Belgien – ein föderaler Staat par excellence!?
Ein Ausblick auf die belgische EU-Ratspräsidentschaft, die Auswirkungen der derzeitigen unsicheren Regierungssituation in Belgien auf die Ratspräsidentschaft und eine Vorbildfunktion des belgischen Föderalismus für Europa - dies waren die zentral...
A day in Moldova
A couple of hours’ flight right in the morning took me to my first visit to Moldova. On the plane, I spent time carefully studying my papers and preparing for the meetings together with a delegation of senior officials from the Ministry, Nina Vasku...
European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 7 July
A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1906 Birth of...
Cheering for Europe… Soccer European World Cup
Whether or not you are a soccer fan, there is a good reason to be happy in South Africa, since the competition put European teams as the world three best team in the World ! Rejoice for an upcoming All European Final !
Is Europe shooting itself in the foot (to the benefit of Russia)?
The logic behind the question in the title is straightforward. Iran is a country with very large reserves of natural gas, a lot of it relatively low-cost. With the right investment it could become an exporter of global significance in about a decade.
253 Turks were saved in Istanbul from drowning last weekend
Hot and humid weather frustrate Istanbulians and they rush towards water but without much swimming skills (or hygienic conditions). A Hürriyet report states 253 were saved from drowning last weekend… photo from haberciniz.biz and a ROUNDUP Pro...
Melancholy in Berlin: views of three foreign writer residents
Very loosely, a 19-year-old Klaus Mann saw 1920s Berlin as 'seductive, gray, scabby, peeling, yet vibrant vitality, nervous, shimmering, phosphorescent, animated, full of tensions and promises.' Italian, Croatian and French writers Gianluca Falanga,...
To work!
After all that paradise it was time to get down to work. The meeting that brought me here is the administrative board meeting and annual general assembly of the International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions (which...
From Foe to Friend
One of the things that strikes me about security is how the safer we are, the more scared we feel. So much so that I think there must be some truth in the hypothesis that there is something about fear and suspicion that just breeds fear and suspicion...
Euro 2012 in Warsaw: hanging around the stadium
The UEFA football championship kicks off in Warsaw’s brand new national stadium on 8 June 2012. While it prepares to host over 100, 000 fans and tourists, the Polish capital is abuzz with excitement about revealing how far it’s come to the rest o...
Such a frustrating day…A few words on manners and Open source in academy (!)
I was accused of Piracy today by a quite well-known scholar on web censorship issues. Not publicly though. In a previous post I gave a link to his book whose link I found through my friendfeed news flow. I admit it was my mistake to give link to a...
When one postcard from a friend is not enough
By Anita Kalmane “Send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person somewhere in the world!” – that is the slogan of PostCrossing, a website which unites more than 190 thousand postcard fans from more than 200 countries. They al...
