Nick Thorpe
05 May 2022
The loneliest man in Europe
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Despite his fence-sitting over Ukraine, Hungarian leader and Putin ally Viktor Orbán has been left with few friends
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Romania has been on a cyberspace conquest
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The Balkan nation has emerged as an unlikely global centre of high- tech industry – and of hacking.
Read the full article03 July 2021
LGBT rights and the battle for Europe’s soul
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A seemingly unbridgeable chasm is splitting the continent between countries that see LGBT rights as the core of European identity of freedom and tolerance, and those that see them as a threat to that same identity
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