Today's front pages

The Greek government must present this Monday the austerity measures necessary to obtain €31.5 billion in international aid to avoid default. The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met his coalition partners Sunday to try to resolve disagreements, and warned that if parliament rejected the budget that this could mean a return to the Drachma.

Eleventh hour for the country – Ta Nea

Arthur Mas, president of the autonmous regional government of Catalonia has insisted that "neither the courts nor the [Spanish] constitution" can stop the process initiated on September 11 by the independence march in Barcelona. He also called for "an outstanding majority" for his Convergence and Union coalition in the regional elections of November 25, which would strengthen the case for a referendum on independence for the region in the next 4 years. For the conservative daily, Mas is "against democracy".

Mas’ open call to flout laws — insubordination – ABC

Guards have forcefully evacuated journalists Balázs Nagy Navarro and Aranka Szavuly and their sympathizers from the tent they occupied in front of MTVA public television. Their 324 day protest was against what government interference in the public media. In October, they won the Leipzig “Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media”.

Government still pursuing public media protesters – Népszava

Czech PM Petr Nečas was re-elected leader of the centre-right Civic Democratic Party (ODS) at the party’s congress this Sunday. Now, the Prague daily notes, he must quell an internal rebellion that threatens to bring down his government over a 1% hike in VAT, to be voted in parliament this Wednesday.

Nečas wins two days to save government – Hospodářské Noviny

Poland is no longer Central Europe’s number 1 car manufacturer. Three years ago, Fiat’s Tychy plant in the south of the country produced 600,000 cars a year, in 2013 it will produce only 250,000. Poland’s car industry, which generated 13.6% of the country’s industrial output in 2010 and employed some 115,000 people, has been overtaken by competitors from Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.

Europe drives on, we’re in reverse – Gazeta Wyborcza

The crisis in Western Europe has created a reverse brain drain, with Slovakia’s IT and other experts coming back home after time spent in Ireland, Spain, Italy and other countries. When companies in these countries make redundancies, foreigners are among the first to go, the Bratislava daily notes, adding that less people are leaving the country — only 100,000 should go this year while they were 170,000 in 2007.

Crisis brings brains abroad back to Slovakia – Pravda

During the annual meeting of France's bishops, Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, the Archbishop of Paris, reiterated his opposition to the government's "marriage for everyone" bill to be presented this Wednesday, calling it a "hoax". The Catholic Church also opposes adoption for same-sex couples.

Bishops raise the tone – La Croix