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As of its founding in 1913, this political review earned a reputation for in depth analysis and fiery commentary. Although open to a wide range of opinions, the New Statesman, acting as a forum for the independent left, is considered the British intelligentsia’s journal of report. Initially austere, its layout is now spacious and colourful.
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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.