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Mujahideen Khan: 'we do not know who the Taliban is right now'

In front

Afghanistan remains a huge challenge for NATO. Whilst officials met in the Bucharest's Parliament Palace from 2-4 April, a group of Estonian journalists cast an eye back with a mujahideen in the Afghan mountains

by Kadri Kukk & Nabeelah Shabbir // 08/04/08

FOCUS
On 11 March 2004 the media protested against Aznar's 'conspiracy' that the Madrid attacks were done by ETA (Photo: Saül Gordillo/ Flickr)

Spain: elections under terrorist alert

Although arrests of suspected ETA and Jihad terrorists have increased in Spain, the terrorist threat overshadows the campaign of the Spanish legislative elections on 9 March

by Pedro Picón // 26/02/08

PANORAMA

1968: a tour of Europe's revolts

Spain, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Poland and Germany - spinning through Europe's uprisings during that infamous year of rebellion

by Jane Mery // 23/01/08

MULTIMEDIA

Don't laugh. It's (video) politics

European politicans occasionally star in dramatically hilarious or simply grotesque scenes - are ETA terrorists a great nation? Was the Russian Breznev actually the president of the United States?

by Fernando Navarro Sordo // 20/11/07

NEWS

Lost an email written two years ago? Don’t worry - the EU's kept it for you

GMOs, operator-controlled e-mail, training against terrorism, inoperative Romania: four bites of the latest EU news

by Stella Willborn // 15/10/07

INVESTIGATION
UNIFIL observation base, Lebanon (Manila Tyce/ Flickr)

Lebanon: mirage of peace

After an Al Qaeda video threat aimed at the French and Spaniards on 21 September, Islamist groups in Lebanon are ready to finish with the apparently quietened situation in the 'Middle East's Switzerland'

by Carmen Rengel Ramos // 26/09/07

ANALYSIS
Firmly in the past: IRA mural denounces police (Photo: campsmum/ Flickr)

Northern Ireland elections: then what?

Assembly elections took place on March 7, ahead of a March 26 deadline to restore the power-sharing process

by Paul Hagan // 06/03/07

Erri De Luca, solitary thinker (Photo: Sassier/ Gallimard COUL2)

Erri de Luca, Neapolitan, generation '68

Winner of the 2002 Prix Fémina for Foreign Writers for his splendid Montedidio – written in 'very Neapolitan Italian' – Erri de Luca reflects on Europe, the Mediterranean and the passing of generations

by Adriano Farano e Fernando Navarro // 09/02/07

PORTRAIT
Imran Ahhayev in his office. Behind him, the Chechen flag and a portrait of former Chechen president, Dzhokar Dudáyev (Photo: KK)

Imran Ahhayev: ‘So long as there are fires in the mountains, Chechens will be around’

The deadline for Chechen guerrilla surrender is January 15 2007. Imran Ahhayev, official envoy of Ichkeria to Estonia, says his people will fight to the death

by Kadri Kukk // 12/01/07

ANALYSIS
Damascus market place (Photo: Don Melitón / Flickr)

EU and Syria start over

Syria is the only Mediterranean country which has not signed an agreement with the EU. Can a timely carrot-and-stick strategy re-engage both?

by Tiziana Sforza // 05/01/07

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