Sunday saw an historic event in Germany.
After failing thrice before, football club FSV Mainz 05 achieved promotion to the 1. Bundeliga for the first time ever. Tobias is doubtless rapt with joy even now.
To honour the stalwart lads from Rheinland-Pfalz I have composed a wee verse:
Climb whither thou couldst not before, now
Freed at last of [...]

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With the Eurovision Song Contest now completed for another year, it’s time for another international contest of intrigue, bargaining and frankly bizarre voting. In other words, the IOC today announced the shortlist of cities to host the 2012 Olympic Games.
Four European cities have made the shortlist: Paris, Madrid, London and Moscow, with New York the [...]

Russia and the Baltic republics, and now the EU. A fraught relationship, not least because of suspicions of bad faith on both sides. What is to be done? Some thoughts from a key Munich think tank, in German.

If you’re finding it a drag to write new posts for your blogs, then Matt’s new keyboard may be able to cut the time it takes

Edward has been writing about Italy’s long-term problems, and the likelihood that the long-term will arrive fairly soon. Business Week thinks this fall is when the future arrives for Alitalia, and the money runs out.

BBC News has launched its site covering June’s elections - there are local as well as European elections in the UK on June 10

Well, the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest has ended with yet another country scoring a first ever victory - Ukraine. What seemed like several hours of voting ended with a rather comfortable victory for Ruslana’s Wild Dances in the end or, in simpler terms, the ex-Soviet block voting proved stronger than the Balkan block voting. The [...]

Italian-born Sonia Gandhi seems set to become India’s next Prime Minister after the Congress Party’s surprise victory in the recent elections
Update: She has now turned down the post

I have no comment on this extremely preoccupying situation except to advise that you choose your passwords very carefully indeed:
“CBS reported on Thursday that Berg was questioned by FBI agents who discovered he had been interviewed before because a computer password he used in college had turned up in the possession of accused Sept. 11 [...]