Public Schoolboys Steal ‘Historic Artefacts’
By Max Musson: Two Polish teenagers have been arrested for stealing items that belonged to British soldiers who died during the Battle of Waterloo and have been released with suspended sentences. The 17-year-olds were on a history trip to the famous battlefield with The Posen School, a private school near Warsaw that charges 50,000 Zloty a year in fees, when they were caught on Monday digging for items belonging to former British soldiers. Suspicious guards…
United States of Europe or a Europe of Nations?
By Markus Willinger: The Ukraine crisis has not only shown that the old conflict between America and Russia still exists. It has also made it clear that Europe is still the locus of this conflict, but without any independent power of its own to affect the outcome. The Russians and the Americans argue about redrawing borders within Europe, and they don’t care what we Europeans think about it. They don’t care because they don’t need…