A personal recount of a life within Berlin, Venice and the EU

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Sinking to a low

A Christian Conservative and a never-faced-an-election British politician...Europe and the complex of inferiority on NYT

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Friday, November 06, 2009

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Sunday, November 01, 2009

For Blair, against Balkenende

The numbering of articles of the EU Treaties changed three times in less than twenty years...as far as I recall it is easier to say those articles whose number did not change than the other way round...I asked myself on what exactly were the french and the dutch asked to vote for...and what about with the Irish, twice....what are we supposed nowadays to stand for...? For a process started with good intensions but become a huge pachydermic animal, able to decide what is a third of the national parliaments of the 27 members state of the union, but unable to give a highly profiled political post to someody able to create some hype...

European Union is often referred as an unstoppable process, though slow and full of drawbacks, but for the good....being not stoppable looks nowadays the only thing many fans of the EU could be proud of...