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• Serbia’s Government: Europe Or Russia?

  

  // Not the best way to play the game UNDER Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s prime minister, the country is caught between its European ambitions and his autocratic... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• German Politics: Sedating, Not Leading

  

  // ABROAD and at home, a rising chorus is criticising Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, for her economic policies. Her foreign detractors are frustrated by... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Jihadists: Self-service

  // A STUDIOUS 15-year-old pupil from the south of France, Adèle enjoyed biology and dreamed of saving lives. But she led a double life. In one Facebook... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italy and Reform: Renzi Revisited

  

  // THE Sala Verde (green room) in the prime minister’s official residence, Palazzo Chigi, in Rome has in the past been the scene of three-way talks between the... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine at War: Fight Club

  

  // Let’s stop shooting, shall we? WHAT can you say to the families of the many people killed during Ukraine’s month-old “ceasefire”? Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Bulgaria’s Election: Borisov is Back

  // BULGARIANS are among the most miserable people in the world, according to the UN’s World Happiness report. In the 2013 survey, which looked at GDP,... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Belgium’s New Government: Separatism Revised

  

  // Michel: like father, like son JUST five months after May’s election Belgium has a new government. Set against the 18 months that it took in 2010, that is fas... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Bulldozing on

  

  // THE nights are drawing in and there is a sharper bite to the wind, yet it is a time of renewal in Brussels. New leaders are taking office, brimming with fres... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russia’s Economy: On the Edge of Recession

  

  // SIGNS of Russia’s economic problems appeared long before the annexation of Crimea or the war in the Donbas region in Ukraine. Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany’s Army: Chinks in the Armour

  

  // Germany’s most photogenic minister URSULA VON DER LEYEN, Germany’s first female defence minister and a possible successor to Angela Merkel as chancellor,... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: The Will to Power

  

  // FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, an early advocate of European unity, introduced the concept of the Übermensch, a heroic figure whose concerns rise above those of... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey and the PKK: How to Deal with Syria’s Kurds

  

  // A SENIOR commander of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a rebel group that has been fighting for Kurdish self-rule inside Turkey since 1984, declared on... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Rebel Areas in Ukraine: Significant Variations

  

  // The territory controlled by pro-Russian rebels in the Donbas region of Ukraine has varied significantly. By early July they held large parts of Luhansk and... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany’s Economy: Three Illusions

  // “OUR euphoria is dangerous. It makes us overbearing, blind and dull.” So writes Marcel Fratzscher, head of the German Institute for Economic Research, in a... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• UK Commissioner Deprived of Power to Oversee Bankers’ Pay

  // The European Commission has played down suggestions that it had stripped the UK’s commission candidate of responsibility for policing the EU’s bank bonus... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Let’s Stick Together

  

  // THE demonstrations that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall came out of nowhere, says Günther Dauwen, and had consequences nobody could foresee. Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hungary’s Prime Minister: Orban the Unstoppable

  

  // FLUSH with cash from the European Union and backed by a phalanx of ultra-loyalist MPs, Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, seems unstoppable. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Politics: The Long Road to 2017

  // TO JUDGE by this week, the race to succeed François Hollande as president in 2017 has begun. One by one, rival politicians are carving out positions. Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italy’s Economy: Renzi Redux

  

  // MATTEO RENZI’s Italy is a bewildering place. Slogans change; priorities shift; established orthodoxy can be overturned in an instant. Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• German Politics: There is an Alternative

  // CALM down. So suggested Angela Merkel, the chancellor and also leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), following the state elections in... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL