21 April 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe GERMANY: The comic Jan Böhmermann, who broadcast a satirical anti-Erdogan poem on TV, has been put under police protection. Chancellor Merkel has agreed that he is to be prosecuted under an old and little-used law – “insulting a foreign head of state” – which needs the approval… Continue reading Issue 50: 2016 04 21:Week in Brief International
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Issue 49: 201604 14:The other EU Referendum (Neil Tidmarsh)
14 April 2016 That Other EU Referendum Perhaps it should have been about Ukraine, after all. by Neil Tidmarsh This week, voters in the Netherlands rejected the EU’s trade and security treaty with the Ukraine. The result has been presented and received largely as a protest vote against the EU rather than against Ukraine. This… Continue reading Issue 49: 201604 14:The other EU Referendum (Neil Tidmarsh)