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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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United Kingdom: In bed with Russian oligarchs
feature The sanctions the European Union imposed on Russian officials are at best “a limited response” to Russia’s Crimea grab.
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Ukraine: Fascist coup or Russian invasion?
feature Crimean voters will confirm the decision to rejoin Russia in a referendum scheduled for March 16.
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United Kingdom: Can the BBC still be trusted?
feature The Jimmy Savile horror is still unfolding, and new scandals have come to light.
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Spain: Catalonia isn’t leaving yet
feature The call for Catalonia’s secession didn’t quite work out as planned.
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U.K. and Australia: Trading blame for a nurse’s suicide
feature A British nurse is dead thanks to two Australian DJs who called a hospital and pretended to be Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles inquiring after the health of the Duchess of Cambridge.
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France: Taxing the Internet to support the arts
feature President Sarkozy is considering levying a tax on Internet ad revenue earned by Google, Yahoo, and other major web companies in order to fund arts programs.
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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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Italy: An ‘Occupy’ movement turns bloody
feature In more than 80 countries, people marched in solidarity with New York’s Occupy Wall Street without incident, except in Italy, where the protest turned violent.
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Europe: Currency crisis threatens the continent
feature “Europe may no longer be able to save itself,” said Robert J. Samuelson in The Washington Post.
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Poland: History’s verdict is finally in
feature The generals who declared a “state of war” and sent tanks into the streets in 1981 have now been held accountable for perpetrating a national trauma, said Agaton Kozinski at Polska.
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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: Ruled by a tiny clique
feature The “self-proclaimed inventor of liberty and equality” is actually the most elitist country in Europe.
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Bulgarians and Romanians: Workers or moochers?
feature Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Union in 2007, but their citizens haven’t been allowed to work in most EU countries until now.
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