Blogs - I hate your Lamborghini
What’s common in a Lamborghini driver, a sensational tabloid headline, a spam email and a job interview candidate wearing a provocative dress? It’s the message they convey: craving attention but lacking content. Those who buy the...
Blogs - I hate your Lamborghini
Applying for the EPSO AST competitons? Sign up for the FREE one-hour webcast on 8 December at 18:00 Brussels time! What’s common in a Lamborghini driver, a sensational tabloid headline, a spam email and a job interview candidate wearing a p...
The Semois valley
We’d come to the Ardennes for a two day trek around the Semois valley with an extended group of the in-laws. This is a beautiful part of the world. The Semois is a shallow and placid river at this time of year. We crossed it on a wicker bridge...
E-blogs by Wikio: the best European blogposts now available in 5 languages
Thanks to the European blog search engine Wikio, there is now no need anymore to speak 5 languages to discover the best European blogs. Each day on e-blogs, blogposts from the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain are selected and translated into 5 la...
Dünya TV- The first private Kurdish TV channel from Turkey
a rival to state’s Kurdish language channel: TRT 6 via Dunya TV is owned by Samanyolu Group, pro-Fethullah Gülen movement… ************** PKK sets disarmament conditions from BBC News | Europe | World Edition The leader of a...
Cop who killed Tomlinson has form
Occasionally you learn something interesting from the Daily Mail: THE PC WHO LEFT UNDER A CLOUD PC Simon Harwood, the officer who was accused of killing Ian Tomlinson, left the Met in controversial circumstances several years ago while facing miscond...
State of the Race: Burnham on Iraq
I like David Milliband but he’s a bit wonky, he makes me think of the ‘tiny head’ scene from The Thick of It, and that may not be what we need to win an election. Andy Burnham, however, comes across as a passionate and interested man, and the...
Week of July 24th
(Version Francaise) For your pleasure and information, here is a summary of the European news this week: The big thing of the week, is, again, economy: First, at the beginning of the week, the rating agency Moody’s, downgraded the Irish debt by...
Holidays and Integration in Ireland
Over the last week there has been a bit of debate over holidays and integration in Ireland. This was started when a former Tánaiste Michael McDowell suggested that it would be a good idea to make the Twelfth (of July) an official holiday in the Repu...
Semaine du 24 Juillet
(English Version) Pour votre plaisir et votre information, voici le résumé de l’actualité Européenne de la semaine: Le gros dossier de la semaine est – encore une fois – l’économie. D’abord, en début de semaine, l&...
Torrent edition from The Yes Men: Fix the World
click the photo for downloading information…Who is the Yes Men? “To date, the duo has produced two films: The Yes Men (2003) and The Yes Men Fix the World (2009)……” **************** CINEMA ROUNDUP Twilight: Eclipse from...
Iceland's Foreign Minister in his own world
Foreign Minister Össur Skarphéðinsson said yesterday in an interview with Mbl.is, the website of the Icelandic newspaper Morgunblaðið, that he thought that support for his government's application to join the European Union had increased among I...
Euroblogging roundup (and more from Europe…)
Fundamental challenges for Euroblogging by Grahnlaw The Open Europe blog made the point that there is blogging on the fundamental questions of the future direction of Europe, as well as on EU politics in a narrower sense, the outcome of EU policies.
More Rosey Chan
Can’t resist posting another Rosey Chan video (previous here).
A video: Beach House – Walk in the Park
worth watching… Beach House Walk in the Park Teen Dream 2010 Sub Pop / Bella Union Director, Cinematographer, Editor – Allen Cordell Starring – Nick Krever, Isabelle Jusseaume, Robert Dolan, Laurie Isabella, Peter David and Pearl Pr...
Govt to commission Skeletor to act as all-round cause of nation’s problems.
The Dept of the Taoiseach has announced that former 1980s cartoon baddy Skeletor has been commissioned to act as general source of the nation’s problems and universal hate figure. The former Masters of the Universe nemesis of He-Man has welcome...
Seen this somewhere before?
Interesting to see that the Daily Mail yesterday ran a story that you read about on Ooh, Brussels! MORE THAN TWO WEEKS AGO. In its typical Europhobic tone, the Mail’s article talked about the £12m “squandered” on the study, as repo...
Authors selling ebooks through Amazon…and an academic roundup
Celebrated authors bypass publishing houses to sell ebooks via Amazon Discontent over digital royalties prompts Roth, Amis and other leading names to enter into exclusive deal with Odyssey Editions E-books attracting more Turkish readers from Hurriye...
Ethan’s roundup of TED talks
TED (conference) (Technology Entertainment Design), an annual multidisciplinary conference TEDGlobal: Jason Clay and a sustainable future through corporate collusion from …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan (Clay’s talk is similar to the one...
Quote of the Week: John Lydgate
You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Post on Google Buzz Email this to a friend? Add thi...
Accordance with international law of the unilateral declaration of independence in respect of Kosovo – Advisory Opinion of 22 July
On 22 July 2010 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave its advisory opinion on the initial question: ‘Is the unilateral declaration of independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo in accordance with international...
Once upon a time in California...
Slightly modified from Flickr CC/D A PPosted in response to this...
Once upon a time in California...
Slightly modified from Flickr CC/D A PPosted in response to this...
