The Washington summit achieved positive results, writes NRC Handelsblad newspaper: "Another positive thing about the summit is that consultation over the global economy is no longer the exclusive domain of the established industrial countries in the G7. The meeting in Washington could go down in history as the event where the new balance of power was cemented in the G20. In future countries like China, India and Brazil will be able to voice their say on decisions taken. And just as important: they are now beholden to do so." (17/11/2008)

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The Swiss daily Corriere del Ticino writes: "The G20 has set in motion a process which will gain momentum over the coming months. ... Bailing out banks with government money is not a solution ... The money must be used to boost the real economy ... Everyone must agree that new regulations can't be effective as long as the international monetary system remains tied to the US dollar, which is an expression of the US's high foreign debt. In practice this means the implementation of a new Bretton Woods. It is likely that the meeting in Washington has triggered a process in which the extent of the crisis will force states to strive for much higher goals than those formulated in Washington." (17/11/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Alfonso Tuor

The Financial Times Deutschland expresses surprise that the meeting in Washington has produced such detailed results. "Compared with the usual papers generated by international summit diplomacy, the final statement at Washington goes into an exceptional amount of detail. Those details include a precise deadline for the finance ministers of the G20 states to present proposals for watertight regulation of all actors on the financial markets by the next conference in spring 2009. They also include the express commitment of all participants not to react to the crisis with protectionist policies - which gives us hope that the old and new economic powers have not forgotten the historical lessons of the global economic crisis." (17/11/2008)

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The summit can only be a first step, writes the Copenhagen daily Berlingske Tidende: "It is too early to declare the G20 summit in Washington either a success or a failure. A series of important principles were decided on there, but most are so vague that it is hard to say whether the meeting was indeed the beginning of the end of the financial crisis that has plunged the world practically into economic chaos. ... But there can be no doubt that the heads of government will only commit to binding agreements at the next meeting. It is difficult to decide on a new course of action with an American president who has only two more months in office." (17/11/2008)

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For Stockholm's Aftonbladet newspaper, the summit heralds the end of a market ideology: "The G-20 summit points to the end of an epoch of social woe. This was based on the simple ideology of a form of capitalism free from all political control, rules or public inspection. The meeting in Washington gave a cordial nod to the free market but then proposed a series of restrictions, from the surveillance of banks to tighter control of the increasingly bizarre and economically ruinous methods of securities trading." (17/11/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Ole Svenning

Following the summit in Washington it's now clear that the countries of the West will have to grant the rest of the G20 states a greater role in international financial institutions, writes the daily Delo. "The erstwhile powerful 'West', which with its belief in the omnipotence of the free market got us into this mess and now threatens to go down in the face of an increasingly ominous recession, has this time been forced to call on the 'East' and the 'South', where most of the economic growth is expected to take place in coming years, for support. ... The West once pushed these countries aside, but now it will have to give them more power in international financial institutions, because the countries of the West are gradually becoming dependent on their help. This time they begged China to fork out around 2 billion US dollars in foreign reserves to help the impoverished International Monetary Union." (17/11/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Boris Cibej

The Spanish daily ABC writes: "There were no fireworks in Washington. They're saving those for [Barack] Obama's swearing-in ceremony in January. But there was plenty of white smoke after a long work process that, although it won't end the financial or economic crisis, will certainly ensure that the international community has better instruments at its disposal to identify, deal with and solve a crisis. No more and no less." (17/11/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Fernando Fernández Méndez de Andés

La Voix du Luxemobourg sees the party conference of the French Socialists as the end of the party as we know it. "This party conference in Reims ... is the funeral of a political family that has been drowning in personal feuds since the death of François Mitterand. This party is difficult to understand. On the one hand it is capable of dealing the right a devastating blow in the most recent regional elections and scoring one victory after another in local elections. But at a national level it is unable to construct a plausible and efficient leadership. ... Yet this is not for lack of candidates. And precisely that is the problem. No matter what the outcome of the election of the party leader on Thursday (or Friday, if there's a second ballot) the final hour has come for the PS in its current configuration. But when all is said and done this is the best thing that could happen to it. This would be its only chance to reform and build up a left that really performs its opposition role." (17/11/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Olivier Postal

After the discord of recent weeks, Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico and his Hungarian counterpart Ferenc Gyurcsány have met in the southern Slovakian border town of Komárno, and issued a common statement condemning extremism and neo-fascism. Nothing but lip service, writes Der Standard newspaper: "With their public appearance, both prime ministers were simply catering to their home clientele. Fico is dependent on his nationalist coalition partner at least until the next elections. Clearly he also owes his popularity to duplicity: he distances himself from the verbal excesses of Ján Slota, leader of the Slovak National Party, but at the same time he holds firmly to the coalition. Gyurcsány, for his part, has his back to the wall and believes the only way he can stand up to the pressure of the right-wing nationalist opposition is by playing the national card. Regardless of their motives, both prime ministers have knowingly fallen into the nationalism trap. And the meeting in Komárno shows just how difficult it is to get out of it again." (17/11/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Josef Kirchengast

The Irish Times has carried out a survey on the Treaty of Lisbon showing that a majority of Irish could support it if a new referendum were held. The newspaper stresses the need for ratifying the treaty. "Voters may be willing to support the treaty in a fresh referendum if it is modified. ... Ireland faces a grave choice between remaining in the EU mainstream by finding a constructive way out of the Lisbon dilemma or risking isolation if others go ahead without us. The economic costs and political consequences of the decision to reject the treaty last June are being steadily brought home. If Ireland is perceived internationally as rich and selfish or indifferent to the desire of others for closer integration, foreign direct investment will be affected. It will become more difficult to find allies in protecting vital interests like taxation and our influence in political, climate and security negotiations will diminish." (17/11/2008)

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"Comparisons don't work," writes the daily Corriere della Sera, adding that this is why neither the current student movement in Italy - the "onda" - should be compared with the '68 movement nor the current economic crisis with the Great Depression of 1929. "The 'onda' appears to lack the creative impact of the movement of 40 years ago. ... The 68ers were the political manifestation of the maturing of a social movement that produced the first university graduates in many families. The 'onda', on the other hand, is directed against a fossilised society in which caste mechanisms are still alive and kicking and liberalisation is wasting away. ... You can't compare 1929 and 2009. ... In 1929 America's gross national product plunged by 30 percent and one in four Americans were out of work, while today's forecasts are a decline of 0.7 percent for the US and 0.5 percent for the Eurozone. ... It's clear that the scale of the present crisis is entirely different to that of the Great Depression." (17/11/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Dario Di Vico

Historian Mark Mazower reflects in the Financial Times on xenophobia in Europe: "Europeans find it hard adjusting to a colour-blind world. Indeed their hesitancy is growing. In Austria, the extreme right carved out big gains in September's general elections. ... Europe as a whole, according to recent polls, has become significantly more xenophobic over the past few years. Fears of Islamic terrorism and anxiety about globalisation have fed this trend. So has fervent anti-European Union sentiment, strongly correlated to populist anti-immigrant rhetoric. ... Culturally, globalisation is pushing many Europeans – whether pro- or anti-Europe – into a kind of conservatism. As the continent struggles with the task of turning itself into a political force capable of acting on the world stage alongside former colonies such as the US and India, or rising powers such as China, its elites fall back on memories of a time when Europe taught the world its values. ... Too many Europeans still talk and act as though their task is to shore up western civilisation against the barbarians. ... Europeans inhabit increasingly globalised multi-ethnic societies; yet their attitudes remain shaped by a 19th-century mindset." (17/11/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Mark Mazower

On November 30 Romania elects a new parliament. In the weekly Revista 22, Armand Gosu is pessimistic about the outcome. "We lack dreams - or to be more precise - the vision of a Romania that looks different to today's Romania, with its political class made up of a symbiosis of former and current secret service agents and members of the communist nomenklatura. The vision of a Romania in which all citizens are equal before the law, and in which those who lead a bank into bankruptcy don't get off scot-free. ... But voters may have lost all hope. They have become as cynical and egoistic as the political class. ... It's obvious that the current political class has exhausted its potential. The greatest accomplishment of the generation of politicians that was active during the transformation was that it didn't make any major mistakes that blocked the path to the West. Under these conditions Nato and the EU were determined to integrate Romania. Now things have become more complicated. Now there is talk of a long process which will see the true modernisation of the country, and for which this political elite lacks both the vision and the ability to make that vision a reality. It is a weary generation that has wasted all its opportunities." (17/11/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Armand Gosu

After the Dutch government approved billions of euros in aid to banks and insurance companies, now businesses, farmers and cultural players are also demanding state support. Social democratic finance minister Wouter Bos opposes such aid, however, a stance welcomed by the progressive weekly newspaper Vrij Nederland: "Seen from an international perspective, Bos is taking the less trodden route. Barack Obama is considering bailing out General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler. Angela Merkel and her finance minister Peer Steinbrück have suggested that in addition to aiding banks, they are also ready to support businesses. Can the Dutch fail to follow suit? On the other hand, you can hardly appoint a supervisory board for every farmer, tulip grower or small business that applies for state support. That would be tantamount to introducing the sort of social model you otherwise only see in North Korea. ... However Bos will no doubt back down under pressure from interest groups, and a growing number of businesses will be put on the state drip. But regardless of how things are decided, Karl Marx is laughing up his sleeve." (17/11/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Max van Weezel

Prompted by the Patria affair in which the Finnish arms company Patria allegedly bribed Slovenian officials to win an arms deal, Risto Pennanen examines the different moral standards prevalent in the global business sector: "Small and sparsely populated Finland is an individualist society in which laws are important for security. ... In countries like China, Russia and Italy the advantages to be derived from a deal are much more important than legal regulations. ... In many countries bribes are seen as a token of friendship. ... Here in Finland officially offering a bribe is clearly defined as a criminal act. The Finnish way of thinking is clearly preferable in this matter, but five million people hardly stand a chance against the thousand-year-old traditions of a billion Chinese. ... Therefore Finnish companies face a dilemma on several export markets. On the one hand they want to stay clean, but on the other they want to do business." (17/11/2008)

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Italy's ministry of culture is to be endowed with a new super manager for museums whose main task will be to access new sources of money by commercially loaning out works of art. Dispensing with the usual bid invitation, Italian minister for culture Sandro Bondi nominated 62-year-old Mario Resca, who for 12 years has sat on the McDonald's Italy board of management, for the job. La Repubblica criticises his choice: "Make money, make profit, get out of the red - this is the maxim the ministry is pursuing with Mario Resca's appointment as super manager. He's an experienced technician who knows how to make money, just like McDonald's does. Hot dogs and Caravaggio - this is an easy irony, but one that is dangerous, too. We forget that our cultural heritage should not be exploited but protected, preserved and handed down to future generations. Museums are not companies ... There would have been a similar wave of protest if they had appointed an art historian as manager of McDonald's." (15/11/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Paolo Mauri

The writer Manuel Rico asks in El País why so few novels are written about life under Franco's dictatorship in Spain. So many topics from the time have hardly been touched on, Rico comments. "For example I'm thinking of daily life in the 1950s and 60s, of the life - and the conscience - of a dormant society living in a fictitious peace while the prisons were full of political prisoners and everyone was used to silence, self-censorship and fear. Are these memories not a part of us, and an explanation for the fears and complexes we have today? Why do we accept or even applaud when Ian McEwan describes his protagonists' protests against the Vietnam War, but then call Spanish authors pamphleteers when they write about student protests in the 1960s or the major political and social conflicts that tore apart the fabric of society under Franco in the 1960s?" (17/11/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Manuel Rico

The daily Postimees detects a growing sense of fear among Western populations that is fanned by the media: "People in the West spend a lot of their free time watching television and this is their main source of information. According to studies carried out in the US, people who watch television regularly were more traumatised after 9/11 than those who sought specific information from other sources. ... The people of the West reflect the mental state of their society, fear the future and see themselves as incapable of influencing it. The society of old Europe is above all seeking an answer to the question of how to preserve the status quo. A society like this lives on its memories and is not concerned with shaping the future but rather with preserving what it has already achieved." (17/11/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Martin Kala