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Slovakia: Where everyone speaks Slovak—or else
feature In a fit of “nationalist demagoguery,” the Slovak government has just outlawed the speaking of anything but Slovak in most government offices and places of business, said László Tamás Papp
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United Kingdom: Should a ‘Great Train Robber’ go free?
feature Ronnie Biggs, one of the Great Train Robbers, was freed from prison on “compassionate grounds” to spend his last days with his family.
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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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Germany: A silly stunt to expose racism
feature It’s all very well to expose what you believe to be the latent racism of the German people, but let’s at least be fair about it, said Eckhard Fuhr in Die Welt.
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France and Ireland: Foul play at the World Cup
feature In a blatant foul that went unremarked by the referee, French captain Thierry Henry hit the ball with his hand toward a teammate, who then scored the winning goal.
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Germany: Still divided by an invisible wall
feature Political freedom hasn't been matched by economic freedom. Twenty years later, most East Germans still earn much less money than West Germans.
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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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United Kingdom: When it’s okay to sleep with a student
feature Do you believe that a female teacher sleeping with a male student is as bad as a male teacher sleeping with a girl? asked Barbara Ellen in The Observer.
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Switzerland: No more minarets allowed
feature Swiss voters defied most religious and political leaders and voted to amend their constitution to ban the construction of minarets.
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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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Switzerland: The end of banking secrecy?
feature The Swiss have “capitulated to American pressure” and compromised their famous principle of banking secrecy, says Gerd Zitzelsberger in Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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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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Netherlands: Why the Turks are so easily insulted
feature Turkey is offended by the Dutch authorities' findings that technical problems and pilot error caused the plane crash at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, said Marc Guillet and Axel Veldhuijzen in Algemeen Dagbla
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France: Back in NATO after 43 years
feature President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that France would rejoin NATO's military command structure, ending the pullback Charles de Gaulle initiated in 1966.
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