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• Germany’s Energy Transition: Sunny, Windy, Costly and Dirty

  

  // Gabriel in search of an energy miracle SIGMAR GABRIEL has been on a roll. The boss of Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) has herded his party into ... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Politics: Le Hollande Nouveau

  

  // IT TAKES a messy love life to put fire into the belly of a French president. At least that is how it seemed on January 14th, when President François Hollande... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Latvia’s Government: New Currency, New Leader

  

  // Straujuma: Riga’s Angela Merkel LATVIA is used to having a woman in the top job. Vaira Vike-Freiberga served two terms as president in 1999-2007 and is widel... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014 POLITICS, SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• Italian Politics: Left Upset

  // ONE word can make all the difference. For the Italian left it was Chi? (Who?). On January 4th Matteo Renzi, the new leader of the centre-left Democratic Part... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Countries Provisionally Agree African Mission

  // EU countries have provisionally agreed to send a “battalion” sized force to Bangui airport to protect civilians and distribute aid. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Merkel Caves in on Russia Appointment

  // German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accepted the appointment of a pro-Moscow veteran as special coordinator for Russia policy, a concession made to her... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Migration: The Gates Are Open

  // “WHEN British people come—in thousands—to our Black Sea, to our resorts, and behave like cave men, drink and fight, we don’t say anything… We are going to... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Terrorism in Russia: Will There Be More?

  

  // A shock before Sochi IT WAS always a question of when rather than if. Russia has been bracing itself for an attack since July, when Doku Umarov, the... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Opinion] The ‘grand Theory’ and the Corruption Scandal in Turkey

  // Recep Tayyip Erdo?an was once rightfully hailed as the biggest reformer after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He is now damaging the very basis of a functioning... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkish Politics: No Longer a Shining Example

  

  // GOVERNMENTS fall in Turkey either because they are massively corrupt or because generals boot them out (or both). In 2002, fed up with the greed and... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Danish Politics: A Tricky Start to the Year

  

  // Selfie-inflicted IT WAS probably the defining snapshot of Danish politics in 2013: at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service, the country’s prime minister, Helle... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Sex Roles in Germany: Of Mann and Frau

  // WHEN an up-and-coming 47-year-old man in public life suddenly announces that he will take a less prestigious job to spend more time with the family, it... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Review] Big Pain for Small Gain in the Eurozone

  // The past year was better than 2012, at least as far as the eurozone economy is concerned, but not much better. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Greece Will Exit Bailout in 2014, PM Says

  // Greek PM Samaras has said his country will exit its bailout programme in the new year, but creditors are less optimistic. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Member States Want EU Embassy in Iran, MEP Says

  

  // EU countries have informally told the EU parliament they want the Union’s foreign service to open an embassy in Iran. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Prostitution in France: Turning off the Red Light

  

  // A demand for clientelism EARLIER this year the French Socialist Party displayed its social liberalism by legalising gay marriage. This week it rediscovered... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine’s Protests: The Birth of the Nation?

  

  // Riot police storm a barricade of protesters on Independence Square in Kiev, late on December 11, 2013 Source: AFP Anti-government protesters congregate on... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Arrests in Turkey: Erdogan v Gulen, Part Two

  

  // Erdogan damns the dark forces ON DECEMBER 17th Turkish police detained the sons of three cabinet ministers, a construction tycoon, a banker and a mayor from... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russia and Ukraine: Putin’s Expensive Victory

  // ANOTHER victory for Vladimir Putin, another defeat for the West. That is how the outcome of the battle for Ukraine, the country between Russia and the... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany’s New Government: A Guide to Future Chancellors?

  

  // TWELVE weeks after its election, followed by the longest coalition negotiations in its history, Germany has a new government at last. Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL