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Puff marijuana, not tobacco in Holland’s coffee shops

In front | FOCUS
End of an Amsterdam era? (Photo: ©Rubira/ Flickr)

The anti-smoking law takes effect from 1 July in The Netherlands

by Britta Kuck // 23/06/08

(Photo: KK)

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

ANALYSIS
Role play in Veracruz, Mexico (Photo/ homepage: Garp B/ Flickr)

As drugs and violence rise, Mexico's democratic hopes fall

Mexicans are losing confidence in their institutions, justice is absent, women are murdered and narcotics traffickers keep the pressure on an increasingly violent society

by Thibault Blin // 05/03/08

NEWS
Doing exams (Photo: Xufa/ Flickr)

Cocaine Spain

plus the never-ending story of Kosovo

by Ivana Petricevic // 26/11/07

INVESTIGATION
Breaking the rules on the Ramblas (Photo: PDK)

Beer over Gaudi

In Barcelona, unlicensed street performers, sleeping on park benches and drinking and urinating on its streets is illegal. How has the civic by-law affected society one year on?

by Pim de Kuijer // 07/03/07

INTERVIEW
Tour de France 2005. The event was surrounded by doping controversy (Photo: Hada's55/ Flickr)

Sport: Brussels' Achilles Heel

As an international UNESCO convention on doping takes place in Paris, Pietro Mennea, Italian former Olympic champion, discusses the 'crime'

by Silvia Cravotta // 05/02/07

REVIEW
On the road (Photo: Clapfilms)

Transe ('Trance') - journey to hell

The controversial new film offering from Portuguese director Teresa Villaverde premieres in France on December 27

by Carles Matamoros Balasch // 22/12/06

Gilliam, l'enfant terrible (Photo: Miguel Ángel Chazo/ Jesús Paris)

Terry Gilliam – eternal youth

Terry Gilliam spent half his life in London, where he created Monty Python with a group of like-minded comedians. At 65, the actor-director’s spirits remain as imaginative and animated as ever

by Carles Matamoros Balasch // 22/12/06

FOCUS
The film 'Prinzessin' (Photo  Astrid Groborsch)

Girls hit cinema screens

Films about girls in the suburbs are all the rage in Europe

by Prune Antoine // 27/10/06

Pragmatism beats idealism among squatters

In the 1980s, a political movement of squatters changed the face of the Dutch capital. Today, young apolitical Eastern Europeans are joining the squatter movement

by Christian Lindner // 28/08/06

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