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• Italy: How Not to Rescue an Airline

  // ONLY the most gullible or optimistic Italians ever believed that the Phoenix Project launched with great fanfare five years ago would allow Alitalia,... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• ‘Breakthrough’ on Data Protection Bill

  

  // After eighteen months of intense negotiations, MEPs spearheading the European Data Protection regulation have reached a compromise. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Georgia’s Future: No Change for the Better

  

  // Ivanishvili says goodbye MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI, Georgia’s outgoing president, can be accused of many things, but lack of vision is not one. Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Europe’s City Dwellers at High Risk of Pollution Exposure

  

  // Over 90 percent of people living in Europe’s cities are exposed to high levels of dangerous air pollutants, according to research by the EU’s environment... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany’s Greens: Torn but Tempted

  // IT WAS the Greens’ turn on October 10th to face the negotiating team of Angela Merkel, the chancellor, as she tries to find a coalition partner to form a... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spain’s Economy: The Worst May Be Over

  

  // THE Prado museum, lined with works by Goya, Velázquez and El Greco, is a sanctuary of peace in busy central Madrid. When the museum advertised for eleven... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2013 BUSINESS, SOCIETY

• Charlemagne: Adrift About Boat People

  

  // THE flotsam of a wrecked world washes up regularly on the shores of southern Europe. Afghans and Syrians land on the Aegean islands. Somalis and Eritreans... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Agenda] Enlargement in the Spotlight This WEEK

  

  // Further EU enlargement, gender equality in companies and elections in Luxembourg are all on the agenda this week. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Politics: Dédiabolisation

  

  // Marine Le Pen is different from her old man HE HAS the clean-cut look and neatly pressed suit that suggest a management consultant. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• EU-China Trade Talks Set for November Launch

  

  // The EU will in November launch talks aimed at negotiating its first investment agreement with the Chinese government. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Greece’s neo-Nazis: Breakthrough Or Backlash

  

  // Mr Michaloliakos had a bad weekend THE arrest of both leaders of an elected party is unprecedented for a member of the European Union. Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• [Focus] Risk of Poverty Greatest in Bulgaria

  

  // Bulgaria has the highest percentage of citizens at risk of poverty in the EU while the UK is home to the greatest wealth disparity between regions. News... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• German Politics: Afraid of Angela

  // IT IS unusual after a federal election for a German president to summon the leaders of the main parties to Schloss Bellevue, his seat in Berlin. Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine: Looking to the West

  

  // VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russia’s president, deserves the highest medal of Ukraine. He has done more for its European integration in the past few months than any... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2013 SOCIETY

• [Focus] What Does the Shale Boom Mean for Transport?

  

  // For good or ill, the shale gas revolution in the United States has turned the global energy market on its head. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkish Politics: After the Protests

  

  // Erdogan: strongman turned reformer IS THE grand reformer back? It depends whom you ask. Many among Turkey’s tiny Syrian Orthodox Christian community, or... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• €1bn of EU Aid to Congo Wasted, Auditors Say

  

  // At least €1 billion of EU aid poured into the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent years went down the drain, auditors say. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Opinion] Would an Independent Catalonia Remain in the EU?

  

  // The Spanish government believes it can cast fear and doubt among Catalan people by arguing that an independent state would be outside the EU and isolated fro... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Dutch Politics: Not So Calvinist Any More

  

  // The price of recession GEERT WILDERS, a far-right populist politician, has been stirring up Dutch politics for nearly a decade, but he has never lured many... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• UN Scientists in Overwhelming ‘wake Up’ Call on Global Warming

  

  // Leading scientists backed by 110 governments say the dumping of greenhouse gas emissions through human activity is directly linked to climate change. News... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL