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• Charlemagne: Defenceless?

  

  // HOW quickly the need to cut deficits is reducing the European Union’s military ambitions. When EU leaders held a summit to discuss defence five years ago... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Animal-rights Parties: Free the Goldfish

  

  // SHOULD goldfish have a voice in parliament? Marianne Thieme, leader of the Dutch Party for the Animals (PvdD) thinks so. Ever since the party won two seats i... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Banking Deal Set for ‘long, Complicated’ Talks with MEPs

  

  // EU parliament chief Schulz has warned member states their just-agreed deal on a banking union lies far below MEPs’ ambitions. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• François Hollande’s Travels: Home Thoughts from Abroad

  // FRANCE’S president, François Hollande, has become an inveterate jet-setter. In a single week in mid-December he notched up two continents, dropping in on... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Liberalism in Germany: Dead Or Just Resting?

  

  // LOOKING every bit his youthful 34 years and sounding combative, Christian Lindner told Germany’s liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) at their gathering on... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkish Politics: Erdogan v Gulen

  

  // THE biggest achievement of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, during a decade of rule, has been to get the army out of politics. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italian Politics: Heading off the Populists

  

  // Renzi: the next prime minister? BALDING and bespectacled, Italy’s prime minister, Enrico Letta, does not immediately bring to mind a lion. Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Banking on a New Union

  

  // IT IS the most ambitious change in Europe since the launch of the euro: to transfer to European authorities the supervision of euro-zone banks and the power... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Court Grants Welfare Rights to Same-sex Partners

  

  // Workers in civil partnerships are entitled to the same benefits as married couples, the EU court has ruled, in a case with profound implications for welfare... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine’s Protests: A New Revolution on Maidan Square

  

  // THIEVES and thugs like to act in the small hours of the morning, and so did Viktor Yanukovych, president of Ukraine. On November 30th, at about 4. Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Poverty in Hungary: How to Help the Homeless

  

  // One of several thousand HUNGARY’S homelessness problem is nowhere more visible than in the historic heart of Budapest. Homeless people pull down their... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Out of Commission

  

  // ANYONE who thinks America’s presidential transitions take too long should spare a thought for the European Union. The European Commission has nearly a year o... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spain’s Socialists: Popular and Inexperienced

  

  // Rubalcaba and his potential successor WITH Susana Díaz beaming radiantly from the conference stage after winning control of the Spanish Socialists’ mighty... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Merkel Denies Pressuring Spain on Bailout

  

  // Merkel has “no memory” of pressuring Spain on taking a bailout in 2011, as alleged in a book by former Spanish PM Zapatero. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Strikes in Greece: Stalemate

  // WHAT a difference a crisis can make. The same Greek students who used to stage months-long sit-ins to press for a bigger say in running university affairs ar... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Countries Offered €6,000 Per Head to Take in Refugees

  

  // The EU commission is proposing to pay EU countries €6,000 for each UN-registered refugee which they take in. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine and the EU: Stealing Their Dream

  

  // He wants to be part of history, too IT WAS billed as a history play, but turned into a Ukrainian-style farce. Only ten days ago Ukraine, which has spent... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italian Politics: Grande Dramma

  // IT WAS Italian politics at its most extravagantly theatrical. Inside the senate on November 27th, as it prepared to vote on Silvio Berlusconi’s expulsion,... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Sanctions Unlikely, as Ukraine Tension Mounts

  

  // The EU is unlikely to impose sanctions on Ukraine, amid confusion on who ordered a police crackdown. News from Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Latvia: Badly Built

  // FIFTY-FOUR people were killed and dozens injured when a supermarket roof in Latvia’s capital Riga collapsed. The tragedy was the worst in the Baltic country’... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL