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• L’internationaliste

  

  WHEN he passed the lingerie shop, the minister hesitated. It was not on the schedule. But the store manager insisted, and Emmanuel Macron, France’s young econom... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Free Will

  

  WOLFGANG GRUPP embodies the values of the Mittelstand—the mid-sized firms, often family-owned, that employ 60% of German workers. Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Balking at Enlargement

  

  BACK when the European project was in top gear, it was largely driven by the continent’s fear of Balkanisation. Now, the Balkans fear what they dub... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Hot Time, Summer in the Cité

  

  THIS time, nothing was left to chance. Shopkeepers rolled down their metal shutters. Glass panels at bus shelters were boarded up. Squads of riot police closed... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Revolution Cancelled

  THE idea of re-running a vote when the first result is unsatisfactory has been getting a bad press recently. But Spain’s second general election in six months,... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Trip-wire Deterrence

  

  Feeling lucky, Putin? A LOT of work goes into preparing for NATO’s biennial summits. So the hope is that next week’s summit in Warsaw is not dominated by Brexit. Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• And Shut the Door Behind You

  

  IN THE prelapsarian days before Britain kicked itself out of the European Union, a charming campaign called “Hug-a-Brit” was waged in Brussels. Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Prelude to a Purge

  

  IT LOOKED like a scene from a crime drama. First, the pictures of a burly Russian governor caught at a sushi restaurant in a swanky Moscow hotel, with wads of... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Sleep of Union

  

  WHAT a difference a couple of opinion polls make. Few brows in Brussels have remained unfurrowed by the declining fortunes of the campaign to keep Britain insid... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Out, Caste

  

  IN THE shade of a futuristic curving roof of wood and concrete slats, some 2,000 people have gathered at the Plaza de la Encarnación in the heart of Seville... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Commented out

  

  “NEVER read the comments” is useful advice. It is rare for the discussions that take place underneath online articles to resemble Socratic quests for truth. Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Doping and Punishment

  

  WHAT does the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the governing body of global track and field sports, have in common with the Nazis? Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Small Carrot, Medium Stick

  

  AT last week’s St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Vladimir Putin’s flagship economic conference, a pair of guests raised Russia’s increasingly fervent... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Radiohead and Ramadan

  

  Fighting for the right to rock ON JUNE 17th Radiohead, a British rock band, played an unexpected cameo role in Turkey’s increasingly bitter conflict between... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Applications Deferred

  

  FOR all the Euroscepticism that has swept across the continent in recent years, there is one region where majorities still long to join the European Union: the... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Tracking Traffickers

  

  Kingpin or pawn? WHAT’S in a name? For an Eritrean man hauled before a judge in Palermo, Sicily, on June 10th, the answer could be many years in an Italian jail. Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Maid of Kiev

  

  More popular than the president AT THREE o’clock in the morning on May 25th, guards roused Nadia Savchenko in her prison cell in southern Russia, told her to... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Autumn of the Patriarchs

  

  IN THE early centuries of eastern Christian history, when doctrines were hammered out at seven disputatious bishops’ councils, theological arguments were on... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Not Mind-stretching Enough

  

  ON A cobbled street lined with tourist shops in central Prague, a darkened storefront advertises cannabis-flavoured beer and absinthe ice cream. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Lefter Sex

  

  Leans left, puts ballot in centre IF WOMEN’S votes had not counted (as was the case until 1918), Norbert Hofer, the far-right candidate, would have won a... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL