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• Europe’s Top Jobs: Indecision Time

  // MATTEO RENZI summed it up best. The Italian prime minister suggested that “they just had to send an SMS and we could have saved the cost of the official... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italy’s Judicial System: Justice Denied?

  

  // FOR a small firm just breaking into foreign markets, it was a big deal: one of Italy’s cities wanted a new leisure facility. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Hail Helvetia

  

  // THE euro crisis has recreated a rift between a Germanic north and a Latin south that decades of integration tried to efface. Economists and political... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• German Roads: Charging the Neighbours

  // BAVARIANS have long been cranky about having to pay road tolls every time they drive through Austria, say, whereas foreigners pay nothing to drive on German... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Labour Laws: The Binds That Tie

  

  // SOMETIMES a single moment captures France’s struggle to reform. The “grand social conference” on July 7th-8th was one. The third under President François... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• War in Ukraine: The Turn of the Tide

  

  // THE Ukrainian flag flies again over Sloviansk, a former stronghold of eastern Ukraine’s separatists. Succumbing to some punishing shelling, the rebels... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine and Russia: War by Any Other Name

  

  // A “NON-LINEAR” war, explains Natan Dubovitsky, a writer, is how states are likely to fight each other in future—if they do not already. Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Loosening the Union

  

  // BRITAIN and Europe are like a couple in a difficult marriage. One day they have a blazing row; the next they want to kiss and make up. Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: The Accidental President

  

  // IN THE caricature of the British press, Jean-Claude Juncker is a dangerous, drunk, anti-British, European arch-federalist, whose father was conscripted into... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey’s Prime Minister: Of Generals, Judges and Presidents

  

  // In celebration of liberty THAT long-awaited “we told you so” moment arrived on June 18th for Dani Rodrik, an economist at Princeton University, and his wife... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Inequality in the Netherlands: A Capital Issue

  

  // IF THERE is one country that is proud of its efforts to fight inequality, it is the Netherlands. Dutch pre-tax incomes are by some measures nearly as skewed... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Rail Strikes: Unhappiness is the Truth

  

  // The long march to work IT WAS a deliciously French moment of exasperation. On June 16th a railway strike prompted public rage when it threatened to disrupt... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Bulgaria: Screams and Streams

  

  // FOR those worried by the Kremlin’s growing influence in Europe, Bulgaria has long been a prime suspect. As much as 90% of its gas comes from Russia. Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Eastern Ukraine: Life Among the Rebels

  // IN LUHANSK, a shabby mining city near Ukraine’s eastern border, the fighting sounds like the rumble of distant thunder. Smoke rises to the north, where... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russia and Ukraine: Ratchet Up, Ratchet Down

  

  // ON JUNE 18th the Ukrainian crisis, which has slid into a nasty and increasingly bloody civil war of late, took a small step backwards to possible... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The French and Monarchy: Vive La Reine!

  

  // La grande affection all around THE capital of the French republic is better known for beheading monarchs than celebrating them. But Paris went wild for... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ireland’s Missing Babies: The Search for the Truth

  

  // Count your blessings CATHERINE CORLESS, a farmer, housewife and local historian in Tuam, a small town in the west of Ireland, struggled for four years to... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: A Promise Barely Noticed

  

  // AMERICA’S retreat from the woes of the world is worrying its friends in the Middle East. Jihadists are surging through Iraq; Syria uses chemical weapons... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany and the EU: Still a Sorry Mess

  

  // WHAT a boatload of frustration Jean-Claude Juncker must have felt on June 9th. A former prime minister of Luxembourg who now hopes to become president of... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spain’s Monarchy: Winds of Change

  

  // Rather the son than the father IT WAS a sorry end to an historic reign. When King Juan Carlos said he was abdicating after almost 39 years on the throne, he... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL