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• Albania’s New Government: Getting It Together

  

  // Renaissance man: Edi Rama EDI RAMA won election in June offering a “renaissance”. Albanians will have to wait until parliament convenes on September 9th,... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Norway’s Election: A Resurgent Right

  // JUDGING by its pristine streets, healthy-looking people and chic boutiques, Oslo seems confidently prosperous. Anti-poverty campaigners, who marched backward... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany’s Televised Debates: Dog Eats Dog

  

  // Stefan Raab, ready to liven things up TELEVISED election debates in Germany have featured fine thrills and spills. In 1980 the beefy challenger, Helmut... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Holidays: The Hardworking Mr Hollande

  // LAST summer, when François Hollande was keen to show what a normal Frenchman he was, the newly elected Socialist president went off on holiday to the... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Correction: Merkel

  // Our chart on German politics (“The Merkel effect“, August 24th) showed wrong data for the FDP and The Left. Sorry. The online version has been corrected. Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Analysis] Public Opinion Stands in Way of EU Shale Gas Revolution

  

  // If industry thought a US-style shale gas revolution would easily find its way across the Atlantic, it has had a rude awakening. News from EUobserver. Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Top 5 Tourist Traps in Barcelona

  Barcelona is an exciting and beautiful tourist destination for budget travel and luxury travel alike. Read on for travel tips to avoid some of the worst touris... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ukraine and Russia: Trading Insults

  

  // Souvenirs of a common history NOBODY could accuse Sergei Glazyev of ambiguity. New Russian trade restrictions with Ukraine were a warning against the... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 CURRENT, DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Croatia on EU Collision Course Over Arrest Warrant

  

  // The EU commission is on collision course with Croatia after it ignored demands to include Communist-era crimes in the European Arrest Warrant. News from... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Germany’s Election: Party Season

  

  // WHAT a sorry state Germany’s two big political blocs are in, a month before the election on September 22nd. In the 1970s more than 90% of West Germans voted... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Greek Privatisation: Business Class

  

  // Stelios Stavridis, on a flight to nowhere RARELY is a Greek official sacked for “ethical reasons.” An exception is Stelios Stavridis, the boss of Taiped,... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkish Politics: Lonely Command

  

  // WHEN Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, returned to power in 2011 for his third successive term he triumphantly declared that the next five... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• East European Defence: Flexing Its Muscles

  

  // ON A bluff close to the River Vistula in Warsaw stands Poland’s military museum. A collection of tanks, aircraft and artillery pieces pays tribute to a... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Montenegro and the Balkans: Leader of the Pack

  

  // IT IS easy to imagine Milo Djukanovic, the prime minister of Montenegro, whistling “Leader of the pack” on his way to work. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• German Child Care: Fighting Over the Kinder

  // GERMAN mothers who take their pundits and politicians seriously have faced a grim choice over the past year. They can be Rabenmütter (raven mothers), who... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Islam in Denmark: Of Mosques and Meat

  // ISLAM and immigration have slipped out of Denmark’s political discourse since the centre-left government led by Helle Thorning-Schmidt came to power two year... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Swedish Politics: Reinfeldt Redux

  

  // Reinfeldt in sunnier times POLITICS is slowly resuming after Sweden’s summer break. And Fredrik Reinfeldt, the prime minister, is celebrating a seasonal gift. Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spain and ETA: Always Around

  

  // ETA still casts its shadows CAN a terrorist organisation ever be wholly defeated? The British government’s willingness to bargain with the Irish Republican... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Alpine Dress: The Lederhosen Boom

  

  // SANKT EMMERAMSMÜHLE, a restaurant and beer garden tucked into the lush greenery of Munich, features a braying donkey within earshot and swanky sports cars... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Israel Ignores EU and US, Piles on Settlements

  

  // Israel has said it will build another 942 homes for Jewish settlers on occupied land despite US, EU and Palestinian criticism. Related Stories EU ‘hopes’... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL