Category Archives: lighter side

Will the prophet Putin be proven right?

Posted on 3 March 2012 by craigjameswilly

Last November, when the euro-shit really started to hit the fan, Vladimir Putin – with his habitual freedom of expression – predicted the European Central Bank would need to intervene to the tune of €1.5 trillion. Mario Draghi, who became … Continue reading →

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“Hidden Disaster”: The EU’s actually pretty good comic on its humanitarian work

Posted on 14 May 2011 by craigjameswilly

I hate the European Union’s PR efforts. Over-generalizing very slightly, they could be characterized as “universally shit”. The Commission in particular is guilty of funding high-budget bizarre and even incomprehensible videos, whether it be the two-part “Adventures of Euro-Clooney and the Innovation … Continue reading →

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UK’s electoral reform, explained by progressive leaders

Posted on 1 May 2011 by craigjameswilly

While not as entertaining as when explained to cats, the Guardian nonetheless has perhaps the most “authoritative” defense of the alternative vote system. It is signed by Labour shadow business secretary John Denham, Lib Dem energy and climate change secretary Chris … Continue reading →

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UK’s electoral reform, explained to cats

Posted on 30 April 2011 by craigjameswilly

Very amusing and informative guide to the possible electoral reform in UK. Only in the age of the internet!

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Erdoğan accuses French MP of being French

Posted on 16 April 2011 by craigjameswilly

When asked by French MP Muriel Marland-Militello about freedom of religion in Turkey, the Turkish Prime Minister responded that “I believe this friend is French? She is also ‘French’ to Turkey.” Being “French” about something is a colloquial Turkish expression … Continue reading →

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Even Der Spiegel can’t help the raunchy innuendo

Posted on 7 April 2011 by craigjameswilly

At least when comes to covering Silvio Berlusconi’s now-delayed trial on his infamous “bunga bunga” parties with then 17-year old nightclub dancer Ruby Rubacuori. Lest you not got the not-so-subtle jibe at the Italian prime minister’s virility with the article’s … Continue reading →

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Sarkozy’s bare-chested war counsel

Posted on 3 April 2011 by craigjameswilly

Nothing inspires less confidence in the bases of France’s war against Libya than this photo of Bernard-Henri Lévy about to meet President Nicolas Sarkozy. It is in this state that France’s most media-savvy “philosopher” discussed the high politics of war … Continue reading →

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EU’s new wish-fulfilment video: Commission’s endless paperwork creates scifi Utopia

Posted on 30 March 2011 by craigjameswilly

We all remember the adventures of Euro-Clooney and other assorted metrosexual Europeans in the “Innovation Union”. The good people at DG Communication have decided to top that with this video which I am almost at a loss to qualify. I … Continue reading →

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France’s Man in Baghdad Plays James Bond

Posted on 3 December 2010 by craigjameswilly

I was very tempted to entitle this post “Sarkozy’s Little Arabs” for two guests that appeared at the same time on the popular French talk show Le Grande Journal. The first was Amine Benalia-Brouch, a Frenchman of Algerian-Portuguese heritage. A member of Sarkozy’s … Continue reading →

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The WSJ on Eurocratese

Posted on 2 December 2010 by craigjameswilly

John Miller over at Real Time Brussels has a funny little post on the popularity of Latin and old-fashioned English phrases in the Eurocrat’s vocabulary. Inter alia is apparently extremely popular in official documents but my favorite has to be … Continue reading →

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