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• Corrections: Turkey and Charlemagne

  // In “The battle for Turkey’s future” (March 29th) we said Turkish GDP per head had tripled in real terms under AK rule. It tripled in nominal terms; but in... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• France and Europe: More Special Pleading

  

  // “TRUTH, efficiency, confidence.” Under this guiding trinity, Manuel Valls made his inaugural speech as prime minister on April 8th, promising budget savings... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Taxes in Europe: Lightening the Load

  

  // THE past five years have been a bad time to be a taxpayer in Europe. Across the continent, governments have relied heavily on tax rises to cut budget... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hungary’s Election: Four More Years

  // THE Hungarian election on April 6th is likely to bring another big victory for Viktor Orban, the prime minister. He will do more to entrench the power of... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Water in Berlin: The Moisture Down Below

  

  // LAS VEGAS or Los Angeles would love to have Berlin’s problem: too much water. In the Spree valley, the water table has risen in places to just 2.5 metres... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Trading Places

  

  // NOTHING could be better designed to reassure Eurocrats that Europe remains a force in the world than the arrival in Brussels of the leaders of America and... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey’s Local Elections: Erdogan on a Roll

  

  // Erdogan rules and divides HE SEEMS unbeatable. Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, secured his eighth big win in 14 years when his Justice and... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• France’s New Government: Valls Triste—or Happy?

  

  // FIVE years ago, in 2009, after Manuel Valls urged his unreconstructed party to drop the word “socialist” from its name, he was ordered by its leader to shut... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Local Elections: Frontal Assault

  

  // Marine assurance SHE has the glint in the eye and the breezy confidence of a politician who knows that things are going her way. Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Putin’s Arrow

  

  // UNWITTINGLY, perhaps, Vladimir Putin is playing Cupid to America’s Mars and Europe’s Venus. By seizing Crimea, he has rekindled the love lost between the... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey and the Internet: Of Tweets and Twits

  

  // THE beleaguered Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, must be scared. Why else, many Turks ask, would a court on March 20th have blocked access to... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, SOCIETY

• French Elections: A Little Local Difficulty

  // THE ruling Socialists were braced for bad local-election results. But for President François Hollande’s party the first round on March 23rd was scalding. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russian Propaganda: 1984 in 2014

  

  // The pen, but also the sword FIREWORKS, concerts, uplifting speeches and patriotic euphoria: the Kremlin is celebrating the annexation of Crimea as though... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2014 DESTINATIONS

• The Baltic States: Echoes of the Sudetenland

  

  // “WE FEEL uneasy, but we must not get in a hysterical mood,” says Edgars Rinkevics, Latvia’s foreign minister. As the Ukrainian crisis continues, Latvia,... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkish Politics: The Battle for Turkey’s Future

  

  // RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN has reason to thank Vladimir Putin. For weeks the Russian president’s attack on Ukraine has hogged headlines. Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Serbia’s Election: A Zealot in Power

  // THE outgoing prime minister of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, called it a “political tsunami.” Members of Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) said the... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Reform in Italy: Gambler in a Rush

  

  // MATTEO RENZI is known to be a risk-taker. This week, he is in effect asking his fellow euro-zone leaders to take a gamble as well. Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU and Ukraine Sign 2% of Association Treaty

  // EU and Ukrainian leaders have described as “historic” the signature of part of an association and free trade treaty. News from Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Adrift Over Energy

  

  // THE Independence cannot sail into the Baltic port of Klapeida a moment too soon. Built in South Korea, this floating gas terminal is a weapon of geopolitics... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russia and Ukraine: The Home Front

  

  // NOBODY, apart from Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, knows what awaits Ukraine. If the Kremlin stops at the annexation of Crimea, the rest of Ukraine may... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL