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Sexist menu row sparks national debate in Italy
News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.
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The EU must act now to avoid ‘Polexit’
Huge crowds may have gathered to oppose ‘Polexit’, but the gauntlet thrown down by the country’s populist government still poses an existential threat to the union.
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Weird Europe: Miss Belarus publicly pledges allegiance to president
Pictures emerged showing the winner posing with other models in the colours of the opposition.
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Weird Europe: Toy firm just can’t bear losing Angela Merkel
News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.
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The war on journalism and the EU’s battle for its core identity
Press freedom is under assault across our continent – including the murder of journalists. Misha Glenny reports on how journalism, an essential element of democracy, is threatened.
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Weird Europe: Annual Montenegro laziness championships are underway
News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.
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Everyday Philosophy: Our need for compassion… and a degree of calculation
NIGEL WARBURTON, one of the world’s most-read philosophers, on the 'Trolley Problem' and why life is more complex than the theory suggests.
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Poland’s war on its own press
The country’s media is being forced back to the dark days of the Iron Curtain, warns ex-Europe minister DENIS MACSHANE, a former journalist once arrested in Warsaw by the communist authorities
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Rabbits win court battle against French army
The continent's strangest news, including a colony of rabbits winning a court battle against the French military and an alleged fraudster with a gold toilet
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How Poland’s Bjork escaped Pop Idol
How can pop respond to politics? With this year’s album BRUT, Polish alt-pop star Brodka has provided an object lesson, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK
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The sport that Britain left behind
Why did Britain fall out of love with speedway, and how did Poland take over as the sport’s new spiritual home? Not so long ago, the start of the British speedway season would have been big news. That wasn’t the case this week, when the first of this year’s Covid-delayed league fixtures took place. Speedway was, at one […]
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What’s really behind Britain’s endless flag debate?
Flags have dominated the news agenda in recent weeks as debates about national identity rumble on. If you’ve only been casually checking into the news – and after the few years we have all had, who could blame you? – you might be forgiven for thinking that the world is suddenly quiet. What other possible reason […]
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How the coronavirus created a new iron curtain
Despite attempts to bridge it since the fall of the Iron Curtain, the chasm between Eastern and Western Europe remains wide. The pandemic has pushed the two regions even further apart. No-one better embodies the liberation of Central and Eastern Europe from Communism than Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright, dissident and first democratically-elected president of the modern era. […]
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What singles out the populists of Poland and Hungary
An analysis of European populism explores why it has established deepest roots in two former Iron Curtain states. Authoritarian populists almost doubled their share of electoral votes across Europe between 2001 and 2018 – from 11.8% to 22.3%, according to Swedish think-tank the Timbro institute. There was then a decline after, but it is too […]
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Lech Walesa and the making of modern Poland
Lech Walesa helped create modern Poland. Thirty years after he came to power, MICK O’HARE reports on a complex character and his even more complex legacy When Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party was re-elected in October 2019 under prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki it was on a ticket of more of the same. More right-wing […]