Well, that rhyme may not be a particularly, well, good job. But then, there’s really not that much that rhymes well with “BOB”, despite the fact that the BOBS, Deutsche Welle’s Blog Awards, have become a rather well known by now.
And this year, A Fistful of Euros has been nominated in the category “Best [...]
A Fistful of Euroes has been nominated by Deutsche Welle for a 2006 BOB award in the category Best Weblog (English). So click here to go to their voting form and vote for us!
This falls under the category “Not Europe” here at AFEM but on the internet the world is a global village and one of the voices in that village has just been silenced, albeit in his own neighbourhood, along with a few others. Mahmood from the Bahrain weblog Mahmood’s Den was presented with a site blocking [...]
Last week we posted about the Presidential elections in Bulgaria, which led to a runoff between incumbent center-left President Parvanov and challenger Volen Siderov, founder and leader of the xenophobic populist-nationalist “Attack” party.
Well, a pleasant surprise: Parvanov won the runoff with a whopping 78.7% of the vote, outpolling Siderov nearly 4 to 1. To [...]
Radio afoe has been set up to accomodate the Fistful’s interest in audiovisual blogging. So check back soon for our first podcast.
Der Standard reveals all you need to know about driving a stolen tank into the police lines. Apparently, the man who stole an ex-Soviet T34/85 from the 1956 revolution commemorations and used it on the Hungarian riot police has been arrested. He is reportedly a former soldier (no surprise, as Hungary either has or used [...]
Via DJ Nozem I was directed to a very interesting and very important article on Eurozine about European secularism and its role in shaping European identities. The text contains many useful insights and provides a wealth of discussion material. I’ll give one quote for our readers to consider and debate, emphasis mine, but please do [...]
Another look back at Budapest in 1956, from the New York Times, by way of Crooked Timber’s comments:
THE first time I saw deep joy on my father’s face — the kind that comes from within and which is a child’s most reassuring signal from a parent — was on Oct. 23, 1956. It was at [...]
Peter Finn writes in the Washington Post that despite the Russian government’s problematic relationship with the rule of law, it has actually been quite good at complying with rulings from the European Court of Human Rights, aka Strasbourg. Of course, it would have to: Since 2002, the court has issued 362 judgements concerning Russia; 352 [...]
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