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• Charlemagne: Europe’s Ring of Fire

  

  // IT SEEMS safe to assume that Johnny Cash, born in Arkansas in 1932, gave little thought to European foreign policy. Yet one of the Man in Black’s better-know... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Anti-Semitism in Germany: Who is the Other Now?

  

  // FROM President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel to Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders, Germany’s political and religious elite gathere... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey’s President: Secularists at Bay

  

  // Erdogan tries to escape Ataturk’s shadow “A NEW Turkey” was the promise of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who became its first elected president on August 10th. Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Sweden’s Election: The Eight-year Itch

  

  // FOR a decade Sweden could plausibly claim to be Europe’s most successful economy. Anders Borg, the (formerly pony-tailed) centre-right finance minister... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: A Teutonic Union

  

  // THE European Union, it is often said, long served to disguise both French weakness and German strength. It magnified France’s unabashed pursuit of its... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Poland’s Government: After Tusk

  // THE choice of Donald Tusk, Poland’s long-serving prime minister, as the next president of the European Council is rearranging Polish politics. He will be... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russia and Ukraine: A Brief Intermission

  

  // Time for a cigarette break, at least THE war in eastern Ukraine has quietened, for now. Its disparate factions have as much reason to keep fighting as to... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Dance of the Powers

  

  // IT WAS a wearyingly familiar exercise. Phones were worked, diplomatic deals struck and, at a summit of the European Union’s 28 leaders in Brussels on August... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• German Politics: The Alternative’s Astonishing Ascent

  

  // SINCE reunification in 1990, Saxony has been the former East Germany’s biggest success story. As one of Germany’s 16 federal states since then, it has been... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• France’s Government: Adieu, Cuba à La Française

  

  // THE return to work after the summer break, known in France as la rentrée, is always a time of uncertainty and change. But nobody expected such a political... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany’s Economy: Watching the Wages

  

  // BLAMING Germany—or at least the austerity prescribed for the euro zone by Chancellor Angela Merkel—for Europe’s ills may be popular in France. Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine and Russia: War, Not Peace

  

  // THE war in Ukraine is intensifying, as Russia’s incursions into the east of the country become ever more brazen. On August 27th a column of Russian troops an... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Berlin’s Mayor: Wowi Bows out

  

  // HIS 13-year reign as mayor of Berlin, Germany’s capital as well as one of its 16 federal states, coincided with the city’s rise as a metropolis of cool. Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Political Fiction: What If It Were True?

  // ONE pleasure of the French summer is the publication of political fiction in media usually busy with the soap opera of real political life. During the... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Eurasian Union: The Other EU

  

  // A Eurasian threesome “IT IS like you’ve been dating a girl for a long time,” grins Pavel Andreev, an editor at a state-controlled broadcaster, Rossiya... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine and Russia: Battering on

  

  // IN A dusty Russian field close to the border with Ukraine, a fleet of nearly 300 trucks sit under the hot summer sun. Their arrival on August 14th was a... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spain and the Catalans: Scandal in Catalonia

  

  // Now where did I put the money? IT IS not the narrative that Catalan separatists hoped for as they face a stand-off with the Madrid government over a planned... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ireland and Abortion: Flaring up

  // A YOUNG foreign migrant who moved to Ireland earlier this year found after arriving that she was pregnant. She said she had been raped in her native country. Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Education: Bac Blues

  

  // Stress at the scoreboard WARY of competition when it comes to global markets, the French embrace it wholeheartedly in the classroom. Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Serbia’s Foreign Policy: Divided Loyalties

  // A NICE summing-up of Serbia’s foreign-policy dilemmas was shown in a recent drawing by Corax, the country’s leading political cartoonist. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL