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Italy: Has Berlusconi finally gone too far?
feature The wife of the 73-year-old Italian prime minister touched off a scandal when she revealed her husband's relationship with an 18-year-old aspiring model.
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Ireland: Blurring the meaning of ‘alcoholic’
feature The push to relabel alcoholism as “alcohol dependence” threatens to water down the term until it loses its kick, said Declan Lynch in the Irish Independent.
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United Kingdom: Tabloid journalism gone wild
feature Are the Guardian, the BBC, and The Labor Party milking the scandal over the sleazy reporting tactics of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World?
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United Kingdom: Run by unelected ‘quangocrats’
feature In Britain a movement is afoot to purge the country of quangos, the “quasi-autonomous non-government organizations” that handle much of the nation's day-to-day governing.
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European Union: Why voters are so disenchanted
feature Economic unease contributed to the low voter turnout for the recent European Parliament elections.
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Switzerland: Shamed into accepting an Iraqi refugee
feature The Justice Minister of Switzerland intervened at the last moment to cancel the deportation of Fahad K., an Iraqi who worked as a translator for the U.S. Army in Baghdad and starred in a movie about Switzerland's poor treatment of refugees.
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Northern Ireland: Refusing to let the terrorists win
feature Both of the main parties in Northern Ireland's power-sharing government condemned the murders of two British soldiers and one police officer by IRA splinter groups.
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Britain: Where children are a low priority
feature A report in Britain, A Good Childhood: Searching for Values in a Competitive Age, has ignited a debate over the state of child rearing.
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Germany: Paying people to buy cars is absurd
feature Dealerships across Germany are crowded with eager buyers, thanks to a $3,500 subsidy from the government, said Bernward Janzing in die tageszeitung.
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United Kingdom: Fallout from a sleazy scandal
feature Damian McBride, until recently Prime Minister Gordon Brown's chief political strategist, was caught making up lies and planting gossip about senior Conservative politicians and their wives.
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Ireland: The church scandal becomes a national disgrace
feature From the 1930s to the 1990s, tens of thousands of Irish children were tortured and enslaved in schools run by the Catholic Church, according to a government report released last week.
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Britain: Should the rich pay higher taxes?
feature Under the budget announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, people earning more than about $220,000 will have a tax rate of 50 percent.
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Germany: The surprising foes of reunification
feature Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we now know that some Western leaders tried to prevent it.
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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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