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• Charlemagne: The New Hanseatic League

  

  // A WALLED city-within-a-city once stood on the site now occupied by London’s Cannon Street station. From the 15th to 17th centuries, its counting houses,... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Scottish Leader Hits Back at Spain on Independence

  

  // Scottish leader Salmond has played down Spain’s claim that an independent Scotland would be kicked out of the EU. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany’s Coalition Negotiations: Those Uppity Social Democrats

  

  // TWO months have passed since Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, won a parliamentary election overwhelmingly, and yet she still struggles to form a new... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italian Politics: A Golden Opportunity

  

  // Alfano: a loyal dauphin no more IT WAS meant to be a christening, but it turned into a funeral. On November 16th Silvio Berlusconi, a media tycoon,... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Norway’s Economy: The Spirit is Willing

  // ERNA SOLBERG, Norway’s conservative prime minister, is nothing if not ambitious. After defeating her popular Social Democratic rival, Jens Stoltenberg, in a... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey’s South-east: Huda-Par’s Emergence

  

  // IN A shiny office in the heart of Batman (see map), a group of men refuses to shake hands with female visitors, offering rosewater instead. Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Playing East Against West

  

  // IN JUNE 1709 Peter the Great fought a decisive battle against the Swedish king, Charles XII, at Poltava, in what is now Ukraine. Ukrainians fought on both... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spain and Italy Given Leeway to Achieve Budget Targets

  

  // Spain and Italy were Friday given extra chances to show they can meet the EU’s deficit and debt targets but eurozone officials said they committed to... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Poland’s Government: New Faces, Same Policies?

  

  // Tusk’s new team “THERE wasn’t a single year when I did not think about leaving the post,” said Jacek Rostowski, who has run Poland’s economy since 2007, in... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Greece’s Bail-out: Little Respite

  

  // “IT IS the bad-news season,” says an adviser to Antonis Samaras’s struggling coalition government. He means the onset of winter, when cash-strapped Greeks... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Madrid: Stinky

  

  // Not a tourist magnet THE paint is fresh at Creme Delacreme, a chic new restaurant on the fringes of Madrid’s bustling Chueca district. Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italy and Spain Close to Breaking Euro Rules

  

  // Five euro countries are close to breaking the rules, the EU commission has said in its first ever assessment of national budgets. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Bank Transparency Rules Delayed

  

  // Finance ministers on Friday failed to reach a political agreement to impose greater bank transparency rules. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Homosexuality and Asylum: Bigotry by Degrees

  

  // ANTI-GAY laws in Africa and elsewhere are often the legacy of European colonial rule. Yet European Union countries, which now champion gay rights, are... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2013 LGBTQ, SOCIETY

• Lost and Found Art: Hildebrand Gurlitt’s Secret

  

  // A man looks at pieces from the Nazi-curated travelling exhibition, “Degenerate Art” in Berlin, 1938 Source: Reuters The touring exhibition showed a vast... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Falling out of Love

  

  // EDWARD SNOWDEN makes a perfect hero for some Germans. As a former contractor of an American spy agency who has been divulging its excesses, he is a “good... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• French Hostages: In Cold Blood

  

  // The last journey home OVER the years France has grown painfully accustomed to seeing its countrymen taken hostage abroad. So it was to much relief that on... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Russia’s Economy: The S Word

  

  // STAGNATION has a particularly unpleasant resonance to the Russian ear, conjuring up memories of the ossified gerontocracy of the Brezhnev era. But with... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Turkey and Its Neighbours: A Reset?

  

  // IT WAS widely expected to spark a fresh burst of anti-Israeli vitriol from Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s increasingly paranoid prime minister. Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Agenda] Trade and Finance Dominate Brussels Next WEEK

  

  // Trade and finance will dominate life in the Brussels bubble next week, with officials resuming talks on an EU-US trade pact. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL