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• Spain – a Fantastic Travel Destination

  

  Spain is wonderful. The country is endowed with some of the most scenic features blending both the ancient and modern architecture. The buildings that feature... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Social Media and French: Nous Twitterons

  AURELIE FILIPPETTI, the French minister for culture, had to retract a tweet this week after making a glaring spelling mistake. As she is the official guardian o... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cyprus Sets out Plan to End Capital Controls

  

  // Cyprus has announced a roadmap to eventually lift capital controls in the eurozone country, but the process could take some years. Related Stories ECB set... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hungary’s Roma: How to Get out of a Vicious Circle

  

  Their misery starts young ROBERT CSORBA grabbed his four-year-old son Robika and ran for his life when the Molotov cocktail hit their home. They did not get far... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spain and Gibraltar: Like North Korea?

  

  You may have to pay as well as wait WITH its branches of British high street retailers such as Marks and Spencer or BHS, and a large Morrisons supermarket,... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Religion in Turkey: Erasing the Christian Past

  

  Sinful paintings on the ceiling? ON JULY 5th the mufti of Trabzon gathered with other citizens for the first Friday prayers of the holy fasting month of Ramadan... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, ECONOMICS, TRAVEL

• A Diamond Heist in Cannes: Another French Exception

  

  THE armed man who fled the Carlton International hotel in Cannes at around noon on July 28th with jewellery worth €103m ($ 137m) pulled off the biggest heist... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2013 LIFESTYLE

• Kosovo’s Serbs: Bordering Along the Ibar

  AT THE end of June dozens of Serbian policemen met for a boozy evening at the Quiet Night restaurant in north Mitrovica. For 14 happy years they and 1,800... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The German Election: An Unforeseen Controversy

  

  FLOOD waters have receded, and Germans have returned to the rituals of summer. Angela Merkel, the chancellor, has made her annual pilgrimage to the Wagner... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Opinion] As Iran Changes, EU and US Stand Still

  

  // The Iranians have made a move. Now the world should respond with something more constructive than its usual mix of sanctions and threats. News from... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Franco-German Car Dispute Escalates

  

  // Paris has escalated a simmering trade row with Germany by formally notifying the European Commission of its move to block the sale of the latest Mercedes... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Dutch and the EU: A Founding Member’s Apostasy

  

  Wilders has found a new pet hate THE cosmopolitan Netherlands once stood at the heart of the cause of European integration. The country was among the founding... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Vamos a La Playa

  

  AT LAST, August is upon us. The summer fruit is plump and the sea is warm. You can almost hear the warbling melody of “La Mer”, Charles Trenet’s ode to the... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Russian Politics: The Navalny Power Game

  TWO DAYS after being sentenced in Kirov to five years’ jail, Alexei Navalny, Russia’s opposition leader, got off the train in Moscow to the cheers of several... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Riots in France: Trouble in Trappes

  

  In defiance of the ban IT TOOK just two nights of rioting in a single town to set the whole of France on edge. On July 19th and 20th angry rioters torched cars... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Great Holiday Activities in Spain

  // Spain is the host of all types of recreational activities that will fit your budget and make your holiday a memorable one.  The good part about Spain is... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Sire, There Are No Belgians

  

  MORE than two centuries after French revolutionaries guillotined Louis XVI, Europeans still love their kings and queens. A quarter of the European Union is... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• [Analysis] Bulgarians: Citizens with a Cause

  

  // It has been more than 40 days now since protests started in Bulgaria’s capital. But a lack of cohesiveness among protestors is allowing the government to... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Poland’s Government: The Seven-year Itch

  

  DONALD TUSK is Poland’s most successful prime minister since the fall of communism. Under his leadership his country has become the rising star of the European... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Italian Government: Shirtsleeve Time

  

  ENRICO LETTA likes to note that he has been prime minister of Italy for just 70 days. He needs many more if his left-right coalition is to fulfil its ambitious... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL