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
Bismarck’s steed
Belarus
Games without frontiers
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
France
One swallow
Albania