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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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Cyprus: A bank bailout through confiscation
feature Bailing out Cyprus was bound to be “messy and hard to achieve,” but no one expected it to be this bad.
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Britain: Members of Parliament abuse expense accounts
feature The British are enraged by the expenses claimed by members of Parliament, details of which were leaked to the Daily Telegraph by a whistleblower.
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Italy: One sex scandal too many for Berlusconi?
feature Italians are becoming fed up with Silvio Berlusconi's sexual antics.
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United Kingdom: Who failed a murdered girl?
feature In a “horrific honor killing,” a Muslim couple murdered their 17-year-old daughter for refusing a forced marriage in Pakistan.
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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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Behind the crackdown on the Roma
feature Italians have finally lost patience with the half-million migrants from Romania who now live among them, said Julius M
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United Kingdom: No more sexism in the monarchy
feature At a summit of the 16 nations of the British Commonwealth, the heads of government abolished the principle of male primogeniture.
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Europe: The end of the cushy civil service job
feature By the end of this year, the collective debt of EU countries will equal their combined gross domestic product.
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