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The Spectator
http://www.spectator.co.uk
The Spectator is a British institution. Founded in 1828, the journal of report of Britain's conservative intelligentsia is reputed for its incisive tone coupled with a sharp sense of political analysis. Since 1989 it has belonged to the same group as the Daily Telegraph.
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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.