INGLESE SENZA SFORZO

The Roma affair is evidence of an existential crisis in the European Union. A Romanian editorialist argues that it highlights the degree to which certain governments, on the look-out for easy votes, now hold the EU and its values in contempt. Ovidiu Nahoi...

"La landa desolata", titola l'Independent dopo la pubblicazione delle statistiche sull'aumento inatteso delle richieste di sussidi di disoccupazione in Gran Bretagna. Ad agosto le domande sono aumentate – 2.300 in più – per la prima volta dal dicembre...

Il Belgio è rimasto profondamente turbato dalla pubblicazione del rapporto finale della commissione istituita dalla chiesa belga per indagare sui reati di pedofilia commessi da preti cattolici tra gli anni cinquanta e ottanta. Le testimonianze delle vittime...

"Missione improbabile", titola l'Independent a proposito della visita di Benedetto XVI a Londra. Secondo il quotidiano è difficile che il papa riesca a convincere i britannici ad abbandonare il materialismo per abbracciare la vita spirituale. Niente di...

Threatened with legal action by the Commission, with precious little backing from her neighbours, France is suffering the fallout from her president’s bellicose anti-Roma rhetoric. But the other Roma-deporting countries could conceivably help her out...

Quando avvenne quel suono, la folla si raccolse e fu confusa, perché ciascuno li udiva parlare nella propria lingua. E tutti stupivano e si meravigliavano, dicendo: "Tutti questi che parlano non sono Galilei? Come mai li udiamo parlare ciascuno nella...

There is no doubt that France is wrong to deport members of a largely powerless minority from its territory, but a Romanian writer suggests the Rom community will have to give up the negative thinking that has made it vulnerable in Romania and elsewhere...

by Robert Brookes, swissinfo.ch The financial crisis is not yet under control and efforts to solve it leave “a lot to be desired”, the secretary-general of the Swiss Private Bankers Association says. Michel Dérobert tells swissinfo.ch that while the main...

Cows and sheep produce not only milk and cheese: they also produce the greenhouse gas methane. Swiss scientists have turned their attention to the problem, and are investigating the possibility of modifying the animals’ diet to stop them producing so...

On 7 September Europe’s 27 member states approved plans for the launch of European authorities to supervise banks, insurers and financial markets. However, De Standaard argues that the new watchdogs have not been provided with the resources they will...

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has demanded 5 billion euros from Europe, and unless he gets what he wants, he has threatened to stop policing the Mediterranean for illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa in search of a better life in Europe. Isn't this...

US political scientist Charles Kupchan’s pronouncement of the death of the EU has caused quite a stir in Europe. The handling of the euro crisis shows, however, that, despite all the recent trials and tribulations, EU integration is still forging ahead,...

A wave of protest has overrun Germany. People everywhere are coming out against politicians’ pet projects. Democracy seems alive and kicking, but oftentimes self-interest and the general welfare collide head-on. And this naysaying spree could stymie the...

As the number two power in the global economy, China's rapid development is a major worry for the other high-stakes players like the United States and Europe. However, China's growth is beneficial to European companies, and like Japan in the 1970's and...

Only two of the EU’s 115 ambassadors come from central Europe, all the rest come from Old Europe. As the "Foreign Affairs ministry" gets up and running, Poland warns that it will not tolerate the stitch-up. Zbigniew Parafianowicz The EU’s foreign policy...

Komarno and Komarom are twin towns divided by the Danube and centuries of rancour between Slovaks and Hungarians. But this flashpoint of nationalist tension that spilled over into an international incident last year is not all what it seems... Hélène...

The clocks run backwards in the Ukraine: hardly six months have elapsed since the last elections and nearly nothing remains of the “Democratic Awakening” that rocked the nation in 2004. Writer Yuri Andrukhovych depicts the “internal occupation” of his...