- After releasing a video showing the brutal burning alive of a captured Jordanian pilot, Isis’ attempts to turn Arabs against each other risk backfiring, writes David Gardner
- The EU is supposed to be a union of democracies, not an empire. It should negotiate with Greece over its debts in good faith, argues Martin Wolf
- Kiev should be told it cannot win. Sending soldiers will deepen the tragedy, writes Eugene Rumer
- She is the shock candidate in Poland’s presidential election — a former television presenter with striking good looks, barely any political experience and a surname that translates as “cucumber”
- The cold brutality of the killing of a woman in Egypt, who was laying a wreath to commemorate the revolution, shows how far the military-backed government is willing to go to enforce a return to the old authoritarian order (NYT)
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Smart Reads 4 February 2015
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