North Africa - Europe's new frontier

Published on 1 March 2011 at 16:33

North Africa

Europe's new frontier

La Stampa

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.

 

Europe 2020

A neo-liberal takeover

Libération

Although initially a social-democratic project, the Lisbon Strategy did not succeed in promoting innovation or social cohesion in the EU. On the contrary, when taken over by the European Commission, it was transformed into a neo-liberal programme — a trend which a French economist argues is even more pronounced in the 2020 Strategy destined to replace it.

 
 

Portugal

Interns to be paid even less

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Czech Republic

Schoolkids taught to "compete" with China

Mladá Fronta DNES

 
 

Belarus

Last European dictator torturing opponents

Gazeta Wyborcza

 

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