Best Columns - Europe
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United Kingdom: A new face in British politics
feature With the help of voters aching for change, Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, is challenging the usual trajectory of British politics.
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Poland: An unfathomable loss
feature When President Lech Kaczynski’s plane crashed in western Russia, Poland lost not only its president but also many of the nation's top leaders.
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Europe: What the ash cloud can teach us
feature One lesson Europe learned while beset by a cloud of ash is that its business leaders are more resourceful than its politicians.
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Germany: Embarrassed by a German pope
feature Germans feel betrayed by Pope Benedict XVI, who recently lifted the excommunication of Holocaust denier Richard Williamson.
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Bulgaria: A Kafkaesque encounter with Customs
feature We may have shed communism, but we still have a byzantine bureaucracy reminiscent of that era, said Elenko Elenkov in Dnevnik.
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United Kindom: Defending the right to be a bigot
feature Which is more important, gay rights or property rights? asked Neil Midgley in The Daily Telegraph.
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Iceland: Balking at paying back foreigners
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Spain: Prosecuting a judge who championed victims
feature Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who pursued criminals from other countries, will be tried this summer for investigating the abuses of the Franco era in contravention of a 1977 amnesty law.
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European Union: Everybody’s mad at the bankers
feature Europeans have taken to the streets because they believe they are footing the bill for the banking crisis.
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European Union: Held hostage by Russia’s Gazprom
feature The dispute between Russia and Ukraine over gas prices has ramifications for the European Union because its supply comes from pipelines that cross Ukraine.
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Guantánamo detainees: Not in Europe’s backyard
feature The complications Europeans discovered discussing a proposal to take Guantánamo detainees off President Obama's hands
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Europe: The persecution of Roman Polanski
feature Acting on a warrant from an overzealous U.S. prosecutor, Swiss authorities arrested the director of Rosemary’s Baby and The Pianist as he arrived in Zurich last week to accept a lifetime achiev
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Italy: Berlusconi is not going quietly
feature Italy’s top court has stripped Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of his immunity from prosecution, clearing the way for several corruption cases against him to go forward.
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Did the U.S. break trust with Karadzic?
feature Radovan Karadzic says the U.S. gave him a “gentlemen’s agreement” not to prosecute him for war crimes as long as he retired from public life, said Milos Vasic in Vreme.
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