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Sing when you're winning: Why Italians love the Sanremo song contest
By entering the homes of millions of people, the festival has taught families from north to south to sing together in Italian, strengthening the country's cultural unification. Thus Italy and Sanremo ...
Playwright Simon Stephens: ‘Our sense of self is defined by the stories we tell ourselves. My family told themselves we were Irish’
The Tony and Olivier winner feels a huge affinity with Rex Ryan’s ‘fearless’ Dublin company Glass Mask, which is premiering his play Men’s Business ...
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Countering China’s diplomatic coup
China has turned much of the global south against Taiwan. That could be laying the ground for forced unification ...
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When France Fell to Nazi Germany...
November 1918 and the war to end all wars comes to its conclusion as the guns on the western front fall silent. For four years prior, the army of German Kaiser Wilhelm II had shot and shelled its way ...
As Dresden commemorates its darkest day, some are hoping to rewrite history
The greater appetite among some people from Dresden to reflect on their victimhood rather than their families’ fascist ...
Austrian Coalition Talks Collapse, Averting a Far-Right Chancellor for Now
The plan by the far-right Freedom Party to run Austria was halted by a disagreement over who would lead the all-important ...
German party leaders are united against immigration – but there is little evidence for a key part of their argument
At the centre of the immigration debate is the notion of “welfare magnetism”: the idea that migrants are drawn to Germany by ...
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Gravitational waves could turn colliding neutron stars into 'cosmic tuning forks'
Scientists have discovered a new way to probe the interiors of neutron stars by using gravitational waves to turn them into ...
Opinion The Geopolitics of Moldovas Wine Industry
Moldova’s decoupling from dependence on Russia for wine trade ultimately made the wine industry more resilient by the time ...
Romania's President Klaus Iohannis to resign under pressure from populist far-right
One Romanian political analyst says President Klaus Iohannis' decision to resign means "the populists can say they won." ...
The anti-refugee policies of Germany’s Greens
Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, how the Greens are mirroring the xenophobic policies of the far-right Alternative ...
The Economist5d
China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan
This steely new language was a victory in America’s long quest to get its allies to show more solidarity with Taiwan. Yet in ...