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• From Facebook to the Streets

  

  Kijowski: much Liked AT THE head of a march of thousands in Warsaw on June 4th, Mateusz Kijowski cut a striking figure. The red jeans, ponytail and earrings of... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Paris Match

  

  ALMOST all French aspirations, and anxieties, seem to crowd into the game of football. Ever since the country won the world cup in 1998, with a multi-racial tea... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Golden Squeal

  

  EARLIER this year, FBI agents detained Reza Zarrab (pictured), a Turkish gold trader, at Miami’s international airport. His lawyer said he was on a family trip... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Politics of Alienation

  

  NO CITY in the Netherlands is so quintessentially Dutch as The Hague. The Binnenhof, the seat of government, is a quaint Gothic fortress straight out of a... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Aux Barricades

  

  AN ERUPTION of steel piping in the middle of wheatfields, the Grandpuits refinery is the chief petrol supplier to the Paris region. Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Name and Shame

  

  The past is present TURKEY considers the Ottoman Empire’s mass murder of well over a million Armenians and other Christians in 1915-17 a tragedy. But “genocide”... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• War of Attrition

  

  Destroying the souk to save it ASKED how he is feeling these days, Selahattin Demirtas forgoes the pleasantries. “I’m trying to be doing well, given the... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• United Russia, Divided Putin

  

  Puny liberals, you cannot defeat me WITH three months left until parliamentary elections, United Russia, Russia’s ruling party, has come up with a new slogan:... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• For the Love of Pizza

  

  CALL it pizza, pitta or fougasse: when Europe’s holidaymakers head for the Mediterranean this summer, they will feast on some type of flatbread with... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Vexed in Vienna

  

  WHAT is Austria’s problem? In Vienna the streets are clean, the trams rattle reliably past and the bow-tied waiters still dispense their Sachertorte with... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Name, Date of Birth, Migration Background

  

  All cheering for the same team IN TERMS of diversity, the German squad that will travel to France for the UEFA football championship next month leads the... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Temporary Relief

  

  THERE was plenty of shouting in parliament as Greece’s government, led by the leftist Syriza party, pushed through a €1.8 billion ($ 2 billion) package of tax... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• 1944 All Over Again

  

  A Tatar’s courage never flags ON May 14th Crimea’s indigenous Tatars sat glued to their screens, watching as Jamala, a Ukrainian singer of Tatar descent, won th... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Europe’s Murky Deal with Turkey

  

  IT WAS meant to be a game-changer. When a deal between the European Union and Turkey was struck in March with the aim of limiting the numbers of asylum-seekers... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• So Long, Farewell?

  

  “THERE are two possibilities,” predicted Norbert Hofer, who had just become the standard-bearer of Europe’s hard right. It was May 22nd, voting in Austria’s... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Of Creeps and Crèches

  

  THERE is a scene in “Marseille”, a new television drama billed as a French version of “House of Cards”, in which an ambitious deputy mayor holds a campaign... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Baku to the Future

  

  NEXT month around two dozen Formula One racecars will speed through the gleaming centre of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. They will zoom along the shore of th... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Raw and the Cooked

  

  “THERE is no alimentary constraint which does not make the Frenchman dream of steak,” wrote Roland Barthes, a French literary theorist, in 1957. Rare, in a... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Poking the Wolf

  

  Islamic State is not winning hearts and minds THERE are no sirens or warnings of any kind. In Kilis, a border town of about 200,000 in Turkey’s south, rockets... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Squalid Little War

  

  Heroes of the motherland THE road to Agdam, a small town that was once part of Azerbaijan, runs out abruptly and turns into a front line. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL