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Berlusconi oder das Gegenteil eines Neuanfangs
Martin Zöller, Die Welt, April 16 2008
 
Berlusconi’s victory is anything but a new start, thinks the Hamburg conservative daily. From outside one fails to understand how the man could have got himself re-elected, now that (...)
 
Secret deal to persuade Ireland on EU treaty
G. Chamberlain, The Daily Telegraph, April 19 2008
 
Barroso’s visit to the Irish Taoiseach was an important moment, a “show” staged to persuade the citizens of Ireland that they have nothing to fear from Europe, on whose (...)
 
Mercati alla ricerca di nuove regole
A. Cerretelli, Il Sole 24 Ore, April 27 2008
 
“Producing more and better”. Only a few years ago the French Agriculture Minister Barnier’s slogan would have ended up on the shelf. Today with the globalisation that is (...)
 
«La Ligue du Nord fera payer l’addition à Silvio Berlusconi»
Marc Lazar (interv. P. Martin), Le Soir, April 16 2008
 
Marc Lazar points out the specific importance of the Lega Nord’s successes inside the victory of the Italian Right. The Lega will be presenting Berlusconi with the bill, not so much (...)
 
U rossii smenilsya evroprotivnik
M. Zygar, Kommersant, April 30 2008
 
At the meeting of the Russia/Europe council, which ended yesterday, Lithuania took the place of Poland at the November 2006 meeting in Helsinki by opposing the start of negotiations for the (...)
 
Le retour du Cavaliere
Le Monde, April 16 2008
 
For Le Monde, France’s traditional reformist daily, Berlusconi’s return to leadership in Italy is an unmitigated disaster that is incomprehensible to boot. Italians (...)
 
Klimatet räcker inte
Dagens Nyheter, April 29 2008
 
Stockholm government – we can read in this editorial – is staking a big bet on the climate challenge in view of its EU presidency next year. But on the European questions other (...)
 
Rusia gana a la UE la carrera del gas
A. Rizzi, El País, April 30 2008
 
South Stream, the gas pipeline project launched last June by Russian energy giant Gazprom and Italy’s Eni, is going ahead fast and clearly gaining on the Nabucco line which the EU (...)