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Beppe Grillo — floating on the eurosceptic wave

In local elections in May, comedian Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement won a number of town halls including Parma. Advocating an exit from the...

 14 juin 2012
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Why football won’t save the euro

Who should win the European football championship to save the single currency? Though some are hoping that victory would boost confidence in...

 14 juin 2012
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" Rambo Amadeus, the cliché slayer " by Bojan Stilin

Over the last few years the Eurovision Song Contest has become an arena for political-musical confrontation. In 2009, the competition was marked...

 1 juin 2012
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" Biofuels: Brussels will have to revise its policy" by Martin Uhlíř

Three years ago the European Union made a commitment that did not seem overly ambitious: to have a tenth of European transport energy come from...

 1 juin 2012
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“Pornography is my profession” by Stefania Summermatter

Born into Swiss porn ‘nobility’, Zoë Stähli runs an X-rated art gallery in downtown Zurich and oversees the creative side of her family’s porn...

 31 mai 2012
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" Can Spain make a solo comeback?" by Claudi Pérez | Luis Doncel

The doomsayers are rubbing their hands, sure that they are about to win the match. The possibility that is bringing shudders to the streets of...

 31 mai 2012
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" Two-thirds reject privacy-busting Facebook" by Priit Pullerits

Sometime ago, Alar Sikk, the Estonian mountaineer who rose to fame when he climbed Everest, was chatting with Estonian TV celebrity Vahur Kersna,...

 31 mai 2012
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" Online Translation - The Future?" by Steven Forsyth

It is fair to say that most small to medium sized GILT (Globalization, Internationalization, Localization and Translation) companies have professional...

 1 mai 2012
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" An Easy Translation Job" by Danilo Nogueira

The client who claims the job is easy just wants a discount and quicker turnaround. There is no such a thing as an easy translation job. This...

 1 mai 2012
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How do you say “basta” in German?

Notwithstanding its social and political consequences, the Bundesbank and Angela Merkel's government are still advocating the austerity, which...

 27 avril 2012
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Max Schrems, the man who de-friended Facebook

A law student from Vienna is accusing Facebook of contempt for Europe’s data protection laws. For the company, which wants to go public soon,...

 27 avril 2012
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Romania. Twilight of the intellectuals

Writer Mircea Cărtărescu argues that since the fall of communism Romanian society has been characterised by bad taste, physical and verbal violence,...

 4 avril 2012
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The nebulous world of European agencies

Lacking in transparency, costly, and subject to conflicts of interest: the independence of more than 20 EU specialist agencies has led both to...

 4 avril 2012
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Manolis Glezos, eternal resistance

At 89 years of age, he is a fixture at anti-austerity demonstrations. A member of the Greek communist party for 70 years, he has also been a...

 8 mars 2012
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" Marseille, the new drug empire" Yves Bordenave | Laurent Borredon

As night falls, an unmarked anti-criminal brigade police car relentlessly patrols the neighbourhoods of northern Marseille. In each of the cités...

 26 février 2012
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Neuro-linguistic Programming for Dummies

Learn how to apply NLP to fine-tune life skills, build rapport, enhance communication, and become more persuasive. One of the most exciting psychological...

 25 février 2012
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When the Press Fails

A sobering look at the intimate relationship between political power and the news media, When the Press Fails argues the dependence of reporters...

 25 février 2012
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Crisis of faith for social democrats

The last few years have been particularly hard on Sweden’s social democrats. Lagging behind in the polls, the party is embarked on a quest for...

 24 février 2012
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" Guide to Trance Formation" by Richard Bandler

More than thirty years ago, Richard Bandler set out to discover how some therapists effected startling change with their clients, while others...

 24 février 2012
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" A time bomb under the Northern seas" by Ekke Overbeek

Nobody knows exactly how many discarded chemical weapons are hidden in the waters around Europe. For instance, in the Baltic, where after World...

 28 janvier 2012
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" What did you see in Auschwitz?" by Hubert Prolongeau

“Maybe a package tour would be more convenient..." "... You’re right, it would take less time.” They are a couple in their fifties with an attentive...

 28 janvier 2012
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" A play about Breivik is essential for our time" by Christian Lollike

Can the radical manifesto of the killer of Oslo and Utøya really be staged? A theatre project in Copenhagen has raised strong protests in Norway...

 28 janvier 2012
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The town that stood up to the mafia

Ercolano, in southern Italy, has become the first town to stop paying extortion money to the Camorra. A new freedom fiercely defended by the...

 29 décembre 2011
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" Arabic, a European language like any other" by Lina Kalmteg

Although she had worked in the press for ten years, Nadia Jebril, a Swedish journalist of Palestinian origin, never had the opportunity to use...

 15 novembre 2011
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Europeans open the Facebook files

Is Facebook too curious about its users’ data? A series of complaints initiated by an Austrian law student have led to a data protection audit...

 5 novembre 2011
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Bulgaria: white slave trade profits from the crisis

Rendered desperate by poverty and a lack of secure employment, a large number of young women yield to the siren call of recruiters who make use...

 5 novembre 2011
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And if Greece goes...

What if Greece leaves the EU? Professor George Prevelakis argues that it is an eventuality that would prompt a new geopolitical upset in the...

 5 novembre 2011
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Welcome to the union of unequals

It should surprise no one that George Papandreou’s proposal for a national referendum on the latest European bail-out deal should have lasted...

 5 novembre 2011
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Estonia’s signature melancholy

Although they show us occasional glimpses of hope, the works of our greatest film makers, Veiko Õunpuu and Sulev Keedus, fill us with sorrow....

 29 septembre 2011
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Congratulations, you failed the Schengen test

The citizens of Romania and Bulgaria should be delighted by the rejection of Schengen membership applications submitted by Bucharest and Sofia,...

 26 septembre 2011
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