Italy’s Summer of Discontent Italy’s Summer of Discontent
Maastricht--shorthand now for the speeding up of the European Community's financial integration--is both an eye-opener and a mystification.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
A Prophecy, a Protest, a Priest A Prophecy, a Protest, a Priest
Recently, The Economist took out a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times of London boasting that it had predicted the coal miners' strike six years ago.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
People’s Sellout People’s Sellout
Wall Street did not simply drag Europe's exchanges down in its fall.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Herr Kohl’s New Economic Order Herr Kohl’s New Economic Order
Nineteen ninety-three, with its single market and its important steps toward monetary and political union, was to have been Europe's momentous A 1 year.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Socialism’s Setting Sun Socialism’s Setting Sun
Amid the noise of the unending Urbatechnic affaire, a scandal over the Socialist Party's fraudulent financing of its electoral funds, the tenth anniversary of François Mitte...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Capitalism From Above Capitalism From Above
Boris Yeltsin celebrated the first anniversary of his reign in the mood of a satisfied yet rather puzzled survivor ("we jumped into the river not knowing how to swim...but we did...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Historic Moment Historic Moment
The meeting around a green table between representatives of Poland's ruling party and of Solidarity, scheduled for February 6, is a historic occasion. It marks a serious new atte...
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Five Davs That Shook the Party Five Davs That Shook the Party
From February 6 through February 10, more than 1,700 delegates to the French Communist Party's twenty-fifth congress met in the roofed-over sports stadium at Saint-Ouen, a suburb...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Specter of Capitalism The Specter of Capitalism
The rulers of the capitalist world who came to Paris for the bicentennial celebrations last month were in a smug mood.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Creeping Capitalism Creeping Capitalism
Europe's landscape is changing--dramatically in its Eastern half, which is groping toward capitalism, and less spectacularly in the Western part, which is on the road to a sin...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer