Anti-immigration march in Riesa, Germany, September 9 2015.
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Many Western policies that aim to prevent terrorism may actually be causing it.
Günter Schabowski at his fateful press conference.
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Günter Schabowski’s press conference in November 1989 helped trigger the collapse of the Berlin wall. Was it really as much of an accident as we like to think?
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s last collaboration The Seven Deadly Sins, first performed in 1933, in circumstances not dissimilar than those we face today. Pictured: Meow Meow.
Victorian Opera
Victorian Opera this week stages The Seven Deadly Sins, the final collaboration between Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. First staged in 1933, it is a masterpiece by two of the most revolutionary artists of Weimar Germany.
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The European Union was billed as the most important post-WWII peace project. It has failed.
Protesters in Paris speak out against attacks on the PKK.
EPA/Ian Langsdon
Tensions between the two groups have hit breaking point in Turkey – but both have large diaspora communities.
Arriving in Lesbos, Greece from Syria.
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Afghan, Syrian and Eritrean refugees keep arriving on Europe’s shores, reputedly at an increasing rate. They attempt to traverse the Mediterranean by land and sea, presumably hastened by Putin’s bombing…
Obama and Kerry discuss the Iran nuclear deal at the White House, September 10 2015.
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With the Iran deal, Obama may be repeating a famous strategic misstep from World War II.
REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
A 91-year-old radio operator from Auschwitz death camp has been charged as an accessory to the murder of 260,000 inmates of the notorious death camp.
Big-state Corbyn.
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The new Labour leader has been pilloried for extolling public ownership. In fact, he’s bang on trend.
Obama owes these three a thank you note.
Reuters
As President Obama writes his thank you notes to Democrats in Congress who helped him pass the accord, he better not forget about his European partners.
Another chance? Tsipras seeks a new mandate.
REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
An opposition politician and academic argues that new revelations from the Syriza leadership imply that the Prime Minister misled the Greek people.
Refugees are escorted to especially chartered trains after they arrived at the main train station in Munich.
EPA/NICOLAS ARMER
How asylum seekers became political pawns in Germany’s foreign policy agenda.
The message from Germany.
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What happens to energy policy when democracy takes a back seat – and no one mentions the war.
Germany is doing most of the heavy lifting.
Reuters/Leonhard Foeger
Europe has long struggled to share the burden fairly and now the situation is at breaking point.
Taking the mic. Varoufakis.
Yves Herman/Reuters
Greece’s ‘accidental economist’ speaks to the UK’s leading minds on Syriza, the troika, and whether he’s just a little over-exposed.
Hamilton is shown whispering into Ben Franklin’s ear in Howard Chandler Christy’s depiction of the signing of the Constitution.
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Alexander Hamilton and the policies he pursued as America’s first treasury secretary set the US on a course of national unity. That’s just what Europe needs today.
Political goals for Russia’s gas giant.
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What does Gazprom hope to achieve with its deep and generous relationship with football?
It’s lonely at the top.
Reuters/AlkisKonstantinidis
After 206 turbulent days in power, Alexis Tsipras now presides over a coalition in tatters.
EPA/Zoltan Balogh
The UK and France have come up with a solution to the migrant crisis – stick up another new barrier.
Poland’s president Andrzej Duda taking supreme command over Polish armed forces on August 6.
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Andrzej Duda’s Law and Justice party is more anti-Russian and eurosceptic than its main rival.