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Putin, prime minister in 2008?

In front | 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)

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

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

FOCUS
The happy couple? (Photo: Darrismac/ Flickr)

Merkozy is leaking water

A conflict of interest is poisoning the apparent honeymoon between the French and German leaders, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, as they work on the EU constitution

by Xavi Hervás // 17/10/07

INTERVIEW
A worrying atmosphere in Italy (Photo: Piccinini)

Roberto Saviano: Spain in mafia hands

From investments in the Costa del Sol to French suburbs – the second part of an interview with the author of ‘Gomorra’

by Adriano Farano // 16/10/07

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

Stereo Total's latest offering, 'Paris<>Berlin' (Photo: Simgil/ Stereo total)

Françoise Cactus: 'society is a little too turned on by sex'

The vocalist and drummer for kitsch pop duet 'Stereo Total', 43, evokes Franco-German bilingualism applied to masculinity-femininity, Gainsbourg and modern frustrations

by Prune Antoine // 12/10/07

FEATURE

Reality TV: so bad it's good?

More Brits (14.2 million votes, 2002) dialled a premium-rate phone number to voice their opinion in a 'Big Brother' series than voted for the governing Labour Party at the 2005 general election (9.5 million labour voters). The vox populi asserts that reality TV is here to stay

by Jeremy Cliffe // 10/10/07

ANALYSIS
Tine Wittler, 'Deko-Queen' of German TV (Photo: RTL)

German supernanny: 'emotainment'

European audience figures are exploding for so-called 'Emotainment' programmes, devoted to the daily lives of the average person

by Jessica Karagöl // 10/10/07

REVIEW
Amélie Nothomb on the cutting edge (Photo: ©kakka1/ Flickr)

Amélie Nothomb: death camps and TV holocaust

In her new novel 'Sulphuric Acid' the Belgian author takes a popular TV craze to new heights by reducing the hell of a World War II concentration camp to the banality of a docu-soap

by Katharina Kloss // 10/10/07

PANORAMA

European TV formats: kidneys and neighbours

Between live kidney donors in Holland, Model Mosque 2007 in the UK and racism over German garden fences, the precipices of European reality TV formats

by Katharina Kloss // 10/10/07

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