Posted 4 days ago

Following up to my earlier post, some discussion of the international reaction to Kosovar independence.At the moment, 43 countries have recognized Kosovo s independence. (I m defining country

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Posted 5 days ago

Day 1 of the French presidency of the European Council is off to a bad start. It now seems that both the Czech Republic and Poland will have constitutional struggles over the treaty, with presiden

Posted 5 days ago

Anybody who s interested in Kosovo has long since bookmarked this incredibly useful page. Scroll down a bit and you ll see that it lists every country that has recognized Kosovo (current tally: 4

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Posted 6 days ago

Middle-long, middle-brow article on European demographics in this weeks NY Times Magazine. (If it asks you for a login, try bugmenot.) If you re already interested in this topic, 80% of it will be

Posted 1 week ago

A championship that ends in a bland 1-0 game does tend to affirm certain prejudices about this sport. And after the wild craziness of Germany-Croatia, Germany-Turkey, or Russia-Netherlands Oh, wel

Posted 1 week ago

That gaggle of elite geeks who have been arguing against the horrible possibilities an internetworked world offers to fraudsters and state bullies for years have often said that one day, there ll be

Posted 1 week ago

Another Euro 2008 open thread but one in which we feel compelled to note how tonight s match was an insight to the central role of television in the experience as evidenced by how flat things we

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Posted 1 week ago

It looks like Boris Tadic s Democrats have hammered out a coalition with the small but crucial-for-a-majority Socialists. They tried to convene Parliament a couple of days ago, but the soon-to-be-o

Posted 1 week ago

It wasn t clear over the weekend how the Zimbabwe crisis could manage to get more complicated but now we know: Morgan Tsvangirai has taken refuge in the Dutch embassy in Harare. It seems that he w

Posted 2 weeks ago

As some parts of Europe prepare for Jean-Claude Juncker s Club of the Few while others fall by the wayside, it s time to look back at how we got here. Nothing unites Europeans like football,

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