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Fiesta: French graduates on the road in Belgrade

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Serbian soirées in Belgrade

After finishing their studies and work placements, three French friends head to Serbia to meet their Balkan counterparts. What is it like to embark on your adult life at the other end of Europe? Partying - the first in a series of three of our Serbian travel diary

by Laurent François / Céline Moncel / Gautier Demouveaux // 10/07/08

PANORAMA
What the Okhta Centre will look like in the district (Image: Evgeny Gerashchenko/ Wikipedia)

G8 summit: whilst Brown meets Medvedev, the British build Russia

As the British and Russian prime ministers meet for the first time since the latter's March election in Japan between 7 – 9 July, a look at the foundations of a new renaissance in British-Russian relations

by Ed Saunders / Tatiana Shramchenko // 07/07/08

FEATURE
(Photo: José Lavazzi)

Senegal: paying for health as a community


In the Thiès region of Western Senegal, three new community healthcare insurance services are created every single year and this system of reimbursement appears to be very successful.


by José Lavezzi // 11/06/08

NEWS
(Photo: lille abe/ Flickr)

China opens up after Sichuan earthquake

62, 664 have died and five million are homeless since the 7.9 magnitude quake on 12 May. The EU has pledged two million euros in aid

by olivier lopez // 26/05/08

NEWS
Graffiti at the alternative summit, Lima May 2008 (Photo: Paola Bon/ Julio Corcuera Portugal)

Over to the EU-Latin America summit in Peru

EU member states juggle with the socialist and capitalist faces of Latin America at the EU-LAC summit in Lima on 16 – 17 May 2008, and the Peruvians speak

by olivier lopez / Paola Bon / Julio Raul Corcuera Portugal // 16/05/08

NEWS
Cyclone Nargis as seen by NASA satellites (Photo: guano/ Flickr)

Burma cyclone: how to force the junta?

After a tropical cyclone on 4 May, Burma faces a major humanitarian crisis. The military junta in power will not succumb to international pressure to allow emergency assistance to enter the country. What can Europe do?

by olivier lopez // 15/05/08

TESTIMONY
credits : Roslan Tangah (flickr)

'Foreigners' in Europe: the real eurogeneration?

More and more young people around the world are setting their feet on European soil, and seem to fit in well despite bureaucratic complications. We hear from Russian, Angolan and Peruvian students living in Italy and France on their idea of Europe

by Soili Semkina // 08/05/08

ANALYSIS
Posters from Holland of the Bosnian Serb fugitives (homepage/ photo: Bogomir Doringer/ Flickr)

Serbia: rising nationalism imperils Mladic, Karadzic hunt

Where will the ballot results place Serbia in its snap election on 11 May, and what consequences will it have for the hunt for the Bosnian Serb fugitives?

by Mira Galanova // 08/05/08

ANALYSIS
Gulf of Aden coastline (Photo: Hoorob/ Flickr)

Modern pirates use GPS in Somalia

Recent attacks on Spanish and French ships highlight the insecurity of maritime activities. The EU is confronted by a challenge which puts its capacity to create a policy protecting common security into question

by Mélanie Bulan & Joaquín Salido Marcos // 05/05/08

ANALYSIS
Italian merchant Giovanni Arnolfini (in Jan van Eyck’s 1434 portrait)'s resemblance to Putin has been much marked in the international media (Photo: geekulr/ Flickr)

Putin did not pull a Sarkozy love story

On 21 April, ‘Moskovsky Korrespondent’ apologised after reporting that Putin was to marry athlete Alina Kabaeva, 24. A look back at a story he termed as ‘snotty noses and erotic fantasies’

by Ulrich Heyden // 21/04/08

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