The Globe and Mail - Doug Saunders Columns

Europe comes home to the shock of a demographic bombshell

Sat, 6 Sep 2008 00:00 EDT

In France, they call it la retour, the day in early September when the entire population of Europe coagulates the continent's highways and asphyxiates its airports by returning from four- and six-week vacations all at once. It's considered a sombre and melancholy day, a moment to contemplate your depleted finances and advancing age.

Europe's demographic bombshell

Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:23 EDT

Europeans returned from the beaches to discover that their grey hairs and improved lives have led their countries to a looming demographic and fiscal catastrophe

Can Brown survive his very British Brutus?

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 03:56 EDT

A newspaper article by David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, seen as the launch of a mutiny against PM

Can Brown survive his very British Brutus?

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

It is a very British coup that has broken out on the beaches of Europe as Prime Minister Gordon Brown's cabinet members begin their summer vacations with talk of insurrection.

A toddler in a factory: China's Olympic dilemma

Sat, 2 Aug 2008 00:05 EDT

Little Yu may have to spend her Sundays in a factory, but she is one of the few who has a chance of escaping the Olympic trap

Serb fugitive captured at last

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:25 EDT

Arrest of Radovan Karadzic for war-crimes tribunal may ease Europe's attitude toward Serbian government

Turkey's governing party narrowly avoids ban

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:29 EDT

Ruling strikes balance between country's radical secularists and AKP's moderate Islamic constituency

Turkey's governing party narrowly avoids ban

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00 EDT

Turkey stepped clear of political turmoil yesterday when its top court ruled against a charge that would have had the effect of a coup d'etat.Turkey's Constitutional Court fell just one vote shy of outlawing the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on charges of anti-secularism. The judgment ends a three-month period of suspense, intrigue and violence, highlighted by an alleged coup plot and a deadly terrorist attack this week in Istanbul that many believe was related to the pending court ruling.

Will arrest bring Serbia back to Europe?

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:55 EDT

Doug Saunders reports from Belgrade