French entrepreneurship
in the LEX Column
Financial Times, 10 March 2010
Author: Webmanager
With Olympics in the air, do enjoy Stephen Colbert!
It’s often said – and heard! – that Winter Olympics get much less attention than Summer Olympics, and yet! Enjoy the next 6 minutes watching an interesting curling lesson…
Skate Expectations – Curling Team Tryouts – Colbert vs. Shuster
and if you’re not too familiar with Stephen Colbert, do take a while to watch the Colbert’s speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner back in 2006…
Pure delight guaranteed!
What’s that fake excuse? No, you can’t?
Another piece from Rettman, I know… and yet, what’s that fake excuse from the US?
US Blames Lisbon Treaty for EU summit fiasco
Andrew Rettman
EUobserver, 3 February 2010
Up the park in the library…
Why not indeed leave that huge oval table around which the now 27-member EU can barely sit? Mr Sudoku seems to gently impose a new syle. Let’s see what unfolds!
EU President to hold an ‘intimate’ summit in old library
Andrew Rettman
in EUobserver, 2 February 2010
The EEAS on its way?..
As part of the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, it seems that the European External Action Service is on its way.
EU Commission ’embassies’ granted new powers
by Andrew Rettman
EUobserver, 21 January 2010
So we dial Van Rompuy’s number to call Europe?
interesting trio in Madrid with the launch of the EU Spanish presidency. Read Stephen’s article till the last lines 🙂
EU Leaders Call for Sanctions Against Reform Busters
Stephen Castle
IHT, 8 January 2010
(Ladies and) Gentlemen?
Scarcity of women candidates for EU jobs signals trouble ahead
by Tony Barber
FT Brussels Blog, 17 November 2009
and see Jon’s blog at www.jonworth.eu with his and Maria Weimer’s launch of the Gender Balanced Commission website.
A “low-key, technocratic operator” for EU President?
Thanks Stephen for making me smile with your phrase “low-key technocratic operator”… because i’m literally devastated at the idea of this person in the EU pilot seat.
Belgian Emerges as Favorite for New Top E.U. Post
by Stephen Castle
in the International Herald Tribune, 4 November 2009
The Pope on Secularism
Incroyable. I’m reading this thinking, ‘this has to go in the picks’ section’, when i suddenly notice the writer is nobody else than Dan..! of course 🙂
At Czech Mass, Pope Says Societies Must Have God
by Dan Bilefsky
the International Herald Tribune, 27 September 2009
frenchie frenchie!
Cachez ce saindou que je ne saurais voir…
par Stephanie Clifford dans le New York Times
en français dans le Courrier International no. 985
Pro- or anti-Frenchie lifestyle? No matter what you feel like, this week dossier Oh! là, là! in this week’s Courrier International is simply…delicious! If you’re not registered online, it’s worth 3 € believe me.
Enjoy the read… en français bien sûr!