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Do we need royal families?
While dozens of monarchies endure globally, recent decades have seen more republics emerge than kingdoms restored. Do crowned heads provide stabilising tradition or obstruct progress?
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Austria’s MPs pack up for three years as their parliamentary building gets a refurb.
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Expo 89: New look
Portraits of leaders are ubiquitous in Turkey, Spain and Morocco. Monocle paints a picture of their popularity and peers beneath the surface to learn the history of their peculiar reign.
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Clean and serene
Liechtenstein’s population is under 35,000, yet it's home to 70,000 companies. The modern state has one anachronism: a ruling prince with little time for democracy, a sentiment his subjects seem to share.
