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In pictures: Confronting Belgium’s colonial past
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In pictures: Confronting Belgium’s colonial past

August 14, 2017 4:00 am CET
How the CIA came to doubt the official story of JFK’s murder
Why the White House is reading Greek history
Emmanuel Macron, Dorian Gray à l’Elysée
Emmanuel Macron, the Élysée’s Dorian Gray
letter from paris

Emmanuel Macron, the Élysée’s Dorian Gray

June 17, 2017 1:05 pm CET
Appetite (and iron-clad stomach) for success
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Appetite (and iron-clad stomach) for success

June 17, 2017 6:53 am CET
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Appreciation

A German chancellor like no other

Helmut Kohl, who sought German unification and European unity, died at the age of 87.

June 16, 2017 7:08 pm CET
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Helmut Kohl, provincial warhorse

A great European who was as German as it gets.

June 16, 2017 6:42 pm CET
Catching up with...

Speechwriter who helped Reagan ‘tear down that wall’

The ‘Wall Man’ on America’s journey from tearing down a wall to talk of building one on the country’s southern border.

June 12, 2017 12:31 pm CET

Poland’s WWII museum under political bombardment

In Gdańsk, the battle for country’s future is waged in the past.

May 15, 2017 4:00 am CET
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Will Trump release the missing JFK files?

Unless the president intervenes, we’ll soon know more secrets about the Kennedy assassination.

April 30, 2017 4:01 am CET
History dept.

Why the world banned chemical weapons

Yes, it’s because they’re morally hideous. But it’s also because they don’t work.

April 16, 2017 6:30 am CET
Dept. of history

Russian Stalinist who invented Europe

Alexandre Kojève was one of the architects of what is now the EU — and may have been a spy for the Kremlin.

March 22, 2017 4:20 am CET

Russia to build model of Reichstag for children to attack

Defense minister said he wanted teenagers ‘to storm a specific location, not something abstract.’

February 22, 2017 7:15 pm CET
Midday brief, in brief

Today at Commission, Maastricht at 25 and Brexit pub etiquette

Juncker celebrates signing landmark treaty and Brits must pay their bills.

February 7, 2017 1:55 pm CET
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The end of the Kennedy mystique

What ‘Jackie’ says about the eclipse of America’s onetime royal family — and the kind of Democrat the party needs now.

January 9, 2017 3:23 pm CET
HISTORY DEPT.

Let Ivanka be first lady

If she surrenders her business interests, there’s no reason why Ivanka shouldn’t do what other first daughters have done throughout US history.

December 20, 2016 4:12 pm CET

Quiz: How well do you know your (beer) politics?

Take the quiz which proves that beer and politics have much more in common than you think

November 9, 2016 11:44 am CET
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German politician gets jail for showing Auschwitz tattoo

Image depicted concentration camp gates with the words ‘to each what he deserves.’

November 7, 2016 4:19 pm CET
Letter to the editor

These are the real heroes of Hungary’s 1956 revolution

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is not revising history.

October 31, 2016 2:33 pm CET
Letter from Oryol

Russia falls back in love with Ivan the Terrible

A small town celebrates a 16th century strongman with a bloody history.

October 31, 2016 5:52 am CET

François Hollande recognizes jailing of Roma during WWII

Responsibility of the Republic in their ‘suffering’ has been great, French president said.

October 29, 2016 2:12 pm CET

Viktor Orbán’s revision of the 1956 revolution

‘Our responsibility is to prevent Brussels from Sovietizing,’ said the Hungarian leader.

October 23, 2016 8:42 pm CET

Angela Merkel: Germans should know their history

Her comments come as the country prepares to mark 26 years since reunification.

October 1, 2016 1:41 pm CET
Special report: US election

Donald Trump, Germany’s disfavored son

In the idyllic hamlet of Kallstadt, there once lived a man named Friedrich Trump. Now his grandson is running for president, and these tolerant Germans want nothing to do with him.

September 23, 2016 5:30 am CET

Welcome to EUgoslavia

The new array of European Union subgroups is a sign of deeper malaise.

September 22, 2016 5:31 am CET

Manuel Valls gets the bare facts over burkini comments

‘It’s an allegory, stupid!’

August 30, 2016 3:24 pm CET
Dispatch from Slovakia

Why Slovakia won’t embrace migration

‘If multiculturalism is failing in places like Paris and Brussels, why should we try it here?’

August 16, 2016 5:30 am CET

Obama leads tributes to Elie Wiesel

July 3, 2016 9:42 am CET
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