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• Rehn Under Fire Over Berlusconi Remarks

  

  // EU commissioner Olli Rehn is at the centre of a political row after blaming Italy’s former prime minister, Berlusconi, for the country’s financial crisis. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Europe and Britain: The Cameron is Coming

  DAVID CAMERON, Britain’s prime minister, annoyed the French last year when he declared that Britain would “roll out the red carpet” for businessmen fleeing... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Football Shorts – The Banned From Hell Edition

  

  // Game Postponed Due To Bad SmellI’m deadly serious. The French Cup game between Rouen and Marseille was called off due to a gas lack at a factory in Rouen... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cyprus and the Euro: Aphrodite’s Indebted Island

  IN JUNE 2012 the Cypriot government asked for a bail-out after the two largest banks, stacked with Greek bonds, fell victim to the 2011 write-down of Greek debt... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Slovenia’s Government: Tottering on

  

  Making suggestions in Ljubljana THE government is “clinically dead”, declared Delo, a Slovenian daily, on January 15th. The question is how long it can last in... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, POLITICS, SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• The Week Down Under: A-League Week 16

  

  // Rubbish RoarThis weekend provided proof (not that it were needed) that Brisbane are now Western Sydney Wanderers’ “bitch”, to use the parlance of our times. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Lower Saxony: Germany’s Missouri

  

  GERMANY’S politicians are criss-crossing the icy state of Lower Saxony in a mad dash to win the vote there on January 20th, seen as a test run for this... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• France’s President: François Hollande’s New War Trappings

  

  EVER since President François Hollande was elected last May, things have not gone right for him. He promised to kick-start growth and create jobs, yet the... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• The Czech Presidency: Karel Havel Or Milos Klaus?

  

  Schwarzenberg, on fire TWO elder statesmen will now face each other in the race to succeed Vaclav Klaus, the famously Eurosceptic Czech president. Milos Zeman, ... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Lower League Fortnight – Glory of the Cups

  

  The FA Cup The weekend of Saturday 5th was FA Cup Third Round day, the point in the world’s oldest cup competition when lower league and non-league clubs meet... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• MEPs Agree Credit Rating Agency Crackdown

  

  MEPs have signed off on a deal aimed at tightening regulation of credit rating agencies, ending over one year of tortured negotiation between deputies and... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hungarian Politics: A Blow for Viktor Orban

  THE new year has not started well for Viktor Orban, Hungary’s populist prime minister. On January 4th the Constitutional Court threw out his plan to redesign th... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Walk to Savinosa

  // It’s a strange experience to walk around Tarragona as the city is always there, somewhere in the background, somewhere in your mind. Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• African Cup of Nations Group B Preview : Niger

  

  // The Menas are historically one of the poorest sides of African football, both on and off the field. As a nation, Niger has struggled with poor education and... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Procession of the Three Kings

  The first major event of 2013 took off last night with the arrival of the Three Kings in to the Tarragona for the onset of Epiphany. It started at the Serrallo... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• No Special Treatment for Cyprus Says Merkel

  

  // Cyprus should not expect special treatment under an EU bail-out said Angela Merkel on Friday, warning that “it must follow reforms. Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Italian Politics: Allies Again

  

  Mr Maroni’s Faustian pact THE Northern League has long been decisive in Silvio Berlusconi’s political career. When in 1994 the party withdrew its support from... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Barcelona Back on Top in Spain

  With Barcelona having made a record start to the season and Lionel Messi hitting the most goals in a calendar year it is easy to forget the clouds of uncertaint... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Travelling Beyond Barcelona and into Spain’s Countryside

  It’s hard to top Barcelona, Spain’s most cosmopolitan and fun city. I love the place, but I’m not alone. Every year, 10 million visitors swoop into town,... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spanish Government Threatens to Block Barcelona’s ‘illegal’ Independence Bid

  Madrid has warned Catalonia that it has the sufficient means to block the fugitive region’s “illegal” plans for a self-determination referendum, as two Catalan... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL