Current issue: May 2015

… After Greece, who’s next? Iran and Saudi Arabia, strategic balancing act; Germany special report, politics and the euro; crisis in the Mediterranean, what asylum policy? untold stories; Piketty, the wealth of the wealthy, London, playground of the global rich… and more…

Must read

The mullahs’ quiet victory

by Shervin Ahmadi

Amid the conflict and chaos of the region, Iran has pursued a cool and coherent foreign policy; but at home there’s impatience for the economy to look up.

The power of raw money

by Rowland Atkinson, Roger Burrows and Simon Parker

What is a city for? And more importantly, who is it for? London has become just a safe investment for the world’s rich — who barely live there.

The story behind the stories  *

by Rodney Benson

Now Ireland and Portugal, too  *

by Renaud Lambert

Why Piketty isn’t Marx

by Frédéric Lordon

Waiting to get out — and in

by David Styan

US tries to balance Saudi Arabia and Iran  *

by Akram Belkaïd

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Long, sad history of Roma in Spain — Germany can’t solve this alone * — Alternative Germany * — The end of pacifism? * — Which way out of this mess? * — Bild: big circulation, loud voice — Don’t argue with demographics *

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