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Ilana Bet-El
Based in Brussels, Ilana Bet-El is a writer, historian and political analyst specialising in EU and international politics. Throughout the 1990s she worked with and for the UN both in New York and the Balkans, including a two and a half years period in Bosnia during and after the war. In 2002 she created the op-ed page of European Voice, a weekly paper that is part of the Economist group. She edited the page until December 2005, and now writes a regular column on defence and foreign affairs for the paper.
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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.