Updated 28/05/2020 On 20 May the EU-Twitter sphere was buzzing as the long awaited EU Biodiversity and EU Farm to Fork strategies were released. Below is a list of hot off the press reactions from an agroecological perspective. There’s probably more to come as we all digest the dozens of pages of accompanying documents that…
2019 EU elections: historically high turnout & weakening of left-right divide
It is a challenge to extract the most significant points of EU elections results as they gather 28 countries and elect representatives from about 200 national parties. Conclusions can be easily drawn at national level but it is still hard to generalise a trend at EU level as each country’s results is mainly caused by…
#EU09vs19 – What has changed in the EU blogosphere since 2009?
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It’s time to blog again
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Un articolo in italiano per celebrare la giornata europea del blogging plurilingue
[This post is in Italian as part of the Day of Multilingual Blogging] L’ultima volta che ho scritto per la giornata del blogging plurilingue, l’ho fatto in spagnolo. Spiegavo che questo blog è per principio bilingue: inglese e francese, le due lingue in cui mi esprimo meglio. Questa volta ho voluto provare una lingua che non so…
Message in a bottle: do you know what MSA is?
Today is Rare Disease Day. I saved the date months ago and thought I absolutely needed to write a post on that day. A relative of mine suffers from one of these diseases. A blogpost is not much. Just a little message in a bottle thrown into the sea hoping it’ll change things. A little….
Brussels, je t’aime… moi non plus
Like many expats, Brussels was not a choice of love but one of reason. I came here for work. I had tried first to find a job in which I would combine my passions for Europe and for politics in Amsterdam, a city I fell madly in love with at first sight. But there was…
Do you need new business-ish cards?
I’ve been a long-time fan of Moo mini cards. I have business cards, which my employer gives me. That’s great in a business context. But when I’m having a chat with someone nice in a non-professional context, I just want to give them my personal contact details, not my work email address. So for about…
16 years of terror
22 July 2011. I’m in Brussels. Tweets of Norwegian friends inform me that a bomb has exploded in the centre of Oslo. Another tweet from them later informs me that there’s also been a shooting at the Norwegian Labour party youth conference. At this stage, we still don’t know what happened exactly. As I watch…
Quote of the Week: Cory Doctorow
Once in a while, someone will say something that’s so self-evidently true, and so unexpected, that you’ll spend the rest of your life working through its implications. Read in the Guardian