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Italy's ruling party is collapsing.
The disruptive lorry-driver strike in Greece is to continue.
Serbia is continuing its diplomatic offensive following last week's court ruling on Kosovo. But the Kosovans are expecting a "wave of recognition".
Economic sentiment within the EU is at a two-year high, a commission report shows.
Russia's president has called in the army to take on the forest fires raging in the central part of the country.
Under the radar: Four of the European Union's special representative posts are to be abolished next year.
To recognise or not to recognise
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George Soros on the crisis and the euro (New York Review of Books)
Germany's lamentable self-absorption (Jürgen Habermas)
Everything you wanted to know about the KGB (Foreign Policy)
Greece, the world's sixth-largest arms importer (New York Times)
Bored by Brussels
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