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• War Crimes in Kosovo: A Country Awaits

  // THIS is Kosovo’s holiday-and-wedding season, but some in the small Balkan state don’t feel much like celebrating this year. Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey’s Presidential Elections: The Next Sultan?

  

  // Erdogan blessing the crowds TURKEY’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, became the country’s first popularly elected president on August 10th, marking... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russia’s Aid Convoy: Putin’s PR Coup

  

  // HELP is on the way. Or so Russian state television declared on August 12th, as nearly 300 lorries with food, medicine and generators set off from a base... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russia and the West: Flexing Its Mussels

  // A NEW dish may soon appear in Moscow restaurants: “Belarusian” mussels. So goes a rather Soviet-style joke making the rounds since August 5th, when Russia... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spanish Politics: A Hot Year Ahead

  

  // SPANIARDS call a chat between two people unwilling to listen to each other a conversation between besugos—the grimacing, pop-eyed sea bream. Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Migration into Europe: A Surge from the Sea

  

  // ANOTHER weekend, another two thousand-odd immigrants rescued by Italian sailors and coastguards in the Mediterranean. On August 11th the San Giusto, an... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russia and the West: How to Lose Friends

  

  // Proudly alone “ISOLATION”, “consolidation” and “self-reliance” are different terms used among Moscow’s political and business elite to mean the same thing. Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany’s President: Preaching a New German Gospel

  

  // The pastor and a pastor’s daughter FROM the Vosges mountains to the Flemish plain, Joachim Gauck, Germany’s president, visited the killing fields of the firs... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey’s Election: Tyrant Or Steadying Hand?

  

  // ON A rainy Sunday evening Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was delivering a fiery speech full of references to the glories of Islam and Turkey’... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• German Politics: For Curvy Cannons and Extra Sleep

  

  // The chairman and the faux fanatics “SATIRE cannot have any consequences,” argued Martin Sonneborn in his masters thesis in 1994. Almost by accident, he has... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The War in Ukraine: Closing in

  

  // THE battle for eastern Ukraine may be entering a decisive phase. Since early July Ukraine’s re-energised armed forces have been on the offensive against... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spain’s Economy: Iberian Dawn

  

  // THIS was the news the government had been waiting for. “Spain’s labour market has made a 180-degree turn,” crowed the prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, as the... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Nasty Neighbourhood

  // ON A sunny October day in 2009 Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, beamed with pride as he inaugurated his country’s consulate in Mosul, an Iraqi cit... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Sanctions on Russia: This is Going to Hurt

  

  // IT MAY not be, as leaders in Washington and Brussels insist, the start of a new cold war. But the punitive sanctions against Russia announced by the... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Poland’s Defence: A Front-line State

  // POLAND spent $ 4.7 billion on 48 American-built F-16 fighters, but in the event of a conflict with Russia, the safest place for the warplanes would be on a... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Alone at the Top

  

  //   ALLEINSCHULD, the belief in “sole guilt” for one if not two world wars, has had an enduring impact on Germany’s public life. Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ailing Croatia: A Mighty Mess

  

  // There is a cloud over Dubrovnik THIS month Dubrovnik, Croatia’s picturesque Adriatic port city, has been a favourite destination not only of the habitual... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italian Politics: The ex-Cavaliere is Back on His Horse

  

  // FEW events in Italy’s recent history have had a more crushing effect on morale than the wrecking of the Costa Concordia, an Italian-owned and skippered... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Slovenia’s Election: A New Man for the Job

  

  // Cerar, from novice to winner IN HIS victory speech Miro Cerar, who is almost certain to be Slovenia’s next prime minister, said his country needed a change o... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hungary’s Foreign Policy: Between Brussels and Russia

  // VIKTOR ORBAN is not used to losing. His right-wing Fidesz party won a two-thirds majority in April’s election, repeating its 2010 triumph. Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL