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Hungaro-Slovak history textbook: keep dreaming

In front | ANALYSIS
Histoire-Geschichte, Franco-German history book that made history (Photo: ©Klett editions)

The project proposed by a joint committee of historians is chalked for the beginning of 2008 but is charged with problematics

by Bálint Ablonczy // 20/11/07

REVIEW

November pick of Europe's best culture events

From Helsinki avant-garde cinema to factory fairs in Switzerland, your guide on where to be a culture vulture this month

by Abla Kandalaft // 02/11/07

(Photo: Filippo Lubrano)

David Le Breton: defining Italians by sight and taste

A very personal journey through a Europe of five (or six) senses with the French anthropologist and sociology professor

by Filippo Lubrano // 26/10/07

FEATURE
Greece (Photo: MR)

Komikazen: European comics go independent

The third international festival of reality comics is underway. It's a new kind of neo-realism with innovative trends, small budgets and international celebrities

by Marco Riciputi // 25/10/07

PANORAMA

Your ‘vintage man’ order has been received, issue no. 458

Not overly handsome, but wickedly sophisticated. Neither being excessively ribbed in the torso department, nor metro-sexual in the feminine sense, here is a whistle stop tour of five 'vintage' men, all of who are ‘made in Europe’

by Hélène Rançon // 24/10/07

ANALYSIS
(Photo: Warner Bros. Inc 2004)

Gay Dumbledore and the deathly copyrights

The French and German translations of J.K. Rowling’s seventh and final 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows' are published at the end of October - but pirate translations were available only days after the July publication of the English original

by Hanna Sankowska // 22/10/07

INTERVIEW
The 38 year old is by turns a poet, history scholar and art critic at the Russian Institute of Arts History in St. Petersburg (Photo: DG)

Putin, prime minister in 2008?

On 26 October, the EU-Russia summit in Mafra, Portugal could reveal the Tsar's energy policy or Kremlin successor ambitions. Poet and art critic Dmitry Golinko provides a Russian reaction

by Anne Lainault (Relecture YL) // 22/10/07

INTERVIEW
'Few beautiful things give sense to life' (Photo: KY)

Ken Yamamoto: 'Being German is a cultural identity'

The Paris-born Japanese-German slam poet, 30, lives in Mainz, is married to a Colombian and has more than plenty to recite on what Europe means to him

by Sandra Wickert // 19/10/07

REVIEW
Christian Gatoré and his mother Béatrice Mushashi moved from Rwanda to Paris in 1994 (Photo: KK)

Mum, what’s Communism? Dad, what’s Ramadan?

Yasmin, Cihan, Mani and Christian document their parents through the lens in Franco-German film 'Mon monde - meine Welt', a bitter-sweet reality bite that there is no quick-fix solution to the immigration issue

by Katharina Kloss // 17/10/07

REVIEW
(Photos: Kerstin Stelter/ corazón international)

Fatih Akin’s cinema: a step closer to integration

Belonging to the homeland, the importance of education for immigration and Turkey's entry into the European Union are converging themes in 'The Edge of Heaven', the latest film by the German director

by Marcos de Barros // 12/10/07

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May event guide for Vilnius

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