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• War in Ukraine: Airport Saga

  

  No passengers for a while yet “AT THE beginning of the 1930s, the creators of this airport had no idea what a high-tech facility it would become,” said Presiden... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• German Politics: Gone Boy on the Right

  

  Bachmann: only joking, honest THE march on January 19th in Dresden by Pegida, or “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident”, would have... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Politics: After Janvier

  

  HIS Socialist colleagues once called François Hollande “Flanby”, after a wobbly caramel pudding. Laurent Fabius, his foreign minister, likened him to an... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italy’s Reforms: Renzi’s Struggle in the Swamp

  

  NO RECENT Italian prime minister has swept into office with as much youthful vigour and brazen self-confidence as Matteo Renzi. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Switzerland’s Currency: Shaken, Not Stirred

  SWISS voters used to hold their central bank in high esteem: one survey in 2013 found the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to be their most respected national... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spain and Catalonia: Mas Observation

  

  Mas waves the independence flag CATALAN independence, if it ever happens, has been pushed back at least seven months after the region’s president, Artur Mas,... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Europe and GMOs: Gently Modified

  EUROPE has long been defiantly GM-free. The Americas and most of Asia grows the stuff without fuss. But crops whose genes have been modified in some way may... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• European Energy Policy: Only Connect

  

  ENERGY, the European Commission believes, should flow freely to and between EU members. So Maros Sefcovic, the energy commissioner, has two adversaries. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine’s Economy: On the Edge

  

  THE Ukrainian economy would rather forget 2014. But 2015 may be little better: GDP is still shrinking. Gas payments, defence and support for the hryvnia, which... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Agenda] Quantitative Easing, Russia Sanctions on EU Agenda This WEEK

  A key ECB meeting, Greek debt, Russia sanctions, and terrorism will dominate events in Frankfurt and Brussels in a big week for the EU. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russia’s Battered Economy: Hardly Tottering by

  

  JUDGING by the lack of economic news in Russia’s media, a crisis has arrived. Just as in Soviet days, state television does not report facts, it conceals them. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: The Era of Syriza

  

  EUROPE’S leaders are often accused of having learned nothing from the euro crisis. But if the run-up to Greece’s election on January 25th has proved anything, i... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Top Lawyer Backs ECB Bond Programme

  An EU court opinion has said the ECB’s bond-buying programme is within EU law but added caveats that have implications for the unpopular troika of lenders to... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Violence, Recriminations Ahead of EU Talks on Russia

  An upsurge in fighting in east Ukraine and the collapse of a summit in Astana bode ill for EU talks on how to improve relations with Russia. Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• No Plan for EU Spy Agency After Paris Attacks

  The European Commission on Monday said it has no plans to launch an EU-wide intelligence agency despite previous efforts to get a proposal on the table. Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Riga Realities

  

  MARKED by biting winds, icy roads and a cruelly unenthusiastic sun, January, Charlemagne dares to venture, is not the best time to visit Latvia. Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey and the Media: Trying Times

  

  FREDERIKE GEERDINK, a Dutch journalist with a close interest in the Kurds, reckons she is the only foreign journalist in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A New Church in Turkey: Build It

  TURKEY has a habit of converting Christian churches into mosques. So it was a surprise when the prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, announced plans for a new churc... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany and Greece: Go If You Must

  

  Merkel points the way for Samaras IF THE Syriza party wins Greece’s election on January 25th, most think the power to negotiate rests with Angela Merkel, the... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Opinion] Eastern Partnership Countries: Democracy in Limbo

  While in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine commitment to European integration and political will to reform seem to have fostered democratisation, prospects in... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL