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Yves Miserey
A journalist for Le Figaro's scientific and medical section, Yves Miserey covers environmental issues, which he follows in a wide range of specialist publications. He is also the co-author of the book Une mer sans poissons (A Sea without Fish), on the dangers of overfishing in regions around the world.
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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.