Wednesday 22 May
A recent European Parliament directive regarding how restaurants can serve olive oil has resulted in ridicule – with better presentation, such initiatives could be flavour of the month.
Hungary’s foreign affairs minister discusses the challenges facing his country’s EU presidency, the importance of an increased role for central Europe and his government’s reputation for media bashing.
Saturday 17 October
Holed up in his office in Prague Castle, Václav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, is standing firm in his refusal to sign the Lisbon Treaty.
Tuesday 7 August
First there was Crosby, Stills and Nash. Then there was Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Perhaps, it’s time for a new supergroup. A diplomatic supergroup. Please welcome to the stage Bildt, Davutoglu and Patriota.
Wednesday 24 March
On 15 March, Canadian embassies and consulates around the world were subjected to rare displays of political theatre, much of it both angry and scantily clad.
Monday 2 November
By any standards, SomBy are not your typical visitors to a primary school. This northern Finnish band’s members sing in Sami, the native language of their part of Finland, and they wear brightly embroidered traditional…
Thursday 6 October
On the last stretch of the campaign before Poland’s parliamentary elections, which take place this Sunday, few pundits dare to predict the vote’s outcome, as opinion polls have swung back and forth over the past few weeks…
Tuesday 21 May
A visit to the Arctic Council meeting in Kiruna during last week showed that international diplomacy can be cool, sort of.
Saturday 26 December
From 1 January, EU legislation will come in to force essentially making the UK measurement the “acre” forbidden in all official literature.
Sunday 10 October
The plaques bolted to each of its five bulky printing units say it all: “Property of the United States Government Department of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor”.
Wednesday 12 October
Khreshchatyk Street. Kiev’s main drag, a soviet-era boulevard adorned with buildings in the neoclassical style so favoured by Stalin, is Ukraine in a nutshell.
Thursday 17 February
Josefa Iloilo, the former Fijian president whose scrapping of his island nation’s constitution cemented the grip of a 2006 military coup that isolated his country, has died aged 91.
Palestinians and Israelis are among the first intake at the new Euro-Mediterranean University. Embodying the ideals of Nicolas Sarkozy’s Mediterranean Union, it’s an attempt to create a new generation of cooperative leaders…
Sunday 20 February
Wintertime in Milan sees the city’s fashion-conscious reach for cashmere scarves and tailored furs to keep out the biting cold.
The elections, the people, the big ideas and the issues you'l be hearing more about in Europe in the year to come.
Thursday 28 June
I just got back from a two-week trip to Brazil and I was impressed with what’s happening there. We all know Brazil has been the motivating force in Latin America for a while.
Sunday 21 March
Holding mandarin oranges above their heads and unperturbed by the driving rain, they came out onto Kaliningrad’s Central Square yesterday in a mass protest against local governor Georgy Boos and their prime minister Vlad…
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