Stizzard

LATEST ARTICLES ( 1351 )

• Censorship in Turkey: Web Conspiracies

  

  // Banging the drum for the internet WILL he or won’t he? All eyes are on Turkey’s president, Abdullah Gul, a co-founder with the prime minister, Recep Tayyip... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Opinion] Time for EU to Get Serious on Ukraine

  

  // The EU’s language of “concern” has worn thin on the cold streets of Kiev: People need a promise of accession and practical help for genuine reform. Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Reforms: Taxi Wars

  

  // “PARIS is the only city in the world where it is hard to find a taxi.” So in 2008 said an embarrassed Nicolas Sarkozy, then France’s president, exasperated b... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Cyprus Problem: A Glimmer of Hope

  // AFTER years of foot-dragging by Greek-Cypriot leaders, who have been keener to block Turkey’s efforts to join the European Union than to end the island’s... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Protests in Bosnia: On Fire

  

  // “WHY is there no sex in state firms and government offices?” demands a Bosnian protester in a clip that has gone viral. The answer: rampant nepotism means... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italian Justice: Untimely

  

  // Knox’s innocent or guilty face? NOT for the first time, Americans are seeing Italy with a sort of double vision. In one eye stands a land of exquisite cuisin... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Polish Energy Policy: A Different Energiewende

  // AFTER debating the possibility of nuclear energy for years, the Polish government has at last come up with a scheme. On January 28th the economics ministry... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• France and America: Mr Hollande Goes to Washington

  

  // So who wants croissants for breakfast? THIRTY years ago a French Socialist president flew to Silicon Valley to see the future. Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hungary and the Holocaust: Statue of Limitations

  

  // The eagle and the angel THE Hungarian government’s Holocaust memorial year has got off to a bad start. Randolph Braham of City University of New York, a... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey: Madness on the Bosphorus

  // “MUCH talk cannot be free of lies, much wealth cannot be free of illicit gain.” This old Turkish adage was tweeted by a former culture minister, Ertugrul... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The German Mentality: Hail, the Swabian Housewife

  

  // THE Swabian housewife made her debut on the world stage in 2008, when Angela Merkel, neither Swabian nor a housewife but the chancellor of Germany,... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Paris’s Mayor: An All-female Race

  

  // Ladies’ singles: Hidalgo takes on NKM ON A cold wintry morning on Avenue Foch, in Paris’s swanky 16th arrondissement, a small gathering awaits the arrival... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hungarian Politics: Against the Odds

  // “HUNGARY needs to overcome its economic and financial crisis so that we can consolidate all the changes of the last years,” says Janos Martonyi, Hungary’s... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Spanish Economy: On the Mend

  // THE sales hut on an empty building plot in Aravaca is a symbol of hope. Here, in a desirable Madrid suburb, new flats are being sold off-plan in a five-store... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey’s Turmoil: Erdogan at Bay

  

  // Not always so solid for Erdogan GIANT posters of Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, are appearing on billboards across the country with the sloga... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Protests in Ukraine: On the March in Kiev

  

  // JANUARY 22nd was meant to mark Ukraine’s unity day, a celebration of its short-lived pre-Soviet independence. Instead, it was a day of civil unrest and... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Europe’s Energy Woes

  

  // ENERGY and green policies should be ideal for common European action. Pollutants know no borders. The cost of renewables such as wind turbines and solar... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine’s Protesters: Still out There

  

  // Up with the European Union ANATOLY HRYTSENKO, a leading member of Batkivshchyna, a Ukrainian opposition party, was expelled from a party meeting for... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 CURRENT, DESTINATIONS, SOCIETY

• Croatia and the European Union: More Normal, and Glummer

  // THE economy is stagnating, unemployment is rising and many young Croats are poisoned by hate. Some flirt with fascism, and the country is riven by intoleranc... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Going Cold on Turkey

  

  // IN ANOTHER era, tanks might now be on the streets of Ankara and Istanbul. Over the past year Turkey has seen a crackdown on protests, corruption scandals, a... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL