This is the second of two articles on the rise of nationalism in Europe. Giulia Morpurgo wrote the first article last week. By Clara Piacenza Europe, not long ago a bloody battleground that pitted nation states against each other, is experiencing a surge of...
This is the first of two stories on the rise of nationalism in Europe. By Giulia Morpurgo Europe’s debt and refugee crises have exposed fault lines in the world’s biggest trading bloc. Was it utopian to think that Slovenia, Estonia or Latvia could sustain...
I was in Nice on Bastille Day and am lucky to be alive. I have a byline. But the 84 dead, they have no byline. French flags at half mast on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France, 16 July 2016. (EPA/Ian Langsdon) News-Decoder Editor Robert Holloway was in Nice on...
By Rashad Mammadov If you were on the streets of Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul, today, you could be forgiven if you had mixed feelings or asked some embarrassing questions. While some were celebrating the failed military coup, others were depressed. The conflicting...
“The truck plowed into the crowd, and then we heard screaming. It was really a horrible experience.” Robert Holloway saw the attack in Nice last night. Bodies at the scene of a truck attack in Nice, France, 15 July 2016. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) “We saw...
It’s but a 20-minute stop on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. The airport and feed mill are deserted. But Barabinsk is my hometown and always will be. Abandoned Barabinsk Airport (Photo by Daria Kuznetsova) “A small town in the center of Siberia”. That’s the...
By Alistair Lyon The EU referendum result struck me with a sickening jolt when I woke up last Friday. My mental universe had lurched all of a sudden. The shift seemed dangerous, uncontrollable and, at least for the immediate future, irrevocable. I felt furious at...
News-Decoder asked some of its young readers for their views following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union. Here is what they had to say. “I am really worried this vote means a victory for populism.” – Léa Surugue I am French but have...
By Bernd Debusmann The last opinion survey on Britain’s EU referendum was conducted on the day citizens cast their votes and was published just hours before polling stations closed on June 23. The YouGov poll found 52 percent in favor of remaining in the European...
By John Mehaffey Thugs masquerading as soccer fans have disfigured the 2016 European championships in France in an ugly reminder of the street violence that erupted in Marseille before a match between England and Tunisia at the 1998 World Cup. This year round, English...