Dublin nights…
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I am staying at the Clarence Hotel backing onto Temple Bar. The Clarence has a bit of a history to it. Although it was built in 1852, it was refurbished in the late 1930s in Arts and Crafts style. In the 1970s the Temple Bar area was earmarked by th...
Greenpeace "activists" arrested in Sweden and Finland
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Finnish and Swedish Police have done the only right thing: Swedish police said they arrested six Greenpeace activists who boarded an icebreaker in the Baltic Sea Thursday in a bid to block plans by Anglo Dutch giant Shell to drill for oil in t...
The Closer
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ROUND-UP US stocks closed down, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average knocked off its four-year high, after a recent bout of disappointing data. This has been reflected in the...
Elections 2012: election marathon
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11.25: ¡Basta Ya! After nearly 26 hours, this liveblog is shutting down. Congratulations to all new councillors, and thank you to every candidate, whatever your party. Democracy is an honourable pursuit: don't let anyone tell you otherwise. The woo...
Court of Auditors jokes
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“The Court found … that out of the 27 transport projects audited 18 projects were clearly directed at transport objectives.” (page 17) I take this line as Court of Auditors humour, although it’s rather a sad kind of humour afte...
We refuse to waste a witty headline on Facebook’s S-1
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1) It’s a punchy IPO pricing range.2) Ooh look at the insider seller amounts.3) Please can this not be all over CNBC for the next month.4) That’s about it. From the latest S-1 filing:...
I, as president of the Republic
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A three-hour-debate and a balanced match in which we’ve seen an offensive candidate and another on the defensive. This is the conclusion I draw the debate of yesterday between François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy. The two finalists for the French...
Obama´s handling of the case of Chinese dissident Chen Guangscheng
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I am not in a position to know, but if what Mitt Romney suggests, is true - or even partially true - his description is right:"If these reports are true, this is a dark day for freedom and it's a day of shame for the Obama administration." Mitt...
Comment transformer son entreprise en incubateur d’innovation
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Une entreprise ne peut-elle envisager une autre façon, plus souple et plus rapide, de réagir aux changements d'environnement concurrentiel et de prendre des initiatives nouvelles ? Karl Stark et Bill Stewart, deux consultants américains spéciali...
Miss France on Twitter for a week: getting to the root of stereotypes
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Last week I had the pleasure of participating in a new Twitter meme, the citizen curated location account, whereby citizens embody and represent their country or city during one week [...]...
Asien, Europa und die USA
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Asien erlebt Veränderungen. Es wird sowohl Sicherheit als auch Unsicherheit in der Zukunft der Region geben. Einerseits ist gewiss, dass sich Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung fortsetzen werden. Andererseits gibt es kein gemeinsames politisches und Sic...
How to Make the Best Use of Your European Tapestries
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European Tapestries are wonderful addition to any home decorating scheme. This ancient textile art, with its intricate design, subtle colors and themes for every taste fit just about any interior decorating style.Tapestries are woven textile art piec...
Russia: Crowdsourcing to Solve Local Urban Problems
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Solving problems at the local level, the kind encountered by inhabitants of big cities and regional centers, is becoming more and more feasible thanks to projects based on crowdsourcing technology. Crowdsourcing is getting groups of people involved i...
Are diamonds Israel's best friend?
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The conviction of former Liberian president Charles Taylor for crimes against humanity this week prompted some journalists to recall how his trial was briefly glamorous. Evidence given by “supermodel” Naomi Campbell of receiving dirty gem stones...
Europe and Africa: Does the future lie in regional integration?
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Since the 2008 financial crisis and its consequences in Europe, the African continent has been overshadowed by other concerns of European governments. Despite a renewed interest in the Maghreb from the Old Continent aroused by the 2011 Arab revolutio...
Europe and Africa: Does the future lie in regional integration?
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Since the 2008 financial crisis and its consequences in Europe, the African continent has been overshadowed by other concerns of European governments. Despite a renewed interest in the Maghreb from the Old Continent aroused by the 2011 Arab revolutio...
Promoting the quality of EU products inside and out
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Agriculture ministers were brought up to speed on the communication on promotion measures and information provision for agricultural products: a reinforced value-added European strategy for promoting the tastes of Europe. This communication should be...
French elections 2012: the view from Brussels
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France will wake up to a new president on Monday morning, assuming Sunday's presidential election goes the same way as the latest polls, which hand 53 per cent of the vote to Socialist, Francois Hollande. I am in Brussels at the moment, where EU offi...
Subsidiarity: Federalism Over Catholic Social Ethics?
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In the E.U., the principle of subsidiarity functions in theory like the Tenth Amendment does in the U.S.—again in theory. In both cases, public authority on a given domain or policy-area is preferentially to be exercised at the state rather than fe...
Killing VaR
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Hopefully that headline gets your attention for the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s latest review of capital rules for banks’ trading books.There is a lot in it —...
France's presidential debate was a test of character | Christine Ockrent
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Both Sarkozy and Hollande were eloquent, media-savvy performers – but it was the Socialist challenger's nightForget about the polls, the analysis, praise and criticism pouring in from all sides about the candidates' performance. For almost three ho...
The stand-off worsens
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A GROWING number of EU leaders are threatening to boycott the Euro 2012 football championship in Ukraine over the government's treatment of imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko read more...
The Sage (or not) of Abbottabad
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Is it permitted to invest funds in the stock market, buying and selling shares, for the goal of supporting jihad, or investing some donation-derived funds in stock markets and...
Should the EU boycott Euro 2012?
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SHOULD European Union leaders boycott Ukrainian-hosted matches in the Euro 2012 football championship, which begins next month in Poland and Ukraine? The question has gathered momentum this week after Der Spiegel, a German weekly, reported that Angel...
UK MEP Dan Hannan: Energy crisis? What energy crisis?
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UK conservative MEP Daniel Hannan once again asks the right question: The US is showing the way with regard to the shale gas and oil revolution. Europe should follow. Sadly, the Europeans, with the exception o...
Basel III bunfight: Is this the beginning of the end?
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On Wednesday, as FT Alphaville has already illustrated, European finance ministers failed to agree legislation that would enshrine Basel III bank capital rules into law. This despite...
Greek elections: Be afraid, be very afraid
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Greece goes to the polls this weekend. And it looks like it’s going to be messy. The potential for the “wrong” result to wreak havoc in the markets on Monday morning is real....
