Watch UK Prime Minister Cameron apologise for the killings in Derry on Bloody Sunday.
and better watch Derry’s people reaction live
To all my Northern Irish friends
Category: Les clins d’oeil de Marie
The French Commission Rep takes risk to create a 9 May buzz on the net
Migration de crabes pour le 9 mai
Yeah! Who thought it’d happen?! Ok, it is for a French audience – French speaking ok too if you’ve been introduced to French humour! – but even if you don’t get a word of the Frenchies’ jargon, do take a look at this video! No Rep logo, but humour, average puns and references to old ‘chanson francaise’, a ‘forbidden under 18’ section, everything is there to create surprise. France strongly celabrates 8 May each year, although I bet an increasing number of younger citizens forgets the reference to 1945; and yet very few across the EU, including dear France, know about 9 May. Were it to be turned into a day-off, I’m not even certain it would help. This year anyway, the argument doesn’t hold since both 8 & 9 May are weekend days!
If you don’t know about 9 May, it’s the day to celebrate the Schuman Declaration, which paved the way to the EU. Not sure you wish to celebrate then?! oops
This year marks the 60th anniversary of this famous speech by France’s foreign minister Robert Schuman.
Watch 9 May celebrations advertising video by French Commission Rep:
Migration de crabes pour le 9 mai
And of course, they got their FB page 😉
More about 9 May in France at www.fetedeleurope.fr
Could the US learn something from the French?!
French entrepreneurship
in the LEX Column
Financial Times, 10 March 2010
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!
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
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
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!