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• Berlin’s Image: Losing Its Cool

  

  A disappointing missed opportunity? WHEN a magazine proclaims on its cover that a city is the world’s “coolest”, it is often a sign that it has peaked. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey’s Future: Forward to the Past

  

  Tayyip in all his pomp “I DON’T order you to fight, I order you to die.” With those words Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, rallied his troops... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Focus] Birth of the Juncker Commission

  Reasons for delay abounded: not enough women, an east-west row over the next foreign affairs chief and a Slovenian minidrama. Still, the Juncker commission... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Focus] LuxLeaks: An Opportunity?

  European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was buffeted by the LuxLeaks revelations just days after he came to office. Yet the longterm effect may be... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukrainian Bessarabia: Towards the Unknown Region

  

  THE isolated region of Ukrainian Bessarabia, which is also known as Budjak, has become one of the latest places for Ukraine-watchers to worry about. Many of... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Lithuanians Back Euro Amid Russia Tensions

  Lithuania on Thursday is adopting the euro with a majority now supporting the currency change amid heightened tensions with their former Russian masters. Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hungary: Viktor Goes to War

  THE new year has not started well for Viktor Orban, Hungary’s pugnacious prime minister. Support for his ruling right-wing Fidesz party is sliding. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Greece’s Political Crisis: Samaras’s Failed Gamble

  

  ANTONIS SAMARAS, the centre-right Greek prime minister, lost one election on December 29th. Now he will have to fight another. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Greece Set for Snap Elections, Far-left Tops Polls

  Greece will hold early elections on 25 January, triggering fears that the far left Syriza party will win and derail negotiations on how to end the EU-IMF bailou... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The European Commission: Friends in the Right Places

  

  “I AM French, I am deeply French, but here I will stand as a European commissioner.” Thus Pierre Moscovici, a French former finance minister, when seeking the... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Gas in Ukraine: On Another Front

  GAS is flowing again from Russia to Ukraine, but blackouts have hit factories and homes. Ukraine’s prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, says Ukraine’s independenc... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Feature] Who Governs the Online World?

  The Internet feels like it’s always been there, so it’s easy to forget how recently it became part of normality. But as it keeps growing, and attracts more... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• German Xenophobia: Peaceful, but Menacing

  

  We don’t need no Muslims here CALLING themselves Pegida, or “patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident”, since October they have marched... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey and the European Union: Media Freedom RIP?

  “WE HAVE no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not.” The latest outburst from Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Thousands Protest in Brussels Against EU-US Trade Ageement

  Protestors gathered in front of an empty EU summit building on Friday to demonstrate against the EU-US free trade pact talks. News from Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Tusk Praised for ‘short, Concise’ EU Summit

  New EU council chief Tusk has broken with the two-day summit tradition, making leaders and journalists happy by wrapping up before midnight. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• France’s Reforms: Cycling, but Where To?

  

  WHEN François Hollande dumped his prime minister in March 2014, it marked a U-turn for the Socialist president. Out went the politics of envy and punitive taxes... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: The Battle of the Scientists

  

  AT THE end of a hard year Europe’s leaders are grappling with familiar problems—how to revive gasping economies, what to do about the Russian menace. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Estonia Arrests, Releases pro-Kremlin Italian Journalist

  A pro-Kremlin Italian journalist and former MEP arrested in Estonia left the country on Tuesday after having violated an entry ban issued by the ministry of... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Danish Politics: Reticent Populists

  

  Helle, facing demons at home POPULISM is on a roll in Scandinavia. Norway’s Progress Party has helped to rule the country since its general election in 2013. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL