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Renate Flottau
Renate Flottau (b. 1944) is the correspondent in the Balkans for the German weekly Der Spiegel. She has been living in Belgrade since the early 1980s and is one of the few Western journalists to have met Osama bin Laden. She won a number of awards for her reports on the War in the Balkans – and was declared persona non grata by Serbia in the 1990s.
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French is just too provincial
One of the most consistently informative and entertaining blogs about the European Union has to be Jean Quatremer’s Coulisses de Bruxelles.
Losing Angela in translation
When presseurop.eu was launched in May last year, one of its guiding mottos was Umberto Eco’s “The future of Europe is translation.” But sometimes I’m inclined to think that the future of Europe is lost in translation. I recently checked a statement by Angela Merkel concerning the CD-rom nabbed by HSBC supergrass Hervé Falciani containing data on Germans who have siphoned off their money to Switzerland in order to avoid taxes back home.