Marion Van Renterghem
Born in Paris in 1964, Marion Van Renterghem has been a senior reporter at Le Monde since 1998. She began contributing to the daily in 1988, as a freelance book reviewer. Following a trip to Hungary in 1993, she wrote a series of articles on Eastern Europe, and worked as a book critic from 1994 to 1998. In 2003, she won the Albert Londres prize, awarded yearly to the "best senior reporter in print journalism".
Updated: 7 August 2009
A number of European countries are seeing a renaissance of far right movements. While those in the East espouse Fascist ideologies, the Western brands target multiculturalism and Islam in particular. 
Berlin has been reunited for 20 years, but there is another wall in Europe which is still standing. While we celebrate the anniversary of the end of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War, one small corner of the European Union remains separated by a conflict that erupted 35 years ago: the Republic of Cyprus, which was been split in two since the Turkish invasion of 1974. 
Iceland has just voted to apply for EU membership, but as enlargement is contingent on ratification of the Lisbon treaty, Iceland's fate is in Ireland's hands this October 2 as it goes to the polls for a second time to vote on the troubled text. Both islands have much in common, argues Le Monde, while their approach to Europe differs somewhat.