Voting takes place today in the Cypriot referendums on the UN peace plan. The final polls indicated that Turkish Cypriots would vote in favour while Greek Cypriots would vote against.

The story needed some time to cross the Channel, but on Saturday, International and German newspapers (taz) will grant Richard Desmond, owner of the publishing group Northern & Shell, whose papers include the Daily Express, the attention he already received in the British media. Shortly after announcing that his papers’ political allegiance would from now [...]

More on the British referendum, here’s Johann Hari’s clarion call for pro-Europe Brits to finally stand up and fight. The money quote:
This is a European country, and we must not allow a lying Australian-American billionaire and his paid lackeys to poison our sense of our own national interest.
Indeed. A minor quibble, however, with this statement: [...]

The Guardian looks behind the scenes at the work of the EU’s translators and interpreters

No this isn’t a linguistic point about the plural form in English. According to Wikipedia at any rate both forms (referendums and referenda) are acceptable (but I did feel the need to check). The issue here is rather whether the referendum is a singularly British obsesssion, something which in the French context is lacking in [...]

One of the more important lessons of what has come to be known as the ?transatlantic rift? is that designing political communication for domestic consumption has become much more difficult and is certainly more likely to have undesirable unintended consequences in an increasingly interconnected world.
Zionist heritage in Cologne.A recent example of these difficulties is US [...]

Gentle readers, you may not have noticed it, but about an hour ago, we at AFOE welcomed our one hundred thousandth visitor. It could have been you - but if I counted correctly, it was a reader from a British academic institution (ac.uk).But, obviously, he or she would not have the “lucky one” without your [...]

More on Britain’s referendum - Anthony Wells has a series of interesting posts on the issue, while British Spin and our very own Matt T make some good points as well.

This morning’s Independent had a map of the EU on its cover this morning (concerning which states may hold a referendum on the constitution), but looking at it, another thought struck me. When the ten new member states join the EU next month, for the first time in its history republics will heavily outnumber monarchies [...]

Ok, get ready, this is going to be an extremely weird, not to say ‘whacky’, post (well, what else would you expect from the so-called president of the association of ‘whacky economists’: at least nothing dismal I hope).
The idea started to form in my mind as I was writing a mail earlier this [...]