Category Archives: humour

Saturday

Procrastination on a Saturday – only for professional and experienced procrastinators:
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Breaking News

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How To Report The News

and while we’re at it:
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Öttinger vs. English as a working language

Günther Öttinger famously declared a few years ago that English will become the global working language (“Englisch wird die Arbeitssprache”).So, his job as the EU commissioner for energy is certainly a great opportunity for him to use his English skills… But just watch for yourself:
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Stop Barroso – too little too late?

Stop Barroso is a nice campaign by the greens with a very funny video (via Anyone but Barroso) .  “In the absence of a firm agenda from him, perhaps we  take this as his programme for government?” asks The European Citizen blog. Although I fully support the campaign and the idea behind it I partly [...]
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Europe without Barriers

via boingboing
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The Art of EU acronyms…

Something lighter for a change. What do all these words have in common? AGORES, DAPHNE, EQUAL, HOPE, JEREMIE, JASPERS, JESSICA, RAPID, Marco Polo, PRADO, PRELEX, PROGRESS, SIMAP, TRANSIT, URBAN, Ok, the question was rather rhetorical: There are of course all acronyms for EU programmes, EU grants and some EU databases. In case you still don’t [...]
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