“le plat pays”

Despite not having exact figures, the French Museum’s Direction predicts for this year an increase of the order of 3% of the visits to its national museums.
It seems that the crisis would incite people to frequent museums. As a matter of fact, while the world changes and the future worries, the intangibility of art pieces […]

Sunday February 22, the European leaders of the G-20 (Germany, France, England, Italy and Spain, plus the presidents of time the European Union, the Euro and the EC) met in Berlin.
They agreed on 7 points to be presented as the compilation of a common position at the next summit of the G-20 which will take […]

Dear Majesties,
I do not know how you managed to leave the East, I guess that you do not come from the Middle East, but from a very distant East, because the situation in the Middle East would not have allowed you to travel without taking big risks for your lives.
I do not know when you […]

The Avignon Forum was opened last November 18th with the attendance of more than 250 persons from over 15 different countries.
The aim was to bring together three different areas that usually turn their backs on each other: economy, culture and media.
Some European Ministers of Culture and well-known influential representatives both from cultural and media backgrounds […]

I tu, i tu, i tu….
And you, and you, and you …
The United States (U.S.) have completed today an historic process. A process that began when on June 2008, in the Democratic primary election, Barack Obama, the 47 years-old Illinois senator, black, a man almost unknown by his own party, defeated veteran Hillary Clinton.
U.S. citizens […]

On 15 November the so-called G-20 will meet in Washington, where the director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Khan, will propose a new plan for global governance.
A plan that would include 5 issues:
1- Release a new loan to provide liquidity in the short term.
2- Increase the resources of the IMF.
3- Draw lessons from […]

I am back from Central America where I have attended a joint meeting between the European Parliament and the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) where was again highlighted the need to deepen cooperation between the two regions to face the transformations of the twenty-first century international society.
As chairwoman of the European Parliament delegation to Guatemala, I […]

Today it is 30 years since the death of Jacques Brel. This blog which is entitled by one of the best known songs of Brel “Le plat pays”, could not let pass this occasion for remembering not only the magnificent musical and poetic legacy of the artist, but also some of the feelings that he […]

Ireland has said NO again to the EU. Ireland had already said “no” in 2001 in the referendum for the Treaty of Nice. Some time later, Ireland celebrated a second poll, in which the Treaty was approved, after negotiating some questions like its neutrality in military affair.
Ireland, when it entered in the EU in 1973, […]

REILU SUOMI
The Finn social democrats have celebrated its 41st congress in Hämeenlinna, a beautiful city, one hour away from Helsinki, towards the North. A congress where the word “renewal” often came out, especially in resolutions and papers.
The political situation of the Republic of Finland is that of a government formed by the Conservative Party, a […]