international - Europe

Georgia and Kosovo: an intertwined crisis

George Friedman | 26 August 2008

To understand what happened in Georgia, remember what happened nine years ago in Kosovo.

The roots of European unity

Margriet Krijtenburg | 13 August 2008 | comment 3

Without the moral vision of its founding fathers the new Europe is a hollow and fragile achievement.

Ground for annulment

Ignacio Aréchaga | 20 June 2008 | comment 14

Why can't a court oblige a Muslim disappointed that his new wife is not a virgin? Marriages are dissolved every day for more trivial reasons.

“Drive the cop out of your head”

Michael Shanks | 29 April 2008 | comment 4

Forty years ago rioting students filled Paris with revolutionary graffiti. Was it all just a bad dream? 

A miraculous decade of peace in Belfast

Michael Kirke | 04 April 2008 | comment 1

Ten years ago on April 11, peace came to Northern Ireland.  To everyone’s surprise, it seems to have settled in.

Sheer silliness about British schools

Joanna Bogle | 29 February 2008 | comment 24

An MP has called for an investigation into schools which teach subversive notions like lifelong marriage.

Sharia law for Britain?

Charlotte Thorneycroft | 22 February 2008 | comment 11

Giving recognition to aspects of sharia, as suggested by the Archbishop of Canterbury, would damage the principle of equality before the law.

No place for Arabia in England’s pleasant land

Adebowale Oriku | 22 February 2008 | comment 13

The verbal stoning meted out to the Archbishop of Canterbury is understandable, says a Nigerian expatriate.

The faith of the Irish

Seamus Grimes | 30 January 2008 | comment 4

Secularization is taking its toll in newly-prosperous Ireland but there are young voices speaking up again for the old values.

Russia at the crossroads

Nicolai Petro | 11 September 2007 | comment 3

As it embraces globalisation and capitalism Russia is also rediscovering a pre-1917 religious and cultural heritage that is often at odds with both communism and capitalism.

Europe has forgotten its families

Carolyn Moynihan | 23 June 2007 | comment 16

The debate in Brussels over a new European treaty is a sideshow to the real issue confronting Europe: the state of the family.

Good cops, Italian style

Luisa Cotta Ramosino | 12 June 2007 | comment 2

Everyday characters, empathy, humour, are hallmarks of the Italian screenwriter's craft. Can it withstand the liberal onslaught?

Europe: In the service of human dignity

Margriet Krijtenburg | 30 May 2007 | comment 1

Robert Schuman, acclaimed as the Father of Europe, drew his ideal of solidarity from the Christian faith.

Is Dutch tolerance stretching too far?

Angela Shanahan | 18 April 2006 | comment 1

How will the Netherlands reconcile growing permissiveness with swelling numbers of fundamentalist Muslim migrants?

Betraying British Muslims

Christopher Martin | 22 July 2005 | comment 1

In the wake of the London bombings, there is much talk of the religious intolerance of British Muslims. What about the religious intolerance of the anti-Censorship crowd?

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