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• Things to Know About Barcelona

  Spain is the second most popular tourist destination in the world when it comes to countries and Barcelona is one of the best cities in the country. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Taxes: Another Absurdity

  

  AT FIRST it was merely a bad idea. A year ago, when François Hollande promised to tax incomes over €1m ($ 1.3m) at 75%, even his campaign team was surprised.... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Top 5 Free Places to Visit in Catalonia

  

  Catalonia is a great place to come and holiday with friends and family. If you are short on cash there are places to visit which are completely free of charge.... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italy’s Non-government: Napolitano Steps In—and out

  AS IF Italy’s president, Giorgio Napolitano, did not have enough to worry about, on April 2nd an exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth, declared that the head of... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• France’s President: I Have a Confession to Make

  

  AFTER a series of scandals under the outgoing centre-right president, Nicolas Sarkozy, François Hollande campaigned as the Socialist candidate last year with th... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• European Lower League Week – Vaarwel Veendam

  

  France The most eagerly anticipated game of the Ligue 2 season took place on Saturday lunchtime as leaders Monaco travelled north with their four point lead to... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, SOCCER, SPORTS, TRAVEL

• Cyprus’s Troubles: The Blame Game

  

  Sarris says farewell WHO is to blame? Politicians and economists are all likely to be in the dock over the collapse of Laiki Bank, Cyprus’s second-largest. Nico... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Charlemagne: Banking Disunion

  

  Markets swooned, prompting a hasty clarification that the Cypriot package was “a specific case with exceptional challenges”. Vulnerable southern countries are... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Boris Berezovsky: The Archetypal Oligarch

  

  The Kremlin will need to find someone else to demonise IN A Russian film, “The Oligarch”, the alter ego of Boris Berezovsky escapes death and returns to Moscow... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Paolo Di Canio & The ‘Strongman’ Theory

  

  In what many assumed to be an April Fools’ story, yesterday Sunderland appointed former West Ham forward and Swindon manager Paolo di Canio as their new manager... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Turkey and the PKK: The War May Be Over

  

  Ocalan is still pulling the crowds ABDULLAH OCALAN, the Kurdish rebel leader and sole inmate of a Turkish island prison since 1999, should by now “have become... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• French Politics: Abuse of Frailty?

  

  Because I’m worth it NICOLAS SARKOZY is nothing if not a fighter and after the initial shock of his judicial entanglement he vowed to clear his name. In a... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Lower League Week – The Laughably Inept Edition

  

  Skies Aren’t Blue at Coventry A complicated subject to start things off. As covered previously, following the long-running refusal of Coventry City to pay the... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Zimbabwean Murderers Free to Travel to EU

  

  Seventeen men and women accused of murder, torture, rape or kidnapping in Zimbabwe have been given the green light to travel to the EU. News from EUobserver.com Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Third Reich Revisited: The War Generation

  

  Fighting a losing war GERMAN television viewers are used to frequent programmes exploring the Nazi era and the second world war. But rarely has such a... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Football Shorts – Ow My Hand Hurts

  

  // The Ref Is A DonkeyAccording to Terek Grozny’s stadium announcer anyway.The Chechen side could face a stiff fine after the club’s chairman criticised... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 SOCCER, SPORTS

• The Lower League Fortnight – Financial Mismanagement Edition

  

  // Dark Clouds Gather Around the Ricoh…The terms of Coventry City’s rent agreement with the owners  of the Ricoh Arena are unusually unfair to the club – that... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 SPORTS

• The Netherlands: Focus on Growth

  

  THE NETHERLANDS has spent the past year sinking ever deeper into economic gloom. GDP shrank by almost 1% in 2012, and forecasters expect another 0.5% contractio... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• European Lower League Week – Italian Doubler

  

  // France Monaco twice came from behind to draw 2-2 with fifth placed Angers are now four points clear of second place Nantes with nine games remaining. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spain’s Socialists: Why Spain’s Left is in a Funk

  ALFREDO PÉREZ RUBALCABA, leader of Spain’s beleaguered opposition Socialists, is a man with a noose around his neck. It is slowly tightening. More than a year... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL