Portugal - After the rich man's club, what now?

Published on 14 April 2011

Portugal

After the rich man's club, what now?

Visão

The strings that will come attached to the bailout plan from the IMF and the EU leaves two solutions to the Portuguese: go back to the way they lived before the Union came along, or roll up their sleeves. An editorialist calls on his countrymen to make the effort, and to do it with optimism.

 

Eurozone crisis

The dangerous game of bailing out

Týžděň

After Greece and Ireland, now it's Portugal's turn. But isn't helping out indebted countries with the money of other indebted countries going to kill the euro? A Slovak columnist doesnt understand just what the EU is playing at.

 

Urbanism

Digging deep for a better life

Polityka

From the eastern Baltic seaboard to Øresund in the west, Scandinavians are building everything underground: roads, tunnels, and even huge shopping malls. Polish weekly Polityka reports from Finland.

 
 

Czech Republic

Country on verge of nervous breakdown

Lidové noviny

 
 

Poland

Wałęsa to teach democracy to Africa

Gazeta Wyborcza

 
 

United Kingdom

Immigrants should learn English, says PM

The Daily Telegraph

 
 

Cartoon

On the waterfront

Horsch
 
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