And they’re off
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The presidential-election campaign gets under way(49)
The presidential-election campaign gets under way(49)
Renewed optimism about the euro zone has passed Portugal by(27)
Endless summitry may not have resolved the euro crisis but it has given the German chancellor a political lift(33)
A former prime minister is jailed for corruption(56)
The new government seeks to rein in regional spending(27)
Conservative MPs wonder what their leader’s act of defiance amounts to(4)
Europe’s dozy retailers are about to be rudely awoken (17)
The spooks can’t keep their eyes off the left (8)
A moving tribute at a time of growing anti-Semitism in Hungary (27)
Leaked wiretaps implicate Slovakia's political elite in a bribery scandal (33)
The Italian prime minister faces big protests against liberalisation (53)
An activist foreign policy creates its own troubles (116)
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Sarkozy on the ropes
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Who is Vladimir Putin?
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Will Portugal need another bail-out?
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A pact to cut budget deficits is achieved at the cost of a growing democratic deficit
The euro crisis might wake Europe up. But more likely it will lead to compromise and decline
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