Lars Langenau
Süddeutsche Zeitung
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United Kingdom: No army can fight in the fog of lawfeature King Henry V may have been a hero to Shakespeare, but he’d be a war criminal in today’s Britain.
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Turkey: Mass trial ends in mass convictions
feature Many Turkish lawmakers say the Ergenekon trial was nothing but an excuse for the prime minister to put away his rivals and silence his critics.
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France: Hollande’s zigzag presidency
feature Now that a law in favor of gay marriage is actually being drafted, we’re seeing the president’s will buckle.
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Poland: History’s verdict is finally in
feature The generals who declared a “state of war” and sent tanks into the streets in 1981 have now been held accountable for perpetrating a national trauma, said Agaton Kozinski at Polska.
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Spain: Is Basque terrorism really history?
feature The Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, or Basque Homeland and Freedom, announced last week that it was giving up violence.
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Belarus: Where even clapping is illegal
feature It has dawned on Lukashenko that the clapping crowds that have begun appearing recently, seemingly expressing approval of his government, are actually “being sarcastic,” said Nicola Lombardozzi at La Repubblica.
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France: The burka ban comes into force
feature Many Frenchmen doubt the National Assembly's law against the covering of the face while in public will be fully enforced.
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Switzerland: We’re keeping our guns
feature The Swiss rejected a new gun-control law that would have forced them to turn in their army-issue guns for storage in public arsenals.