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• Catalonia’s Future: Voting in Their Hearts

  

  // MANUEL MOLINS remembers being called a “Catalan dog” after Spain’s civil war in the 1930s. But the 93-year-old had his revenge on November 9th, when he... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Berlin Wall: Twenty-five Years on

  

  // SINCE 1789 pieces of the Bastille have been sought-after decorations on mantelpieces in France. Two centuries later, bits of the Berlin Wall have travelled... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: The Emerald Shines Again

  

  // FROM Joyce to Beckett, Ireland’s best storytellers have often preferred to describe their homeland from other parts of Europe. The latest continental... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spanish Corruption: A Lot of Bad Apples

  // JOSÉ ANGEL FERNANDEZ VILLA led the biggest miners’ union in northern Asturias. Francisco Granados was a key minister in the Madrid region. Jordi Pujol was... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey and Europe: Problems with Neighbours

  

  // Flags that can drift apart THE fallout from Turkey’s relations with Islamic State (IS) knows no end. Its global image is in tatters amid persistent claims... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: The Environmental Union

  

  // BLISS was it in that pre-Lehman dawn to be alive. But to be European was very heaven. Before the world economy turned turtle in 2008, the European Union... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine’s Election: Good Voters, Not Such Good Guys

  

  // TO ALL appearances, Ukraine’s parliamentary election on October 26th was a triumph. Reformists mostly won and voters rebuked the far right and far left. Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany’s Far Left: Thuringia’s November Revolution

  

  // Ramelow on the high road to power NEXT weekend Germany celebrates the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Yet a few days before that, Die Linke... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Public Finances: Budget, Fudge It

  // IT WAS billed as a dramatic showdown between the French miscreants and the European Union’s enforcers. But in the end the clash never came. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italy’s Budget: Mamma’s Boy

  

  // ITALY’S prime minister, Matteo Renzi, suffers from a condition so rare it has yet to feature in any medical journal: proclamitis, the compulsive... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Local Government: Slimming Down

  

  // WHEN Claude Monet lived near the Seine at Argenteuil, he painted white canvas sails and river banks. Today, Argenteuil is part of the suburban sprawl west... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Poland’s Government: Flashes of Competence

  

  // So far Ms Kopacz is doing well AS A chain-smoking doctor, Ewa Kopacz clearly has a certain appetite for personal risk. In her case, it also seems to exhaust... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Gummed up

  

  // IT WAS just like old times. On October 16th, almost five years to the day after Greece’s government triggered the euro crisis by confessing that its budget... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine Before the Election: The Battle for Ukraine’s Future

  

  // ONLY a few photographs of dead fighters and flowers in the centre of Kiev recall the dramatic events that unfolded on Independence Square, or the Maidan, a... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ebola in Spain: Europe’s First Victim

  

  // Taking precautions, after the event FEAR spreads faster than disease. News on October 6th of a case of Ebola in Madrid, the first contracted outside west... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Catalonia’s Future: Mas Observation

  // CATALONIA’S referendum on independence, planned for November 9th, will not now happen. Or might it, after all? On October 14th the Catalan president, Artur... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey and the Kurds: War-war, Not Jaw-jaw

  

  // ON OCTOBER 13th Turkish fighter jets rained bombs on rebels from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) thought to be positioned along Turkey’s border with Iraq. Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany’s Parliament: Order, Order!

  

  // Gripped by question time GERMANY’S parliament, the Bundestag, has produced some memorable moments over the years. Whether they qualify as oratory is less... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: The Squeezed Middle

  

  // SURVEY the fractured political landscape of Europe’s bigger countries and some similarities are easy to spot. In Germany, France and Britain right-wing... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Bosnia’s Elections: Wind of Change

  // IT IS easy to write off Bosnia as a dysfunctional country hobbled by unnecessary layers of government in which nothing works. Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL