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• He’s Back

  

  ON THE 10th of every month Polish nationalists gather outside the presidential palace in Warsaw with flowers and votive candles to mourn Lech Kaczynski, its... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Phantom Menace

  

  NEAT mounds of freshly harvested sugar beets await collection on the plains of Picardy. This flat land, around the northern town of Saint-Quentin, is quiet... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Tolerance for Casualties

  

  Trapped in Sinai, proud of Putin SHORTLY after Vladimir Putin became prime minister in 1999 Russia was hit by a string of apartment bombings that killed over 30... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Retailers Told to Mark ‘Israeli Settlement’ Products

  European retailers must say “product from … Israeli settlement” on wine, food, or cosmetics from over the green line the EU has indicated, prompting Israeli... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Dispensable French

  

  BACK in September, as Germany struggled to cope with the politics and logistics of the greatest influx of refugees in modern history, France decided to put on... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Another Victory for Illiberalism

  

  A man, a plan: Erdogan OPTIMISTS might have hoped that after his Justice and Development (AK) party scored a stunning victory in the election on November 1st... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Let Me Hear Your Khoomei Ringing out

  

  NESTLED along the northern border of Mongolia, Tuva is easy to miss. There are no direct flights from Moscow; the only ways in are turbo-prop planes from... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Church of the Poor Judgment

  

  Who will rid me of these troublesome auditors? THE Vatican is an oddity: a state within a city that is the capital of another state. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Master of Emergencies

  

  ON VLADIMIR PUTIN’S birthday in October, his defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, brought him a gift: the latest briefing on Russia’s military campaign in Syria. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Wants Actions, Deadlines from Valletta Summit

  The EU’s lead negotiator at next week’s Africa summit on migration, Pierre Vimont, wants actions backed by deadlines and oversight. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• When Migrants Spoil the Joke

  

  Less welcome than they were BAVARIA has long taken pride in being different from other Teutonic places: warm, flamboyant and hostile to anybody who tries to... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Conservative Enigma

  

  ONLY one thing is generally agreed about the result of Poland’s election held on October 25th; for the victors, it was a triumph on a scale that nobody else... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Short-termism

  

  ANTÓNIO COSTA, leader of Portugal’s Socialist Party (PS), may soon be able to tell the curious story of how to lose a vote and yet still become prime minister. Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Erdogan’s Party Clinches Majority in Turkey

  Turkish president Erdogan is set to tighten his grip on power as voters in Sunday’s general election gave his party a clear majoirty to rule the polarised... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey Votes Again, as EU Seeks Help on Refugees

  As Turkey votes in a general election for the second time in five months, the EU is hoping for Ankara’s help on stemming the flow of refugees. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Fair Play Or Foul?

  

  Hard questions for a Kaiser WHAT Pele is to Brazil, Franz Beckenbauer is to Germany. “The Kaiser”, as Germans call him, so dominated German football in the 1970... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Voting to the Sound of Explosions

  

  ELECTION campaigns in Turkey are sometimes exuberant affairs, with the streets decked out with bunting and resounding with jingles. But the mood was mostly... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• German Flexibility

  

  She’ll pick up German in no time WHEN Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, made her case in August that the country could manage its record inflow of... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Refugee Realpolitik

  

  SYED SHAH, a young Pakistani asylum-seeker loitering outside a registration office in Berlin, has a theory about Angela Merkel. He isn’t entirely sure who she... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Opinion] Brussels: The City That Just Doesn’t Give a Damn

  Welcome to Brussels- the global headquarters of hypocrisy, where calls for budget cuts and flexible labour forces are made by well-paid bureaucrats with jobs fo... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL