Paweł Lisicki (b. 1966), is a journalist and columnist. Since 2006 he has been the editor in chief of Warsaw daily Rzeczpospolita. He is also the author of philosophical essays published in the conservative quarterly Fronda and the Catholic monthly Znak, among others.
One of the most consistently informative and entertaining blogs about the European Union has to be Jean Quatremer’s Coulisses de Bruxelles.
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.