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Defence
Nato's ballistic-missile defence installation in Romania and a cause for celebration for animal rights activists.
Woman of fire
The desire to be the best set Tina Maze on the slopes to become a world-champion skier and Slovenia’s top athlete. She tells Monocle about her long journey to the top.
Europe
The rise of the (well-dressed) left in Spain, religious furore in Austria and making tracks in Warsaw.
Toast to the hosts
This issue, Monocle attends to hospitality in all its guises: from the sharp end of a warzone to ritzy ambassadorial parties. Plus: how top designers are delivering service lessons in style.
Against the tide
It’s the last great state-owned passenger line, ferrying people around the vast Indonesian archipelago. But with low-cost airlines snapping at its heels it must change course.
Africa/Middle East
The president who favours a practical 4x4 over a supercar and why Mali is a farming mecca.
Southern comfort
Post-Katrina New Orleans is rebuilding itself as a contemporary art capital, with biennials, artist-run galleries and a new generation of talent reshaping the city's cultural identity.
Group think
As urbanists around the world devise new approaches to better everyday living, we highlight three projects in Japan, Sweden and Singapore taking a fresh perspective.
Expo 80: Life of the party
When an embassy opens its doors for parties, it's a chance to showcase national cuisine and hospitality. These events are a key tool for networking and displaying a country's unique brand of soft power.
Cooking the books
How do you train a workforce that values manual work, is self-reliant, accommodating to both men and women and, above all, hospitable? In Finland it starts with a simple premise: biscuits.
