An ethnic minority debacle in Poland, election watch Portugal and a banknote overhaul in Sweden.

Commuters take to the water in Stockholm, the Italian prime minister tackles corruption and Slovenians get ready to go to the polls.

Vladimir Putin's motorcade, a revamp of Paris's Place de la République, and elections in Lithuania.

The British Queen's motorcade, a European space ship, the first direct flights between Russia and Brazil and the Turkish prime minister's branding potential

How Sarkozy wings it in Me and My Motorcade, plus Luxembourg goes to the polls and bar room blues hit the UK.

London's mayoral election, shenanigans in the Spanish royal family, and why people are leaving Portugal.

Greece is grumpy with Macedonia (again), Moscow's mad with illegal taxi drivers, and Poles are pleased about new Warsaw skyscraper.

Stockholm starts doing it for the kids, Helsinki talks rubbish, and Turkey stops smoking.

What's next for Berlin's Tegel airport, the growing problem of guns in France and windpower goes quiet in Sweden

A NATO shipping deal looks set to provide some welcome good news in Latvia, how a think tank is shaking up German politics, and France's pioneering stance on transsexuality.

We get to grips with the Belgian PM's colourful sense of style. Plus a Q&A with European Commissioner Karel de Gucht and news from Lisbon and Liechtenstein.

How Greenland's prime minister gets around his icy territory and how the Swedes have found a way to grow vegetables vertically. Switzerland considers removing minarets and the power of a good hairstyle on Ukraine's Yulia…

The Popemobile and the other vehicles in Benedict XVI's motorcade, and how wealthy Germans can prepare for armageddon.

The motorcade of the Greek prime minister plus reports on growing marijuana in Spain and spuds in Ireland.

The Prince of Monaco's motorcade, the UK's looming referendum and an upset over the "Made in Italy" tag.

Sweden cracks down on "sickies", Hungary's and Slovakia's war of words, and Paris trials electric-car sharing.

Relations between Poland and Russia thaw, the new get-out-of-jail card for pious prisoners in Georgia, plus Malta's version of the World Cup - for nations that don't exist.

Why the Chinese premier is eyeing up Reykjavik as an Arctic foothold, and what the Spanish Ministry of Defence's Centre for Gender has to teach the world.

What Finland's president, Tarja Halonen, has in her motorcade, why Russia's building boom has hit the brakes, and how the Vatican is doing its bit in the fight against climate change.

The view from London after the recent riots, plus why Portugal wants more pensioners, and Switzerland's impending election.