France's elections

• First round knock-down
  

  Nicolas Sarkozy's party takes a battering in France's regional elections (18)

• • • The strange unpopularity of Nicolas Sarkozy
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  • • The French president tries once again to be a man of the people (Jan 2010)
    (15)

A special report on Germany

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  Older and wiser

  For all its stolid reputation, Germany has become surprisingly flexible. But it needs to keep working at it (68)

• • • Leader: Why Germany needs to change, both for its own sake and for others
    (449)
  • • "The recession has served to increase Germany's self-confidence"
  • • Germany emerges from recession in relatively good shape
  • • An audio report on the changing migrant experience in Germany

Russia

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  Another great leap forward?

  Modernisation is hard to argue with. But it may not be what Russia needs (114)

• • • Charlemagne: the trouble with the European Union’s attempts to woo Russia
    (142)

Crisis in the eurozone

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  Now comes the pain

  Greece’s new austerity measures may prove to be enough—if they are fully implemented (64)

• • • Let the Greeks ruin themselves, says Germany
    (732)
  • • "We're not asking for a bail-out": The Economist interviews George Papandreou
  • • The crisis in Spain
    (31)

Ukraine's new government

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  Caretakers

  Old faces return to form a new government for Ukraine, at last (48)

• • • Yanukovich's mixed blessing
    (6)
  • • Yuschenko was not ruthless enough
    (5)

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