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• Hungary’s Past: His Contentious Legacy

  

  // ADMIRAL MIKLOS HORTHY, Hungary’s controversial wartime leader and an ally of Hitler, is enjoying something of a revival of late. Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Masked Special Units Push Back Syrian Refugees, Says German NGO

  

  // Armed special-op units in Greece are reportedly repelling asylum seekers and refugees in commando-like operations on its Turkish land border and out at sea.... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Czech Election: Central Europe’s Berlusconi?

  

  // Mr and Mrs Babis in celebratory mood ANYONE with illusions that the blurred Czech political picture would be clearer after the election on October 25th and... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The European Union Budget: The Gourmands of Brussels

  

  // THE European Union is on the verge of cutting its spending for the first time ever. A 3% cut in real terms will save €34 billion ($ 47 billion) from the... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Race Relations in the Netherlands: Is Zwarte Piet Racism?

  

  // EVERY year on December 5th and 6th, tens of thousands of Dutch people paint their faces black, don Renaissance-style jerkins and pantaloons, and assume the... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2013 DEBATE, DESTINATIONS, SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• [Focus] Berlin Citizens Keen to Buy Their Electricity Grid

  

  // Berliners are heading to the polls on Sunday in a referendum on buying back the city’s power grid, in a test for local democracy. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Swedish Education: Fixing Sweden’s Schools

  // A NEW study from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) will land on the desks of policymakers around the world next month. It will make... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Georgia’s Election: The End of Saakashvili’s Reign

  // GEORGIA’S presidential election on October 27th was at once momentous and also rather unexciting. Momentous, because the vote marked the end of the nearly... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italian Politics: Bickering and Back-stabbing

  

  // ITALY is once more acting as a brake on the rest of the euro zone. On October 29th Antonio Golini, the acting head of the national statistics office, said th... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hungarian Politics: Bitter Battle Ahead

  

  // Bajnai has enough of Orbanland “THE next election campaign will be brutal,” said Ferenc Gyurcsany, a former prime minister, in a recent interview with Der... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Crisis Knocking EU 2020 Goals off Track

  

  // The economic crisis has knocked the EU’s longterm strategic targets off track with poverty-reduction and employment goals unlikely to be met. News from... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU Virtual Border Scheme Based on ‘creative’ Figures

  

  // A new report suggests the European Commission used misleading arguments to back its billion-euro plus proposal to fingerprint non-Europeans visiting the EU.... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey’s Infrastructure: The Sultan’s Dream

  

  // ABDUL MEJID I, the Ottoman’s 31st sultan, had a dream. Reigning between 1839 and 1861, the determinedly Western-leaning sultan envisaged the construction of ... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cameron Sees EU ‘sea Change’ on Red Tape

  

  // UK prime minister David Cameron has praised the European Commission’s commitment to slashing red-tape on businesses saying there had been a “sea change in... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Roma Fears Heighten After Child Abduction Reports

  

  // Reports of child abductions by Roma in Greece and Ireland is causing anxiety about a vigilante backlash against Europe’s most discriminated minority. News... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Politics: A Mishandled Muddle

  

  // Leonarda calling her friends in France EACH time it looks as if things cannot get much worse for François Hollande, they do. Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Riots in Russia: Dangerous Game

  // IT HAD all the makings of a pogrom. On October 13th a mob of nationalists, joined by locals and pensioners in slippers, poured through the Moscow suburb of... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Politics: Against the Odds

  

  // IT WAS a double blow for France’s Socialist president, François Hollande. On October 13th, Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front (FN) bagged a symbolic... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ireland: The Eighth Austerity Budget

  

  // “TOO long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart,” said Michael Noonan, Ireland’s finance minister, quoting Yeats, to justify an easing of austerity... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2013 SOCIETY

• EU Hails ‘landmark’ Canada Trade Deal

  

  // EU and Canadian leaders have signed up to a trade agreement worth over €25 billion per year, in a deal seen by Brussels as the forerunner to a successful... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL