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• The Return of the Awkward Squad

  

  POLAND is one of the European Union’s biggest success stories. Since it joined the EU in 2004 its GDP per head has almost doubled. Poles are more likely to be... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Juncker Rebukes Hungary’s EU Commissioner

  Exchange of bad tempered letters sees Juncker tell Navracsics to stay neutral after Hungarian commissioner objects to Hungary-critical initiative. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Continent Like Belgium

  

  BRUSSELS, wrote Tony Judt, is “a metaphor for all that can go wrong in a modern city”. The late historian, writing in 1999, was referring to the civic neglect... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Power Struggle

  

  UKRAINIAN nationalist saboteurs blew up transformers and cut power lines to Crimea on November 21st in an attempt to punish Russia for annexing the peninsula... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Tusk: EU Can’t ‘outsource’ Borders to Turkey

  EU Council chief Donald Tusk has warned that a deal with Turkey won’t be enough to protect EU external borders and internal free movement. Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Coalition of the Grudging

  

  IN THE aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks on November 13th, the French framed their response with unambiguous martial resolve. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Hopes €3bn Will See Turkey Halt Migrants

  EU leaders and Turkey’s PM will, on Sunday, finalise a €3 billion deal to stop migrants coming, in talks held in the shadow of the Turkey-Russia confrontation. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Icy Reception

  

  A winter’s tale MOST teenagers only have to worry about acne, homework and heartache. Kasra, a 17-year-old boy from Afghanistan, faces more weighty problems. Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Poland’s Ruling Party Shows True Colours

  Poland’s newly elected ruling party is showing off its confrontational style by overturning appointments of top judges and stepping up the rhetoric against... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Fly Dutchman

  

  CONTRARY to popular belief, the most interesting figure in Dutch ethnic relations is not the Islam-bashing politician Geert Wilders. Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• After Paris, Drawbridges Up?

  

  FOR a Dutchman driving his caravan to the Costa del Sol, the only thing to remind him that he had crossed borders used to be the successive text messages... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Small Enough to Fail

  

  THE shenanigans of a tiny group of politicians and businesspeople in Europe’s poorest country are never going to make headlines elsewhere. Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Footie in the Time of Terror

  

  Locking down the locker room THE eventual score was the last thing on the minds of the 70,000 French and English fans in London’s Wembley stadium on November... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Extreme Tweeting

  

  MOST politicians these days know how to compose a tweet and post a Facebook update; some are competentselfie-takers. Yet Europe’s mainstream lawmakers are... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Brussels Fears ‘gun and Explosives’ Attack

  Belgian PM Charles Michel has said intelligence of a terrorist attack, using “guns and explosives,” prompted the security crackdown in the EU capital. Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Opinion] Making the EU Fit for 21st Century Challenges

  Time for EU to drop federalist pretence and reform institutions to address new political and security realities, Ulrich Speck writes. Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Task for Tusk

  

  MOVING to Brussels, says Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, was like reaching “paradise”. True, that had more to do with the abundance of... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• High Wall, Narrow Sea

  

  WHEN the European Union picked Malta as the site for this week’s EU-Africa migration summit, it seemed a logical choice. The island nation is perched in the... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Cold-war Chill

  

  ONLY a naive sports fan would be shocked by a new round of doping allegations. In cycling’s Tour de France from 1998-2013, 38% of the top-ten finishers were... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Collective Responsibility

  

  Liberty plus justice, please CHANGING prime ministers in Romania is nothing special. Changing them on grounds of corruption or incompetence is unprecedented. Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL