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Thursday 29 July
The immigration clamp-down
At the Mexican Embassy on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, the date 29 July had been marked on calendars for months.
Thursday 29 July
At the Mexican Embassy on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, the date 29 July had been marked on calendars for months.
Thursday 5 May
Hungary has a new constitution – but it could cause more problems than it solves on the diplomatic front.
Wednesday 30 January
Closed attitudes to immigration in Europe mean that promoting its nations has taken a strange turn.
Tuesday 14 September
Thilo Sarrazin’s departure from the Bundesbank last week provided a rare moment of consensus between Germany’s political parties.
Thursday 15 December
The air is filled with the scent of freshly baked cakes and the sound of klezmer music.
To round off our series on the foreign media’s coverage of the US presidential campaigns, we talk to Armando Guzmán of Mexico’s TV Azteca about crossed wires and counter immigration.
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.
Monday 29 October
It’s that time of year when cities around the world become draped in fake cobwebs and pretend they’re American.
Waves of 20th-century immigrants from Finland have made Thunder Bay the most Finnish city beyond the Baltic. Can the next generation hold on to the sauna spirit?
How to choose yourself a Swedish name and a fishy story from Moscow.
US voters are perceived as being oblivious to the world outside their country. But war, immigration and an increasingly globalised economy mean that foreign affairs will play a bigger part in the 2008 election than they…
What your moustache says about your politics (if your Turskish), why Germany has its eyes on the Eurotunnel and why mint is flavour of the month in Finland.
Tuesday 4 May
Add Shakira and Gloria Estefan to the list of public figures riled by Arizona’s new immigration law.
Tuesday 13 July
When they first began arriving in the country in 2005, Sudan’s war-weary Darfuri refugees posed a serious problem for Israeli immigration authorities.
The new year unfolds but the same problems exist for those wanting to start afresh: obstacles to immigration and barriers to business development, writes Tyler Brûlé.
Monocle meets the Maltese prime minister to talk about how his small country is dealing with the influx of immigrants from North Africa, his views on the Libya conflict and his vision for transforming Malta into a modern…
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