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EU: A Nobel Prize for keeping Europe at peace
feature The European Union has earned the award “a hundred times over,” though it comes at an inapt time.
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Italy: Can ‘Fonzie’ save the day?
feature This week Italians got their third unelected prime minister since Silvio Berlusconi stepped down in 2011.
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United Kingdom: Does the press need a royal muzzle?
feature “More than three centuries of press freedom” is suddenly at risk with the creation of a government-backed press watchdog.
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France: Tougher than anyone else on Iran
feature The French foreign minister “blew up the possibility of a compromise” with Iran over its nuclear facilities.
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Ukraine: Will Europe intervene?
feature The masses of protesters are no longer confined to Kiev—they’re all over the country.
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France: President Hollande can do no right
feature A teenage girl has revealed the weakness of French President François Hollande.
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Britain: A murderous child, a broken justice system
feature Jon Venables was 10 when he killed 2-year-old James Bulger. He was released from a juvenile facility at age 19. Now at 27, he has been sentenced to two years in prison for possession of child pornography.
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Czech Republic: The rise of the mail-order Russian groom
feature In surveys that measure this sort of thing, Russians currently come in third among the most attractive men in the world, “right after Italians and Americans,” said Petra Procházková in Lidové noviny.
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Britain: Why the Lockerbie bomber was pardoned
feature Was Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi released in exchange for a deal for the British oil group, BP?
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United Kingdom: Why do we hate our children?
feature A recent survey found that nearly half of respondents agreed that children today were “feral” and “like animals,” said Jenny McCartney at The Telegraph.
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Switzerland: Market woes among prostitutes
feature In the past decade, the number of registered prostitutes in Geneva, where the profession is legal and regulated, has more than quadrupled, said Carole Riegel at Le Temps.
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Belgium: Maybe we should just join France
feature The national elections three months ago “revealed two utterly different Belgiums,” said Hervé Bajart in Le Monde.
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United Kingdom: Threatening rape on Twitter
feature “Aggressive stalkers” are hounding British women on Twitter.
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Murder in the Alps: Who killed the al-Hilli family?
feature Investigators are struggling to find out the cause of a gruesome and strange murder near the village of Chevaline.
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