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Château Vranac, a cheeky little Kosovan vintage
Sunday, 22 February 2009
The year-old country is exporting its first bottles to the world’s most valuable wine market - Britain
Germany and Poland square up in row over war
Saturday, 21 February 2009
Berlin and Warsaw are locked in a political row over plans to appoint a German conservative MP accused of playing down Nazi war crimes to run a new museum dedicated to the plight of Germans forced out of eastern Europe after the Second World War.
Armani blamed for death of Milan
Saturday, 21 February 2009
City’s cultural centre is out of vogue – and Italian fashion houses are being held responsible, reports Peter Popham
Chechen brothers cleared of murdering Kremlin critic
Friday, 20 February 2009
Shock decision is denounced by human rights campaigners demanding justice for dead Russian journalist
Back to the Futurists: Has the art movement had its day?
Friday, 20 February 2009
The dead weight of the past was the enemy of Italy's first avant-garde art movement. A century later it is being celebrated in Rome with a series of events including a commemorative banquet. Peter Popham reports
Kyrgyzstan shuts US air base after deal with Russia
Friday, 20 February 2009
The parliament of Kyrgyzstan voted overwhelmingly yesterday to close a key US airbase on its soil, dealing a blow to Barack Obama's strategy for Afghanistan and signalling a strategic victory for Russia in central Asia.
Brussels seeks recruits for an English victory
Friday, 20 February 2009
In the early days of the European Union, French famously dominated as the principal language spoken in Brussels' corridors of power, something our cousins across the Channel regarded as a significant national victory.
Georgia's Eurovision divas take aim at Putin
Friday, 20 February 2009
After last year's Russian invasion, protest song chosen for final in Moscow
Spanish minister urged to quit over hunting trip
Friday, 20 February 2009
Spain's Justice minister, Mariano Fernandez Bermejo, has faced calls to resign after it emerged that he was on a hunting trip with Baltasar Garzon, the judge investigating alleged corruption in the main conservative opposition, the Popular Party.
Czech leader attacks EU
Friday, 20 February 2009
The Czech Republic President said the EU was undemocratic, elitist and reminiscent of Soviet-era Communist dictatorships in an attack which provoked an angry response from EU legislators.
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