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• Tsipras Agrees to More Austerity in Exchange for Debt Relief

  The Greek government has unveiled plans for a €13 billion austerity budget in a last-ditch attempt to secure a debt deal with its EU creditors. Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The End of Fudge

  

  ANDREAS PAPANDREOU, a proud Greek socialist who stood up to his country’s coup-mongering generals in the 1960s, won an election in October 1981 by fulminating... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Final Deadline for Greece, as EU Prepares for Grexit

  Greek government given “final deadline” until end of the week to present reform proposals, with Juncker saying a detailed Grexit scenario is already prepared. Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Diamond Ring, Iron Fist

  

  Stately pleasure domes, by decree CHECHNYA and Dagestan are both nominally inside Russia, but the road between the two features a checkpoint as elaborate as a... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• ECB to Decide on Greek Funding Monday

  The euro fell in early trading in Asia, marking what could be a period of market volatility in response to the Greek No. News from Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Opinion] Yes Or No – the Consequences Will Be Dire

  The EU shares the blame for this sad and avoidable situation. It should do some soul-searching while it watches up to 10 million Greek voters make their... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• ‘It’s Greeks Against Greeks’

  It was a tale of two Greeces on Friday night as tens of thousands took to the streets of Athens for the last evening of campaigning ahead of Sunday’s... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Coalition Dreaming

  THE inauguration of Turkey’s new parliament on June 23rd was a heady day for this wobbly democracy. Pious Muslim women were able to take the oath with their... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hungary Shuts the Door

  

  THIS week Hungary suspended its adherence to the Dublin regulation, which says that asylum-seekers’ claims must be processed in the first country they reach. Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Circular Economy Could Deliver €1.8tn for Europe

  The circular economy is Europe’s next big thing, according to a new study, and EU policy-makers are keen to get in on the act. Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Women at War

  

  Beata will be hard to beat WHEN Ewa Kopacz succeeded Donald Tusk as Poland’s prime minister last autumn, she became only the second woman in the job, after Hann... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Forget the Baguette

  

  THESE are momentous days for sliced bread, at least in France. The land of the long crusty baguette boasts more artisanal bakers supplying freshly cooked... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Roman Carnival

  

  Renzi considers Rome’s swamp WHAT links a one-eyed bank robber and Europe’s biggest asylum reception centre to Sisters Marcella and Consolata of the Servants... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Talking Time

  

  LATELY an unfamiliar emotion has washed over Cyprus: hope. The economy is starting to crawl back after a euro-zone bail-out in 2013. Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Gambling in Catalonia

  

  Those who travel to Catalonia will be impressed by the diversity of experiences one can experience in the region. The capital, Barcelona, has a renowned Gothic... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Putin the Uniter

  

  A message to Russia MIKHAIL ZABRODSKY, the broad-shouldered commander of Ukraine’s airborne troops, came of age in the Soviet Union. After the Soviet collapse h... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Where the Past Isn’t Even Past

  SOME 16 years after NATO’s air campaign ended Serbian rule in Kosovo, the law may at last be catching up with high-ranking Kosovar politicians who allegedly... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Almost out of Time

  

  BACK in 2000, the French voted to shorten presidential terms from seven years to five. The aim was to make the presidential mandate coincide with that of... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Orban: EU Needs ‘strong’ Leaders, Not Institutions

  The Hungarian PM says Europe will face up to challenges only through “strong leadership, even a personal one”. News from Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• At the End of the Regenbogen

  

  SINCE Ireland voted in May to allow same-sex marriage, Europe has had a clear divide: liberal in the west but more illiberal going east. Germany is in the... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL