Friday, June 29, 2012

Romanian wine and history

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Decided to leave my laptop behind this week as I toured one of Romania ’s less-well known areas which just happens to have a lot of vineyard...
Monday, June 25, 2012

The Deserts of Transition?

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For all the talk of European Commission transparency, it’s none too easy to get useful information about the projects on which its various S...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

European public space

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I’m European in perhaps a rather perverse sense – that I love the differences between the countries which make it up. Given the scale of ...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Understanding Germany

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First - on the eve of the German-Greek football match - have a look at this side-splitting Monty Python clip of a German-Greece football mat...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Bucharest gets more like Budapest

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Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta has been accused in a highly respectable international scientific journal – Nature (based in London ) ...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Transylvanian Trilogy

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There are not many books available in the English language about this part of the world – Olivia Manning’s The Balkan Trilogy is perhaps t...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

Labour

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The scything season is getting underway – bit later than usual (I think) because of the spell of cold and wet weather last month. And there ...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

village tradition and solidarity

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Last Saturday I found myself, as an agnostic, in an initially embarrassing situation – being invited (as I thought) to lunch at a village ne...