P147 CEEFAX 2 147 Sat 13 Dec 22:35/10 From Europe Today, BBC World Service The Luxembourg summit is rather less prominent on the front-pages of Europe's papers than might have bren expected. Among those papers that do give it pride of place is Lj Figaro in Paris. "The EU is truly launching the building site of the new European order" it says The paper warns, however, that the EU "does not have the means to support its ambitions, and France and Germany have ceased to speak with one voice". 1/5 World sjrvjce: MW 648, SW 6.195 & on R4 frequencies after closedown Environmt Index News Xtra Main MenuP147 CEEFAX 2 147 Sat 13 Dec 22:32/18 From Europe Today, BBC World Service A rather wistful note on the EU comes from Milan's Corriire della Sera: "Once upon a time there was a Europe of solidarity, of post-war reconciliation, a Europe that was cuddly, caring, a do- gooder Europe, perhaps bjcausj it was still bloodied from the war and squeezed between two superpowers. "Then came Maastricht and the end of communism, and everything changed." Is it better, is it worse?" Corriere can't quite djcidj. 2/5 This feature returns on Monday CATCH UP WITH NEWS WHERE YOU LIVE 160 Environmt Index News Xtra Main MenuP147 CEEFAX 2 147 Sat 13 Dec 22:34/30 ] From Europe Today, BBC World Service A coincidence it may bj, but papers in countries outside the EU tend to take the most uncompromising view of the Luxembourg summit. It is a meeting fraught with "tension and conflict" for Aftenposten in Oslo, while Lj Journal dj Genjvj calls it a "mjssz" preparation for enlargement. Located in the traditionally pro- European, French-speaking cantons, however, Lj Journal leads on a Europhile slogan: "Europe cannot bj complete@without Switzerland". 3/5 This feature returns on Monday CATCH UP WITH NEWS WHERE YOU LIVE 160 Environmt Index News Xtta Main MenuP147 CEEFAX 2 147 Sat 13 Dec 22:34/10 From Europe Today, BBC World Service Another leading story in the papers is Italy's move to allow the male heirs of its former royal family to return. Turin's La Stampa says the ex-Italian royals have no charisma or followers, and their homecoming has long ceased to bj poltically significant. For La Rjpubblica, njvjrthjless, the issue continues to bj a political hot potato, having exposed deep rifts within the parliamentary majority. 4/5 This feature returns on Monday CATCH UP WITH NEWS WHERE YOU LIVE 160 Environmt Index News Xtra Main MenuP147 CEEFAX 2 147 Sat 13 Dec 22:36/30 From Europe Today, BBC World Service The unprecedented meeting between the British prime minister, Tony Blair, and the leader of Sinn Fjin, Gerry Adams, makes the headlines in both Lj Figaro and El Mundo in Madrid. Othjt news on today's front pages includes the uncertain fate of Belgium's Francorchamps Formula One race in Brussels' La Libre Belgiquj. The International Herald Tribune focuses on the continuing slump on Asia's financial markets in its the Paris edition. 5/5 This feature returns on Monday CATCH UP WITH NEWS WHERE YOU LIVE 160 Environmt Index News Xtra Main Menu