Austria-Hungary: European lessons from a lost Empire
Below: Common culture – the national opera houses of Vienna (Austria), Budapest (Hungary), Prague (Czech Republic) and Lviv (Ukraine) are strikingly similar as they all…
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NATO gears up to face multiple threats
A future NATO will need to adapt to cope with multiple threats from the East and South, a senior NATO official told a gathering diplomats…
Missions mourn
MH17 tragedy Flags at diplomatic missions around London were lowered to half mast and diplomatic events paused for two minutes’ silence to honour the victims…
Wikileaks refugee to quit mission
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has announced that he may be leaving the Ecuador Embassy “soon” without specifying a timescale for his departure. Mr Assange, who…
GRULA changing of the guard
The Ambassador of Colombia Mr Nestor Osorio hosted a GRULA meeting where Latin American ambassadors were able to thank the departing GRULA Dean, the Costa…
US Ambassador ‘flips out’
A friendly wager saw US Ambassador Matthew Barzun and Belgian Ambassador Guy Trouveroy pitted against each other in a Great Belgrave Square Bake-Off. As the…
Fines and ‘crimes’ on the rise
London’s embassies are more in debt and their diplomats allegedly committed more serious crimes in 2013 than in 2012. Outstanding Congestion Charge penalties owed by…
Envoys reflect on WWI centenary
Diplomatic missions across London turned their lights off and burned a solitary candle on 6 August to commemorate the centenary of the start of the…
Shining a light on Jersey
Kate Nutt spoke to Elizabeth Stewart about how the new Jersey Office in London plans to channel relations with the UK and the diplomatic community….
The lamplighters of London
Foreign Office files shortly after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand hint at mounting mistrust between the European powers This month missions all over the…