NEED TO KNOW GERMANY [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/18ca6ce9-4a8f-46d8-b0b3-84a7601584cd.png"] Riding the Tailwinds The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been racking up electoral gains lately, and many expect more to come. The political party – founded in 2013 amid the Eurozone financial crisis and on the cusp of Europe’s foreign migrant crisis – scored...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW EASTERN EUROPE [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/e2cfe4a5-51a1-425f-b068-e5ad1da5d4f1.png"] Dueling Memories Europeans last month celebrated two anniversaries dating from the modern era. Aug. 19 marked the 30th anniversary of the so-called “Pan-European Picnic” in the city of Sopron in northwestern Hungary. In 1989, the then-communist government of Hungary and the neutral government of...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW EUROPEAN UNION [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/e5b071a0-f819-400f-82ba-dc62c31b3637.png"] Waiting Rooms of History American actor Richard Gere recently delivered humanitarian supplies to a boat of migrants that had been plying the Mediterranean for more than a week because Italian and Maltese authorities refused to let it dock at their ports. Gere was...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW RUSSIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/590fa22c-cb98-46d1-92e0-b6539b2a1173.png"] ‘Chernobyl on Ice’ Chernobyl has been a real tourist draw lately. “The Ukrainian government is promoting the Exclusion Zone as a tourist destination,” wrote a Boston Globe correspondent, referring to the area evacuated permanently after the 1986 nuclear disaster. “I had to go.” Visitors...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW ITALY [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/d1f5e652-8ba9-4650-8185-37353156716c.png"] Possibilities The 134 migrants were at the “breaking point” as their rescue ship, dubbed the Open Arms, remained anchored off the coast of Italy’s southernmost island for six days earlier this month. Many had been on the Spanish charity-operated ship for 19 days...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW IRELAND [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/837de6c4-b5ea-4e00-b61f-328197110d67.png"] Gimme Shelter An Irish university student became famous after he tweeted a photo of a long, winding queue of people waiting to view an apartment that cost around $1,100 a month but reportedly was moldy. The student, Tom Redmond, called out Irish Housing Minister...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW UNITED KINGDOM [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/8c238c0e-e370-4880-bc53-0ac24ba71887.png"] Reason and Faith Pizzamaker Domino’s has been stockpiling tomato sauce, frozen chicken, pineapple and tuna in the UK in the run-up to Britain’s scheduled departure from the European Union on Oct. 31. The chain is afraid of running out of its most popular pizza...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW RUSSIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/590fa22c-cb98-46d1-92e0-b6539b2a1173.png"] Strange Brews Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny recently came down with a bizarre sickness. His face and eyes were swollen. A rash covered much of his upper body. It appeared as though he was suffering a serious allergic reaction. But he and his doctors...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW POLAND [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/7b585fc6-d6c4-4f4e-a14a-33fe8d729c1c.png"] Revisionist Politics Founded by freedom fighter, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former president of Poland, Lech Walesa, Solidarity has long been viewed as playing a key role in the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s. But as the end of communism...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW ESTONIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/45ad73e9-63df-4bf3-95e3-0b12e10a89ea.png"] On the Crossroads The far-right Conservative People’s Party in the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia has long espoused views opposing the European Union, immigration, same-sex partnerships and feminism. After parliamentary elections in March, the party joined a new three-party coalition government led by...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW GERMANY [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/18ca6ce9-4a8f-46d8-b0b3-84a7601584cd.png"] Same Old Song Bodo Ramelow, premier of the eastern German state of Thuringia, wants his country to adopt a new national anthem to replace the Deutschlandlied (Song of Germany). “Many East Germans don’t sing it,” Ramelow told Reuters. “I would like to have a...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW UNITED KINGDOM [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/8c238c0e-e370-4880-bc53-0ac24ba71887.png"] Frenzy and Fatigue Members of the Conservative Party are voting to decide who next becomes prime minister of Britain. The next prime minister, in turn, is almost certainly going to preside over Brexit, the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union. Already...
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