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On 16 November, Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markač were acquitted by the appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. They had initially been sentenced to 24 and 18 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity. In the run-up to the verdict, the popular daily offered its readers a poster of the two men, who have always been perceived as innocent heroes in Croatia.
Generals, Croatia is with you! – 24 Sata
On 16 November the government is expected to adopt a decree to curb evictions of homeowners who are unable to reimburse their property loans, a scourge that has already struck 400,000 people since 2007. The moratorium will apply for households earning less than 19, 200 euros per year and for a period of two years. Deemed to be too limited by the socialist opposition and “positive but insufficient" to prevent "Non-stop" evictions by the daily, the scope of the measure was restricted by the European Commission amid concerns that it would weigh on Spanish banks which are currently receiving European financial assistance.
Non-stop – El Periódico de Catalunya
“Unless Mr Hollande shows that he is genuinely committed to changing the path his country has been on for the past 30 years, France will lose the faith of investors — and of Germany. The crisis could hit as early as next year.”
The time-bomb at the heart of Europe – The Economist
The eurozone is slowly dying, writes the Lisbon daily. So-called “flash” estimates published by Eurostat show a strong slowdown in four of the major markets outside Portugal — Spain, Netherlands, Italy and France. GDP fell by 0.1% in the third quarter compared with the previous quarter, where the growth rate was -0.2%. Compared with the same quarter of the previous year, seasonally adjusted GDP fell by 0.6%.
Europe in agony. France and Germany on brink of recession – i
Jimmy Åkesson’s leadership of the Swedish Democrats, along with his policy of zero tolerance for misconduct in the ranks of his party, has been called into question in the wake of the dismissal of two senior members of the movement, who made xenophobic remarks and encouraged violence in two videos that have recently been posted by the press.
Pressure mounts on Åkesson – Svenska Dagbladet
The mystery of the death of the famous Danish astronomer in Prague in 1601 is still unresolved. After having exhumed his remains in 2010, a team of Danish and Czech researchers reported that Brahe did not die of mercury poisoning, as was previously suspected, but that he had certainly taken medicines containing gold, silver and mercury. According to popular legend, Brahe died after refusing to leaving a banquet to urinate, for fear of a breach of etiquette.
You have to do it one more time, Tycho Brahe – Politiken
According to the annual report of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), 49 new psychoactive substances were registered in Europe in 2011. Preliminary data for 2012 indicates 56 new drugs. This increase reflects the rise of so-called “legal highs”, sold in shops called smartshops in the form of pills, incense, food supplements and fertilizer.
A new drug appears in Europe every week – Público
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