Best Columns - Europe
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Spain: Why the Socialists won again
feature The Socialists have been re-elected
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Turkey: Islamist-leaning party gets a new lease on life
feature Turkey's Constitutional Court affirmed the country's democracy by allowing the AKP to continue in power while warning it to stop introducing Islam into public life.
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Where nobody wants to park and ride
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Smoking in public: Who else is ready to quit?
feature This should be interesting, said Sevim Song
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Best columns: E.U.: Picking up the pieces after Ireland votes ‘no’
feature Will the leaders of the European Union accept Ireland's rejection of the Treay of Lisbon or will they come up with new proposals?
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Britain: A tussle with Russia over Shakespeare—and spies
feature The Russians are up in arms over a staid British cultural center that promotes Shakespeare, said Ben Macintyre in the London Times. The British Council is hardly a threatening institution. Founded in the 1930s to promote “British ideas about education, sc
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Ukraine: Was the Soviet-era famine genocide?
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Debating the merits of the Third Reich; The thugs who won’t go away
feature Debating the merits of the Third Reich; The thugs who won’t go away
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Great Britain: Where every child will learn about sex
feature The British government has announced that all pupils, from kindergarten through high school, will be taught sex education.
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Western Europe: Is the recession over?
feature Statistics just released from the second quarter of this year show growth of 0.3 percent, though the gain was driven more by consumer spending than by corporate investment.
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France: Will Chirac stand trial at last?
feature Jacques Chirac has been ordered to stand trial for corruption now that he is out of office and no longer enjoys presidential immunity.
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International justice: An accused war criminal fights back
feature Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who is defending himself at his war crimes trial in The Hague, failed to show up on the first day of the trial.
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Germany and France: Old wars, new attitudes
feature Angela Merkel joined Nicolas Sarkozy to celebrate Armistice Day, the first time a German leader has ever participated in French ceremonies to mark the end of World War I.
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Europe: Crisis pits East against West
feature At an E.U. summit last weekend, German Chancellor Angela Merkel nixed a bailout for Eastern European countries, saying Western Europe would help on a case-by-case basis.
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