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• Ça Va

  

  FOR reasons either of irrepressible optimism or self-delusion, François Hollande regularly claims to spot economic improvements. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Withdrawal That Wasn’t

  

  VLADIMIR PUTIN stares out from a poster hanging at Russian army installations throughout Syria. “Russia’s armed forces are the guarantor of world security,”... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Aux Armes

  

  A TRIO of soldiers in full combat gear advances in triangular formation, heads swivelling from left to right. On this bright spring afternoon, the unit has... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Doppelgänger Envy

  

  AS THE flood of refugees who arrived in Germany last year has tapered to a trickle, scholars have begun to examine the challenges the migrant crisis poses to... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Visa Wars

  

  WHEN Macedonia was granted visa-free access to the European Union’s Schengen area in 2009, its citizens popped champagne corks in the streets. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Buddy Cops

  

  THEIR headquarters are separated only by a three-kilometre taxi ride across Brussels, and over the years they have declared their shared interests and common... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Clearing Customs

  

  SERHAN TURKOGLU stands outside one of Istanbul’s many visa-application bureaus, clutching his flight and hotel bookings, travel insurance, proof of employment,... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Lawyer and the Cellist

  

  Magnitsky won’t go away SERGEI ROLDUGIN is a humble cellist who is also one of Vladimir Putin’s closest friends. This month the Panama papers, a mega-leak of... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Soviet Apocalypse

  

  “MY MOTHERLAND is the Soviet Union,” reads a sentence written in cursive script in one of the exercise books scattered on the floor of an abandoned school in... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Trading Places

  

  FORGET left and right. These days, it is often said, the real dividing line in politics is between open-door liberals and pull-up-the-drawbridge nationalists.... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Mario Battles the Wutsparer

  

  THIS week millions of people in the Netherlands celebrated the national holiday by getting up at dawn, staking out a patch of pavement and selling off their... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Revolution

  

  The rond-pointlessness of existence A TRAFFIC intersection may not seem an obvious subject for metaphysical reflection. But in France, few aspects of life escap... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• You Say Raki, I Say Ouzo

  

  PERCHED on a hilltop a few miles from the sea, the Christian Maronite village of Kormakitis, in Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus, is running out of time. Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Pure Swill

  

  No mere alcoholic malt drink WITH films, exhibitions and a commemorative stamp, Germany is marking the 500th anniversary on April 23rd of an event considered... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Opening Back up

  

  THE Brenner Pass between Italy and Austria is an Alpine fantasy landscape of sheepfolds and snowy peaks, traversed by a highway crowded with holidaymakers and... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• No Exceptions

  

  Not their idea of Law and Justice IT TOOK Anna four weeks to make up her mind. A Catholic from Poland’s conservative south, she already has three children, the... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• All Quiet on the Aegean Front

  

  ZIPPING across the choppy Aegean in his powerboat, Nassos Karakitsos, a volunteer with a search-and-rescue NGO called Emergency Response Centre International,... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• I Dreamed a Dream

  

  A WARM spring morning, and the atmosphere is more rock concert than revolution. Chicken kebabs are sizzling on pavement stalls. Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Frozen Conflict Explodes

  

  WITH so many conflicts in the world, Nagorno-Karabakh gets little attention. The bloody fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in the mountainous... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Politics of Memory

  

  DARIUSZ STOLA, the owlish director of Polin, the museum of Jewish life in Warsaw, remembers when Jewish sections first started to appear in bookshops in... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL