The recovery plan that Germany and France will present to the European Council of 30 January provides for vocational training and an employment agency for Europe.
Europe, a plan for young – La Stampa
The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned he will not sign the EU stability and growth pact that the bloc is to negotiate at the January 30 summit if Poland is allowed to attend eurozone summits only once a year.
Tusk’s blackmail and gamble over pact – Polska The Times
The Greek crisis is far from over. European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn expects that greater safeguards are needed and that a extraordinary summit will be held.
The Greeks need more money – Financial Times Deutschland
Stefan Löfven, head of Sweden's powerful IF Metall union, has been appointed leader of the Social Democratic Party. He replaces Håkan Juholt, who resigned on January 21. A welder by profession, he is the first worker ever to lead the left-wing party and represents the hope of reconciling a divided party.
He will weld party together – Sydsvenskan
On a visit to Berlin, the Spanish PM was congratulated by Angela Merkel for his economic reforms. The PM did not ask for an extension on the time limit Spain has been given to reduce the national deficit.
Rajoy guarantees that Spain will comply – ABC
Ceding to pressure from Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Uri Rosenthal, the EU has withdrawn from a statement on Israel a reference to a report drafted by the Dutch embassy in Tel Aviv critical of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian Territories.
Rosenthal intervenes on EU text criticizing Israel – NRC Handelsblad
After revelations that it had monitored 27 members of the leftist party Die Linke, German intelligence is under fire for failing to monitor right-wing extremists.
Blind in the right eye – Frankfurter Rundschau
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