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Party time for Berlin!
In State of Europe on November 9, 2009 at 11:19
People walk next to a miniature representing the Berlin Wall placed on the bricks at the site of the former wall near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin November 8, 2009. As the highlight of a 5-million euro ($7.4 million) celebration marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, a 1.5-km (one mile) long segment of the Wall will stand for two days along its original route in front of the Brandenburg Gate to the Potsdamer Platz. The row of 1,000 20 kg dominos standing 1.5 metres apart — painted in bright colours by school children and rising 2.5 metres high — will be toppled at the end of a gala ceremony as a symbolic tribute to the collapse of the Wall 20 years earlier.
REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski
Times Online: Berlin all fired up for wall-to-wall partying – by Peter Millar
Tomorrow night, at the climax of the biggest official party seen in Europe, with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, hosting Gordon Brown, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president — to name but a few — the slabs will crash into one another like dominos, representing the chain of events that 20 years ago brought the cold war to an end. The first “domino” will be pushed over, fittingly enough, by Lech Walesa and Miklos Nemeth, the veteran Polish and Hungarian anti-communist campaigners. They will be joined by two other main actors in the drama of 1989: the former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the then West German foreign minister. Read the rest of this entry »
Blair vs Juncker: Hot debates for the EU presidency.
In European Economy, State of Europe on October 29, 2009 at 19:10
A. Gorskiy. Missed in action. in Soviet War Paintings.
MAIN FOCUS: Juncker wants to stop Blair’s march to power | 28/10/2009
from euro|topics
The Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker has declared his willingness to run for the post of EU president in an obvious bid to prevent British politician Tony Blair from obtaining the post and becoming too powerful. But in the end the EU may decide not to elect either of these two formidable politicians and opt for a lacklustre candidate instead. Read the rest of this entry »
“Why enlargement is in trouble
In EU Foreign Policy, European Economy, European Parliament, State of Europe on March 1, 2009 at 02:37Katinka Barysch of Centre for European Reform explains why EU enlargement is in trouble and there is more from the EU in the roundup…
Czech president shakes up the EU Parliament…
In EU Foreign Policy, European Economy, European Parliament, State of Europe on February 22, 2009 at 14:30It is now certain that the Czechs encolor the otherwise boring EU politics. His recent speech in the EU Parliament was sensational as the roundup shows.. In the roundup there is more about the EU- as usual…
“EU Agencies – Whatever you do, we work for you Source: European Commission
In European Economy, European Parliament, State of Europe on September 22, 2008 at 01:13EU Agencies – Whatever you do, we work for you
Source: European Commission
From Stockholm to Crete and from Lisbon to Warsaw, 29 agencies provide service, information and know-how to the people of the European Union and beyond. The agencies work within many different fields such as environment,
food safety, transportation, trade marks, education, or fundamental rights.This brochure dedicates a page to each of the agencies, describing their work and giving contact details.
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