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• [Opinion] Time for EU to Face Responsibilities on Syria

  Five years after Syrians first took to the streets, it’s time for EU leaders to stop acting like selfish, short-termist populists, by making sure the ceasefire... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Radikale Rechte

  

  Willkommen this ANTI-MIGRANT violence in Germany has become so severe over the past year that it is a miracle that no refugee has yet been killed. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Vladimir Unbound

  

  CHANTS of “Russia without Putin!” echoed through Moscow four years ago. Vladimir Putin’s choreographed return to the presidency and vote tampering in... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Back to the Bullring

  

  WHEN Spaniards voted at a general election in December, they chose to change the way politics works. What they did not expect was that it would stop working... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Wheels of Justice Grind Slow

  

  ALBERTO MUNNO, a judge in the southern Italian city of Taranto, believes he is being oppressed by his country’s justice system. He has a rather good case. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Fudging the Revolution

  

  AUGUSTO SANTOS SILVA, the foreign minister of Portugal’s three-month-old Socialist government, is a mild-mannered sociologist, not a firebrand. Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Graveyard of Ambition

  

  ONE of Turkey’s more forlorn sights is tucked down an Ankara side street inside the EU affairs ministry. At the top of a small staircase lurks a poster depictin... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Night of the Long Scoops

  

  I think they’re closed MUSCOVITES awoke last week to scenes of destruction. Shops and cafés lay in ruins. The perpetrators were not terrorists, but the city... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Comeback Skid

  

  FRENCH politicians are better at avoiding retirement than avoiding the courtroom, or so it sometimes seems. The race is now on for the centre-right nomination i... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Between a Puff and a Kalashnikov

  

  A national sport WHEN France imposed a state of emergency in November, following the terror attacks in Paris, it implied some constraints on liberty. But the... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Dear Friends

  

  IN TSARSKOE SELO (“Tsar’s Village”), a smart district in Kiev, Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, owns a swathe of desirable land. Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Is the Welcome Culture Legal?

  

  Tying her hands OF ALL the people stoking the pressure on Germany’s chancellor these days, the most relentless is Horst Seehofer, Bavaria’s premier and leader o... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Government in Exile

  

  LAST week Vladimir Ashurkov, a former executive at Russia’s Alfa Bank, stood at the front of a tour bus full of journalists and academics threading its way... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU to End Five-year Freeze in Belarus Relations

  EU states have decided to dissolve most Belarus sanctions for strategic reasons, despite the still “dismal” human rights situation in the country. Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Special Privileges

  

  IF BRITAIN adhered to Groucho Marx’s dictum of never joining a club willing to have him as a member, it would be on its way out of the European Union. Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Swords and Shields

  

  NAIVETY and paranoia mark the European Union’s attitude to espionage. The EU does not have a spy agency, nor does it have access to the intelligence collected b... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Beardless Youth

  

  SELDOM has facial hair become an object of such frenzied political debate. When France’s popular young economy minister, Emmanuel Macron, returned from his... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany, Turkey Want Nato Help to Police Coast

  Germany and Turkey want to stop people-smugglers in the Aegean Sea, as tens of thousands of new Syria refugees mass on Turkey’s borders amid Assad’s siege of... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Putin’s Chechen Enforcer

  

  99% of voters can’t be wrong RAMZAN KADYROV has few inhibitions. Last week, just before the first anniversary of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, a liberal Russian... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Bear-backers

  

  THIS week Horst Seehofer, the premier of Bavaria and an unruly ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, ruffled German diplomatic feathers by visiting Vladimir Putin,... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL