Europe
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Backlash?
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Migrants have posed a challenge to Schengen from its very inception
Two decades ago, The Economist looked at Europe's conflicted relationship with outsiders
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The ascent of British man
We looked at a cross-section of Britain's ruling class, and compared it with the same cross-section 20 years ago. The results are shocking
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Talking to Gaidar: From the hot seat
From 1992: Yegor Gaidar, number two in the Russian government, is in charge of the second-biggest economic experiment in history, his country's reconversion to market forces. The Economist found him relaxed about the prospects of overcoming resistance to reform, of beating inflation and of successful privatisation
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How to get good marks, or ecus
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Sprechen Sie Maastricht?
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The deal is done
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What is to be done?
To clean up the shambles left by communist mismanagement, Eastern Europe must take a swift, dramatic leap to private ownership and a market system. West Europeans must help it do so, welcoming it as partner in a unified European market. So says Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard professor and economic adviser to the governments of Poland and Yugoslavia
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Happy birthday
The Treaty of Rome was signed 30 years ago on March 25th. Our Brussels correspondent looks at how the European Community has grown up, and at the decisions facing it as it approaches middle age
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