Mario Centeno designated as next finance minister of Portugal The center-right President Anibal Cavaco Silva has approved the new...

The center-right President Anibal Cavaco Silva named the Socialist Antonio Costa as Portugal’s new prime minister. In the...

With more than 98% of all votes counted, the opposition candidate Mauricio Macri (*1959) of the Let’s Change Coalition won 51.4% of the vote in the Argentinean presidential election,...

Her warm, sometimes emotional and virtuoso sound, together with her unpretentious attitude, have won Sol Gabetta admirers around the globe. Biography of the cellist Sol Gabetta In the...

The almost impossible happened, the three main oppositional, left-wing parties and their leaders, who don’t like each other and represent incompatible programs, decided to form a...

Added on October 5, 2015 at 08:35 CET: With 99.23% of the vote counted and only 4 more seats to attribute, Portugal Ahead wins...

The regional election in Upper Austria Among the famous citizens of the region of Upper Austria (Oberösterreich), with its capital Linz, are unpleasant people such as Adolf Hitler, he was...

The last, great exhibition and catalogue with sculptures by Pablo Picasso (I have seen) took place at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in the year 2000 (review), curated by Werner Spies. On...

As a great KKK admirer—no, not the Ku Klux Klan, but the artists Kirchner, Klee and Kandinsky —, a visit to the great Klee and Kandinsky exhibition at Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern...

The current exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Switzerland) is dedicated to the painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin...

A history of the Galician city of Lviv (Lwów in Polish, L’vov in Russian, Lemberg in German and Leopolis in Latin) has to...

At the end of 1998, the Old Town of the Galician city of Lviv (Lwów in Polish, L’vov in Russian, Lemberg in German and Leopolis in Latin), which has completely preserved its Medieval...

After the 2015-election, it was clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would form a right-wing government. He had already moved further to the right at the end of 2014. As a surprise...

The new Estonian coalition government As expected, the relative winner of Estonia’s 2015-parliamentary election, Taavi...

There is nothing new under the Israeli sun. Bibi has already governed for some nine years. After the 2015 legislative election,...

On March 6, 2015 Brazil’s Supreme Court has given the green light to federal prosecutors to investigate 49 people,...

Correction added on April 16, 2015 at 20:33 CET: The Social Democrats lost indeed 4 seats compared with 2011, but now control...

Review, history, anecdotes and design of the palace at avenue Montaigne In February 2015, I finally had the chance to rediscover the renovated and enlarged Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris....

Le Relais Plaza is the famous brasserie at the elegant Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris, situated at 25, avenue Montaigne. Constant...

Christophe Moret has rightly been awarded a second Michelin star (Added on February 1, 2016 at 17:54 CET). Biography of Christophe Moret The executive chef at Shangri-La hotel Paris,...