11 August 2011
In Poland and Russia John Besemeres found two countries heading in quite different directions
International
10 June 2011
Norman Abjorensen recalls a meeting with Yugoslav dissident and writer Milovan Djilas, born one hundred years ago this month
10 May 2011
There’s a strange silence about the French president’s enthusiasm to intervene in Libya, reports Daniel Nethery in Paris
International
21 April 2011
Jostling between Vladimir Putin and Dimitry Medvedev and trouble with neighbours could play out in very significant ways for Russia and its region, writes John Besemeres
Books & arts
11 April 2011
Shane Maloney reviews a second series of Henning Mankell’s Wallander stories filmed for TV
Books & arts
7 April 2011
Resistance and collaboration were rarely clearcut in occupied France
31 March 2011
Germany’s decision to abstain from backing the military action in Libya hints at political, trade and foreign policy pressures, writes Daniel Nethery in Berlin
International
28 March 2011
Thirty-two years after Three Mile Island, an accident in a far-away nuclear facility has once again altered Germany’s political landscape. Klaus Neumann looks at…
International
3 March 2011
Berlusconi’s success in holding on to power highlights a vacuum at the heart of Italy’s politics, writes Geoff Andrews
Books & arts
28 January 2011
The Impossible Border brings an important period in German history out of the shadow of the Nazi era, writes Klaus Neumann
International
4 January 2011
Alexander Lukashenko’s brutal crackdown looks like another win for Moscow. John Besemeres traces the latest shift in orientation by the dictatorial president of Belarus
Essays & reportage
16 December 2010
The tragic events at Christmas Island this week are a reminder of the importance of the right to seek asylum. But the debate about refugees and asylum seekers is confused by a…
Essays & reportage
23 November 2010
How do young Germans from migrant backgrounds view the injustices of the past? Josefine Raasch talks to two sixteen-year-olds in Berlin
Essays & reportage
20 November 2010
A return trip to East Germany’s Lusatia region, twenty years on, reveals an extraordinary transition away from coal mining and heavy industry, writes Glenn Nicholls
Essays & reportage
18 November 2010
Despite the best efforts of its overseers, two and a half centuries of excavation have left Pompeii vulnerable to weather and human activity, writes Frank Sear
International
15 November 2010
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the iconic event in the unravelling of European communism. But it might not have happened without the strikes across Poland eight years earlier,…
4 November 2010
We’re all in this together, the British chancellor told the nation as he announced sweeping cuts in spending. Britons aren’t up in arms yet, writes Frank …
International
27 October 2010
The cracks in the Italian government are growing wider, writes Geoff Andrews. But can the opposition rise to the challenge?
22 October 2010
May Ngo writes from Calais, where irregular migrants continue to take their chances on finding a way into Britain
Essays & reportage
14 October 2010
Prompted by the twentieth anniversary of German reunification in October 1990, Klaus Neumann dusts off an article he wrote in 1991
International
13 October 2010
Nicolas Sarkozy’s currency reform push will test the skills of the erratic French leader, writes Geoffrey Barker
23 September 2010
Sweden’s election last weekend left the centre-right Alliance for Sweden with a slim hold on government after neither of the main alliances won a majority of votes. In…
International
11 August 2010
In Australia, Julia Gillard replaced Kevin Rudd almost overnight. In Britain, the leadership transition is taking quite a lot longer
18 July 2010
The World Cup is over, but it left a tentatively flag-waving Germany divided and unsettled, writes Daniel Nethery in Berlin
Books & arts
13 July 2010
Norman Abjorensen reviews Mary Heimann’s revisionist history of Prague
International
1 July 2010
Is the thaw in relations between Poland and Russia sustainable? The Polish presidential election campaign and recent trends in Russian foreign policy highlight the key factors in…
23 June 2010
The new British government began slashing spending this week. Meanwhile, Labour is left with the problem of defining what it stands for, writes Frank Bongiorno
27 May 2010
Britain’s voters have forced a two-party system to begin to operate by a three-party logic. And it’s about to get even more interesting, writes David Hayes
International
14 May 2010
Germans aren’t really opposed to the Greek bail-out, they’re just nostalgic for a half-imagined past, writes Klaus Neumann
14 May 2010
The deaths in Athens last week raise profound questions about the state of Greece, writes Giannis Efthymiou, who was among the protesters on 5 May