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Lindh and the Euro – The View from Denmark
Outside reality intruded for a while to hold up my planned survey of commentary in the Danish press over the murder of Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh and the effect of that incident on the...
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The Implications of Sweden’s “No”– A Dutch View
The votes are in, the Swedish people have spoken: 56% of the voters said “No,” and so they prevail, for a while at least. I had hoped to find something interesting to tell you about the referendum’s...
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Poland: The IGC Scorecard So Far
We’ve seen Dutch premier Balkenende travel to Warsaw to try to break some of the stalemates blocking progress at the EU’s Constitutional Intergovernmental Conference (IGC): no dice. On Sunday, French...
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Sweden by Marklund
Time now to procede to the next entry in the on-going “Europa XL” series in the Danish newspaper Politiken of cultural portraits of EU member-states, this time to Denmark’s sister-state, Sweden. The...
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Don’t Wanna Live W/out That EK . . .
That’s what I’m talkin’ about! News of an almost-miraculous Swedish by-product of the current Euro2004 national football championship in Portugal comes to us from (of all sources) the Flemish newspaper...
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Ducking the On-line Piracy Issue
Pay close attention so you can follow all this: the Berlin newspaper Die Tageszeitung has this coverage of a news report from the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter about a new entry in the Swedish...
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Sister-Ship to Arctic Sea Also Star-Crossed
Assiduous €S readers were rewarded for their diligence about a month ago when they got early word on this site about that attempt to smuggle high-performance anti-aircraft missiles to Iran aboard the...
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University Mass-Shooting Averted in Sweden
OK, the report I caught about this is from the Dutch press (specifically, the Algemeen Dagblad – I don’t routinely cover the Swedish press due to language incapability). But it’s an instructive tale...
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Terror Threat Today in Sweden
While most of the world’s media is preoccupied today with the seemingly coordinated package-bombs shipped by air-freight from Yemen to the US and the UK, Sweden’s second-largest city, Göteborg on the...
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The Greta Backlash Begins
As I write this, famed climate-change waif Greta Thunberg is still somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, riding a racing-yacht on her way to various engagements in the US of A. You can track her...
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