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Spain: Prosecuting a judge who championed victims
feature Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who pursued criminals from other countries, will be tried this summer for investigating the abuses of the Franco era in contravention of a 1977 amnesty law.
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Poland: Jail time for wearing a Che shirt?
feature Last week, the government amended the penal code to outlaw the display of communist symbols, said Marek Domagalski in Rzeczpospolita.
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Nationalizing banks: Europe shows the way
feature European finance ministers agreed to work together to inject billions of euros into struggling banks in hopes of restoring confidence in the financial system.
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United Kingdom: When a prince utters racial slurs
feature Prince Harry has put his foot in it again, said Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in The Independent.
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France: A justice minister shuns maternity leave
feature France's justice minister, Rachida Dati, is encountering criticism for returning to work just five days after giving birth by Caesarean section.
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Spain: Is the queen entitled to her opinion?
feature In an authorized biography published to coincide with her 70th birthday, Queen Sofia of Spain broke the monarchy's traditional silence on social issues by giving her opinion on everything from gay marriage to abortion.
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Europe: The persecution of Roman Polanski
feature Acting on a warrant from an overzealous U.S. prosecutor, Swiss authorities arrested the director of Rosemary’s Baby and The Pianist as he arrived in Zurich last week to accept a lifetime achiev
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Italy: Berlusconi is not going quietly
feature Italy’s top court has stripped Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of his immunity from prosecution, clearing the way for several corruption cases against him to go forward.
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Germany: A tragedy ends the Love Parade
feature Twenty people were crushed to death and more than 500 injured when panic broke out at the Love Parade festival in Duisberg.
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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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United Kingdom: How low can Fergie go?
feature A sting by a News of the World reporter captured Sarah Ferguson sellling access to Prince Andrew, Britain’s top international trade envoy, for $700,000.
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Germany: An anarchist soccer team playing to win
feature Only once in the past 15 years did the team win enough matches to make it into the top division of German soccer, said Lars Wallrodt in Die Welt.
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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: Pope’s visit generates reverence and revulsion
feature Pope Benedict XVI became the first pontiff to make a state visit to Britain.
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