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A ‘faux-Finn' finds Finns are changing – but, thankfully, not their summer habits.
Thursday, 31 July 2008

Another summer and the EU will again underline its irrelevance by being unavailable.
Thursday, 31 July 2008

Post-Soviet Russia is unlikely to fall apart, provided ethnic Russians can curb their chauvinism and heavy-handedness.
Thursday, 31 July 2008

The European Union loses credibility as it flounders with states that flout its rules.
Thursday, 31 July 2008

The land of gods has become one of the most polluted places on earth.
Thursday, 24 July 2008

If Soviet legitimacy was based on phoney ideology, what can sustain the new Russian state's identity?
Thursday, 24 July 2008

The EU's most enthusiastic members are also some of its least enthusiastic reformers.
Thursday, 24 July 2008

The US housing-loans crisis is going from bad to worse – and could engulf the global economy.
Thursday, 17 July 2008

The EU should do more to apply the rule of law across the world.
Thursday, 17 July 2008

Rubbish and corruption: what glamour can't affect.
Thursday, 17 July 2008