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Brian Aldiss: 'I told Kubrick it was impossible he make a film of my story'

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Aldiss in his office (Photos: Nicholas Newman)

The British science fiction author, 82, on working with Hollywood greats, being caned for 'telling stories' at school and Europe being a 'wonderful idea'

by Nicholas Newman // 13/07/07

Philippe Waechter (Photo: PW)

Inflation: 'the convergence of eastern and western prices will have to wait 20 years'

What do you Europeans really think of rising prices and inflation in the Eurozone?

by Tomás Gades // 13/07/07

FOCUS
N 340 sparks (Photo: Egaldun/ Flickr)

Let’s all go for a drive

60% of Europeans choose the summertime to escape from their daily routine and go on holiday. Of those, 55% take their car according to Eurostat

by Fernando García Acuña // 12/07/07

(Illustration: Henning Studte)

It's clear as mud that the Pope is Catholic

by anke wagner-wolff // 11/07/07

REVIEW

2 Days in Paris: 'the French are apparently perfect'

Julie Delpy’s multicultural comedy with bite, starring her parents, US actor Adam Goldberg and Germany’s Daniel Brühl, opens in French cinemas on 11 July. Reviews from both sides of the Rhein

by Nathalie Six/ Karsten Marhold // 11/07/07

ANALYSIS
(Photo: GA)

Hands off Greek universities!

The Greek government has approved a series of reforms intended to modernise its university system, including the opening of private institutions and placing a limit on the maximum study period. However, the students are protesting

by Giovanni Angioni // 10/07/07

FEATURE
A job fit for an immigrant (Photo: Zotosi/ Flickr)

Illegal immigrants ignored by Athenians

At the crossroads of East and West, Athens has become the terminus of many migration routes. The Albanian community, the most numerous, is also the most stigmatised in Greece. It all stems from a misunderstanding

by Sébastien Daycard-Heid // 10/07/07

Enki Bilal and his heroine (Photo: JB)

Enki Bilal: 'My cartoons evoke a past out of step with reality'

The Czech-Bosnian cartoonist, 55, weaves between cartoons, cinema and geopolitics, taking his readers on a trip into a futuristic universe where political commitment is key

by Prune Antoine // 07/07/07

REVIEW
Museum Fridericianum (Photo: Julia Zimmermann/ documenta GmbH)

Documenta 12: the web of art

A round trip of Germany’s most important exhibition for contemporary art, 'Documenta 12', which asks questions and tightens the link between avant-garde and the viewer

by Anika Kloss // 05/07/07

INTERVIEW
Two immigrants of north African origin at Paris' Place Concorde, after right-wing candidate Sarkozy won the May 2007 presidential elections(Photo: Charles Fred/ Flickr)

'France does not look at itself'

The latest right-wing French government has appointed three top politicans with immigrant backgrounds. But the nation’s political personnel still accounts less and less for the products of immigration, says Karim Zéribi, former advisor to French Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement

by Max Disbeaux et Markus F. Gläser // 04/07/07

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