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• The Continuity Candidate

  

  AFTER the excitements of the previous week, when Switzerland’s attorney-general announced that FIFA’s limpet-like president, Sepp Blatter, was under formal... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Leaders in Driverless Cars

  

  THE inquiring progressive mind, scanning Europe for new thinking on the left, would not instinctively turn to France. No eager throngs gather for debates at... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Europe Starts Putting up Walls

  

  “WE WILL manage,” said Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, in an attempt earlier this month to win public support for the refugees streaming into the country... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Mr Saakashvili Goes to Odessa

  

  IN THE spring of 2014, as the war in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region was breaking out, deadly clashes wracked the elegant port city of Odessa. Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Sponsored] Monaco, an Exceptional Business Destination in Europe

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou gives his opinion on the role that the Principality of Monaco plays in Europe: A unique place for doing business News from EUobserver Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Cars That Ate Paris

  

  THE French capital gave birth to the flâneur, that casual wanderer of the modern town whose “immense joy” is to stroll the streets “amid the ebb and flow of... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Synchronised Somersault

  

  Still in charge ALEXIS TSIPRAS, who won his second national election victory on September 20th by a poll-defyingly wide margin, is only 41 years old—one of the... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Point Taken, Mr Orban

  

  WAITING patiently inside Vienna’s Hauptbahnhof station for the train that will carry her to Munich, Delima Ibrahim, a friendly Syrian who looks younger than... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Breaking up is Hard to Do

  

  BENIGNO ROMERO, a Catalan taxi driver, reached coyly into his pocket and produced a key-ring bearing the horizontal gold-and-red striped flag of Spain. “I... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• More Vacancies Than Visitors

  

  WITH their pristine rooms and green courtyard, the new psychiatric clinic and geriatric and dermatological wards cost $ 19m. But what the hospital in Bydgoszcz... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Mercury and Brunello

  

  Paradise potentially lost THE view from the roof terrace of Giorgio Franci’s olive mill in Tuscany is sublime. It takes in the entire undulation of the Val... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Sponsored] Principality of Monaco: A Lesson for Europe

  During negotiations, everyone learns a little from the other party. Monaco’s economic and cultural uniqueness is not without interest on the subject of... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• No Longer So Male and Stale

  

  Madame l’Ambassadeur, Sylvie Bermann AT THE end of every summer, the French diplomatic service summons all its ambassadors from around the world to Paris for a... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• In Greece, Jaded Citizens Wonder What They’re Voting for

  Tired of voting for candidates who promised to reverse austerity policies only to change course overnight once elected, Greek citizens are increasingly opting t... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Orban the Archetype

  

  HE ORDERED a fence topped with razor-wire along the 175-kilometre border with Serbia. He cast Christian Europe as battling Muslim hordes for survival, stirring... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Still Standing, Somehow

  

  A RECENT cartoon in Kathimerini, a Greek newspaper, depicts Alexis Tsipras, the prime minister, waking up in a cold sweat. “I had a nightmare!” he exclaims to... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Our Turn to Eat

  

  ON STREET duty in Amsterdam, a 35-year-old Dutch police officer bemoans four years without a pay rise. “The economy is picking up, the rich are getting richer... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ruffians in Rome

  

  ON AUGUST 27th the coastal district of Rome, with a population of around 230,000, became the biggest administrative unit in Italy to be put under direct... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Lonely but Not Lost

  

  Navalny has a dream ALEXEI NAVALNY, Russia’s most conspicuous opposition politician, would not look out of place on the presidential campaign trail in America,... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Hatred Never Went Away

  

  EASTERN Turkey has been paralysed for weeks by clashes between government forces and Kurdish extremists. Now violence is spreading to the rest of the country. Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL