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Staying power
In 2014 Romanians will have the right to work throughout the EU. Will everyone leave? The locals insist they want to stay and fix their nation.
x10 essay
As we leave one year behind and head into the next, 10 writers and academics ponder the issues that have pre-occupied us in 2013 and the ones that will crop up in 2014.
Observation
A city can’t improve its hand with ‘programming’, says Tyler Brûlé – real change in 2014 will be down to people and politics.
Expo. 69: Growing apart
Kashgar may look like just another chinese boomtown but the city is riven with ethnic tensions. monocle visits a frontier where tradition is clashing with change.
You’re welcome
With a shortage of workers and an ageing population, Germany is turning to migrants. Monocle meets the keen Vietnamese students learning German as they prepare for a new career abroad.
Present company
For someone delivering billions of presents and travelling more than 175 million miles in one night, Santa Claus looks in great shape when Monocle meets him at his home in Lapland.
Shock and ore
What lies beneath the surface of Greenland could bring enormous wealth to the island. But it threatens both the traditional way of life and the centuries-old link to Denmark.
Africa/Middle East
The flight path from Nairobi to Guangzhou and Lebanon's tourism troubles.
Cold feat
Building in an environment where temperatures drop to minus 30C is no easy thing. In Svalbard, architects embrace the challenge, designing unique developments from science centres to charming multicoloured ‘spisshus’ houses.
Small is beautiful
Nordnes, in central Bergen, is attracting a new generation of creative types – who don’t mind a lack of private space.
