Archive for February, 2006

February 28, 2006

General management

My latest harebrained idea

by David Weman

A Few Euros More is not quite on hiatus, but clearly on the backburner right now. I thought I’d use this opportunity to do a little experiment. Anyone who feels like it is invited to post on AFEM this week. Just drop me a line at editors at fistfulofeuros.net and I will give you access [...]

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On the Internets

My latest harebrained idea

by David Weman

A Few Euros More is not quite on hiatus, but clearly on the backburner right now. I thought I’d use this opportunity to do a little experiment. Anyone who feels like it is invited to post on AFEM this week. Just drop me a line at editors at fistfulofeuros.net and I will give you access [...]

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February 27, 2006

Economics and demography

Saving The Euro

by Edward Hugh

Do you want to save the Euro? Well one idea for how to do it has been proposed by University of Missouri-St Louis history professor John Gillingham: reissuing the 12 national currencies that were replaced with just one, while at the same time retaining the euro as a parallel currency that finds its market value [...]

General management

MD

by Doug Merrill

This is the 1500th entry at A Fistful of Euros.
That is all.

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The CIS and South Eastern Europe

Bringing Down Europe’s Last Ex-Soviet Dictator

by David Weman

Long NYT magazine piece on the Belorussian opposition.
“We go into these elections not because we believe in their fairness, but because this is a chance to go to the people, to conduct a campaign door to door,” Milinkevich explained through an interpreter. “I will not say that at every door people will become less [...]

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The CIS and South Eastern Europe

Serbia to be first nation charged with genocide

by David Weman

Serbia will come under intense international scrutiny today as it becomes the first nation to defend genocide charges, while separately facing censure for failing to surrender war crimes suspects.
Belgrade will be accused at the International Court of Justice of sponsoring ethnic cleansing in the 1990s which led to the worst massacres on European soil since [...]

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February 24, 2006

The European Union

Oh We Are The Champions

by Edward Hugh

Yes we are really, aren’t we. Especially if we are called Arcelor, or Danone, or Endesa, or Eni, or Enel, or Banca Antonveneta or Pekao. And what these champions have in common, and it is this which sets them so much apart from their footballing equivalents, is not the ability to win anything, but [...]

February 23, 2006

Not Europe

The Colour of Steel

by Suhitan Antula

First of all many thanks to the kind folk of Afoe offering me the possibility of expressing my views on some European reactions to the Mittal Steel bid for the European steel giant Arcelor. By now most of you must have heard about this sitation. Mittal Steel is the world’s largest steelmaker and was founded [...]

Culture

Força Barça

by Edward Hugh

“I suggest you blog Barca vs Chelski later this week, in order to disperse the fog of wonkishness that hangs over AFOE.”
Alex Harrowell
Well, to please Alex even if it will please no-one else, I will. I have just two wordsto say: Leo Messi.

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February 22, 2006

Culture

David Irving: My Part in His Downfall

by Alex Harrowell

David Irving, as no doubt we all know, is beginning his new career as a jailbird, in the great grey walls of the Josefstadt prison next to the even greater and greyer Landesgericht between Vienna’s city hall and its university. Now, there are plenty of facile things to say about this: freedom of expression is [...]

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