German Is Getting Sexy Again. Again.
The controverse reaction to Edward’s use of a French block quote in a blog that claims to be the place for intelligent English language coverage of European affairs, made me remember my first blogging...
View ArticleLiving in Denial
No this is not (yet) the title of one of my new pages (although we were looking into living in sin, but unfortunately it’s already taken). No the denial I am referring to is much nearer home for most...
View ArticleBlogging as Substitute?
Dr. Bernd Marcus, Prof. Dr. Astrid Sch?tz und Dipl.-Psych. Franz Machilek are psychology scholars at the Technical University Chemnitz and probably know everything you always wanted to know about...
View ArticleEnter The People. Why We Are Wearing Orange.
It is getting colder in Kyiv, so it may not be too surprising both camps are busy fueling the flames of their conflict. In a country eagerly awaiting its Supreme Court’s decision about the validity of...
View ArticleTwo on Turkey
With Turkish accession one of the most important issues facing the European Union, people interested in the question could do much worse than read these two recent, and reasonably short, books that...
View ArticleThe French Unrest and the Labour Market
Morgan Stanley’s Eric Chaney has what I consider to be a very sensitive and perceptive analysis of the economic backdrop to the French urban unrest: Turning to economic causes, many analysts have...
View ArticleThe new great game
Our next anniversary guest post is written by the the great Jonathan Edelstein. It’s starting to look like the season of referenda in the near abroad. On September 17, less than a week from today,...
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