CULTURE
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Raphael up against the wall
In his 1918 poem Radovat’sia rano (It’s Too Early to Rejoice), Vladimir Mayakovsky, the most celebrated poet of his generation…
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Fortifying Europe | Eurozine
Security is on everybody’s minds and at the top of the political agenda across Europe, but if we are to…
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Europe and its victims | Eurozine
When I was invited to give this ‘Speech to Europe’ on Judenplatz, there was a personal reason why I was…
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Battle for the middle ground
European elections in the Nordic countries, especially the three EU member states – Denmark, Finland and Sweden – are often…
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Balkan realities | Eurozine
When Jean-Claude Juncker became president of the European Commission in 2014, he declared that accession negotiations would continue over the…
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Emergency in Slovakia | Eurozine
‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded. F. Hayek The assassination attempt…
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Goetz on ageing | Eurozine
Does antisemitism have roots in Islam? In the 900th edition of Merkur, Manfred Sing looks at the historical evidence and…
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Bracing for a populist surge
In all three Baltic states, the ubiquitous gloom stemming from Russia’s ongoing threat has firmed up the view of the…
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The Moscow connection | Eurozine
Kaja Puto: Where does the German left’s sympathy for Russia come from? Reinhard Bingener: In Germany, we have four leftwing…
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Warehousing children | Eurozine
From the public school superpower Finland to arch-capitalist Britain, education varies widely across Europe. Across this spectrum, one factor remains…
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