Press review | 08/02/2012

 

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Athens' euro exit no longer taboo

Athens

 

The vice-president of the EU Commission, Neelie Kroes, on Tuesday declared Greece's exit from the Eurozone justifiable. Kroes was voicing what many European politicians now want, write some commentators, while others see Greece as a victim of the Eurozone's structural flaws.

With articles from the following publications:
Il Sole 24 Ore - Italy, To Vima Online - Greece, De Volkskrant - Netherlands, Pravda - Slovakia

POLITICS

Der Standard - Austria

Hollande has Merkozy in a panic

Süddeutsche Zeitung - Germany

Prison sentence for tax evaders fitting

Népszabadság - Hungary

Hungary cosying up to Germany

REFLECTIONS

Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Switzerland

Arlé Malz finds multipolar world dysfunctional

ECONOMY

Hospodářské noviny - Czech Republic

Czech Republic ditches 18 nuclear reactors

SOCIETY

Frankfurter Rundschau - Germany

Freeze victims show Eastern Europe's weakness

Polityka Online - Poland

Vatican looks into sexual abuse

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