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Why Italy’s beaches became a battleground this summer
Italian beachgoers are experiencing spiralling fees and shrinking free sand. As debate rages, the question is whether the coastline is for the people – or for profit?
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New US legislation aimed at reducing social media addiction
Alexis Self on the brave souls determined to break children’s digital fixations. Ready for the fight?
Three solutions-focused professionals tell us how they are rethinking the way we live
From the future of city living to how smaller states can make themselves heard, a landscape architect, a Polish journalist and a former president of Armenia share their thoughts.
Interview: Kyriakos Mitsotakis on his hopes for Athens
Now well into his second term in office, Greece’s prime minister tells us about re-establishing moderate, modernising politics in the country and how Athens can wield influence in Europe and beyond.
Exercise Red Flag: A multinational aerial combat training designed to simulate the ‘chaos of combat’
As the need for nimbler, more agile air forces grows, the US and its allies are perfecting the art of mid-air refuelling.
Unarmed and dangerous: Evaluating the effectiveness of Hybrid COE
Petri Burtsoff on the body helping the West to react to hybrid warfare – and why a firmer response is needed.
How Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are laying down tracks for the future with the BTK railway
By plane, train and automobile, we take in the shifting allegiances within the Caucasus’s former-Soviet states.
Parks and recreation: The disquieting history of urbank parks built to make us factory-ready
Is green space bad? Des Fitzgerald explains how urban parks were designed to make promote industry – and why it’s not so different today.
Monocle joins Lithuania’s newest conscripts to find out how it defends Nato’s eastern flank
The plucky Baltic nation might be small but its proximity to Russia means that it is ramping up its military might.
How do America’s first responders train for the worst natural – or manmade – disasters?
Monocle visits the Federal Emergency Management Agency to observe a highly realistic (and disturbing) exercise in preparedness.
Compagnies républicaines de sécurité 8 – the mobile police unit countering urban violence
A new contingent of French riot police is armed, trained and controversial. Will they be called on when the Olympics roll into town?
