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• Integration Panic

  

  Clash of civilisations? EVEN by their own exacting standards, Germans are experiencing a lot of Angst this summer. They are still jittery after aseries of... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2016 SOCIETY

• Extradition Quest

  

  TURKEY has good news for inmates of its crowded prisons. A decree on August 17th made some 38,000 of them, excluding those convicted of serious crimes such as... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Dancing in the Dark

  

  THE Kremlin’s political nature resembles its physical structure: a walled fortress whose interior is invisible to those on the outside. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Cruellest Month

  

  A familiar sight IN RUSSIA, history tends to take cruel turns in August. There was the failed coup of 1991 (August 19th); the Moscow apartment bombings of 1999... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Small but Not Too Beautiful

  

  THE top of the Spanish Steps in Rome is as good a place as any to appreciate the strangeness of Europe, for it is perhaps the only place from which to survey... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• It’s Not Easy Being Green

  

  BRANDENBURG used to be called the sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire for its poor soil and marginal geography. Today a more appropriate moniker might be “the... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Out of Sync with the Sun…

  

  IN THE summer, Spaniards enjoy their long evenings, having a drink at a pavement terraza before dining at 10pm or later. Yet the evenings are far longer than... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Europe’s Scapegoat

  

  THERE is not a lot to do on the outskirts of Targu Lapus, a small town in northern Romania. But Catalin Konolos, a construction worker, is rarely home, so he... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Peak Diplomacy

  

  The tipping point ERNA SOLBERG, Norway’s prime minister, piqued the interest of the press worldwide last week. The momentous event happened when she suggested... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Sultanic Verses

  

  THE past three weeks have seen a reversal of fortunes for Dogan Holding, Turkey’s largest media conglomerate. Last September, when a mob of supporters of the... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Au Revoir, l’Europe

  

  BARELY a year into his second presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy looked out from the steps of the Élysée and admitted defeat. The referendum had been lost. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Loss of Faith

  

  NO TARGET is too soft for killers inspired by Islamic State. On July 26th in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a small town in Normandy, two knife-wielding terrorists... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Correspondence Club

  

  DEAR THERESA,At your first cabinet meeting you said that your government would not be “defined by Brexit”. Good luck with that. Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Defend Me Maybe

  

  IT WAS a single remark in an interview with the New York Times, but it rattled the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cross Purposes

  

  Tough crowd THE window over the main door of the Bishop’s Palace in Krakow is known as the Pope’s Window. It was from here that John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyla... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Five Star Question

  

  ROSARIO SCAVO remembers when 80% of the inhabitants of Borgo Vittoria worked directly or indirectly for the Fiat car company. “It was a city within the city,” h... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Parliament Plot

  

  IN FOOTBALL two yellow cards are enough to get a player sent off. But in the European Union three may pass with nary a word. Under the EU’s “yellow card” system... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Tamper Proof

  

  Taking the piss WHEN Grigory Rodchenkov, the erstwhile director of Russia’s anti-doping lab, confessed that he had helped run a state-directed doping programme... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2016 DESTINATIONS

• Madness and Terror

  

  THE spots where the bodies fell are now marked by makeshift memorials along the palm-fringed beachfront. Some are ringed by pebbles. Most feature candles,... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Fear of the Maple Menace

  

  OF ALL the countries with which the European Union might conclude a trade agreement, Canada ought to be the least controversial. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL