OK I’m pushing the point quite hard here, but what I want to emphasise is that a European blog in a global world has a pretty broad reach. The latest round of US employment figures are in, and they are nowhere near as pretty as everyone (including even me) was expecting. Over 400,000 people stopped [...]

Namely Wampum: 2003 Koufax Awards nominations: Best Group Blog. Vote for us if you like.
Thankfully, this time we’ll lose to some very deserving blog, rather than some hateful idiot.
The Koufax awards are great, actually. They make you discover a bunch of excellent blogs. Especially great is the “best series” category.
Incidentally, Scott is nominated in [...]

I’m mighty flattered that I’ve been promoted to “guest blogger extraordinaire” even though I’ve been silent the whole of this year so far (due mainly to illness). Sorry about that!
Well, here goes.
Take a look at this Czech press review from today, in which Prague daily Lidove Noviny reports that Miroslav Grebenicek, the Communist [...]

Ok, the sun is shining nicely down here in Barcelona right now, so maybe this is a good moment to come out and provoke a storm. The euro: something gives, but what? Actually it is perhaps ironic that I have chosen today of all days to write this, since for once it seems the euro [...]

In case you don’t know it exists, here’s the offical website of Ireland’s Presidency of the EU.

OK you may be in for a bout of solid over-posting. There seem to be some signs in the air that push may be about to come to shove. Tomorrow I will try and do something on financial architecture and the euro. Meantime this is a ‘light’ warm-up post. The efficient cause is today’s [...]

Jurjen (”the quiet one” in AFOE) has started posting to his weblog again after a three month hiatus. Hooray!
Only, now I’m worried one of my favorite underrated bloggers will unexpectedlyy retire. A few days after Mrs Tilton’s comeback, Cinderella Bloggerfeller went on indefinite hiatus, so I hope it’s not some kind of cosmic law [...]

On a day which sees the Parmalat heat being turned up to full blast, with a looming ‘cara a cara’ between former Chief Financial Officer Fausto Tonna and Parmalat chief legal counsel Gian Paolo Zini, and while in the United States a class action law firm has named investment bank Citigroup Inc and auditing [...]

When I first came to Belgium, one of the things that genuinely surprised me is how people seem to think Buffy, the Vampire Slayer is a children’s programme. Admittedly, the title doesn’t exactly say “socially relevant drama”, but I doubt that the show’s success on American TV would have been possible without the age [...]

I’ve not seen this mentioned much on blogs, so just to keep you informed.
A series of letter bombs have been sent to several senior European figures and MEPs. More information here and here or via Google News.