I got given an iPad for my birthday and it is every bit as wonderful as I thought it would be. I use it in ways I never expected – it is fabulous for recipes, which I would never have thought of: you can prop it up like a cookbook. One of my favourite appsContinue reading “News the new way”
Category Archives: Euonym
Bloggez-vous?
Bloggingportal.eu have picked up and will support the idea of a multilingual day of blogging on 26 September, to mark the European Day of Languages. I met with someone today who got very excited about the event and will try to get someone pretty senior on board for it, which would be great. My languageContinue reading “Bloggez-vous?”
Links 9 August
I would love to do a proper post, but it’s been quite busy the last few days, probably due to the arrival of the new boss. so here are some links in the meantime. Sometime our justice system is not all it could be, or that we would like it to be, but Shirin Ebadi’sContinue reading “Links 9 August”
Links 3 August 2010
Interesting piece by JohnJoe McFadden on the GM milk issue. I was particularly interested to read As far as is known, no one has ever died or even got sick from eating GM food. Why are people so scared of GM ingredients, while cheerfully accepting far greater hazards? This issue of risk perception is oneContinue reading “Links 3 August 2010”
Coming Week – summer break
The Coming Week feature (haha, definitely need that tongue-in-cheek icon…) is suspended for the summer, as the official calendar won’t be published again until la rentrée in September. I know how much you will all miss it…
Coalition on Europe
It’s amazing what you find if you read everything in your inbox! An e-mail with the coalition’s reponse to comments on its programme has languished in there all day, and I just got round to reading it. Pretty interesting stuff! Of course my main interest was the Europe section and it’s good to see aContinue reading “Coalition on Europe”
Women in UK politics
The Robert Schuman Foundation have recently published some research which compares the level of ministers and members of parliament across the EU and show how many are women. The UK comes in below the EU average on all three indicators that they use: Women ministers – EU average: 25.75% // UK: 17.39% Women in national parliamentContinue reading “Women in UK politics”
Bullfighting – another Euromyth
On the day that Catalonia bans bullfighting, I just thought I would make clear that whatever you might have heard, the EU doesn’t subsidise bullfighting, either directly (which it never did) or indirectly (through subsidies for raising bulls). Farm payments are no longer linked to production, so farmers don’t get money for the bulls theyContinue reading “Bullfighting – another Euromyth”
Links 27 July 2010
No! Stay! Put in the call, and make Cosmetic Uprise keep blogging! As my EU-ambassadorial role in the UK has come to its end, I would like to thank everyone for reading this space and being immensely supportive. The feedback and the positive response I got for this blog made me seriously even consider taking aContinue reading “Links 27 July 2010”
Working in languages
One of the things that attracts most of us to working for the EU is the possibility of using the languages we have studied hard to acquire. In this office we do a lot of work to make people aware of the opportunities that come with speaking languages, not just working for the EU, but inContinue reading “Working in languages”