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• Russia and Ukraine: Putin’s People

  

  Watching from below A GOVERNMENT television channel dubbed Vladimir Putin’s latest state of the nation address “A Message from Above”. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Most Europeans Back Migrant Curbs, Poll Finds

  Most Europeans believe that migrant workers from other EU countries have been bad for their country and would like to restrict freedom of movement, a new opinio... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Organised Crime in Italy: Mafia in the Middle

  IN THE crime movie “The Italian Job” Charlie, played by Michael Caine, upsets a mafia boss by trespassing on his turf to steal gold. Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Greece’s Crisis: Samaras’s Gamble

  

  A GREEK presidential election is not supposed to make headlines. The ruling party’s candidate, typically a low-key retired politician, normally wins the require... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Sweden’s Government: That Was Quick

  IT WAS supposed to be the Swedish Social Democrats’ triumphant return. But two months after forming a minority coalition government with the Greens, Stefan... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Dutch Race Relations: Blacked up

  

  Who, us? Racist? THE Dutch festival of Sinterklaas on December 5th, the country’s most important children’s holiday, is turning into an annual slugfest of racia... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Politics: Déjà Vu

  

  Did you miss me? WHEN the French voted in 2000 to shorten their presidential term from seven years to five, the result was to accelerate the rhythm of... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Moldova’s Election: Slouching Towards Europe

  THE election in Moldova on November 30th was as dirty as could be. Pro-European parties accused the Russian intelligence services of illegally funding their... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Georgia and Russia: Dreams Deferred

  

  RUSSIA’S unacknowledged war in Ukraine did not start with the annexation of Crimea. The precedent was set six years earlier, during a five-day war between Russi... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russian Gas Exports: Pipe Down

  

  GAS pipelines export influence as well as energy. Russia’s planned South Stream project was the $ 40 billion flagship of its attempt to regain sway in... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine’s Government: Tragedy and Farce

  “SHAME! Shame! Shame!” roared the crowd when Ukraine’s leaders appeared at a recent ceremony honouring the Maidan victims. Protesters accused President Petro... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Cyprus Problem: Intractable—or Insoluble?

  

  EUROPEAN UNION countries loudly criticise Russia for creating frozen conflicts in Georgia, Moldova and, now, Ukraine. Yet they are quieter about their own case... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany and Russia: A New Ostpolitik

  

  Putin wags a finger at Mutti OVER the past year, Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, has become the West’s diplomatic shield against Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Foreign Policy: Cheese-eating Warriors

  

  A DECADE ago, when France led anti-American opposition to the 2003 Iraq war, the country was seen in Washington as pesky and unreliable. Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Cold Comfort

  

  ALL of Europe rejoiced when the European Space Agency deposited Philae, a probe the size of a kitchen appliance, on the surface of a comet 300m miles (480m km)... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Romania’s Presidential Election: A Commonsense Victory

  

  AS VICTORY speeches go, it was the least bombastic that Romanians had heard in a long time. “The campaign is over, we made our choice. Now let’s get to work. Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany’s Economy: The Sputtering Engine

  

  “THE world cannot afford a European lost decade,” says Jacob Lew, America’s treasury secretary. The latest European figures were uninspiring. In the third... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Economists: Toulouse v Paris

  

  // IF PHILOSOPHERS in France are national treasures, economists are dreary specimens. But the discipline has some new star dust. One French economist, Jean... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Correction

  In our story on Russia and the West (“Hard talk”, November 1st), we said the Valdai club was organised by Dmitry Kiselev, a TV propagandist. Mr Kiselev was in... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Dave-no-mates

  

  // ARGUMENTS about money are always tiresome, particularly when the sums are meagre. Take the European Union budget, a monstrous carbuncle apparently designed t... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL