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• On the Border

  NARVA, an Estonian town on the Russian border, is tired of hearing it is next. “There simply couldn’t be a repeat of Crimea here,” says Vladislav Ponjatovski,... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Opinion] How the EU Can Make ‘Women’s Day’ Meaningful

  What if, this year, the EU celebrated International Women’s Day by taking bold action to stop violence against women? News from Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Pessimism Ahead of Key Eurozone Meeting on Greece

  Greece has outlined reforms and suggested another aid plan ahead of a meeting of eurozone ministers on Monday. But negotiations are set to be difficult. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• MEPs Set up Anti-tobacco Group

  A cross-party handful of MEPs have set up a group to tackle tobacco lobbying and its influence on policy-making. News from Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Semi-guided Missile

  

  NEVER imagine that the euro zone is the only club in which Greece is a maverick player. The Hellenic relationship with NATO, and bilateral defence ties with... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Doing the Splits

  

  Fears of a sell-off, or a sell-out ALEXIS TSIPRAS, Greece’s new left-wing prime minister, was always going to face a near-impossible task as he tried to... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ghosts at the Feast

  

  Rajoy, haunted by spectres GREAT political debates in Spain can generate a powerful sense of occasion as legislators flock to a parliament building which is... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Focus] Chinese Diplomat Voices Sympathy for Russian ‘security Concerns’

  China’s ambassador to Belgium has said the West should pay more heed to Russia’s “security concerns” in order to solve the Ukraine crisis. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Soaring Hopes, Dark Fears

  

  EUROPE means different things to different Ukrainians. One vision is on display at Mezhyhirya, the gaudy palace complex erected by Viktor Yanukovych, the... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Lurch onto the World Stage

  

  A YEAR ago Germany’s elite launched a giant debate about the country’s foreign policy. There was a perception abroad, President Joachim Gauck said in a solemn... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Democracy Tool Hanging in the Balance

  Less than three years after its launch, the EU’s participative democracy tool has all but ground to a halt, amid criticism it is too complex and failing to... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Fear of a New Darkness

  

  THE crowds sang John Lennon’s “Imagine” at memorial rallies for victims of the weekend shootings in Copenhagen. The anti-religion anthem was an odd choice to... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Fire That Did Not Cease

  

  Victory into defeat THE latest peace plan never had much chance. Shortly after signing it in Minsk, rebel leaders declared that Debaltseve, where several... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cleaning up

  ROMANIANS had assumed that Elena Udrea, a former tourism minister, was too powerful for prosecutors to touch. The ex-wife of a rich businessman, she is a... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Defeat on the Elbe

  

  All must have prizes THE German chancellor, Angela Merkel, may be the West’s de facto leader in the Ukraine crisis, a quasi-hegemon in the European Union and... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Fears Over the Sea

  

  SANT’ANTIOCO is a village with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants off Sardinia. In 1815 it was the scene of the last big Moorish raid on Italy: more than a hundred... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Greece to Get Four Extra Months Under Current Bailout

  Greece has agreed to all the conditions laid out by Germany and is likely to get its bailout programme extended by another four months, provided international... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Nuclear Option

  NOBODY could accuse Emmanuel Macron of not trying. To persuade rebellious Socialists and centre-right opponents to back his liberalising reforms, the French... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The DSK Trial: Bad Days in Lille

  

  No longer a world saviour WHEN Dominique Strauss-Kahn was hauled off a plane in New York in 2011 and arrested on charges of sexual assault, there was indignatio... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey and Its Kurds: Dreams of Self-rule

  

  Where Kobane’s martyrs now lie ON A recent evening in Cizre, an old Kurdish settlement skirted by the Tigris river in south-east Turkey, a family grieves. Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL