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• Spain’s Uncertain Experiment with Minority Government

  

  “AS BAD as having no government is having a government that can’t govern,” the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, told parliament in October, just before th... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• France’s Presidential Election Takes an Unlikely Liberal Turn

  

  NO WESTERN democracy seems immune to today’s backlash against globalisation and economic liberalism. Since the financial crisis of 2008, distrust of markets... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Tart Response

  

  No questions, you dirty anti-Slovak IN FEBRUARY Zuzana Hlavkova, then an employee at Slovakia’s foreign ministry, came to believe that inflated contracts tied t... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Matteo Renzi Wants More Power to Change Italy in a Constitutional Referendum

  

  Voting with his Fiat A TREMOR of magnitude 4.5 shook central Italy on November 29th, rattling areas that had been devastated by heavier quakes weeks earlier. Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey’s Effort to Join the EU is on Life Support

  

  JUST before the Gulf war in 1990 (which he backed despite popular opposition), Turgut Ozal, then president of Turkey, squeezed into an army tank, posed for the... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Tired of Syriza, Greece Embraces a Mainstream Party

  

  THE headquarters of New Democracy, a centre-right political party, is in an unexpected part of Athens. The building, surrounded by warehouses, housed a branch o... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• François Fillon’s Win in France’s Republican Primaries Upends the Presidential...

  

  HE WAS mocked by advisers to his former boss, ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, as “Mister Nobody”. A month before the vote, he languished in fourth place in the... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• America’s Alt-right Learns to Speak Nazi: “Lügenpresse”

  

  A message strangely popular with Americans, too GERMANS are usually proud of their exports, including their words. What better term than Fahrvergnügen... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Even Without Winning Elections, Populists Are Setting the European Union’s Agenda

  

  WHERE next? After the one-two punch of Brexit and Trump, Europeans are watching every coming election, from Austria to the Netherlands to France, for fear it... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• By Running for a Fourth Term, Angela Merkel is Protecting Her Legacy

  

  THE politician most thrilled by Angela Merkel’s announcement on November 20th that she will run for a fourth term as German chancellor next autumn was Frauke... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Clinton-lands

  

  PRISTINA, the capital of Kosovo, is one of very few places that can boast a statue of Bill Clinton. The gold-painted monument depicts the former American... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Rigging the Bids

  

  IT IS Spain’s biggest corruption case in decades. Last month 37 businessmen and former politicians, including members of the ruling Popular Party (PP), went on... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Iron Waffler

  

  TO VISIT Berlin is to be confronted at every turn by reminders of the evils that Germans do. Memorials to the Holocaust and other wartime atrocities dot the... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hundreds of Germans Are Living as If the Reich Never Ended

  

  MANY Germans assume that nowadays it is others, especially Americans, who are prone to conspiracy theories and the rantings of paranoid megalomaniacs. Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Our American Cousin

  

  Matryoshka mates RUSSIAN lawmakers burst into applause when news of Donald Trump’s victory reached Moscow. The White House will be home to a candidate whose... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Meet the IB, Europe’s Version of America’s Alt-right

  

  TURN off the sound and you might be watching a video blog by a fixie-bike riding, avocado-munching hipster—an environmental campaigner or a music journalist,... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• For Our Freedom and Yours

  

  IF EUROPEAN history once seemed to have arrived at its terminus in 1989, it has sped off in a new direction in Poland. After winning the country’s first... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Tale of Two Vladimirs

  

  Vlad the Great, hint-hint VLADIMIR PUTIN has a new neighbor: a 16-metre-tall bronze monument to Vladimir the Great, a tenth-century Slav prince. The statue... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Remember, Remember

  

  “HE WHO controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past,” George Orwell wrote in “1984”. As Russia’s politics grows more... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Goodbye, “Republic”

  

  It’s our last real newspaper, leave it alone LOADED with page-turners such as the latest exam procedures for food inspectors, Turkey’s official gazette, the... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL