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Beppe Grillo — floating on the eurosceptic wave
In local elections in May, comedian Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement won a number of town halls including Parma. Advocating an exit from the euro and the overthrow of Italy’s political class, Five Star is well on its way to becoming the second most powerful...
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Why football won’t save the euro
Who should win the European football championship to save the single currency? Though some are hoping that victory would boost confidence in some countries, the real match-up – with all apologies to sports fans – is far from the pitches, warns SME. Petr...
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" Rambo Amadeus, the cliché slayer " by Bojan Stilin
Over the last few years the Eurovision Song Contest has become an arena for political-musical confrontation. In 2009, the competition was marked by controversy over the provocatively entitled Georgian entry, “We don’t wanna put in” – an alleged allusion...
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" Biofuels: Brussels will have to revise its policy" by Martin Uhlíř
Three years ago the European Union made a commitment that did not seem overly ambitious: to have a tenth of European transport energy come from renewable sources by 2020. Part of the plan was to have an ever-growing fleet of electric vehicles that could...
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“Pornography is my profession” by Stefania Summermatter
Born into Swiss porn ‘nobility’, Zoë Stähli runs an X-rated art gallery in downtown Zurich and oversees the creative side of her family’s porn empire. Her greatest enemy is conformism. With dirty hands and an old film projector wedged under her arm, Stähli...
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" Can Spain make a solo comeback?" by Claudi Pérez | Luis Doncel
The doomsayers are rubbing their hands, sure that they are about to win the match. The possibility that is bringing shudders to the streets of Madrid and offices in Berlin alike – that a major EU country will ask for a bailout – looms ever closer. Spain’s...
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" Two-thirds reject privacy-busting Facebook" by Priit Pullerits
Sometime ago, Alar Sikk, the Estonian mountaineer who rose to fame when he climbed Everest, was chatting with Estonian TV celebrity Vahur Kersna, about his expedition to Mount Kazbek [in Georgia]. Sikk remarked that many of the potential participants...
" Online Translation - The Future?" by Steven Forsyth
It is fair to say that most small to medium sized GILT (Globalization, Internationalization, Localization and Translation) companies have professional looking and informative brochure web sites. What is interesting is that more and more of these companies...
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" An Easy Translation Job" by Danilo Nogueira
The client who claims the job is easy just wants a discount and quicker turnaround. There is no such a thing as an easy translation job. This does not mean the guys are lying: they may believe their own words. However, whatever people say, no matter why...
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How do you say “basta” in German?
Notwithstanding its social and political consequences, the Bundesbank and Angela Merkel's government are still advocating the austerity, which has been in force in Europe for the last two years. It is high time we stopped the damage, argues Spanish political...
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Max Schrems, the man who de-friended Facebook
A law student from Vienna is accusing Facebook of contempt for Europe’s data protection laws. For the company, which wants to go public soon, the attention comes at a bad time. Julia Prummer At some point Max Schrems wanted a precise answer. Writing to...
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Romania. Twilight of the intellectuals
Writer Mircea Cărtărescu argues that since the fall of communism Romanian society has been characterised by bad taste, physical and verbal violence, sexism and racism. Worse still, at a time when populism is emerging in the country’s media, Romanian intellectuals...
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The nebulous world of European agencies
Lacking in transparency, costly, and subject to conflicts of interest: the independence of more than 20 EU specialist agencies has led both to financial difficulties and a loss of democratic control, argues Die Presse. Oliver Grimm The exact amount is...
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Manolis Glezos, eternal resistance
At 89 years of age, he is a fixture at anti-austerity demonstrations. A member of the Greek communist party for 70 years, he has also been a national icon since the day in 1941 when he climbed the Acropolis at night to tear down the Nazi flag. Thodoris...
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" Marseille, the new drug empire" Yves Bordenave | Laurent Borredon
As night falls, an unmarked anti-criminal brigade police car relentlessly patrols the neighbourhoods of northern Marseille. In each of the cités or housing projects, the ritual is the same. With the arrival of the police, shouts ring out from block to...
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Neuro-linguistic Programming for Dummies
Learn how to apply NLP to fine-tune life skills, build rapport, enhance communication, and become more persuasive. One of the most exciting psychological techniques in use today, neuro-linguistic programming helps you model yourself on those-or, more...
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When the Press Fails
A sobering look at the intimate relationship between political power and the news media, When the Press Fails argues the dependence of reporters on official sources disastrously thwarts coverage of dissenting voices from outside the Beltway. The result...
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Crisis of faith for social democrats
The last few years have been particularly hard on Sweden’s social democrats. Lagging behind in the polls, the party is embarked on a quest for a new identity, with a sudden change in leadership. Le Monde reports from the industrial city of Västerås. Olivier...
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" Guide to Trance Formation" by Richard Bandler
More than thirty years ago, Richard Bandler set out to discover how some therapists effected startling change with their clients, while others argued about theories while their patients waited in vain for help. Now widely regarded as the world's greatest...
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" A time bomb under the Northern seas" by Ekke Overbeek
Nobody knows exactly how many discarded chemical weapons are hidden in the waters around Europe. For instance, in the Baltic, where after World War II the Allies dumped munitions originating from German arsenals, there are at least 40,000 tonnes, of which...
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" What did you see in Auschwitz?" by Hubert Prolongeau
“Maybe a package tour would be more convenient..." "... You’re right, it would take less time.” They are a couple in their fifties with an attentive way of speaking to each other. Stopping over in Cracow in the course of their holiday, they do not want...
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" A play about Breivik is essential for our time" by Christian Lollike
Can the radical manifesto of the killer of Oslo and Utøya really be staged? A theatre project in Copenhagen has raised strong protests in Norway and Denmark. But hearing the words of Breivik’s Manifesto 2083 is vital for understanding our times, responds...
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The town that stood up to the mafia
Ercolano, in southern Italy, has become the first town to stop paying extortion money to the Camorra. A new freedom fiercely defended by the town's mayor and shopkeepers. Irene Hernández Velasco The baker, the mechanic, the gas station owner, the fisherman,...
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" Arabic, a European language like any other" by Lina Kalmteg
Although she had worked in the press for ten years, Nadia Jebril, a Swedish journalist of Palestinian origin, never had the opportunity to use her Arabic in the context of her job. But then she had the idea for Rena rama arabiskan [Pure Arabic]: a series...
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Europeans open the Facebook files
Is Facebook too curious about its users’ data? A series of complaints initiated by an Austrian law student have led to a data protection audit in Ireland, where the social networking site’s European HQ is based. Pamela Duncan Heralded in the German-speaking...
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Bulgaria: white slave trade profits from the crisis
Rendered desperate by poverty and a lack of secure employment, a large number of young women yield to the siren call of recruiters who make use of bogus offers of training and temporary jobs to lure them into prostitution. Petar Petrov The majority of...
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And if Greece goes...
What if Greece leaves the EU? Professor George Prevelakis argues that it is an eventuality that would prompt a new geopolitical upset in the Balkans. As for the EU, it would be forced to acknowledge its inability to “Europeanise” a member state of 30...
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Welcome to the union of unequals
It should surprise no one that George Papandreou’s proposal for a national referendum on the latest European bail-out deal should have lasted just 72 hours before being bulldozed into oblivion by the Germans and French. Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy...
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Estonia’s signature melancholy
Although they show us occasional glimpses of hope, the works of our greatest film makers, Veiko Õunpuu and Sulev Keedus, fill us with sorrow. Our animation films, which are very popular around the world, are also characterised by dark themes, while the...
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Congratulations, you failed the Schengen test
The citizens of Romania and Bulgaria should be delighted by the rejection of Schengen membership applications submitted by Bucharest and Sofia, which have been vetoed by the Netherlands. Dutch daily De Volkskrant argues that it will be the spur they need...