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The article focuses on the public opinion of Europeans toward Israel. The article reports on a survey which asked participants from the United States, Germany, Britain, Spain, France and Turkey if they sympathized more with Israel or the Palestinians. The article also discusses the reactions of the European public and leaders following the outbreak of hostilities between Lebanon and Israel in July 2006.

Reports on the anticipation of Europeans in awaiting ways to combine press freedom with a more restrictive attitude to the reporting of the private foibles of public figures. How the Great Britain's incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights into British law will give judges powers to penalize newspapers that encroach, without apparent public cause, on people's privacy; The three biggest continental countries in the European Union as all having privacy laws.

The article looks at the Swiss newspaper, the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" (NZZ). Barring a daring switch from its typeface in 1946, the NZZ has changed little since the 1930s, when it was banned in Germany for suggesting that Hermann Göring was responsible for the Reichstag fire. The emphasis is on international news, business, finance and high culture. A Zurich banker who is one of the paper's 1,500 shareholders claims it is second only to the "New York Times." Falling sales (the paper sells just under 160,000 copies, of which 4,000 are in Germany) and fewer advertisements have led to a 65% drop in the NZZ's share price. A recent decision to break up long stories with sub-headings was taken only after years of debate in the NZZ boardroom, says Thomas Maissen, a professor at Heidelberg and author of one of two new books on the paper's history.