Tony Paterson
Tony Paterson writes on German issues for British newspapers The Independent and the Daily Telegraph, among other publications.
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Baltic states and the crisis (2)
Latvia, from boom to bust
19 April 20101The Independent London -
Urban planning
Vauban, the revolution will not be motorised
30 June 2009The Independent London
With the highest unemployment rate in the EU, the capitalist boom years for Latvia have gone, and many of its citizens are hankering for the grey certitudes of life under communism, reports The Independent. 
In a suburb of Freiburg, south-west Germany, a former army camp has been turned into an ecologist’s paradise. No cars, sustainable homes, with a socially homogenous profile. But is it an ideal society? Tony Paterson at the Independent is not quite sure.