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                <language>en</language><item><title>Romania | Can Agent Ungureanu save his country?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1491321-can-agent-ungureanu-save-his-country</link><description><![CDATA[In appointing the head of the secret service to lead the government, President Băsescu is attempting to avoid early general elections. But, as the Romanian press points out, the controversial Mr Ungureanu is perhaps not the politician that is best equipped to put an end to protests against austerity and the country’s political class. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/minister-espion-romania_0.JPG" length="47447" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:58:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Finland | Euroscepticism survives</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1490881-euroscepticism-survives</link><description><![CDATA[The EU has favourably greeted the election, on January 5, of pro-EU conservative Sauli Niinist&ouml; as President of Finland. He won against another Europhile, environmentalist [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:56:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | A spy in government</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1487361-spy-government</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Operation Ungureanu&quot; &nbsp;has begun, headlines Adevărul:  on 7 February, the young (age 43) intelligence service chief, Mihai  Răzvan Ungureanu, is to take over [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:52:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | New wave of "Gorilla" demonstrations</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1483441-new-wave-gorilla-demonstrations</link><description><![CDATA[On February 3, &ldquo;the Gorilla was hunted across the squares&rdquo; of Slovakia, leads SME. A week after a first demonstration against the corruption depicted in [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:14:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Economy | Sarkozy fascinated by German model</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1473991-sarkozy-fascinated-german-model</link><description><![CDATA[A probable candidate for re-election, the French President seems intent on proposing an economic project calqued on the German model — a strategy which has surprised the French press. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/SCHNEIDER_merkozy.jpg" length="107306" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:03:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Protests against far-right theatre director</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1473021-protests-against-far-right-theatre-director</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Anti-fascist protest disrupted by counter demonstration,&rdquo; headlines the daily N&eacute;pszava in the wake of incidents that marked a demonstration involving several thousand people, who gathered [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:33:01 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Fiscal treaty | Ireland begins bitter referendum debate</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1468471-ireland-begins-bitter-referendum-debate</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Fiscal  treaty designed to avoid Irish referendum,&rdquo; headlines the Irish Times.  According to Irish law, all new EU treaties must be put to [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:47:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | A Gorilla tearing down the system (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1468351-gorilla-tearing-down-system</link><description><![CDATA[Explosive and mysterious, a file named “Gorilla” contains evidence of corruption in Slovakia’s political and economic elite. Two months away from early parliamentary elections, who stands to benefit from the revelations? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Gorila-Slovakia.jpg" length="71105" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:38:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy | Relax, Germans! (Die Zeit, Hamburg)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1460071-relax-germans</link><description><![CDATA[Italy has long cursed Germany as a know-it-all, and yet respects it as the head of the class. With the arrival of the very proper Mr Monti this is changing, and Berlin will have to get used to some lessons from Rome. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Monti-Merkel.jpg" length="69756" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:28:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy | The hour of deregulation has come (Il Fatto Quotidiano, Rome)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1446681-hour-deregulation-has-come</link><description><![CDATA[Austerity is to be followed by deregulation. Mario Monti has launched “Phase two” of his anti-crisis programme: a vast plan to open protected sectors of the economy, like taxis and road transport, to competition. An Italian economist welcomes the change, but warns that it is not without risks. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/altan-italy.jpg" length="89525" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:12:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania  | Baconschi, first head to roll</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1440711-baconschi-first-head-roll</link><description><![CDATA[Amidst continuing demonstrations against  austerity measures in Bucharest, the Romanian government is cleaning  house. The Foreign Minister, Teodor Baconschi, was informed of his [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:58:05 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | Berlin police hooked on mobile phones</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1436461-berlin-police-hooked-mobile-phones</link><description><![CDATA[Since  2008, the Berlin police has collected data on 4.2 million mobile phone  connections, reports German daily Tageszeitung. Most of the data has [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/taz-24012012-100.JPG" length="39137" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:52:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Central Europe | Vienna-Budapest, a journey into the past (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1432681-vienna-budapest-journey-past</link><description><![CDATA[Heirs to the Hapsburg Empire, Austria and Hungary have something else in common: an ambiguous relationship with history and a tendency to tolerate political excesses. Ten years after European sanctions against Vienna, why does the Budapest seem to be stuck in the 1930s? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/orban-30s.jpg" length="154365" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:34:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Suspense over Athens debt talks</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1431401-suspense-over-athens-debt-talks</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Greek  debt holders lay down limit for losses,&rdquo; headlines the Financial Times,  after talks broke off in the early hours of January 21 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/ft-100.jpg" length="40439" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:56:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Orbán revolution goes bust (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1420471-orban-revolution-goes-bust</link><description><![CDATA[Leading a country heavily in debt, under pressure from the IMF and threatened with prosecution by the EU, the Hungarian Prime Minister is now facing an organised opposition. Feeling poorer every day, Hungarians have lost their faith in the PM&#039;s nationalist prescriptions. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/budapest-sale.jpg" length="30527" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:29:15 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Who are the Indignados of Bucharest? (România libera, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1416691-who-are-indignados-bucharest</link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of people from all walks of life have been demonstrating all week in Bucharest as well as all over the country against both austerity measures and a political system gangrened by corruption. It is about time that the government took their complaints seriously, warns Romanian sociologist Mircea Kivu. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/romania-demo_0.jpg" length="121737" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:20:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Anti-austerity revolt in Bucharest</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1399591-anti-austerity-revolt-bucharest</link><description><![CDATA[Sixty injured and many shops ransacked are the result of a demonstration held in Bucharest on January 15 to demand the resignation of Romanian President [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/120116adevarul.jpg" length="8330" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:38:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Martial law generals found guilty, but too late</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1390881-martial-law-generals-found-guilty-too-late</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The generals are criminals,&rdquo; headlines Polska The Times the  day after a court in Warsaw found the instigators of martial law in  Poland [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Polska-TheTimes-01132012-v.jpg" length="11140" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:12:41 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Brussels launches "Operation Dump Orbán" (Népszabadság, Budapest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1388001-brussels-launches-operation-dump-orban</link><description><![CDATA[By threatening Budapest with financial sanctions and infringement proceedings if the Hungarian government fails to change its policies on the economy and the judiciary, the EU seems to have begun a process that would allow it to get rid of Hungary’s Prime Minister, as it got rid of Berlusconi and Papandreou. But it won’t be that easy. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/orban-barroso.jpg" length="36634" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:38:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Viktor Orbán gives his side of story</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1374201-viktor-orban-gives-his-side-story</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Orb&aacute;n: &#039;now is the time to consolidate,&#039;&quot; headlines Magyar H&iacute;rlap, which like most Hungarian newspapers, has devoted its front page to the interview accorded by [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/MagyarHirlap-01092012-v.jpg" length="12204" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:21:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Orbán increasingly isolated (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1365471-orban-increasingly-isolated</link><description><![CDATA[The reinforcement of the executive branch of government and the weakening of checks and balances has been criticised by newspapers in Hungary and elsewhere in Europe at a moment when the country has been struck by a financial crisis that is steadily worsening as investors lose confidence in Budapest. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/orban-.jpg" length="47016" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:09:07 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Orbán is the product of a fraught history (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1360941-orban-product-fraught-history</link><description><![CDATA[To understand the current Hungarian government’s withdrawal into nationalism and identity, one must look back into the history of the country, argues an expert in Hungarian literature: particularly into the fragility of its bourgeoisie and the frustrations born of military defeats. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/orban-painting.jpg" length="39375" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:36:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Union | Hungary is our business too (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1355601-hungary-our-business-too</link><description><![CDATA[The EU should not remain indifferent to PM Viktor Orbán’s drift towards authoritarian nationalism. As a community based on democratic as well as economic values, it ought to exert pressure on Budapest to keep the Hungarian government on the right path, argues Le Monde. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/cibel-hungary.jpg" length="33083" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:48:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Let us deal with Orbán (Heti Világgazdaság, Budapest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1351841-let-us-deal-orban</link><description><![CDATA[Protests against the Hungarian prime minister, accused of a drift towards authoritarianism, are growing in Budapest. But while the international community is also starting to respond, the protests must avoid relying on foreign intervention, argues philosopher Gáspár Miklós Tamás. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Budapest01022012.jpg" length="46182" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:58:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Germany | President Wulff hanging by a thread</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1349831-president-wulff-hanging-thread</link><description><![CDATA[The net is tightening on Germany&rsquo;s Federal President. Propelled into office against the wishes of public opinion by Angela Merkel in 2010, the very discreet [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Handelsblatt-01032012-v.jpg" length="10652" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:20:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Romania | Revolution? What revolution? (Jurnalul Naţional, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1315731-revolution-what-revolution</link><description><![CDATA[For most people in post-communist Europe, December is the month to commemorate the fall of the communist regimes. In Romania, the fall has become a story that a society living in a world of cheap illusions tells itself. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Romania-revolution-b.jpg" length="55907" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:59:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Tug of war over media law</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1315041-tug-war-over-media-law</link><description><![CDATA[Hungary&#039;s recently passed media law is unconstitutional, the Constitutional Court ruled on December 19. The court &quot;rejected several provisions, including an article obliging journalists to [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:20:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | In Prague, Europe is often far away (Lidové noviny , Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1310861-prague-europe-often-far-away</link><description><![CDATA[Twenty years after the &quot;return to Europe&quot; championed by former President Václav Havel, who died on December 18, the debate about the Czech Republic&#039;s relationship with the EU is dominated by two political camps that are both devoid of real ideas about the union&#039;s future. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/CezchRep-EU.jpg" length="41669" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:24:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Václav Havel - neither an angel nor God (Hospodářské noviny, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1306291-vaclav-havel-neither-angel-nor-god</link><description><![CDATA[The former Czech president did not seek power for power’s sake, but became indispensable during the next twenty-two years of his country’s post-communist development. A tribute from Prague daily Hospodářské noviny after his death on December 18th. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/VaclavHavel-b.jpg" length="29479" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:32:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Václav Havel - Europe has lost a father</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1306911-vaclav-havel-europe-has-lost-father</link><description><![CDATA[The European press provides a nearly unanimous homage to Václav Havel the playwright, dissident and first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia. Havel died of cancer on December 18. He was 75. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/Vaclav-Havel19122011_0.jpg" length="58533" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:31:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>France | Jacques Chirac convicted</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1298671-jacques-chirac-convicted</link><description><![CDATA[In  a first for France, on 15 December Jacques Chirac was given a suspended  sentence of two years for &quot;breach of trust, misappropriation [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Liberation-12162011-100.jpg" length="11009" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:00:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Sweden | Sitting on the fence</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1298951-sitting-fence</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;How does Prime Minister Reinfeldt see the new fiscal pact of the EU? Should Sweden be in it? Does he worry about a EU split [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:54:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Belgium | You can only speak Dutch in Grimbergen</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1282591-you-can-only-speak-dutch-grimbergen</link><description><![CDATA[Is  it a crime to speak French in a Flemish municipality? MEP Fr&eacute;d&eacute;rique  Ries has asked the European Commission to respond to the [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:25:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>United Kingdom | Clegg's sulk over Cameron's EU veto</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1281891-clegg-s-sulk-over-cameron-s-eu-veto</link><description><![CDATA[As  British MPs gathered in the Commons to listen to the PM David Cameron&rsquo;s  statement on his historic vetoing of a new EU-wide [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Independent-100.jpg" length="39589" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:47:15 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European Council | Hungary's diplomatic zigzags</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1277421-hungary-s-diplomatic-zigzags</link><description><![CDATA[On  the morning of &nbsp;9 December, Hungary was the only other EU&nbsp;country to follow the  United Kingdom in its outright refusal to back [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:46:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Belgium | A government, it's a start</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1253971-government-it-s-start</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;At last,&rdquo; exclaims the front page of De Standaard: the Di Rupo I government is to be sworn in on 6 December, in the wake [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/standaard-06122011-100.jpg" length="39567" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:24:49 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ireland | One year after bailout, a bitter budget</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1253671-one-year-after-bailout-bitter-budget</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Health,  social welfare and education face bulk of cuts,&rdquo; headlines the Irish  Times, as the government unveils another austerity budget, the fourth  [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/irish-times-06122011-100.jpg" length="40835" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:00:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | The fall of the incorruptible Ľubomír Galko (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1232651-fall-incorruptible-kubomir-galko</link><description><![CDATA[In seeking to tackle corruption by means of illegal wiretaps, the disgraced former defense minister violated the very democratic principles he wanted to defend. And his case has further undermined Slovaks&#039; confidence in politicians as well the press. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Lubomir-Galko.jpg" length="84231" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:43:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Central Europe | Hungary's bitter reunion with the IMF (Magyar Nemzet, Budapest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1215531-hungary-s-bitter-reunion-imf</link><description><![CDATA[Financially weakened, Budapest has requested assistance from the International Monetary Fund, as part of a deal to be negotiated between now and January 2012. The Hungarian press wonders if the move amounts to an admission of failure on the part of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, or if it has resulted from a cabal against his independence policy? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/kazanevsky-imf.jpg" length="29244" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:39:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Portugal | General strike against austerity</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1208871-general-strike-against-austerity</link><description><![CDATA[Exactly  one year after its last general strike, Portugal grinds to a halt again  on 24 November. Transport, education, health, public services, justice [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Publico-24112011-100.jpg" length="40115" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:04:41 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt Crisis | Belgium under the tutelage of Brussels?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1204921-belgium-under-tutelage-brussels</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;EU ups pressure on &nbsp;Belgium,&quot; headlines De Morgen.  The Flemish newspaper writes that &quot;at a time when negotiations on the  formation of a [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/de-morgen-23112011-100.jpg" length="39089" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:23:09 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Defence minister out on his ear</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1203731-defence-minister-out-his-ear</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Galko is finished,&rdquo; headlines Pravda  in the wake of the &nbsp;dismissal of the Minister of Defense by outgoing  Prime Minister Iveta Radičov&aacute;. Ľubom&iacute;r [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/pravda-100.jpg" length="35593" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:38:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | An Irish village says no to the banks (Irish Independent, Dublin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1198841-irish-village-says-no-banks</link><description><![CDATA[As Ireland looks back one year after the EU/IMF bailout, every Sunday the inhabitants of Ballyhea stage a silent protest, against those who plunged the country into recession. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Ballyhea_0.jpg" length="121931" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:47:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Rajoy won't have time to celebrate victory</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1194881-rajoy-won-t-have-time-celebrate-victory</link><description><![CDATA[The landslide victory by the People’s Party (PP) in Spanish general elections on 20 November — 45% of the vote as opposed to 28% won by Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba’s socialists (PSOE) — has given Mariano Rajoy enormous power in a country, which the Spanish press notes, is deep in the doldrums. But in the context of the debt crisis, Rajoy is unlikely to benefit from much room for manoeuvre. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/CAPDEVILLA-Rajoy.jpg" length="55038" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:12:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | An election for nothing (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1184751-election-nothing</link><description><![CDATA[Mariano Rajoy&#039;s right-wing Popular Party is set to win the Spanish general election this 20 November and apply more austerity. But as long as Germany fails to assume its responsibilities at a European level, the new government will be powerless to solve the country&#039;s crisis. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/kap-merkel.jpg" length="37578" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:55:15 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy | Monti takes office, Berlusconi bitter</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1184441-monti-takes-office-berlusconi-bitter</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Pensions,  property tax and labour: Monti&rsquo;s plan&rdquo;, leads Corriere della Sera,  summarising the new PM&rsquo;s Novermber 17 speech to the Senate. Mario  [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/111118corrieredellasera.jpg" length="6489" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:29:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece | Papademos offers more of the same medicine</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1172061-papademos-offers-more-same-medicine</link><description><![CDATA[On  14 November, Greece&rsquo;s new Prime Minister Lucas Papademos outlined his  policies to the Greek parliament in an eagerly awaited speech which To [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/ethnos-15112011-100.jpg" length="34660" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:03:01 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Greece and Italy, two parallel destinies (Eleftherotypia, Athens)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1161301-greece-and-italy-two-parallel-destinies</link><description><![CDATA[In Athens and in Rome, the crisis has swept away elected leaders, replacing them with technocrats whose main mission is to implement austerity plans demanded by Brussels and the markets, which their predecessors were unable to apply. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/bleibel-pillar.jpg" length="41743" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:59:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Italy | Only the full Monti will do (La Stampa, Turin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1155221-only-full-monti-will-do</link><description><![CDATA[Berlusconi’s agony has brought down markets and pushed Italian bonds’rates above 7 per cent, threatening a credit crunch that would sink the whole eurozone. The only foreseeable solution is to quickly set up a unity government led by the widely respected former EU commissioner, writes La Stampa&#039;s editor in chief. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Mario-Monti_0.jpg" length="95776" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:07:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Crisis eurozone | The real Greek tragedy - its rapacious oligarchs (Financial Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1150881-real-greek-tragedy-its-rapacious-oligarchs</link><description><![CDATA[A network of corrupt clans control key sectors of Greek economy, and stand to profit most from the country’s continued disarray, writes the author of McMafia. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/greece-oligarchy.jpg" length="50931" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:00:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
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