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• Best Frenemies

  

  Angela’s Horst of troubles THE next election for Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, is less than a year off, but as the country mercifully lacks America’s... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ireland May Suffer the Most from Brexit

  

  ON OCTOBER 25th John Bruton and Bertie Ahern, two former Irish prime ministers, appeared before a committee in Britain’s House of Lords to discuss the impact... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Populism Tastes Best Hot

  

  EARLIER this year David Coburn, who sits in the European Parliament for the UK Independence Party, a Eurosceptic group, came up with an eccentric argument for... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2016 DESTINATIONS

• The Gap Between Poor and Rich Regions in Europe is Widening

  

  THE beautiful but rubbish-strewn streets of Catania, Sicily’s second-biggest city, are a world away from swanky Trento, in the country’s richer north. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• If the EU Cannot Do Trade, What Can It Do?

  

  IN HAPPIER days for the European Union the arcana of international trade policy were a matter for harmless eccentrics, while the intricacies of Belgium’s... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Front Man

  

  Unacknowledged legislator THE crowds in Mariupol, a factory town on the front line in eastern Ukraine, began lining up at six in the morning. It was late spring... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• In Russia, Privatisation Can Mean Selling One State-owned Company to Another

  

  Pumping up the price WHEN Russia’s government floated the idea that its supposedly ambitious privatisation plans should include selling Bashneft, a... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Five Star Movement is Chaotic, but as Popular as Ever

  

  THE funeral in Milan on October 15th of Dario Fo, Italy’s irrepressibly subversive Nobel laureate for literature (see Obituary), may have seemed like a... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• France Picked a Funny Time to Adopt America’s Political Primary System

  

  WEEK after week, Europeans turn their gaze to the American presidential election with consternation and bewilderment. How is it that the world’s second-biggest... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ladies in Black

  

  THE Law and Justice (PiS) party, which has governed Poland for the past year, does not scare easily. But the tens of thousands of black-clad women who filled... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Europe is Trying to Teach Its Gender Norms to Refugees

  

  FEW men can roll a condom onto a plastic penis with a straight face, and Ali and Ahmadzai are no exceptions. The two Afghan asylum-seekers and ten other men... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• German Business Lobbyists Will Not Stop Tariffs Against Britain

  

  MANY Britons worried about a “hard Brexit” are clinging to a reassuring thought. Germany, the most important country in Europe, trades so much with Britain... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey’s Bid to Join the EU is a Bad Joke; but Don’t Kill It

  

  THE two young women glance at each other before confiding their secret. Turkey has become such a fearful place, they say, that they have formed a pact never to... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Great Big Reform Package

  

  AT SIX o’clock on a Sunday evening, Ettore Rosato is addressing an audience of fewer than 100 people in Seregno, a picturesque commuter town north of Milan. Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Wizard of Budapest

  

  “THE moment Hungary is no longer European,” wrote Milan Kundera, a Czech-born novelist, “it loses the essence of its identity.” In his own way Viktor Orban,... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Going Nuclear

  

  THE list reads like a hostage-taker’s demands. Russia wants America to roll back the expansion of NATO, repeal the Magnitsky Act, end sanctions and pay... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Battle for a Party’s Soul

  

  He said no, the party said go IF ANY political party can claim to have invented modern Spain, it is the Socialists. They have ruled for 21 of the 39 years of... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Chains of Command

  

  Treading lightly LIEUTENANT Mehmet Ali Celebi has not sat in a gunship cockpit for years, but will jump back in at a moment’s notice if the Turkish army comes... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Boundary Issues

  

  HUNGARY will hold a referendum on October 2nd. (Such things have become a fad in Europe.) The question is: “Do you want the European Union to be entitled to... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cocoa by Candlelight

  

  Topping the cosiness index HOW big is the world’s appetite for things Danish? Foreign audiences have already binge-watched the country’s noir TV series (such... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL