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Isabel Lopes
Isabel Lopes was born in 1961 and gained her degree in Communication at l’Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has been a journalist with the weekly Expresso since 1992 and mainly publishes articles for Única, the culture supplement of the paper. Besides being an animal rights activist and author, she coordinates the succesful project on the Expresso website called "O Cantinho do Smith".
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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.