It costs European taxpayers approximately 200 million euros a year to move the Parliament between Brussels/Belgium and Strasbourg/France. A citizens' initiative has been set up to collect a million signatures to put an end to the 'waste of taxpayers' money. Of course it is bad for the environment as well... More than one million people signed already, if you want to do that you can visit the website: http://www.oneseat.eu/
-Antonie-
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Oneseat Campaign
Talking about geography
Well - the video Antonie posted was just about a blonde - this video is even worse.
/Mikkel
Monday, December 10, 2007
Friday, December 7, 2007
Serbia threatens Kosovo with full scale war
The Serbian government threatens the Albanian in Kosovo with full scale war if they declare Kosovo independent. Jaap De Hoop-Scheffer, the secretary-general of NATO, warns Serbia not to use violence. 'We will act strongly against any faction that thinks to solve the conflict with violence,' says De Hoop-Scheffer.
After four months of negotiating between Serbia, Kosovo Albanians, EU, US and Russia it will be not likely that an agreement accepted by each party will be achieved.
Albanian nationalists got absolute majority after a massive victory during the recent elections. They made it very clear that they will declare the independence of Kosovo unilateraly. Serbia does not want to go further than far reaching autonomy for the province where Serbia's religious roots can be found and thinks it is justified if force is used. 'If someone does not respect the decision of the UN security council, a country is justified to start a war,' motivates Serbian Prime Minister Kostunica.
De Hoop Scheffer urges all parties not to seek their refuge in violence and warns Serbia not to defy NATO.
-Sander.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
New schedule tutorials
It is impossible to plan all tutrials on a Tuesday as I intended. Due to lectures I have to split up in the following way.
All Tutorials take 15 min, venue is 2S110. Here are the time slots:
Tuesday Dec 11
13.00-13.15 Jillian Kestler D'Amours
13.15-13.30 Ragnhild Erevik Lea
13.30-13.45 Mikkel Dybtved Andersen
13.45-14.00 Peter Fijbes
14.00-14.15 Kinia Adamczyk
14.15-14.30 Sander Zurhake
14.30-14.45 Kurt Hickman
14.45-15.00 Josef Hinterseher
Wednesday Dec 12
10.30-10.45 Sabine Stang
10.45-11.00 Jurga Krastinaityte
11.00-11.15 Antonie van Campen
11.15-11.30 Mark Bentley
11.30-11.45 Nicolas van Caillie
Frank Lemke
11.45-12.00 Gaelle Engelberts
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Mugabe is coming
Lets have a small debate here at our blog.
Next weekend one of the biggest dictators in Africa comes to Europe.
He has driven his country out to a point, where the population is starving, the inflation is 15.000 percent, and his party Zanu PF is well known for beating any threats to the current power of Zimbabwe.
So thinking about this, is it fair that Robert Mugabe can travel into the EU without facing arrest, or should we just feel sorry for this man that just tries to do his best with a country, where the white people has stolen all the money after giving it up as a colony?
/Mikkel
German journalist gets court backing in EU leak case
This story is about a week old, but it is very important.
It is about a German journalist that was so impudent that he published articles on alleged irregularities in the EU's anti-fraud office OLAF, based on internal documents from the organisation.
OLAF wanted to know, who the source was, and accused the German journalist Hans-Martin Tillack of bribing some from OLAF.
And because of that the police searched Hans-Martin Tillacks offices, house etc.
Now the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that it was against the freedom of expression to try to make Hans-Martin Tillack tell who his source was.
So this is good news for Brussels based journalists.
Read the story and some background here.
/Mikkel
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