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Martinique: European elections 'time to test the EU's social character'

('Eloise',) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:15:00 -0000

Malik Duranty, a young politics graduate at the University of Guyana and the Caribbean, on how the first effects of the credit crunch are being felt as far as the remote regions of the EU, the insular and dependent localities. Extract

Islands: some drops of Europe in the ocean

('Joss Corner',) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:00:00 -0000

Islands and archipelagos, Antarctic territories, lively societies and cultures across the equator. The regions at the far reaches of the EU are attached to the continent by legal texts. But identity is not defined on the basis of decree

Island fever: Martinique and Guadeloupe’s 'people are suffocating'

('Fiona Herdman Smith',) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:48:42 -0000

The fuse lit in Guadeloupe in reaction to high living costs and an alienating 'cultural integration' has ignited Martinique. Could French Guiana in South America and La Réunion in the Indian Ocean follow, before the flames reach mainland France? Opinion from a young Martinican