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At Mountainoak Cheese in rural Ontario, their Gouda is winning awards. The owners support Canada's tariffs on cheese imports.

What turns some law-abiding Canadians into smugglers? The high price of imported cheese.

Economics

Canada has tariffs and quotas on imported cheese, which results in higher prices and limited availability. So some Canadians resort to cheese smuggling.

An Albanian state police officer holds a piece of freshly cut cannabis near the town of Kruja. Most of the pot produced in Albania is grown outdoors, on public land. Growers take advantage of the country’s Mediterranean climate and mountainous terrain.

Riding along with Albania’s pot police

Economics
A pro-union demonstration organised by the Catalan Civil Society organisation makes its way through the streets of Barcelona, Spain October 8, 2017.

As Spain sinks further into instability, the EU remains mute

Global Politics
Spain unemployment Malaga

Why far-right populism hasn’t caught on in Spain

Economics
Supporters of Austrian far right Freedom Party (FPOe) presidential candidate Norbert Hofer hold images of his face in Vienna, Austria.

The European Union may be fragile, but it’s not cracking up just yet

Economics
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Turkey Refugee Camp

Refugees in Turkey will get EU-funded debit cards

Conflict

The EU announced plans Thursday to distribute debit cards to refugees in Turkey, part of a multi-billion euro aid deal with Ankara to curb migrant flows to Europe.

Brexit-EU

After the UK, which nations are more vulnerable to an anti-EU revolt? These 5 charts may tell you.

Global Politics

Using the social indicators revealed in the Brexit referendum, we did a test on key EU countries. Italy shared four characteristics that might drive people away from the EU.

Tributes in memory of murdered Labour Party MP Jo Cox, who was shot dead in Birstall, are left at Parliament Square in London,

Will the murder of an idealistic, young British MP swing the EU membership vote?

Global Politics

If voters choose to depart from the EU, Britain will take a “leap into the unknown.”

London Mayor Boris Johnson and Prime Minister David Cameron have been schoolmates, political colleagues, and are now rivals in a battle of Britain's future in Europe.

How Britain’s debate over Europe has opened an old rivalry between former schoolmates

Global Politics

In Britain, a civil war between two old schoolmates and political rivals has broken out. A few months from now, Britons will go to the polls to vote on whether the country should exit the European Union, and go it alone.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses after recording her New Year's speech in the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, December 30, 2015.

The refugee crisis was the story of the year in 2015. And that story is far from over.

Conflict

The refugee crisis in Europe dominated the world’s headlines for much of 2015. But it’s a challenge that’s likely to define 2016 as well.

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