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Croatia on EU collision course over arrest warrant 27 Aug 2013 | 08:56 am
The EU commission is on collision course with Croatia after it ignored demands to include Communist-era crimes in the European Arrest Warrant. News from EUobserver.com
Germany’s election: Party season 26 Aug 2013 | 09:26 am
WHAT a sorry state Germany’s two big political blocs are in, a month before the election on September 22nd. In the 1970s more than 90% of West Germans voted for the two “people’s parties”: the “red” S...
Greek privatisation: Business class 24 Aug 2013 | 10:23 am
Stelios Stavridis, on a flight to nowhere RARELY is a Greek official sacked for “ethical reasons.” An exception is Stelios Stavridis, the boss of Taiped, the privatisation agency, who was dismissed on...
Turkish politics: Lonely command 23 Aug 2013 | 10:53 am
WHEN Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, returned to power in 2011 for his third successive term he triumphantly declared that the next five years would mark an era of “mastery” for his Isl...
East European defence: Flexing its muscles 22 Aug 2013 | 11:20 am
ON A bluff close to the River Vistula in Warsaw stands Poland’s military museum. A collection of tanks, aircraft and artillery pieces pays tribute to a history of martial valour marked by glory and th...
Montenegro and the Balkans: Leader of the pack 21 Aug 2013 | 11:50 am
IT IS easy to imagine Milo Djukanovic, the prime minister of Montenegro, whistling “Leader of the pack” on his way to work. The undisputed survivor of Balkan politics, he has led his country in one jo...
German child care: Fighting over the Kinder 19 Aug 2013 | 12:48 pm
GERMAN mothers who take their pundits and politicians seriously have faced a grim choice over the past year. They can be Rabenmütter (raven mothers), who selfishly abandon their toddlers to pursue car...
Islam in Denmark: Of mosques and meat 18 Aug 2013 | 01:15 pm
ISLAM and immigration have slipped out of Denmark’s political discourse since the centre-left government led by Helle Thorning-Schmidt came to power two years ago and dismantled the ministry for refug...
Swedish politics: Reinfeldt redux 17 Aug 2013 | 01:44 pm
Reinfeldt in sunnier times POLITICS is slowly resuming after Sweden’s summer break. And Fredrik Reinfeldt, the prime minister, is celebrating a seasonal gift. The news of Barack Obama’s stopover in St...
Spain and ETA: Always around 16 Aug 2013 | 02:14 pm
ETA still casts its shadows CAN a terrorist organisation ever be wholly defeated? The British government’s willingness to bargain with the Irish Republican Army suggests that only long negotiations ca...
