Who was the real Michael Collins?

Well obviously, even in the internet age, some news still travels slowly. By packet steamer by the look of it.
Still, just remember, you read about it first on Afoe.

Well the election campaign in Italy trundles on, and issues are starting to emerge. One of the more curious details to have come out in recent days refers to the size and shape of the voting card. It is to be some 65 centimetres long with canditates arranged horizontally rather than vertically across the strip [...]

Well the new EU energy plan has been released (and here, and you can also find the actual Commission statement here). The final product is pretty much as the leaks suggested.
As was indicated yesterday, Russia related concerns are central. The FT comments:
Russia supplies a quarter of Europe’s gas needs and the Union’s dependence [...]

This time on the front page of the German newspaper whose web site has marginally improved. “Prosecutor demands death penalty for Moussaoui”
Well blow me down. In their closing statements, do German prosecutors generally call for less than the maximum punishment for the offense being tried? “Well yes, your honor, we have just spent weeks telling [...]

Well leaks seem to abound this morning about a draft policy paper which European Commission president José Manuel Barroso is circulating prior to the March 23 summit (and here). According to the leaks the paper proposes a coordinated approach designed to achieve a new long-term partnership with Russia and the creation of a gas [...]

Well as everyone who reads Afoe assiduously already knows this is my opininion: demography does matter. And now this is doubly official as some of us demography enthusiasts have just set up the demography matters weblog. This does not mean that you, gentle readers, will now be completely spared, but it does probably [...]

Well it seems that Spain’s troglodytes aren’t the only ones hovering around the EU arena. Turkey’s Land Forces Commander Gen. Yasar Buyukanit might be another case it seems:
As we feared in our editorial on Monday the accusations from the prosecutor that the Land Forces commander tried to influence the judicial process by making statements on [...]

Stefan Geen’s simple anti-spam Turing test hack is fantastically efficient - you’ll almost never get any spam. Unlike MT’s anti-spam measures, it saves bandwidth (and, of course, it actually works); unlike Blogger’s turing test, it’s not unbelievably tedious. I’ve put together a tutorial for people who use MT 3.x. (An improved version of the one [...]

I don’t suppose it’s much of a secret that Turkey is one of the main ‘growth tigers’ in the ambit of the EU. The big issue is, I suppose, just how sustainable Turkey’s growth is. Well the World Bank is on the story, and now has a Country Economic Memorandum entitled Promoting Sustained Growth and [...]