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The Vatican: Was the pope’s apology enough?
feature Pope Benedict XVI expressed the church’s “shame and remorse” for the “sinful and criminal” sexual abuse of thousands of Irish children at the hands of priests. Yet as a top Vatican official for decades and as a German arc
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France: Pension reform was the last straw
feature Poor Sarkozy “wanted to be the French JFK,” but now “he looks more like Louis XVI awaiting trial,” said Philippe Marlière in the South Africa Cape Times.
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United Kingdom: Relying on China is a big mistake
feature Last week Beijing briefly suspended rare-earth exports to Japan during a diplomatic row, an action that should serve as a wake-up call to the rest of the world, said Geoffrey Lean in The Daily Telegraph.
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Europe: Hungary’s tide of toxic sludge
feature Hungary’s worst environmental disaster was set off when the wall of a storage reservoir containing liquid waste from an aluminum processing plant collapsed, disgorging nearly 1 million cubic meters of highly corrosive red mud.
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Germany: The failure of multiculturalism
feature Last week, Chancellor Angela Merkel herself acknowledged that Germany has not integrated its Muslim immigrant population.
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Poland: Jail time for wearing a Che shirt?
feature Last week, the government amended the penal code to outlaw the display of communist symbols, said Marek Domagalski in Rzeczpospolita.
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Spain: Prosecuting a judge who championed victims
feature Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who pursued criminals from other countries, will be tried this summer for investigating the abuses of the Franco era in contravention of a 1977 amnesty law.
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NATO: Killing Qaddafi’s family
feature NATO planes bombed a Tripoli building that turned out to be the home of Qaddafi's youngest son, Saif al-Arab. The son and three of his children were killed.
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France: DSK in the clutches of U.S. justice
feature Was the perp walk really necessary? asked Le Monde in an editorial.
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Germany: How much should Turks assimilate?
feature A debate over the Turkish minority’s failure to integrate has been raging since the publication of a book that argues that Turks in Germany have created a separate “parallel society” of Muslim culture.
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Spain: The nuclear accident the U.S. forgot
feature In January 1966, a U.S. B-52 bomber collided with a tanker as it was refueling above the Spanish village of Palomares, releasing four nuclear bombs, said Miguel Ángel Criado in Público.
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Europe: Does the Greek crisis mean the end of the euro?
feature The euro was meant to bring Europeans together, but the bailout of Greece is driving them apart.
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Denmark: What’s so bad about nationalism?
feature We in the DPP recognize that Denmark made a mistake when it joined the Schengen group and succumbed to the “fanatical cult of the borderless Europe,” said Jesper Langballe in Berlingske.
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Europe: Currency crisis threatens the continent
feature “Europe may no longer be able to save itself,” said Robert J. Samuelson in The Washington Post.
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