Best Columns - Europe
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Holy See: Cardinals turn on one another
feature The “Vatileaks” scandal has exposed the Vatican as a true “nest of vipers.”
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United Kingdom: Cameron falls hard for Obama
feature During the prime minister's visit to the U.S. last week, he acted like a “gooey schoolgirl” around the president.
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Turkey: Was the military really planning a coup?
feature The charges against the military were so outrageous as to be hard to believe.
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Spain: As economy dives, Catalonia wants out
feature Catalan President Artur Mas has promised to hold a referendum on breaking away from Spain.
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United Kingdom: Basking in an Olympic triumph
feature Thanks to a spectacularly successful Olympics, the U.K. is “bursting with patriotic pride.”
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Germany: Pimping out our cultural heritage
feature The Greeks, it turns out, are just doing out of necessity what the rest of us have done “out of greed," said Dieter Bartetzko at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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Greece: Raging against a looming default
feature Thousands of angry youths rioted after the Greek parliament passed another brutal austerity plan in order to receive a second bailout package from the EU.
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United Kingdom: Abandoning one of ours to Gitmo
feature It’s time for Foreign Secretary William Hague to “exert all possible pressure” on the U.S. to charge or release this British resident, said Kate Allen at The Independent.
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United Kingdom: Labeled a racist in first grade
feature The noble aim of stamping out racism has been perverted by an overzealous bureaucracy to the point that we now see “widespread, state-sponsored bullying of children,” said Melanie Phillips at the Daily Mail.
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Russia: Surprise! Putin wins election
feature Vladimir Putin was pronounced the winner of the presidential election with an implausible 65 percent of the vote.
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Britain: Is Prince William a conqueror?
feature Last week, Prince William, aka Flight Lt. Wales, was deployed with his unit to the Falkland Islands.
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Cyprus: Russia’s outpost in the Mediterranean
feature Does the EU realize that one of its members is, in effect, “an offshore colony of Russia”? asked Luke Harding at The Guardian.
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France: Honoring a movie star is just tacky
feature The whole affair is a sad reflection on France’s new “supermarket culture,” which Sarkozy has fostered with his lack of taste and love of bling, said Yves Michaud at Libération.
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Hungary: An authoritarian runs into resistance
feature The European Parliament is attempting to censure Hungary's Prime Minister for changes to the constitution that have led to increased governmental control over the country's democratic institutions.
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