histoire
Credit crunch: a fistful of pounds and zlotys
‘It’s the financial crisis!’ We’re surrounded by numbers on all sides: it’s becoming a real obsession! Almost makes you wish you were a numismatist. Weekly plunge into - the world of currencies
20 years: fly on the Berlin wall
9 November 1989. The Berlin wall comes down, freeing the democratic motorways between the countries of the former Warsaw pact. Two decades on, many of these countries are in the European Union, tested in the climate of east-west precarity brought on by the economic crisis. In this edition: focus on those who were born after history was made, those who escaped that history and those who are staging it today on the floorboards in London and Berlin
- Read the special edition 20 years: fly on the Berlin wall
- What communism means to three central and eastern European women
- Solidarity turn their backs on 1989
- Mihai Mircea Butcovan: 'the majority of Italians ignore everything which Romania does for the EU'
- London and Berlin reviews of Mark Ravenhill's 'Over There' play
Leo Baeck summer university: ‘Berlin, so similar to Tel Aviv, my home town’
At the crossroads of migratory flows and in a city so full of history, every year young people reflect on their Jewish identity since the European post-war period. Report
histoire, religion, judaism, minority, culture, youth, berlin
Perspective: Hungarian-Slovak relations reach their nadir
On 10 December, Hungarian prime minister Ferenc Gyurscany said he was disappointed with Slovak prime minister Robert Fico's decision to reject a November agreement to improve relations between the neighbours. A look back at the events running up to the baby step that was
histoire, slovakia, hungary, racisme, xenophobia, racism, society
