According to the Swiss daily Der Tagesanzeiger, the coalition between the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and the pro-European forces is advantageous for the SPS: "The two groups, who were bitter enemies in the 1990s, want to continue the process of integrating Serbia into the EU and use diplomatic instruments to fight for the reintegration of Kosovo. ... In particular the liberal circles in Belgrade criticise the Socialists for not having distanced themselves from their bloody and criminal past. ... The coalition with the Democrats offers the Socialists a chance to divert attention from their past and gain control of important portfolios." (24/06/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Enver Robelli

The Socialist Party's decision to form a coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party represents a danger for Serbia, comments the newspaper Dagens Nyheter. "The ultra-nationalists must be prevented from taking Serbia on another goose chase at all costs. ... The problem is that coalition governments in Serbia mostly lead parties to usurp parts of the state apparatus in a bid to protect their own interests. From this perspective, rumours that the Socialists will receive the Interior Ministry are unsettling. But this is also a historic opportunity. The Socialists' breach with the Milosevic era can pave the way for the extradition of war criminals to the International Tribunal in The Hague." (25/06/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Henrik Berggren

The Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat sees the Socialist Party's participation in the Serb government as a positive development: "For the Socialists, moving and reorienting towards European social democracy is the anchor in European issues. ... Serbia can form a government that is geared towards the West and has the opportunity to help the country come to terms with the EU's support for the independence of Kosovo. All this will promote Serbia's efforts to join the EU and contribute to stabilising the Balkans and weakening Russia's influence over the EU." (25/06/2008)

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Six weeks after Serbia's early parliamentary elections, the country has a pro-European government. Nevertheless, the daily die tageszeitung points out, many obstacles still block Serbian membership in the EU. "In Serbia, being pro-European means forgiving the EU states for recognising Kosovo's unlawful declaration of independence, and accepting the EU as a source of funds for Serbia despite this outrageous injustice. ... If Serbia reforms its economy but not its society, it will not be able to become a member of the EU in the foreseeable future. ... The EU has no interest in a second 'Cyprus'. Serbia can reckon with full membership only once its differences with its secessionist province have been resolved. And that will not be possible without facing up to the past. But this process has not even begun in the country, and is impossible with the Socialists in the government." (25/06/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Andrej Ivanji

Columnist Simon Jenkins writes on the crisis in Zimbabwe in The Guardian newspaper, arguing against intervention: "We've done enough damage. All we can do is send food. ... The much-abused history of commercial sanctions shows that any protracted squeeze leads only to internal economic adjustment. Control of money and goods shifts from merchants to rulers, driving the former to exile and increasing the wealth of the latter. ... There is no alternative for Britain to sitting out the Zimbabwean tragedy, impotent on the sidelines. If Africa wants to help its own, it will. If not, so be it. ... So-called liberal interventionism is a will-o'-the-wisp, a vapid, feel-good refashioning of foreign policy in response to a headline event, motivated by self-interest or passing mood. We should send food to the starving of Zimbabwe because that is something we can do, however much Mugabe distorts the supply." (25/06/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Simon Jenkins

For the business paper Financial Times Deutschland, the Middle East conference held in Berlin yesterday represents a small step forwards in the peace process. "The efforts of the international community of states towards creating the basis for a functioning constitutional state in the West Bank ... are justified. At the same time they highlight how desperate the situation still is in the Middle East. No one, except perhaps the outgoing US President George W. Bush, seriously believes that a decision can be reached on the founding of an independent Palestinian state by the end of the year, as agreed at the Annapolis Conference last November. ... The most pressing political problems have yet to be resolved, including the inner-Palestinian power struggle between Fatah and Hamas. In Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayad the international community may have a negotiating partner who has the political will for finding a peaceful solution, but that will only be of marginal help if he lacks the necessary authority to push through a solution." (25/06/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Ruth Fend

Jordan has called for a boycott of Dutch products following the release of Dutch right-wing populist politician Geert Wilders' anti-Islam film. Two Dutch companies responded by publicly distancing themselves from the film. The political weekly Elsevier writes that this was "immoral" of the two companies. "The conduct of these Dutch companies could endanger our national security because it shows the terrorists that our political and economic structures bow to pressure. ... These companies are letting down their fellow citizens, who are in grave danger, for the sake of obliging those who sympathise with the terrorists. This is immoral and reprehensible, and can no doubt be considered a moral betrayal. I will never buy your products again. I will boycott you. We are witnessing a case of uncontrolled, money-mad, immoral conduct. The Danish and the British (during the times of the campaign against Salman Rushdie) also suffered. They also lost money. But what they did not lose was their morals." (25/06/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Afshin Ellian

In the wake of the Irish rejection of the Treaty of Lisbon, German philosopher Jürgen Habermas expressed his views on the background of the vote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. European Commissioner Günter Verheugen then criticised Habermas, who was quick to respond in turn. The Frankfürter Allgemeine Zeitung is delighted with this public exchange of blows. "It is no small thing when the topic of Europe ... manages to make such a battle-hardened political philosopher like Habermas livid with rage. Once again, Habermas is not focusing on any individual area of politics, but ... on the European ethos and the political role of the public sphere. ... His claim runs: Europe does not deserve to suffocate in the intricacies of its own political system. Rather, we owe it to Europe to accord it the freedom of thought. If we are going to talk about Europe at all, then please, let us do it like this! So obsessed, so personally driven and so belligerently! ... Habermas beats his adversary Verheugen about the ears with his own political rhetoric. ... Habermas does not praise the Irish veto, but neither does he condemn it. He takes it as an occasion to renew his plea for a two-speed Europe, the so-called gradual integration. ... One can agree with this or not. [But] aided recall such as this seems indispensable to prevent Europe from silting up in technocratic palaver." (25/06/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Christian Geyer

The newspaper La Repubblica looks at the phenomenon of fear which is spreading across Italy and other Western societies: "We are not the only ones with major fears. History is full of examples of frightened societies that were paralysed by their nightmares. ... The paradox is that our societies, at least in this hemisphere, are the most secure there have ever been. And nevertheless fear is growing. Indeed it is being fanned, and every gain is turned around and shown as a possible loss. ... The wave of fear in the West has spilled over into the public discourse; our times are characterised by the duo of politics and fear. Above all in America and Italy the right-wing parties have turned this to their advantage. Bush built up his career on the spectre of terrorism, while Berlusconi did not hesitate to profit from the shudder of fear that was running through the country. The Italian Right has turned the ability to give fear a voice into a popular movement. Increasingly this is becoming a social and cultural blockade, in the face of which the Left is powerless. It is not easy to oppose the right-wing axis of fear with left-wing hope, nor to oppose restrictions and conservatism with openness and freedom. But there is no alternative." (25/06/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Aldo Schiavone

Around one million Czechs went on strike yesterday in protest against the government's reform policy. The liberal Slovakian newspaper Sme asks why Slovakia was spared similar strikes when it introduced much more sweeping reforms: "The problem with the Czech reforms is that rather than solving acute economic and social crises, they are meant to prevent such crises from happening in the future. The Czechs live quite well and fail to see why they should tighten their belts. Things were different in Slovakia at the end of the Meciar government, when the country was down for the count and many saw that something had to be done. ... Perhaps the major problem with the Czech reforms is that the country is not faring poorly enough." (25/06/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Peter Morvay

Bronwen Maddox, chief foreign affairs commentator at The Times newspaper, takes a critical view of the EU's efforts to keep the crude oil prices under control at the oil summit in Jeddah: "The European Union and the Opec oil cartel spent yesterday in an entirely vacuous summit. Everything ministers said when it was over was wrong or unwise. ... It was a summit with the sole purpose of being seen (on the European side) to be doing something about the pain of high oil prices, without either side being able to do much about it at all. The slowdown in US and European growth may take the price down from its heights, but the still fast-growing demand from China and India may stop it falling much. In the battle to avoid blame, it is no surprise that ministers claim more influence than they have, and accuse the phantom villains of the world markets. But that will not make the price fall." (25/06/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Bronwen Maddox

The Swedish government is considering introducing tuition fees for students from non-EU countries. Aftonbladet newspaper, which has close ties to the Social Democratic Party, fears this could be a first step towards charging all students tuition fees and warns: "Tuition fees cement the class society and threaten the radical idea that education can be an instrument for facilitating social advancement. ... The entire system of study credits is based on this notion. It must be possible for people to gain a decent education. ... Sweden's education policy is based on the principle that universities and colleges are open to everyone. At the risk of sounding solemn, the aim is to make it possible for people to follow their higher calling. Tuition fees pose a threat to this idea." (25/06/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Jesper Bengtsson

A manifesto signed by intellectuals aimed at protecting the Spanish language has revived a debate that has been going on for years in Spain. La Vanguardia, a newspaper published in the Catalonian capital of Barcelona, comments: "Naturally the goal [of the manifesto] is not to defend freedom. They say that the language does not belong to a country, but its citizens. Fantastic. I would like to see these high-minded [signatories] defending Farsi, Arabic, Finnish and all the other languages that are spoken by the new Spaniards. I would also like to see them defending the Catalans' right to use their language anywhere within the [Spanish] state. And of course I would like to see them abolishing all the laws that prescribe Castilian [Spanish] for the entire territory. Or was that not the idea behind this manifesto? ... Let us not be naïve. [The manifesto is] just one more in the series of unashamed attempts to defend the empire." (25/06/2008)

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Flemish politicians have filed charges against francophone media in the dispute between Flemish and Walloons. And rightly so, finds the newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen: "Terms like ethnic cleansing, Nazis and Hitler are regularly used to describe Belgium's northern inhabitants. ... Every year between four and six billion euros flow from Flanders to Wallonia. ... All we want in exchange is respect for the linguistic borders and more autonomy for our regions. ... In no other state in the world does one part give so much of its wealth to its neighbour. And nowhere else is the ingratitude greater than here. ... But where does the extremely negative image that the Walloons have of the Flemish come from? A large part of the explanation must be sought in the way the media write about us, talk about us and judge us. ... They spread false information and incite hatred." (25/06/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Paul Geudens

The conservative daily Lidove noviny is appalled by the anti-Austrian cartoons published in the Prague-based weekly Reflex. The cartoons depict the Austrians as a cross between Sudeten Germans and Bohemian cleaning ladies, who were even worse Nazis than the Germans and yet were the first to cast themselves as victims of National Socialism after the war. They portray a criminal like the sex offender Josef F. as symbolic of the Austrian character. "These cartoons are shameless. ... Austria's stance on German National Socialism is virtually identical to the Czech stance on Bolshevism. Czech politicians - not very bravely - used the Second World War as an excuse to steal from their fellow German citizens and expel them from the country. ... And while the Communists won 38 percent of the vote in the Czech Socialist Republic (CSR) in 1946, just one year before they won only 5.5 percent in Austria, even though it was under greater political pressure." (25/06/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Bohumil Doležal

After each victory for the Turkish team in the European Football Championship, even well-integrated Turks took to the streets in the Netherlands to celebrate. In the Dutch evening paper NRC Handelsblad, Cengiz Çaglar, a Dutch student, examines the roots of national pride: "There is a difference between the public sphere in which I live and my private sphere. The public sphere is Dutch, but my private sphere is Turkish. However I am not nationalistic and see myself rather as a cosmopolitan. ... Another explanation for all the rejoicing is that for a long time the Turkish team was unsuccessful. Things that are rare are more highly valued. ... And then there is perhaps the most important reason: the role of the Turkish media. Everyone knows that the Turks are an emotional people. Turkish television targets the national sentiment of Turks living in the Netherlands much more heavily than the Dutch media. ... In theory, nationalism is an artificial principle, but the EURO Cup has shown us that many do not experience it this way. The nationalism is real." (25/06/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Cengiz Çaglar