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Rafael Ramos Marín
Rafael Ramos Marín, born in 1956, has been the UK correspondent for the Barcelona daily La Vanguardia since 1993. Previously, he was a correspondent for the Spanish press agency EFE and for the television channel Antena 3 in the United States. He studied law and journalism at the University Complutense in Madrid. He writes a blog called Diario de Londres (London Diary) on the website of La Vanguardia.
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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.