World Affairs: Europe
Lead Feature
The naked protest
Animal rights group Peta are staging a naked protest at the running of the bulls in Pamplona. Here Bruce Friedrich, the organisation's vice president makes the case against the corrida
In europe
One man on a rock
- By Tom Quinn
- 02 July
The curious tale of Stuart Hill who has declared his remote island in the Shetlands to be independent of the United Kingdom - much to the irritation of his local MP
The bare life of immigrants
- By Iselin Åsedotter Strønen
- 30 June
A new EU directive allows tougher action against illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, Western citizens are able to work around the globe. Iselin Åsedotter Strønen detects an irony
Nation versus state
- By Kirsty Hughes
- 26 June
This is a fight not between secularism and Islamism in Turkey, but between old and new power elites, between nationalism and democracy
Unworldly splendour
- By William Skidelsky
- 26 June
The medieval cathedrals of France were an attempt to re-create the mind of God
A future for the Chagossians
- By Sean Carey
- 23 June
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is an expert on ethnicity, identity politics and nationalism. Here he talks to fellow academic Sean Carey about UK treatment of the Chagos Islanders
Sending money home
- By Enrique Mendizabal
- 20 June
The vital role of workers who send their money home to Latin America and how they can create a "brain gain" effect
Feature
Workers of the world unite
The world's first truly international trades union looks set to be unveiled with a membership of more than 3m as the labour movement goes global
More in europe
Behind the big blue
- By Owen Van Spall
- 19 June 2008
Power v poverty
- By Duncan Green
- 19 June 2008
The striker who snubbed Hitler
- By Robin Stummer
- 12 June 2008
What England?
- By Hunter Davies
- 12 June 2008
Rebuilding Europe
- By Peter Calvocoressi
- 12 June 2008
Factory living
- By Tom Blass
- 05 June 2008
Is Italy flirting with fascism?
- By Donald Sassoon
- 22 May 2008


