Thanks to Lyndon from Law Skewl:

Budapest's new answer to orderly urban living.

This touched my mountain-made, agrarian heart in an oddly profound way - it seems silly in translation - as I was riding the iron horse from one city to another this afternoon. Again from the DAAD Letter: ( Dolmens and the ancestors. )

SpiegelOnline (English) plumbs Germans' obsession with fake tans.


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I was listening to To The Point on WAMU last night, and they were doing a show on the future of the petroleum/energy industry. Several interesting points: Sweden has announced its goal of being completely petrol-free in 20 years. European oil companies (BP, Shell) repositioning themselves as "energy" companies instead of just "oil" companies. ( Read more... )

I met with Prof A today. I'm supposed to be helping him this summer with research on some vaguely defined comparative-law project, though my availability has dwindled significantly since we originally discussed my potential involvement. He doesn't know what he'll need, I don't know what I can do, but it sounds neat. Didn't make for much ( Read more... )

On the off chance anyone's interested:

1. Journal Note: Roma and the Birth of Mass Expulsion Jurisprudence in the Council of Europe2. Cultural Property: The destruction of Iraqi heritage sites by current occupying forces ( Read more... )

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Bieler Tagblatt (in German): Interview with Dick MartyDick Marty is a liberal (unclear whether in the European or the American sense) member of the Swiss parliament and, since 1998, a member of the Council of Europe's parliament as well. (The COE is a separate but parallel institution to the EU. It includes about 45 European states - 25 of which ( Read more... )

This is HUGE.

WaPo: Italy Issues EU Arrest Warrant for CIA Team

As if our troops' attempt to shoot their journalists weren't infuriating enough for Italy, this CIA mess has the EU livid about the USA's overstepping the bounds of every single of our War on Terror allies' trust ( Read more... )

Standing back and looking back on Werro's EU Law class as a whole totally changes my perspective on it ( Read more... )