So what did we expect from Barack Obama’s foreign policy speech in Berlin? Since Barack Obama is not even the official democratic candidate yet, and obviously not the US President, I think expectations were hugely exaggerated. Apart from that, the following list of expectations sums it up (at least for me): Great visions for the [...]
The summer break is over. Slowly, the Brussels xpat crowd is coming back from holiday. I just started deleting blog spam….it is incredible what kind of spam you get these days! It used to be only the obvious things about different medications and various operations, as well as dating opportunities…but now they started making compliments: [...]
“Europe needs a Ronald Reagan” says Karel Schwarzenberg. And also “peace through strength” seems to be on the agenda in the Czech Republic…and not the need to “shift the arms race into a peace race“… This banner can be found just opposite of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague: "Europe needs a Ronald Reagan" [...]
It is time to say good-bye to the politician that brought us Europeans the myth about “old” and “new” Europe. As we all know, he is one of THE best stand-up comedians around. Tragically, he was in charge of the most powerful army on the globe. Borat would probably call him “the brave man that [...]



