Introduction: "A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of Communism"

The plague repeatedly returned to haunt Europe and the Mediterranean from 14th through 17th centuries.

The plague repeatedly returned to haunt Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the 14th to 18th centuries, and still occurs in isolated cases today.

A spectre is haunting Europe, and France's gloriously varied vineyards in particular.

It is just that question that is haunting Europe.

The success of these leaders does not mean that the specter of Nazism is now haunting Europe.

The name and concept fundamentally come from Marx's assertion that a "spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of communism".

YET another specter is haunting Europe, and not just Europe this time: the specter of the permanent refugee.

Marx and Engels had something quite different in mind when they began their Manifesto of 1848 with the eloquent sentence "A specter is haunting Europe."

This highly risky strategy will come back to haunt Europe in the short or the long term.