Poles prosper after opening up German labour market
Polish children in Zgorzelec travel across the river to go to school in Goerlitz, Germany, while their parents make the journey for better payFor the inhabitants of the Polish city of Zgorzelec and its...
View ArticleWildlife of the Thames estuary thrives - thanks to European protectors
While the EU has helped safeguard habitats and cut emissions, it is not always a force for environmental goodMucking Flats are aptly named: a strip of muddy shore along the north bank of the Thames...
View ArticleItalian family's flowers bloom thanks to free movement of goods
In Foggia, where unemployment is 15%, the trucks heading for the 'Wall Street of flowers' in Amsterdam are evidence of a European success storyWhether you buy a rose from a boutique in Barcelona, a...
View ArticleWhat links deprived young people, video games, and the EU?
The LearnPlay Foundation worked with 5,000 neets last year. Not one dropped out. 85% of the money comes from the European social fundIn a room plastered with storyboard plans for computer games,...
View ArticleInside Ciccolella, Italy's leading producer of cut flowers
Ciccolella, Italy's leading producer of cut flowers
View ArticleThis could be Carl Jung's century | Andrew Samuels
The psychoanalyst saw himself as a sort of therapist for western culture, and his diagnosis of its ills resonates todayThe presence in David Cronenberg's new film, A Dangerous Method, of Keira...
View ArticleIn Europe's dark days, what cause for hope? | Anthony Giddens
Stabilising the euro should be a bridge to longer-term change and a stimulus to the imagination, writes Anthony GiddensThe crisis in Europe is existential. It is a question of whether the EU survives...
View ArticleSaudi woman driver reported killed in car crash is alive
Anti-driving ban campaigner Manal al-Sharif says unnamed desert woman was victim in fatal Jeddah crashThe woman reported killed in car crash in Saudi Arabia has told the Guardian she is alive, and the...
View ArticleEU energy policy drives changes in UK – with mixed results
Green groups and the energy industry have embraced many of the changes, but there are grumblesEnergy has been one of the most active areas of EU legislation: the ban on old-style lightbulbs, the...
View ArticleThieves seeking silver, brass and lead prey on churches
Open door policy at places of worship under threat as antiquities and memorials are taken to sell for scrapWith its cottages of honey-coloured stone and 12th-century church, Ashton Keynes in Wiltshire...
View ArticleBatang Kali relatives edge closer to the truth about 'Britain's My Lai massacre'
Key Malayan Emergency notes have been handed to families of the 24 unarmed victims of the December 1948 shootingsLawyers representing relatives of 24 unarmed victims who died at Batang Kali, Malaysia,...
View ArticleWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's TV show to be aired on Russian channel
State-run Russia Today buys rights to broadcast 10-part series of interviews with 'political players, thinkers and revolutionaries'It's the television channel that has given voice to a thousand...
View ArticleEgyptians mark one year anniversary of the revolution - in pictures
Thousands gather in Tahrir Square in Cairo to mark the first anniversary of the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak
View ArticleEurope: who lives where – interactive
EU rules on the free movement of people have resulted in unprecedented migration. Our guide shows the numbers of nationals from the six biggest EU countries officially resident in Britain, France,...
View ArticleThe UK economy is shrinking. Time to listen to gloom-mongers' analyses? |...
Bank of England forecasts have been consistently over-optimistic – don't count on green shoots by summerThe picture is the same across Europe. A miserable winter and spring before economies warm up in...
View ArticleHajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam – review
British Museum, LondonA pilgrimage is an epic human journey, a great assertion of life, community and ordinary people's courage. In a painting made in Iraq in AD1237, medieval pilgrims head for Mecca...
View ArticleEyewitness: Lagerfeld takes flight in Paris
Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
View ArticleA response to the state of the union address, from the West Wing president |...
We are a nation of trailblazers – but American education must be as exceptional and as diverse as America's citizens• After watching last night's state of the union speech, we began to wonder what the...
View ArticleSuspect in Craigslist killing case pleads not guilty
Ohio man charged with Craigslist robbery scheme pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and kidnappingThe man suspected in a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme in the US has pleaded not guilty to charges...
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