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Radar station for US anti-missile defence on Czech soil?

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But it hadn’t banked on such a large opposition from two thirds of the population and such an angry reaction from its future neighbours. A return to the cold war?

by Agnès Baritou // 30/04/08

FEATURE
Generation-P in Europe also counts 'Generazione Mille Euro' in Italie (photo:www.generazione1000.com)

Exploiting unpaid interns: rites of passage?

Associations like Generation Precarity or Fairwork expose an exploited flexible labour force with intermittent incomes and no job security

by Farah Boucherak // 28/04/08

Mujahideen Khan: 'we do not know who the Taliban is right now'

Afghanistan remains a huge challenge for NATO. Whilst officials met in the Bucharest's Parliament Palace from 2-4 April, a group of Estonian journalists cast an eye back with a mujahideen in the Afghan mountains

by Kadri Kukk & Nabeelah Shabbir // 08/04/08

FEATURE

Batman, goats and internet in Cavas do Monte, Portugal

The living conditions in the north Portuguese mountaintops of S. Pedro do Sul have hardly changed in hundreds of years. Bit by bit, however, the uniting, modernising world is moving in, and the children are moving out

by Laura Daub // 26/03/08

(Photos: Javier Delgado Rivera)

Esplanade of L'Europe in Brussels: more rubbish than town planning

A space without appeal next to Brussels South railway station is far from what we expect from the capital of Europe

by Javier Delgado Rivera // 20/03/08

INVESTIGATION
Las Vegas yes, but in Spain (Photo: Christopher Chan/ Flickr)

Gran Scala – Spain’s new Las Vegas

Europe’s largest construction project is an amusement park in Los Monegros. It is in competition with Expo Zaragoza 2008, whose main focus is on raising awareness of sustainable water development

by Alma López Figueiras // 19/03/08

INTERVIEW

Didier Awadi: 'Artists too often have big egos'

The Senegalese hip hop pioneer, 38, invites his fellow rappers to speak out and campaign for a harmonious continent with his latest album 'Presidents of Africa'. Plus an exclusive video interview from Dakar

by Alexandre Polack // 25/01/08

FEATURE
Luxury mile in Tallinn (Photo: Adriano Farano)

Risk factor 'boomtown'

Liberal reforms over the past decade have catapulted Estonia into one of the fastest-growing market economies of the European Union. But can the Baltic tiger keep up on the social agenda?

by Ruth Bender // 12/09/07

FEATURE

Estonian economy: between crash landing and Baltic summer

11% growth, 4.5% unemployment and a lot of liberalism: how the Baltic Tiger catches investors. Inflation means the euro won't be in place before 2012

by Adriano Farano // 12/09/07

Butrint National Park : discover albanian beauties (Photo: François Vecchi Muller)

Albania - El Dorado for tour operators

Insular for a long time, Albania has not always been a prime destination for travel agents. The current tourist craze for the Adriatic could benefit this little country on the Yugoslav peninsula

by François Vecchi Muller // 11/09/07

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by ma.ri // 24/09/07




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