Europe

Italy

Bossi boots up

Ever closer union, 40 years on

Is Europe suffering a midlife crisis, four decades after the Treaty of Rome that set up the European Economic Community in 1957?

Germany

Roman's law

Quick march! Who says?

The European Union's arguments over what to do in Albania have revived doubts about whether it can ever build a genuine foreign policy

Russia

Unequal abroad, punchier at home

As Boris Yeltsin meets Bill Clinton in Helsinki, we examine--in three articles--Russia's continuing awkwardness abroad, its mixed attitude to things American, and its hope for more determined reform at home