Remarkable.
The comments by Jose Maria Aznar broadcast on Friday indicated the government knew on the morning before March 14 elections police were starting to rule out the separatist group ETA, though that afternoon it said ETA was likely responsible.
I guess he figured the truth would come out anyway. I’m sure he would disapprove of my [...]

…Is that they tend to only give you two options.
Following Jacques Chirac’s announcement that France will be joining the other countries holding refeendums on the constitution it’s prompted me to post a thought about the constitution referendum(s) that I’ve had before - wouldn’t it be nice to have a third option?
I’ve written here before about [...]

On a day which sees yet more evidence that the US economy may in fact be slowing down, and when news from the courts only serves to highlight the continuing precarity of the growth and stability pact, the FT runs a story about how a group of prominent Italian economists are suggesting that the budget [...]

But everything coming from the Cassini-Huygens mission is just too spectacular to ignore, even if our name is not a fistful of Titans.
The mission’s well-organized home page offers many splendors, including:
Cassini’s current position, from several different vantage points
Latest videos
Raw photos.
If the news, the economy, or the persistence of April-like weather into the middle of July [...]

Hi everyone. I’m back from holidays, work and stuff like that. Well, now we know what all that amazing broadband in South Korea is being used for. What is rather less well known is that whilst South Koreans are apparently happily downloading pirated movies they are quietly enduring a government inspired block on a [...]

Alright, here’s your joke for Sunday… if you can receive German ZDF television, you can enjoy your breakfast tomorrow making fun of me - Tobias - cycling on an ergometer for half an hour as a “surprise candidate from the audience”. Don’t ask me how I got into participating in a “Tour de Fernsehgarten” - [...]

Our blogroll is meant to be a sort of mini-directory of good european blogs. I’m always looking for blogs to add, so I thought I’d ask for sugggestions. I?m especially interested in blogs with an European perspective and ones covering the politics of a European country or region, but any good blogs are of interest, [...]

Missed most of the first half of Milosevic’s trial?

Since the case began in February 2002, a tangle of bureaucratic setbacks has mired the trial in costly delays. Milosevic is accused of 66 counts of human rights abuses, from violations of the “customs of war” to genocide. After 298 witnesses, 30,000 pages of documents and [...]

Not too long ago, I noted that the Sueddeutsche Zeitung was publishing a set of 50 great novels of the twentieth century. I got into the game a little bit late, but since then I have been more-or-less keeping up with their pace of one a week, largely by the not terribly edifying expedient of [...]

Well, Greece are the European Champions for the first time. The side that had never won a match in a major tournament before this year beat Portugal 1-0 in Lisbon to take the title. Expect wild party in Athens for the next few days.
Commiserations to Portugal - if it’s any consolation to Portuguese fans, you [...]