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• This Time, Italy’s Five Star Movement Wants Power

  

  SCAMPIA on a wet Monday is the last place most Italians would care to be. Once a stronghold of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, and the scene of two... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2018 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Lithuania Hopes the Next Century is Quieter Than the Last

  

  IT TOOK Thomas Mann just a few days to fall for the Curonian Spit. The "indescribable beauty" of this geographical oddity, a skinny stretch of land curving... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2018 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Whoever Wins the Election, Italy is Not About to Leave the Euro

  

  THE man who has done more than anyone to create an air of apprehension around Italy's coming election is a genial fellow with a round face, a broad nose and... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2018 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Swabian Village with a Michelin Star for Every 2,000 People

  

  OBLIVIOUS to the Saturday evening clatter in his kitchen, Jörg Sackmann furrows his brow in concentration. "Foam!" he commands, teasing strands of onion into a... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• France’s Political Extremes Have Fallen on Hard Times

  

  "MAKE the most noise possible," urged Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a radical-left politician, before a crowd this autumn. Saucepan-banging protesters would make a... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Netherlands May Let Children Have More Than Two Legal Parents

  

  FOUR years ago Pepijn Zwanenberg, a club DJ and a city-council member for the GreenLeft party in Utrecht, sat down with his boyfriend Ivo and their friend... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2017 SOCIETY

• America’s New Economic Sanctions May Hurt Russia’s Recovery

  

  IN LATE June Daimler, a German carmaker, broke ground on a new Mercedes-Benz plant north-west of Moscow. "We are confident in the long-term potential of Russia,... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey’s Latest Trial of Journalists is Surreal Even by Its Own Standards

  

  THRONGS of relatives and lawyers pushed their way past a metal barrier manned by security guards, fighting for a spot in the crowded courtroom. The area where... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• As America Quits, Europe Tries to Lead on Climate Change

  

  CAN Europe carry the Paris agreement on climate change forward now that America has left? That was one of the big questions as leaders of the world's largest... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• What Angela Merkel’s Shift on Gay Marriage Reveals About Her Style

  

  IT WAS a relaxed event at a Berlin theatre on June 26th. Angela Merkel was taking questions from the readers of Brigitte, a lifestyle magazine. A young man aske... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italy Struggles to Deal with an Aged “godfather”

  

  WHAT place, if any, has humanity in a fight with barbarism? On June 5th such a question was posed in an unusual fashion in Italy when the country's highest... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russians Rebel Against Plans to Tear Down Their Homes

  

  WITH its tree-lined boulevards Moscow's Bogorodskoye district is an island of calm in the clattering metropolis. Dmitri Pankov and Natalia Yakutova moved in a... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Alternative for Germany Decides to Remain a Protest Party

  HISTORY has a way of repeating itself. In 2013 a group of anti-euro intellectuals led by Bernd Lucke, an economist, formed the right-wing Alternative for German... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• What’s Behind the Fad for “natural” Wine?

  

  AT "Rawduck", a restaurant in London's trendy Hackney neighbourhood, clients crowd around communal tables under dim lights, inspecting a menu of delights such a... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Theresa May is Signalling a Readiness to Compromise on Brexit

  

  HUGO YOUNG, an author, alighted on Hobbesian metaphors to describe Britain's negotiations, in the early 1970s, to join the then European Economic Community.... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The EU Should Plan for a Marine Le Pen Presidency

  

  AS USUAL, the president's first foreign trip is to the chancellery in Berlin. But the meeting with Angela Merkel does not go well. The two women instantly... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Number of Migrants Crossing the Mediterranean Keeps Rising

  

  THE 16-year-old Gambian who was discovered by a Spanish naval ship as he clung to a fuel tank in open seas will doubtless be haunted by his experience for the... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russian Authorities Have a Suspect in the St Petersburg Bombing

  

  THE oldest victim was 71 years old, the youngest just 18. One was a third-year university student described by a teacher as "pretty, smart, sweet and... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ireland’s Enda Kenny Has Lost His Twinkle

  

  IRISH-AMERICANS, who celebrate St Patrick's Day with a frenzy of public drunkenness, dyed-green beer and leprechaun costumes, might be disappointed at how the... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Geert Wilders’s Anti-immigration Party Does Worse Than Expected in the Dutch...

  

  IT WAS supposed to be the kick-off of Europe's year of populism. For months, analysts had speculated that Geert Wilders, the platinum-blond rabble-rouser who... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL