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Issue 168 March 2010

Brussels diary: the French vs Ashton


24th February 2010 - Issue 168

All is not going according to plan for the new incumbents of the EU’s top jobs. But are the Tories coming round to Europe?

Issue 167 February 2010

Brussels diary


24th February 2010 - Issue 167

There’s much jostling for the limelight as the EU’s new leaders bid to make their presence felt

Issue 166 January 2010

Romania's gallows humour


24th February 2010 - Issue 166 Free entry

Twenty years on from the fall of Ceausescu, Romanian filmmakers are finally learning how to make people laugh about their country’s dark past

Issue 165 December 2009

Neither shy, nor retiring


24th February 2010 - Issue 165

Our ex-PM has achieved little since leaving No 10. EU rejection will make him more determined

Brussels diary


24th February 2010 - Issue 165

The next president of the EU is unlikely to be Tony Blair. Think low-key Benelux man

Political notes


24th February 2010 - Issue 165

The Tory leader tries to placate his sceptical troops by picking symbolic fights with Eurocrats. Sound familiar?

The lion and the tiger


24th February 2010 - Issue 165 Free entry

Armenia excels at chess. Its top player now has a shot at becoming world champion. How did this tiny country become a giant at the game?

Issue 164 November 2009

Hungary's house of terror


24th February 2010 - Issue 164 Free entry

Hungary's public arraignment of its 20th-century crimes marks it out from the rest of Europe. But remembering the past can be divisive

Twenty years in the making


24th February 2010 - Issue 164

Despite the grumblings of a few sidelined intellectuals and the lingering sense that east Germans are second-class citizens, the former GDR has come an amazingly long way