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Food: Horsemeat scam is a European problem
The horsemeat scandal has taken on European proportions. While European countries seek to blame each other, they are ignoring the underlying problem, which is that the economic crisis has meant that low income families are increasingly dependent on cheap...
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Internet resources for learning Spanish
The links on these pages offer a series of Internet starting points for learners and teachers of Spanish. They will be especially useful for learners studying at University level and will also be of interest to learners of other languages. The links cover...
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Internet resources for learning German
The links on these pages offer a series of Internet starting points for learners and teachers of German. They will be especially useful for learners studying at University level and will also be of interest to learners of other languages. The links cover...
Internet resources for learning English
The links on these pages offer a series of Internet starting points for learners and teachers of English. They will be especially useful for learners studying at University level and will also be of interest to learners of other languages. The links cover...
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Internet resources for learning French
The links on these pages offer a series of Internet starting points for learners and teachers of French. They will be especially useful for learners studying at University level and will also be of interest to learners of other languages. The links cover...
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Ioannis Ikonomou: The man who speaks 32 languages
MANY people are able to speak two languages fluently, or maybe three or even four, but Ioannis Ikonomou, who is comfortable speaking almost three dozen, is not like many people. In a telephone interview with the Athens News (in English) from his office...
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7 Common Misconceptions About Language Learning
There are over 6,000 languages in the world. Some are more important than others, not better or more advanced, just more important. Why? Because they are spoken by more people, in more countries. That does not mean that Finnish is not important to the...
" Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative " di Ken Robinson
"It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources...
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Slovenia. Democracy or kleptocracy: What’s it to be?
The divorce between the political class and the Slovenian population is expanding at the same rate as the revelations about corruption. Now that the head of government himself has been caught up in the scandals, Slovenian society stands at a crossroads....
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Cartoon of the day. Germany-Greece: The Little Match Girl
On the box: " The Little Match Girl" On Angela Merkel's dress: " German euro union" Following a January 8 meeting in Berlin with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel organised by the daily Die Welt, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said his country...
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The drug the EU decided to ignore
" Is the European Commission more concerned with promoting the interests of a US pharmaceutical firm than in ensuring the survival of several dozen patients suffering from a serious and rare liver disease?" asks French daily, Libération . The paper explains...
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Separatism: Keep calm and carry on
From Scotland’s membership of the EU should it split from the UK, to handling requests for military help to put down pro-independence movements, the recent rise in European secessionist spirit poses tricky questions for the Union. EU leaders should keep...
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40 trick questions about Europe
Three years of the euro crisis, 2013 is around the corner, and you still have some questions? So does essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger. The outspoken critics of the Brussels bureaucracy has been inspired to draw up a quiz – with, of course, entirely...
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" A risky business - but not for traffickers" by Armando Mombelli
Fake Viagra in rich countries. Fake antibiotics and anti-malaria drugs that cost hundreds of thousands of lives in poor countries. The market in counterfeit drugs is flourishing throughout the world. “In the 80 countries we work in, we are dealing every...
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Trade: Toxic containers discovered in EU ports
There is "poison in containers" arriving at European ports, warns French daily Le Monde . Out of a million containers unloaded each week, the paper explains, "15 to 20 per cent contain fumes that are extremely dangerous, carcinogenic or neurotoxic" and...
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Demography: Germany’s baby blues
Germany's birth rate has been declining for years. Costly programmes to encourage women to have children are in place but their haphazard implementation contributes to a failure to reverse the trend. Nathalie Versieux Forty and fifty year old women without...
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School: Gap widens between Asia and Europe
It is well established that Asian schools get better results than their European counterparts. Now, however, data from two surveys, PIRLS 2011 and TIMSS 2011, published by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)...
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Katowice mining the past
How does a city reinvent itself and build a new identity on a lost industrial past? By betting on culture and architecture to attract tourists. This Silesian city is following Bilbao’s footsteps and will open a rejuvenated museum in January. Tom Riley...
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Poland: Kids are so last century
Poles are staying in education longer and putting off having children – sometimes for too long. The country already has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world and if current trends continue, it may well top the global childlessness ranking in...
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Is Europe standing on its head?
Born to give a political dimension to the common values of Europeans, the Union, with the complicity of the member States, has acquired power and skills that have weakened the people it was supposed to defend, argues the Irish writer Colm Tóibín. Colm...
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Where has the region’s solidarity gone?
Exactly 10 years ago, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were given the right to enter the EU. But despite close economic ties and a sense of shared destiny, different political developments prevent them from having real weight in the Union....
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No federal Europe this winter
The last EU summit of the year will not take the path of economic and monetary union closer. The fault lies with Berlin and Paris, who have agreed to bury the roadmap which was presented to them by Herman Van Rompuy. The debate on the future of the Union...
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Debt crisis: France’s elites are in denial
Accused of sticking its head in the sand over the crisis, France has been downgraded by Moody's and become the biggest problem child in Europe. To the political elite in Paris, though, all that doesn’t matter, writes an author from Berlin in the conservative...
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Catalonia election: What will happen the morning after?
The regional elections of 25 November should hand the Catalonian nationalists a majority. The independence referendum they are promising, however, must first get the approval of Madrid and the support of the Catalans. Josep Oliver Alonso November 25 is...
" Utopia " by Thomas More
" Utopia", written in 1516 by Thomas More, is probably one of the most important books ever written. Why?. Simply because it influenced many people, and motivated many events: it made a difference... "Utopia" means, literally, "no place". The word didn't...
" A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work. The...
" The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde
" The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" is one of the first plays written in English since the works of Shakespeare that celebrates the language itself. Oscar Wilde's comedy has one advantage over the classic comedies of...
" End This Depression Now!" by Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman is a keynesian economist. He thinks the recipes for ending the current economic crisis are more stimulus (expansive fiscal policy), more money printing by central banks and, especially for countries where the housing market has crashed, mortgage...
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All of Europe’s misfortunes
The Old Continent is grappling with a moderately severe economic crisis, a severe political crisis, a critical civilisational crisis, and perhaps a deadly spiritual crisis, argues a Polish philosopher. Marcin Król We know that Europe used to be almost...
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The sick man of Europe is France
The German government is increasingly concerned as well as outspoken about France's economic situation and its inability to act. Authorities in Paris are aware of the slump in industry but nonetheless irritated by the German pressure. Dominique Seux We...