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Squats vs. sharks in Barcelona

In front | INVESTIGATION
Famous squat near Vallcarca; tourists shoot away from the top of Parc Guell (Photo: Nabeelah Shabbir)

As riots hit Copenhagen after the demolition of a legal youth culture house, Barcelona considers its 300 squats in the look up to May’s municipal elections

by Tiziana Sforza // 07/03/07

FEATURE
Merkez is big on halal (Photos: Jutta Sommerbauer)

From imam to businessman

Sausages without pork - a Turkish businessman tries conquering the EU

by Jutta Sommerbauer // 05/03/07

FEATURE
Young Kosovans in Priština (Photo: Surrelmar/ Flickr)

UNMIKistan

Independent or not, today the people of Kosovo want only one thing: the end of the United Nations’ ‘occupation’ of their territory

by Marc-André Boisvert // 02/03/07

FEATURE
Streets of Beirut (Photo: epape/ Flickr)

Interwar Lebanon tightens its belt

In pre-civil war ambience, how are the Lebanese making a living?

by Nicolas Kayser-Brill // 01/03/07

INTERVIEW
More and more German companies are investing in Bulgaria (Photo: EPA photo/ Robert Ghemen)

‘German businesses want to invest even more’

Corruption stops German businesses settling in Bulgaria. But Mitko Vassilev of Sofia's German-Bulgarian Industry and Trade Council is optimistic

by Stephan Ozsváth // 23/02/07

Illustration: Henning Studte

Sun, sangria, siesta

 

by Ariadna Matamoros Fernàndez // 21/02/07

ANALYSIS
30, 000 'green' bottles sitting on the wall (Photo: G0DA/ Flickr)

What REACH costs you

The new European regulation on chemical substances is here, both for industries and animals. But research does not get the last word

by Luca Caridà // 21/02/07

INTERVIEW
Sacconi success (Photo: European parliament/ PNO)

Guido Sacconi: 'Industrialists: enough with propaganda!'

Italian MEP and REACH Rapporteur Guido Sacconi on the long haul for the regulation on chemical substances

by Alessandro Grimaldi // 21/02/07

PANORAMA

Within our REACH?

The EU's chemical regulation - at a glance

by Nabeelah Shabbir // 20/02/07

INTERVIEW
Maronite protests in Beirut (Photo: Mathier Baudier/ Flickr)

'Financial aid to Lebanon won't increase Western control'

400 million Euros from the Commission, $770 million from the US. But Lebanon remains consumed by instability

by Mathieu Baudier // 19/02/07

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