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• Poland and America: Troops in

  

  // Flags out for Obama POLES can be prickly, especially when it comes to their own painful history. They often express dismay that the fall of the Berlin Wall i... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russia and the West: Vladimir Putin’s European Adventures

  

  // AS RUSSIA’S president, Vladimir Putin, sat down for dinner with his French counterpart, François Hollande, this week in Paris (one of two state dinners in th... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Seismic Shifts in French Politics: Triple Shock

  

  // Marilyn Le Pen FRANCE is reeling from a triple political shock. Within the space of 48 hours, Marine Le Pen’s populist National Front (FN) triumphed at the... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Greece’s Protest Parties: Syriza and Other Radicals

  

  // Golden Dawn on the march to Strasbourg IT COULD have been far worse. As pollsters had predicted, the ruling centre-right New Democracy party of Antonis... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spain’s “indignant Ones”: Exit Rubalcaba

  // THE indignados are back. The spontaneous movement of the “indignant ones” found a new mouthpiece in Podemos (“We Can”), an internet-savvy leftist party... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• European Elections in the Nordics: Schadenfreude

  // THE Eurosceptic Danish People’s Party (DPP) cannot be blamed for Schadenfreude over the European election. The DPP’s leading candidate, the youthful Morten... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Europe’s Elections: The Eurosceptic Union

  

  // FOR once, Europe’s leaders seemed to agree: the European Union must change, and fast. After the European elections on May 22nd-25th, which saw the strong ris... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• France and Europe: Shocks Ahead

  

  // Le Pen sends a message to Europe AFTER a dismal result in the local elections in March, President François Hollande’s Socialists are steeling themselves for... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine’s Election: Vote Late, Vote Seldom

  

  // PETRO POROSHENKO, a billionaire who made his fortune from chocolates, is so far ahead in the polls that he may win Ukraine’s presidency on May 25th without... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [EU Elections] Merkel: ‘I Don’t Decide Who Gets the Commission Post’

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has downplayed the chances of Jean-Claude Juncker becoming the next Commission president, as she emphasised that a majority is... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkish Politics: Disillusioned and Divided

  

  // AS TURKEY grieves over 301 miners who died in its biggest industrial disaster, in Soma on May 13th, another truth is sinking in. Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Consumers: Made in France, Not

  

  // Anything from home? WITH polished stone floors and a plate-glass roof, a shimmering multi-storey shopping mall has just opened beside a motorway north of... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Beware of Europhoria

  

  // TWO sets of numbers tell a contradictory story about the euro zone. Economic data point to improvements by the month, even by the day: growth is picking up... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Defence Sales: Mistral Blows

  

  // EVEN before France signed a deal in 2011 to build two Mistral-class assault ships for Russia, the idea prompted widespread unease. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Life in Donetsk: Strange but Also Normal

  

  // ON MAY 11th, a balmy Sunday in Donetsk, people walked along the leafy boulevard, played with their children and sipped coffee in street cafés. Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine’s Troubles: Into Battle

  

  // UKRAINE is at war. The fighting does not admit to the name and it is low-intensity, but people are dying. It has elements of an insurgency, a civil war,... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Mining in Turkey: Death Underground

  

  // Soma’s grim scene TURKEY’S prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, faces public fury after the country’s worst-ever industrial accident. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: The Eastern Blockage

  

  // THE lands lying between the Baltic and the Black Sea have had many names: the “bloodlands” of the second world war, the “captive nations” of the cold war, th... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Haghia Sophia: Church to Mosque…and Back?

  

  // Justinian’s great dome, a museum…for now “ON THE afternoon of 29 May 1453, the Sultan entered the long-desired city…he dismounted and bent to pick up a... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [EU Elections] New Green Party Shakes up Croatia’s Political Landscape

  // Croatia’s main centre-right party is set to win the EU elections as they capitalise on the current government’s inability to deal with the economic crisis.... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL