Russia: The Tsar's Victory Over Napoleon, 200 Years Later
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Across Russia, celebrations have commenced honoring the 200th anniversary of Tsar Alexander I's defeat of France's Napoleon Bonaparte. Russian and English language bloggers have been tracking the celebrations and lingering cultural impact of the war.
Louise Mensch reports tweeters naming teenage rape victim to police
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With numerous tweeters naming the teenage rape victim of a Welsh international footballer — despite legal anonymity protections – Corby MP Louise Mensch has reported the users to the police. Here’s a bit of “banter” for...
Portugal: Video of Guinea-Bissau coup protest in Lisbon
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Youtube user MinisterioDaVerdade published a video of a large parade on Saturday by Guinea-Bissaun residents of Lisbon, and their Portuguese families and friends, protesting the military coup which took place April 12. Marchers occupied the streets o...
Mélenchon may have disappointed, but he boosted overall French radical left vote in Presidential election
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Jean Luc Mélenchon of the Left Front (Front de Gauche) achieved a result on Sunday’s Presidential elections that beat the overall radical left performance in 2007. Despite support that fell short of some polls, Mélenchon should at least be sa...
Europe, business and bikes
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We all worry about the millions of young skilled people in Europe, ready to enter the labour market, looking for a job. And they often begin their working life, if at all, in precarious, low-paid part-time employment. From the beginning of my term...
Europe, business and bikes
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We all worry about the millions of young skilled people in Europe, ready to enter the labour market, looking for a job. And they often begin their working life, if at all, in precarious, low-paid part-time employment. From the beginning of my term...
The (crumbling) walls of Nama: another Irish accounting reel
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God, but Ireland must simply hate Eurostat. The pesky statistics agency keeps forcing it to recognise all of those expenses it would otherwise prefer to ignore.And the agency is at it again....
Is Nadine Dorries at war with her own party over boundary changes?
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Scrapbook concurs with Nadine Dorries’ description of Cameron and Osborne as “two arrogant posh boys” (video below). But with her seat of Mid Bedfordshire being vanished into thin air by the Boundary Commission, could aloofness to...
Why the far right did so well in the French election | Pierre Haski
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It is simplistic to blame racism. Economic and cultural factors lie behind the Front National's success – and help from SarkozyThere are two ways of looking at the results of the first round of the French presidential vote. On the surface, voters c...
EU and Angola to deepen ties
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According to recent reports by Reuters, the EU and Angola are set to reach a deal that will help the African country maintain its economic growth, boost good governance and fight poverty. In the words of José Manuel Durão Barroso, the President...
Informing France’s voters for their presidential choice
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Update, May 6, 20112: Socialist candidate Francois Hollande captured the presidency in the second and decisive round of the French Presidential elections. Internauts followed the results live on Sunday evening from 8pm CET on www.google.fr/elections...
Did Somebody Say Holl-owski?
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A new European Union-shaping political alliance may be in the offing. It’s unlikely to rival the Merkozy pairing of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French leader Nicolas Sarkozy. But Mr. Sarkozy’s challenger for the presidency, Francois Holla...
Pledges from Sarkollande
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Only two weeks until the runoff between The Adversary of Finance and the The Adversary of the Financial Times (handy catch-up chart via RBC):...
Croatian President Ivo Josipovic: will his metaphoric Ustashi snake divert attention from post-WWII Communist crimes
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When a Head of a country – a President – starts evoking a terrible long-gone past and resurrecting it, pinning it, maliciously, as active inclinations of today’s decent freedom loving citizens then we know that country is in danger of long-last...
Report on sustainable production shows further efforts are needed
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According to a new Global Outlook Report published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboration with the European Commission, despite successful initiatives to promote sustainable consumption and production are flourishing...
TACD and HAI call for EU turn to open and needs-driven health innovation
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http://haieurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/HAI-Europe_TACD-EU-Innovation-Paper.pdf...
Walmart: ‘sometimes issues arise despite our best efforts’
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Sometimes they are also enough to knock $10bn off your market cap six years after taking place.Walmart shares were down as much as 4.9 per cent on Monday after the NYT’s...
Monday miscellany
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The IPKat is known for his commitment to openness and clarity in legislation and public-sector policy-making, among other things, which is why he has maintained a suspicion of the manner in which the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and the...
