World Affairs: Europe
Lead Feature
Serbia's divided society
Ahead of elections in Serbia on Sunday, Eric Gordy explains that the country going to the polls is split between those looking hopefully toward a European future and those looking vengefully back to the recent past
In europe
The French revolution
- By Paul Johnson
- 08 May
In May '68, Paul Johnson, the then editor of the New Statesman, extolled Parisian student power in an impassioned article, abridged here, entitled "The new spectre haunting Europe"
Old Spanish practices
- By Jason Webster
- 08 May
Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity
Henry Kamen
Yale University Press, 240pp, £25
Franco's win at Eurovision...
- By Jonathan Rice
- 07 May
How La La La pipped Congratulations to first place at the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest. But was General Franco involved in thwarting Cliff Richard?
Political will is a renewable resource
- By Mark Lynas
- 01 May
Germany has 200 times more solar power installed than the UK - and this is not because Germany gets any more sun
From Stalin to saints
- By Tom Blass
- 01 May
Tom Blass finds jaunty funeral parlours and newly restored monasteries and mosques in rural Albania
Feature
Power to the people
South Korea has just held its first jury trial,Japan is planning to reinstate juries next year, Russia is experimenting and even China is toying with the idea. And in Britain?
More in europe
Killing communism
- By Mary Dejevsky
- 01 May 2008
Goodbye to the Reich
- By William Cook
- 24 April 2008
Age of empires
- By Salil Tripathi
- 24 April 2008
Keeping it real
- By Steve Waters
- 17 April 2008
Modern fitba, eh?
- By Hunter Davies
- 17 April 2008
Beyond the appellation
- By Roger Scruton
- 17 April 2008
What Islam did for Europe
- By Jason Webster
- 17 April 2008
