Five last-minute thoughts about the Greek election
Greece’s deep-seated problems are decades old and normal. What’s abnormal is the chance to blow it all away.
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Syriza’s victory in the Greek elections offers Europe the rare prospect of a left-wing government. Does Europe’s post-war history of radical administrations offer any lessons for Alexis Tsipras?
Greece’s deep-seated problems are decades old and normal. What’s abnormal is the chance to blow it all away.
The lawyer for a Guantanamo inmate says fear after the Paris attacks risks giving governments a licence to implement the sort of anti-terror legislation that saw her client wrongly detained.
Five people have been charged after major counter-terrorism raids in Belgium that started on Thursday evening and left two suspects dead.
A motorist deliberately drove at and injured a policewoman outside French President Francois Hollande’s residence in Paris on Wednesday night, French media report.
President Hollande salutes the police officers killed in terror attacks, as funeral ceremonies are held in Paris and Jerusalem and Charlie Hebdo prepares to publish an image of the prophet Mohammed.
After the murders of four Jews in a supermarket in Paris, thousands of police officers are being deployed to protect Jewish schools. It is not the first time French Jews have been on their guard.
World leaders are descending on Paris for a unity rally amid unprecedented security after the terror attacks in France.
It is an unnerving coincidence: as Michel Houellebecq’s controversial new novel was published on Wednesday, terrorists raided the offices of Charlie Hebdo and murdered 12 people.
Three gunmen and four hostages have been killed as police storm two sieges in the Paris area. The hostages died at a kosher supermarket in the east of the French capital.
One of the brothers suspected of the killings at Charlie Hebdo in Paris praises the man who taught him “the goodness of suicide attacks” in video as Islamic State links are examined.
Adopting the slogan Je Suis Charlie, thousands of ordinary people across Europe come out to join protests against the gun attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo which killed 12.
Gunmen armed with assault rifles kill 12 people in an attack on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The populist left has begun from a recognition that – in the highly marketised, globalised and granular economy of the past 25 years – social justice begins small and from below.
The Greek government is gambling that voters will reel back from putting the untested and inexperienced Syriza in power.