increasingly globalized and racially mixed world, it&#039;s natural to have multiple identities. That&#039;s why states should loosen up naturalisation rights and grant the right to vote more easily, says The Economist. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/dual-nationality.jpg" length="66691" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:48:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cinema | "Play" - a film that upends racist clichés (Aftonbladet, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1379721-play-film-upends-racist-cliches</link><description><![CDATA[Is this a racist movie? Ruben Östlund’s latest film — a story of poor black and middle class white children which deliberate plays on the audience’s prejudices — has sparked controversy in Sweden. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/sweden-play.jpg" length="25602" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:35:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate  | Why I'm feeling strangely Austrian (Financial Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1379051-why-i-m-feeling-strangely-austrian</link><description><![CDATA[As the financial crisis continues to ravage the West, the dominant ideology of all triumphant free-market liberalism is collapsing. But what new political trends are emerging, and which will succeed? asks Gideon Rachman. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/pinn-ideology.jpg" length="39558" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:10:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Interview | Geert Mak - Reconquering Europe (NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1375241-geert-mak-reconquering-europe</link><description><![CDATA[What’s in store for project Europe this year? A community under the supervision of a strong European Commission or a decentralised intergovernmental system, advocated by the Germans? Dutch historian Geert Mak has painted a bleak picture for the future of the European Union. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Geert-Mak.jpg" length="34148" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:50:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Bailouts | Against all the rules (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1365941-against-all-rules</link><description><![CDATA[He who makes mistakes must pay the price. Ever since the crisis erupted five years ago, this key law of the market economy has been trampled on. Politicians must now decide between prosperity and morality, writes Die Zeit. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bank-rules.jpg" length="65876" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:36:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Will the EU end up like Yugoslavia? (Politika, Belgrade)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1359201-will-eu-end-yugoslavia</link><description><![CDATA[Seen from Belgrade, Zagreb or Sarajevo, the economic and institutional crisis that has struck the European Union has a certain air of déjà-vu. Serbian daily Politika remarks on the similarities with the years preceding the break-up of the federation founded by Tito. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/balkan-europe.jpg" length="46363" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:20:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Internet | Commission to rule on right to be forgotten</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1346121-commission-rule-right-be-forgotten</link><description><![CDATA[Headlining with &quot;Brussels opposes Internet memory,&quot; P&uacute;blico reports that the European Commission is preparing to revise its 1995 directive on the protection of personal data&nbsp;in [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:46:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Interview | George Steiner, a certain idea of knowledge (Télérama, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1320071-george-steiner-certain-idea-knowledge</link><description><![CDATA[Literature, philosophy, science: today, our tools for understanding the world are developing separately, regrets the renowned intellectual and humanist. However, culture remains a saving grace, particularly in Europe. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/steiner-portrait.jpg" length="17055" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:00:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Literature | 2011 - the year of the translator (The Observer, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1311381-2011-year-translator</link><description><![CDATA[With the worldwide success of Stieg Larsson and Haruki Murakami, translation has not enjoyed such a boom for over a generation. But will it ever attain to that Holy Grail, of perfect fidelity to the original? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Babel-books-A.jpg" length="32530" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:00:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>History | Sixty-Eight Publishers - books of dissent (Lidové noviny , Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1321271-sixty-eight-publishers-books-dissent</link><description><![CDATA[They published Václav Havel and all those Czechoslovak writers banned by the communist regime. Forty years ago, Zdena and Josef Škvorecký created in Toronto one of the most important publishing houses of the Eastern European resistance. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/68publishers-A-b.jpg" length="74930" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:00:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Interview | Andrzej Stasiuk's European lesson (Wprost, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1319171-andrzej-stasiuk-s-european-lesson</link><description><![CDATA[Why do the Germans and the Poles have a hard time getting along? How does one recognise a Pole? Is there a way to help Germany better &quot;dominate&quot; the EU? A hard to pigeon-hole Polish writer provides some leads. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Andrzej-Stasiuk-A.jpg" length="52856" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:00:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Iceland is our modern Utopia (Público, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1319821-iceland-our-modern-utopia</link><description><![CDATA[In rejecting by referendum a bailout for their toxic banks and the repayment of external debt, the citzens of Iceland have shown it is possible to escape the laws of capitalism and take control of one&#039;s destiny, writes a Spanish historian. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Reykjavik-A.jpg" length="47820" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:18:07 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Don't let the European ideal die (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1307411-don-t-let-european-ideal-die</link><description><![CDATA[The integration of Europe has allowed the Old World to prosper, but the journey has cost it some of its soul, regrets the Spanish philosopher Rafael Argullol. It&#039;s not too late to affirm the values that make Europe strong – but it has to be done quickly. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Apologia-desesperada.jpg" length="58532" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:51:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Internet | The new gold mine of open data (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1300911-new-gold-mine-open-data</link><description><![CDATA[Encouraged by Brussels, the online availability of open data provided by public authorities could give rise to a multitude of applications that are useful to citizens and society, with economic gains estimated at no less than 140 billion euros per year. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Opendata-12162011.jpg" length="79729" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:37:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Europe's seven deadly sins (2/2) (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1294161-europe-s-seven-deadly-sins-22</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. The second part of Die Zeit&#039;s list of national egotisms that are harming the Community. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bosch-wrath.jpg" length="45197" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:11:50 +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>Eurozone crisis | Farewell sweet sovereignty... (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1262391-farewell-sweet-sovereignty</link><description><![CDATA[If approved by the Twenty-Seven, the fiscal union proposed by Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy would be a decisive new stage on the path to European federalism. But are all willing to pay the price: the surrender of the budgetary autonomy of states? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Europe-sovereignism.jpg" length="126483" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:50:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Music | Eurozone crisis too red hot for Metallica</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1261761-eurozone-crisis-too-red-hot-metallica</link><description><![CDATA[The  world of rock is indifferent to the Eurozone&#039;s torments. According to the  Wall Street Journal, US heavy rock band Metallica, whose hits [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:59:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European of the Week | The cyber-revolutionary on Tahrir Square (Fokus, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1254651-cyber-revolutionary-tahrir-square</link><description><![CDATA[If Mubarak failed to cut the Egyptian revolutionaries off from the rest of the world last January, it was thanks to a Swedish student and theorist of hacktivism: Christopher Kullenberg, named “Swede of the Year” by the weekly Fokus. A profile. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Chris-k.jpg" length="87784" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:40:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Profile | Jürgen Habermas, the last European (Der Spiegel, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1242541-juergen-habermas-last-european</link><description><![CDATA[Jürgen Habermas has had enough. The philosopher is doing all he can these days to call attention to what he sees as the demise of the European ideal. He hopes he can help save it -- from inept politicians and the dark forces of the market. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/jurgen-habermas.jpg" length="20563" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:31:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | Give democracy a chance (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1237691-give-democracy-chance</link><description><![CDATA[Is the EU turning into an empire ruled by Germany? For German sociologist Ulrich Beck, we should take advantage of this widespread and much discussed fear to establish a new organisation for the Union, based on a real community of citizens. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ARES-democracy_0.jpg" length="106593" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:09:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Panic - hottest all-time business model (Berliner Zeitung, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1233601-panic-hottest-all-time-business-model</link><description><![CDATA[Fear, alarm, apocalypse: moods rather than facts steer mankind, writes futurologist Matthias Horx. This holds true for the eurozone crisis as well. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/panic.jpg" length="116082" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:03:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | Look who sets the agenda now (De Morgen, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1229891-look-who-sets-agenda-now</link><description><![CDATA[With the crisis, power is increasingly concentrated in Brussels, where not just European institutions but also the most powerful, English-speaking media, congregate. Both make the agenda for politics in member states, writes a Belgian columnist. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/newspaper-financial.jpg" length="26317" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:57:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Extremism | The internationalism of the new far-right (Aftonbladet, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1229801-internationalism-new-far-right</link><description><![CDATA[A new Europe threatens to emerge in the shadow of the crisis: a continent dominated by despondency and a defiance of politics that that has paved the way for a resurgence of nationalism and Islamophobia. These are much more serious dangers than national debt figures, writes Aftonbladet. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/faber-flag.jpg" length="17237" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:19:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Crisis tears us apart (The Irish Times, Dublin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1228381-crisis-tears-us-apart</link><description><![CDATA[Debt and austerity are the new reality for most Europeans. But for some, such a situation is an opportunity to turn a fast profit. In such a context, how can we still talk of nations and society? asks Irish columnist John Waters. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/sampaio-euro.jpg" length="21764" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:05:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Athens Biennale, the crisis as art (Expressen, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1224511-athens-biennale-crisis-art</link><description><![CDATA[In a country destabilised by the crisis, the 3rd Athens Biennale contemporary art festival has been largely overlooked. However, a Swedish journalist argues that the exhibition offers an opportunity to appreciate the urgency of the moment. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Biennale-athens.JPG" length="83129" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:30:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ideas | Never mind the cave paintings, here's the Sex Pistols (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1215781-never-mind-cave-paintings-here-s-sex-pistols</link><description><![CDATA[Is the graffiti left by the 1970’s punk band in London as worthy of humanity as prehistoric cave art? A British archeologist believes so, seeing on these walls the end of faith in &quot;human progress&quot; initiated by our ancestors. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/wall-art_2_0.jpg" length="41368" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:00:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Who’s afraid of Germany? (5) | Europe - an awfully wonderful family (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1216581-europe-awfully-wonderful-family</link><description><![CDATA[A family with strict parents, black sheep and tough love: that’s today’s Europe, says an editor at Die Zeit, who sends out a call to defend the historically unprecedented culture of solidarity. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/krauze-toy.jpg" length="32020" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:21:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Who’s afraid of Germany? (3) | Goethe, in technocrat's clothing (Der Spiegel, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1205491-goethe-technocrat-s-clothing</link><description><![CDATA[What Germany’s leadership of the EU means isn’t very clear – least of all to the Germans themselves. A Spiegel columnist looks for the answer in two books, wandering between the lost soul and the genius of the country. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/goethe_0.jpg" length="75046" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:53:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | A revolution from above (Libération, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1205541-revolution-above</link><description><![CDATA[Political changes in Greece, Italy and Spain have highlighted how European leaders have upset the balance of power between society and the state and politics and the economy. French philospher Etienne Balibar points out that these developments have overlooked the role of citizens. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/VLAHOVIC_revolution.jpg" length="126115" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:19:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Who’s afraid of Germany? (2) | Europe sprechs German now (Berliner Zeitung, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1200181-europe-sprechs-german-now</link><description><![CDATA[“Europe is speaking German,” trumpeted CDU deputy Volker Kauder. Just let’s not overdo it, warns the Berliner Zeitung. An association of free democracies should look a bit different. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Man-spricht-Deutsh.jpg" length="117794" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:04:17 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | What have the Dutch ever done for us? (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1184091-what-have-dutch-ever-done-us</link><description><![CDATA[In the current crisis, the Dutch tend to pontificate about the citizens of ill performing countries like Greece and Italy. But as recession now looms, they should keep in mind that their prosperity isn’t just due to their own virtuousness. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/philips-cassette.jpg" length="47306" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:40:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Why Europe needs enemies (Hospodářské noviny, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1181391-why-europe-needs-enemies</link><description><![CDATA[Nothing better than an enemy to forge a common identity. But the adage of the nineteenth century doesn’t quite fit the current crisis. Only by changing their relationship to power can Europeans unite and overcome the crisis, says a Czech editorialist. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Together-since-1957_0.jpg" length="70320" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:56:45 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | In defence of technocrats (The Guardian, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1180081-defence-technocrats</link><description><![CDATA[The appointments of non-politicians Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti in Greece and Italy has caused much ink to flow. But on the continent, experts have often played a positive role in politics in times of deep crisis, points out a Guardian editor. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/mario-monti_0.jpg" length="102194" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:51:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | The crisis and three Europes (România libera, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1169311-crisis-and-three-europes</link><description><![CDATA[The EU may well soon be split up between the performers, the lame, and the laggards, worries Romanian political scientist Alina Mungiu-Pippidi. And let’s not count on a fake European identity to bring everyone together. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/europe-speed_0.jpg" length="102060" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:35:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Europe against the people? (The Economist, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1159631-europe-against-people</link><description><![CDATA[Efforts to save the euro cannot run against the will of the voters indefinitely, writes Charlemagne of the Economist. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/schrank-democracy.jpg" length="29406" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:03:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | The "Looney" is dead</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1160271-looney-dead</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Ivan Martin Jirous, fierce eccentric and tender poet, is gone,&quot; writes Lidov&eacute; noviny the day after the death, at age 67, of the legendary Czech [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/111111lidovenoviny_1.jpg" length="6422" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:03:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
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