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Serbia win Eurovision

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Slovenian opera singer Alenka Gotar will be exercising her vocal muscles in the final (Photo: eurovision.tv)

Inaugarated one year before the Treaty of Rome in 1957, the Eurovision Song Contest celebrates European diversity. All eyes are on Helsinki during 5-12 May

by Milena Fayt // 11/05/07

FEATURE
Hitchhiker's guiding thumb (Photo: mondovisione/ Flickr)

Hitch-hiking from Brussels to Berlin

A journey through Belgium, Germany and their citizens image of Europe

by Jan Scharlau // 09/05/07

Well and truly Lynched (Photo: Max Hidalgo)

Lynch’s Empire

After the release of his latest film Inland Empire, the 'Air is on Fire' in Paris - an exhibition revealing David Lynch's disturbing world

by Max Hidalgo // 12/03/07

PORTRAIT
(Photo: Gonzalo Ovejero/ almostdesign.com)

DJ Krush - Tokyo-ing Barcelona

One night in Barcelona's famous 'Apolo' club, where the 'international master of turntablism' divides clubgoers with his mellow electronic strains

by Nabeelah Shabbir // 07/03/07

FEATURE
Fòrum: clouded by former Olympic success (Photo: Cien de Cine/ Flickr)

Olympic city - dizzy Catalonian heights

A long tradition of international events and Olympics throwbacks - like Fòrum 2004 - have regenerated urban Barcelona, but haven’t always helped improve its European image

by Nabeelah Shabbir // 07/03/07

REPORT
The future? Opera-Bastille, Paris (Photo: Julien Henry/ Flickr)

Verdi on the web

Can more young people enjoy opera, asks a congress in Paris

by Martin Schneider // 02/03/07

FEATURE
The house for contemporary art in parliament-palace, Bucharest (Photo: Martin Zickendraht/ Flickr)

Bucharest: dictator's throne to democracy

Ceauescu erected the Romanian parliament in the second largest building in the world

by Annett Müller // 02/03/07

Krull as a youth (Photo: Estonian Literature Information Center)

Hasso Krull, voice of a new Estonia

As Estonia prepares to celebrate independence from the USSR, poet and intellectual Hasso Krull explains why Russian will never be an official language

by Giovanni Angioni // 26/02/07

PORTRAIT
Ennio Morricone, melodious genius (Photo: Wikipedia)

Honorary Oscar for Ennio Morricone

The Italian composer for the likes of 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' and 'Bulworth' takes home an Academy Award on February 25

by Valeria Ibello // 22/02/07

OPINION
(Photo: rent-a-moose/ Flickr)

Masks and carnival, immortal combination

The masked festivities of Venice and Vienna have increasingly become commodified as tourist attractions. Amidst European celebrations, masks have lost their social function

by Joshua Craze // 16/02/07

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May event guide for Vilnius

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