Europe Archives

POLITICS-ITALY: Neo-Communists, Right Bring Gov’t Tumbling Down

The Refounded Communists and right-wing lawmakers in Italy's Chamber of Deputies triggered the collapse of the centre-left government Friday.

UZBEKISTAN: Avoiding A Headlong Lurch into Unfettered Capitalism

By IPS Correspondents

When Russian President Boris Yeltsin finally undertakes his deferred official visit, centred primarily around economic cooperation, to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Sunday, the economies of adjoining Central Asian countries will provide a study in contrasts.

RIGHTS-SPAIN: Pulling Up the Drawbridge on Fortress Europe

By IPS Correspondents

The latest move by Spanish authorities waging an ongoing campaign to stem immigration from the Maghreb states will involve rounding up street children in Barcelona into internation centres.

LEBANON: Syria Clears Way To General’s March To The Presidency

By IPS Correspondents

Armed with the consent of Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad, Lebanese army chief General Emile Lahoud now finds his way clear to become Lebanon's 11th president since independence in 1943.

ECONOMY-RUSSIA: Russians Protest Over Unpaid Wages

By IPS Correspondents

Hundreds of thousands of Russians took to the streets Wednesday to protest against unpaid wages and called on President Boris Yeltsin to resign.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA/KOSOVO: Belgrade Mulls Cruise Missile Strikes

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic

In Serbian eyes there is now a very real prospect of U.S.-led NATO air strikes on their country -- a prospect that engenders equally real fear and anger among the general populace.

CULTURE-ITALY: Recreating the World of the “Great Seducer”

By IPS Correspondents

Venice is commemorating the bicentenary of the death of Casanova with an exhibition portraying the romantic adventures, travels and travails of the famed lover and also his cultural and philosophical ambitions.

RIGHTS-SPAIN: Women in Fear of Their Lives – and Husbands

By Tito Drago

Maria Luisa Lopez, like many other women in Spain, lives in fear of her life. Because even though her husband almost killed her, he may soon be out on bail.

ECONOMY-RUSSIA: Crisis Package Has Soviet Ring

By IPS Correspondents

Russia's newly formed government is considering a package of economic reforms reminiscent of Soviet- style central planning and citizens fear hard times, regardless of whether the new plans are implemented.

RELIGION-BOSNIA: Rebuilding Faith As Well As Churches And Mosques

By IPS Correspondents

NATO troops are clearing land for a new Catholic church in the Sarajevo suburb of Alipasino polje. On the next block, two hundred metres away, the dome of the Prince Selman Mosque is taking shape.

POLITICS-RUSSIA: Secessionist Chechnya Faces Uncertain Future

By IPS Correspondents

The recent assassination attempt on Aslan Maskhadov, leader of the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya, highlights the extremes of violence racking the Chechen lands as its factions war for political independence.

HEALTH: Search for AIDS Vaccine Continues

By IPS Correspondents

WITH the number of HIV-infected people continuing to increase throughout the world, the search is intensifying to develop a vaccine against AIDS.

HEALTH: Search for AIDS Vaccine Continues

By IPS Correspondents

WITH the number of HIV-infected people continuing to increase throughout the world, the search is intensifying to develop a vaccine against AIDS.

DEVELOPMENT: Negotiations Over Future ACP-EU Relations Start

By IPS Correspondents

Formal negotiations over the future of the Lome Convention, the European Union's giant trade and aid pact with the 71 countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of nations, are finally under way.

POLITICS-BOSNIA: West Will Act To Stop Transfer Of Power

By IPS Correspondents

The international community's High Representative in Bosnia, Carlos Westendorp, will quash any moves to make arbitrary changes in the make-up of Bosnia's collective presidency, his spokesperson says.

POLITICS-SLOVAKIA: Slovaks Consider Parting Company With Meciar

By IPS Correspondents

Central Europe's enfant terrible is growing up, but it may take weeks of political horse-trading before six-year-old Slovakia can prove its maturity to the rest of the world.

THEATRE: Jackie Onassis’ Flying Circus

By IPS Correspondents

One of the century's most glamorous women, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, is the subject of a wild and irreverent comedy show, opening in the West End next week (Oct 12).

POLITICS-BOSNIA: Refugee Return Central to New Government Policy

By IPS Correspondents

Alija Izetbegovic, chairman of Bosnia- Hercegovina's collective presidency, says the return of more than one million Bosnian refugees to their homes is the key to reintegration and will be the priority of the new government.

POLITICS-ISRAEL: Netanyahu Makes Room for the Extreme Right

By IPS Correspondents

In his two years in office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right wing Likud bloc, has opened up the country to rightist politics, transforming the regional peace debate.

POLITICS-BOSNIA: Election Results Underline Lingering Ethnic Divides

By IPS Correspondents

The recently released general election results have confirmed that the ethnic allegiances cemented during Bosnia-Hercegovina's 1992-95 civil war continue to dominate the country's politics.