Our problem is that others will recover from the international financial crisis in the short-term, whereas Spain will head towards an irremediable and complete Italianisation.

ECONOMIST: Spain and its regions

The closeness of Anglo-American military and intelligence ties, driven by the cold war, became a defining feature of British foreign policy and a source of tension between Britain and France, which led de Gaulle twice to veto British membership of the then European Economic Community, on the grounds of Britain's irremediable Atlanticism.

ECONOMIST: Britain and the cold war