Europe

Germany: nags or subtle tacticians?

Marc F24 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:50:16 +0200

Is the German team a bunch of nags, or a group of subtle tacticians? This is the question we put to our Observers and former French international players Manuel Amoros and Bernard Bosquier, before comparing their point of view with that of Rainer Bonhof, the former German international player and coach.

"The West has a twisted vision of Russia"

Julien — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:42:53 +0200

Dimitri Medvedev was inaugurated as Russia's new president today. Evguenia Obitchkina, an international relations lecturer in Moscow, explains that the conflict between Russia and the West might have more to do with the hydrocarbon trade than human rights.

Bin Laden video: threats against Europe are serious

Julien — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:40:53 +0100

Osama bin Laden released a new video Wednesday, in which he threatened the European Union with a "reckoning" and reignited the Danish cartoon affair. One of our Observers, an al Qaeda specialist, explains why this message could see a new wave of terrorist action in Europe.

No thanks Tony, we don’t want you as president of Europe

Julien — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:39:05 +0100

Bristol, UK. Posted by 'Dr Dog' on flickr, 6 February 2006

When the idea of Tony Blair as president of the Council of Europe emerged, so did an online petition against the idea. The European Tribune blog launched the ‘Stop Blair' petition on Tuesday. Already signed by 3600 people, the whole blogosphere is talking about it. Here we publish commentary from Jérôme Guillet, one of the campaign's organisers, and the reaction of a British blogger specialised in European issues, for who Blair ‘would have been a good spokesman for the EU ten years ago'.

Thanks go to Carl Konigel, our Observer in Holland, who alerted us to the petition. See his blog.