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• Catalonia: More Than Just Great Architecture and Sandy Beaches

  

  Many people who visit Catalonia, especially Barcelona have always been impressed by its diverse culture. It’s home to one of the best football clubs in the worl... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Birth-pangs of a Policy

  

  LAST week a Danish surveillance aircraft spotted a rickety fishing boat stuffed with would-be migrants 24 nautical miles off the Libyan coast. Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Calais Migrants Head to Belgium to Cross Channel to UK

  Migrants heading to the UK are using Belgian highways as a staging point to avoid the jams at Calais. News from Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Interview] EU Data Privacy Chief Criticises Air Passenger Bill

  EU data privacy chief Giovanni Buttarelli has said a forthcoming law gathering detailed information on air passengers is too invasive and is unlikely to stop... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Choppy Route to Freedom

  

  JUST five nautical miles of turquoise sea separate Turkey from the tourist town of Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos. But the boat got stuck halfway across... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Apples, Apples Everywhere

  

  TOMASZ SOLIS dreams of the day when the countryside round Lublin, on the eastern edge of Poland, turns into another Tuscany: a place where motorists or... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Why One Attack Could Augur Worse

  

  Sorrow in Suruc “FOLLOW the flies; you’ll find human flesh.” These grisly directions were offered at the scene of a suicide-bomb attack by a suspected Islamic... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Takes Aim at Sky and Hollywood in Competition Probe

  The European Commission has fired a shot across the bows of some of the world’s biggest media houses, including Rupert Murdoch’s BskyB, accusing them of breakin... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Funnelling Them Forward

  

  Taking a train to the heart of Europe THE SIGHT of desperate folk treading hard roads is familiar in Macedonia and Serbia. In the Kosovo war of 1999, more than... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hemlock, Not Champagne

  

  THE risk of a chaotic Grexit was averted by the morning of July 13th. But the rest of Europe exacted a price from Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister. To... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU States Fall Short on Asylum Targets

  EU states Monday fell short on pledges to relocate 40,000 asylum seekers and had to rely on non-EU states to hit a separate 20,000 target for resettling... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Banned from Foreign Beaches

  

  When the French Riviera is off limits, try the Russian one IN COMMUNIST times a summer break usually meant a trip with workmates to a stony beach or a bracing... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Austere? Your Word, Not Ours

  

  TO HEAR Germany’s critics, one would think that the word and the concept of “austerity” was a dubious Teutonic gift to the world. In fact, Austerität is rarely... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Migrant Surge Creates Tension on Hungary-Serbia Border

  The thick acacia and pine forest covering the border area between Hungary and Serbia is littered with torn-up Greek asylum documents. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Don’t Stop Deriding Us

  

  Rubber ribbing CRAFTED out of latex rubber, the marionettes of “Les Guignols de l’Info”, a French television show, recall a pre-digital age. Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Finance Ministers Fail to Decide Bridge Financing for Greece

  EU finance ministers have tasked a group of experts to find out how to raise €7 billion for Greece before next Monday when a ECB repayment is due. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Greece: The Troika Strikes Back

  Officials from creditor institutions – the so-called troika – is to resume Greek supervision, in what critics say is an erosion of democracy. Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Bad Time to Break up

  

  FOR a political movement like the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the shaking of Europe’s foundations should have been a great opportunity. Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Greek Bailout Decision Delayed Amid Confusion

  Eurozone ministers will meet again on Sunday, amid German ideas of a temporary Grexit and Finland’s warning it cannot agree a deal. Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Pushes Private Finance as Report Casts New Doubt on Costs for Poorest

  The EU is pushing plans to expand the role of private finance in development policy, despite a new evidence suggesting that public/private partnerships are the... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL