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Portugal: ‘London and Berlin got rid of Portuguese debt after Portas and Gaspar resigned’
Presseurop Diário de Notícias 17 -
Food safety: ‘Meat: from fraud to health warning’
Presseurop Le Soir 5 -
EU budget: Françoise-Antoinette
The Times (London) -
Romania, United Kingdom: ‘Romanians are not to blame for the arrival of horsemeat in England’
Presseurop Evenimentul zilei 1 -
E.coli: Seen from Africa
Le Monde (Paris) -
Food: Suspect number 3
SME (Bratislava) -
E.coli panic: Madrid accuses Brussels of stinginess
Presseurop La Razón 1 -
E.coli crisis: Hamburg — agony of the big city
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich) -
Food: Deadly bacteria - German weakness
Presseurop De Volkskrant -
Food: A new suspect
De Standaard (Brussels) -
Germany: Not killer cucumbers, but bean-sprouts
Presseurop Die Welt -
E.coli: New food scare, same old mistakes
De Standaard (Brussels) 2 -
Health: Living dangerously
Le Monde (Paris) -
Food: Killer cucumber, a European panic attack
Presseurop 2 -
Spain: Agriculture victim of the killer cucumbers
Presseurop El Mundo 2
Hamburg, at the epicentre of the food crisis brought on by the EHEC pathogen, has run up the epidemic flag: the blood supply is running out, and vegetables are rotting unsold. ‘We’re still alive,’ hisses the vendor in her market booth. A report. 
There is no doubt that E. coli bacteria are dangerous. But the panic stricken response of authorities and consumers to the current outbreak of infections is largely pointless. A Belgian editorialist complains about the damage not only to the European economy but also to the spirit of Europe. 
After helping to fuel the controversy, the European press is speculating on the public psychosis associated with the EHEC bacteria.