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• Is Tröglitz Everywhere?

  

  THE “patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident”, known as Pegida, still march. On April 13th 10,000 rallied in Dresden, their base,... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Fight the Good Fight

  FROM the Sea of Azov to Aleppo, fighters from the western Balkans are at war. So worried are their governments that laws have been passed to make fighting abroa... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Toughen Rules on Lobbying Or Risk Corruption, Watchdog Warns EU

  The EU needs to beef up its regulation of the lobbying industry to curb the risk of corruption, a leading transparency watchdog has warned. Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Enquiry Says Kosovo Mission Not Guilty of ‘cover-up’

  An EU enquiry into Eulex – its rule of law mission in Kosovo – says it didn’t cover up corruption allegations, but does urge reforms. Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cash-strapped Greece Remains Top Defence Spender

  Cash-strapped Greece remains one the biggest spenders on military defence in the EU, relative to its GDP. News from Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Vive La Résistance

  LIKE martial music after a military coup, France’s public radio stations have broadcast little but song tracks for the past three weeks. Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cyber Attack on French TV Finds EU Unprepared

  EU co-operation exists at expert level, but a 2013 directive still has to be adopted. News from Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Taken Hostage

  

  Another successful operation ON MARCH 31st two members of DHKP-C, a Marxist revolutionary group, strolled into Istanbul’s main courthouse disguised as lawyers... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• In the Fold

  

  AFTER Viktor Yanukovych, who was then president, fled Ukraine in February 2014, Russian flags began appearing around the Lenin statue in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Working on It

  

  WHEN Matteo Renzi, Italy’s prime minister, came to power in February 2014, he promised to push through a daunting list of reforms at the breathtaking speed of... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Tops Donor Chart, but Aid to Poorest Slumps

  The EU remains the largest international aid donor, but aid to thepoorest countries continued to fall in 2014, according to OECD statistics. Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Something Old, Something New

  

  WITH her folksy manner and humble origins, Susana Díaz does not at first sight seem a likely saviour of old-style Spanish politics. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Bulgarian PM Criticises France and Germany for Accepting Crimea Annexation

  Bulgaria’s prime minister Boiko Borisov has criticised the leaders of Germany and France for de facto accepting Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Black Sea... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Low-spirited Country

  

  MISREADING the public mood can be costly when the government owns your bank, as the directors of ABN AMRO found out last week. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Spends Millions to Make Next Facebook European

  Many of the online services most popular among Europeans were created in the United States. The EU wants that to be different in the future. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• US and EU Bring Iran out of the Cold

  The US and EU have agreed to lift most sanctions on Iran in return for a 15-year freeze on uranium enrichment and full access for UN inspectors News from... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Nemtsov Bridge

  

  Remembered with love MEMORY has long been the subject of fierce and often deadly ideological battles in Russia. Those who control the past also control the... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Not-so-private Lives

  

  A FEW years ago your columnist received an impassioned lecture from the square-jawed owner of a gun shop in Denver, Colorado. Governments, the proprietor... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• An Uncomfortable Arrangement

  

  GERMANY may be emerging as Europe’s chief actor on the global stage. But its domestic politics are stuck in a strange logjam, leaving all the main parties,... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cracks in the Façade

  RIDING on robust growth and democratic reforms, Turkey’s pro-Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party has won three terms in power since 2002. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL