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• Putin Redraws Map of Europe

  

  // Russian leader Putin on Tuesday signed a treaty making Crimea part of Russia, shortly before the crisis claimed its first casualty. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Election Or Selection?

  

  // “IN BRUSSELS, no one can hear you scream.” Such is the cynical one-liner from Borgen, a Danish political television series, in which the prime minister... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Undecided on Russia Sanctions Ahead of Crimea Vote

  // Ukraine’s ambassador to the EU has appealed for European unity ahead of Sunday’s tinderbox “referendum” in Crimea. News from Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkish Politics: Anatolia (mostly) Loves Erdogan

  // “WE GAVE you new hospitals, we gave you proper schools,” roars the mayor of Kayseri, Mehmet Ozhaseki. Veiled housewives chant back, “Kayseri is proud of you,... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Disarmed Diplomacy

  

  // ANGELA MERKEL, like many Germans, views Russia with both suspicion and sentiment. As the first German chancellor from the ex-communist east, she has few... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [EU Elections] Juncker Elected Centre-right’s Top EU Candidate

  // The centre-right EPP has chosen Juncker, an EU politics veteran and former head of the Eurogroup, as its top candidate for the European Commission. Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• France’s Government: François Hollande Mulls a Reshuffle

  

  // WHEN in trouble, ditch the prime minister. This has been a guiding principle of many modern French presidents, who enjoy sweeping powers to change prime... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany’s Public Pensions: In the Wrong Direction

  // AS THE country with the European Union’s fastest-ageing population, Germany has repeatedly tweaked its pension system to avert a slow-motion demographic... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: How to Be Good Neighbours

  

  // WHEN the European Union expanded to take in eight former Communist countries, leaders faced a conundrum: they did not want to keep extending the club... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [EU Elections] Schulz Approved as Socialist Candidate for Commission Presidency

  // There will never be a United States of Europe, according to the newly-crowned top Socialist candidate for the European elections. Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkish Politics: Everything is Possible

  

  // THE bouquet of wilting lilies in the foyer of the Justice and Development (AK) party headquarters in Ankara is a fitting emblem for Turkey’s ruling party. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Greece’s Troubles: The Troika is Back

  // THE scene is familiar: burly Greek bodyguards hustle a trio of foreign bureaucrats into the finance ministry through a side entrance to avoid a cluster of... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany’s Wulff Scandal: Overzealous

  

  // IN HIS journey from hubris to downfall and now redemption, Christian Wulff is a tragic Sophoclean character for many Germans. A former premier of Lower... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Politics: A Sarkozy Comeback?

  

  // Remember me? HER husband, Jacques Chirac, a former French president, may be long gone from public life, but Bernadette Chirac remains a wily political... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Homage to Caledonia

  

  // DAVID CAMERON has won few friends with his demands to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with the European Union. But there is one place where he is... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spain and the Jews: 1492 and All That

  

  // The tears of banishment THE expulsion of Spain’s Jews in 1492 was a black mark in a sad history. The land known as Sefarad had once been a refuge for them. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Greece and Creditors Guilty of ‘denialism’ Over Public Health Crisis

  // Athens and its creditors are guilty of “denialism” about the scale of the public health crisis caused by the country’s harsh austerity programme, medical... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italy’s New Prime Minister: A Young Man in a Hurry

  

  // BY ANY standards, what happened on February 17th in the Quirinal Palace, the official residence of Italy’s head of state in Rome, was pretty startling. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 CURRENT, DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Dutch Angst: We Need to Talk About Europe

  

  // LEAVING the European Union would save every Dutch household €9,800 ($ 13,400) a year by 2035, claims Capital Economics, a London consultancy, in a report... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Putin and the Media: Dreams About Russia

  

  // Now you see it, now you still see it THE opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics on February 7th had panache. A troika of light floated above the stage,... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL