At The Topic Lens, we explain the background behind the headlines. But headlines are made of words, and words have backgrounds too. Even the name Andorra is a small mystery: theories range from pre-Roman roots to Arabic and Basque, and none has settled the debate.
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From the name to the country itself: what does Andorra look like through American eyes?
A tiny country high in the Pyrenees with two heads of state, and neither of them is Andorran: one is the President of France, the other a Catholic bishop in Spain. Andorra speaks Catalan, uses the euro without being an EU member, and has turned its mountains and tax rules into a business model. In this episode, we explore how a medieval arrangement became a modern microstate, and why it still works.
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