The EU is now officially a player in this year’s US elections: After talks in Washington failed, Pascal Lamy, the EU trade commissioner, has confirmed that progressive trade sanctions to counteract illegal US export tax breaks will be imposed from March 1st on.
After a stopover in Chicago, where he once again urged to keep more than an eye on the current Dollar weakness and Euro area interest rates (transcript in English | .doc), Gerhard Schroeder is having lunch with GW Bush today in order to further mend relations after the two leaders’ bitter disagreement over Iraq.
EUR-Lex, the EU’s web gateway to legal documents now also offers provisional access to the official legislative journals of all member states (via handakte.de)
Downing Street says - A new weblog reporting the official briefings made by the British Prime Minister’s office
The Boston Globe has uncovered the (truly) European roots of J.F. Kerry. Sueddeutsche Zeitung picks the subject up… “I hope you don’t write that Kerry was a Sudeten-German…” (in German).
Mischievous Constructions - a new blog from Michael Brooke, brother of The Virtual Stoa’s Chris
Confident of victory in the March 14th election, Russian President Putin has declared the resignation of the Prime Minister and his cabinet
Forty years on my isle of heartbreak - former Guardian editor Peter Preston’s personal reflections on Cyprus
20000 demonstrate in Tirana, calling on Albanian PM Fatos Nano to resign
Feed: A Fistful of Euros