Having spent last weekend campaigning, I expected to produce a decent diary this week. However, as I sit down to compile this, I have a streaming cold, so it’s going to be rather less substantial […]
Bonjour mesdames et messieurs. Aujourd’hui on vote en le premier tour de l’élection présidentielle francaise. In other words, it’s polling day in the first round of the French Presidential election. Fierce
I’m writing on Saturday, so let’s hope we’re all still here to read it on Sunday. As is becoming almost usual, I’m leading off with Patrick Cockburn: War-whoops and loud applause from foreign policy establishments […]
We’ll start this week’s collection with the thoughts of Patrick Cockburn on Syria, since he knows more about what’s going on there than virtually any other journalist: President Donald Trump had little option but to […]
My name is Michael and I’m a Remoaner. So the news this week that the UK government has informed the President of the European Council of Ministers that they wish to trigger Article 50 of […]
It’s been quite a busy week, one way and another. Before we examine what the people thought back home about the Irish and German heads of government visiting the Orange House, let’s take a moment […]
Another week, in which POTUS* managed to sound sane for an hour or so. This is sufficiently remarkable for him to have received some modest praise from the Euro-press, though it’s hardly gushing. Fierce
Hi everybody, and welcome to another miscellany of European sense and nonsense. I’m focusing this week on how POTUS*’s various foreign policy initiatives are being perceived, and the verdicts are decidely mixed. As is becoming […]
For reasons I shan’t go into, I spent most of Friday trying to undo the damage caused by a piece of software going haywire at work and am really not of a mind to […]
This is an experiment. Since June last year, I’ve been doing a weekly dive into the European press on DKos, originally to cover the US election, but since then to try and cover European views […]
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