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Eric Chauvistré
Eric Chauvistré (b. 1965) did his PhD in Berlin and Canberra on nuclear armament and military interventions. Having worked as a journalist for Reuters, the Berlin daily newspaper Tageszeitung and German broadcaster ZDF, among others, he now freelances in Berlin. In the spring of 2009 he published Wir Gutkrieger. Warum die Bundeswehr im Ausland scheitern wird (We the Good Warriors: Why the Bundeswehr Will Fail Abroad).
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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.