At Polandian, “observations of the Polish character” by Scatts: “Some of them relatively new or recently reinforced, others very old but all have been openly discussed with a variety of Poles who, for the most part, agree with me. Those who don’t agree with me, tend to disagree with anything bad being said about Poles […]

The Economist's Ceratin Ideas of Europe blog welcomes exhibit ideas for a Cold War museum that may be built “on a site near the old ‘Checkpoint Charlie' border-crossing point in Berlin.” One reader suggests “a section on anti-communist humour.”

Desmond McGrath of A Fistful of Euros writes about football and politics: “Part of the fun of football is the way in which it overturns the international order of power politics.”

Regional partners of United Airlines may benefit from the US major’s decision to dramatically slash mainline capacity, as routes currently operated with Boeing 737s are down-gauged to regional jets.
Speaking today at Merrill Lynch’s global transportation conference in New York, United CFO Jake Brace said the carrier does not have current plans to change its […]

Air France-KLM is increasing the pressure on industry to prioritise developing a “game-changing” successor to the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737, in particular…