Showing posts with label EU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EU. Show all posts
Monday, June 08, 2009

1930s redux

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Been away in Prague for a week, of which more later, but have woken up this morning to some really scary and appalling news from all over Eu...
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Friday, February 06, 2009

More tolerance news from Italy

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Piergiorgio Stiffoni (no sniggering at the back, that really is his name, apparently) who is a Senator from the ever-delightful Northern Lea...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

With friends like these

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I've recently been perusing English language blogs that have the word Romania in them for research/laughs. It's quite remarkable ho...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Alacant post

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Am currently in Alicante (or Alacant as it's known in Valenciano, the local language/dialect of Catalan) working on a European Union pro...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Corruption article

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Not really my thing to just link to articles and not add anything of my own, but am a bit pressed for time, and wanted to make sure that any...
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Friday, July 11, 2008

Racism returns to the European mainstream

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What the hell is going on in Italy? Berlusconi is using his first weeks in power not only to evade prosecution in all the corruption trials...
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Friday, July 04, 2008

Milking it

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A couple of years ago, I pondered on the impact that EU membership would have on the small farmers of Romania. Just to clarify, the farmer...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Germany

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What does Germany mean to you? What images are conjured up by that name? Well-engineered cars? Hitler and the Nazis? Good football team m...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Side effects of the smoking ban

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I spent last week in Aberdeen, which, being in Scotland, has a full on smoking ban in pubs, restaurants, etc. (England & Wales don't...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

What the EU means for me

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Yesterday, I got my new residency permit for Romania. Things have certainly changed. In the space of two years I have now had (and report...
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Monday, January 08, 2007

Irony

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With much of the far right of (old) Europe convulsed by the threat of the vast number of Romanians (read: gypsies) flooding across the conti...
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Please the Press in Belgium

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Romania’s accession to the EU has thrust the country into the international media spotlight. Well, to be more accurate a few people with me...
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Early spring or late autumn?

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It's 8 degrees C as I type this. 8 degrees above zero. In January. In Miercurea Ciuc. It's unfeasible. I blame the EU. (Romanians...
Saturday, December 30, 2006

The hour approaches

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The following have recently (I mean in the last couple of days) appeared in the main square, finally. I wondered if anyone would ever make ...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

La Dolce Vita

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Harrowing article from today's Guardian about the plight of migrant workers (Romanians among them) in Southern Italy. Driving through ...
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

4 tier Europe?

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I remember a few years ago there was talk of having a two tier EU. There would be the countries that believed in it and wanted to work toge...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Close the door behind you

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So, Romania is in. After much umming and ahhing, the EU has finally given the green light for us and Bulgaria to join. I'd write a lon...
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Saturday, September 02, 2006

Ease and Wizz

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Marosvasarhely (otherwise known as Targu Mures, otherwise known as Tirgu Mures, otherwise known -by almost no-one- as Neumarkt) has an airpo...
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Thursday, August 24, 2006

More on anti-Romanian bigotry

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Just as an addendum to yesterday's news, after I wrote it I went out and saw the headline on the Daily Express which was something along...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Poles Apart

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Quite interesting being in the UK at the moment. Yesterday the government announced figures for the number of Eastern Europeans who have co...