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COALITION OPTIONS FOR GERMANY AFTER THE 2021 BUNDESTAG Germany’s proportional election system (Mixed-member system), six parties represented in the Bundestag (CDU/CSU, SPD, AfD, FDP, Die Linke, Grüne) of which five could possibly participate in a government (only AfD would not), and no party likely to receive more than a third of the votes at the 26th September Bundestag election mean that a coalition government after the election is almost WHAT IS A LINGON BERRY? There are some small things about spending time in other countries that it’s just hard to get your head around. Matters that are more complex than translation difficulties. One such complication in Sweden has been the lingon (-et) which literally translates as lingon berry. So what, you ask, is a THE DESIGN OF A POLITICIAN'S TWITTER PROFILE The design of a politician’s Twitter profile. Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach has been coming in for some heavy criticism today on Twitter (his account is here) for his statements about Danish aid to Egypt. As a result I looked at his Twitter profile for the first time for some months and it’s quiteawful.
SAGE OF THE SUBURBS? WHEN NEW YORK TIMES MAKES A KIND OF 12/16, sage of the suburbs. In retrospect rounds 10 and 11 were bad calls. Round 9 and round 14 rely in knowledge that – as a non-American – I am simply lacking. And, based on the data from other Times readers playing the game I am not the only one to struggle with borderline cases like this. GADGET REVIEW: KINGSTON MOBILELITE MLW221 tl;dr – if you’re looking for a portable, battery powered, wireless card reader for use on holiday, this is an excellent gadget. It’s especially good if you use an iOS mobile. I’ve just returned from a 3 week trip to Central Asia. Throughout this trip I knew that Iand
CHARLEMAGNE COLUMN IN THE ECONOMIST IS THE NEXT TO HAVE A It seems the European Parliament can do no right just at the moment. Following hot on the heels of Jack Straw calling for the European Parliament to be abolished, the Charlemagne column in The Economist has weighed into the debate with a piece entitled Elected, but how democratic? in which the EP as an elected institution is defended, but with the proposal to prune the number of MEPs, and the HOW TO USE A MAC MINI AS A HOME SERVER, PART 1 For some years I’ve been wondering whether to run a server at home. With time on my hands due to the Coronavirus lockdown it was time to finally get around to doing it. This blog post (part 1 of the series) explains the requirements and the purchase of the hardware. BREXIT. THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT FROM ME. It has been something akin to a pathology of a dead political system, diagnosing what went wrong. But with neither hope nor expectation that something better could come afterwards. So that is pretty much it from me for the moment on Brexit. Sure, I will keep half an eye on it, and on UK-EU relations, but if you want a take on every twist and I LIVE IN BELGIUM'S POOREST COMMUNE IN EUROPE'S THIRD When I’m in Belgium I am a happy resident of St Josse-ten-Noode. It’s on the doorstep of the EU institutions and it’s Belgium’s poorest commune with an average income of only €7079 per year per inhabitant. Lathem-St-Martin is the richest commune in Belgium with an THE SIMPLE GUIDE TO GOOD ESPRESSO WITH A I’ve been the happy owner of a Gaggia Classic espresso machine for more than 2 years. It’s a stout, shining beast of a machine that sits proudly in my kitchen and provides 3 or 4 excellent cups of espresso that make my daily website programming much more pleasant. Sopleased
COALITION OPTIONS FOR GERMANY AFTER THE 2021 BUNDESTAG Germany’s proportional election system (Mixed-member system), six parties represented in the Bundestag (CDU/CSU, SPD, AfD, FDP, Die Linke, Grüne) of which five could possibly participate in a government (only AfD would not), and no party likely to receive more than a third of the votes at the 26th September Bundestag election mean that a coalition government after the election is almost WHAT IS A LINGON BERRY? There are some small things about spending time in other countries that it’s just hard to get your head around. Matters that are more complex than translation difficulties. One such complication in Sweden has been the lingon (-et) which literally translates as lingon berry. So what, you ask, is a THE DESIGN OF A POLITICIAN'S TWITTER PROFILE The design of a politician’s Twitter profile. Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach has been coming in for some heavy criticism today on Twitter (his account is here) for his statements about Danish aid to Egypt. As a result I looked at his Twitter profile for the first time for some months and it’s quiteawful.
SAGE OF THE SUBURBS? WHEN NEW YORK TIMES MAKES A KIND OF 12/16, sage of the suburbs. In retrospect rounds 10 and 11 were bad calls. Round 9 and round 14 rely in knowledge that – as a non-American – I am simply lacking. And, based on the data from other Times readers playing the game I am not the only one to struggle with borderline cases like this. GADGET REVIEW: KINGSTON MOBILELITE MLW221 tl;dr – if you’re looking for a portable, battery powered, wireless card reader for use on holiday, this is an excellent gadget. It’s especially good if you use an iOS mobile. I’ve just returned from a 3 week trip to Central Asia. Throughout this trip I knew that Iand
CHARLEMAGNE COLUMN IN THE ECONOMIST IS THE NEXT TO HAVE A It seems the European Parliament can do no right just at the moment. Following hot on the heels of Jack Straw calling for the European Parliament to be abolished, the Charlemagne column in The Economist has weighed into the debate with a piece entitled Elected, but how democratic? in which the EP as an elected institution is defended, but with the proposal to prune the number of MEPs, and theJON WORTH EUROBLOG
The problem when journalists don’t ask the obvious question. Yesterday the European Parliament Conference of Presidents agreed that two Committees – INTA and AFET – would vote on the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) this week, but that any decision as to when the plenary of the European Parliament would vote on it wasdeferred.
TRAINS FOR EUROPE PROJECT NOW LIVE For years I have made pretty much every long distance trip I can by train. Conference in Iași? Sure, train via Ukraine to get there. Teaching in Geneva? Night train back to Berlin. Holiday in the Balkans? I’m the one who will take the Bar-Belgrade train. But whatcan I
I LIVE IN BELGIUM'S POOREST COMMUNE IN EUROPE'S THIRD When I’m in Belgium I am a happy resident of St Josse-ten-Noode. It’s on the doorstep of the EU institutions and it’s Belgium’s poorest commune with an average income of only €7079 per year per inhabitant. Lathem-St-Martin is the richest commune in Belgium with an A BRIEF HISTORY OF BREXIT A brief history of Brexit. British politics is messed up. Brexit shows it. The previous PM Cameron promised an in-or-out of the EU referendum back in 2013 if the Conservatives won the General Election, despite the fact that EU matters were considered rather unimportant by votersat that time.
COALITION OPTIONS FOR GERMANY AFTER THE 2021 BUNDESTAG Germany’s proportional election system (Mixed-member system), six parties represented in the Bundestag (CDU/CSU, SPD, AfD, FDP, Die Linke, Grüne) of which five could possibly participate in a government (only AfD would not), and no party likely to receive more than a third of the votes at the 26th September Bundestag election mean that a coalition government after the election is almost A WELSH WASTE OF TIME A Welsh waste of time. So Welsh has been used for the first time in a meeting of the Council of the EU today. Woo hoo. Let’s all jump up and down and beat the nationalist drum! Ordovicius is happy and Alun Ffred Jones who spoke Welsh at the Culture Council stated “ Welsh is one of Europe’s oldest languages and I am delighted that my SAGE OF THE SUBURBS? WHEN NEW YORK TIMES MAKES A KIND OF 12/16, sage of the suburbs. In retrospect rounds 10 and 11 were bad calls. Round 9 and round 14 rely in knowledge that – as a non-American – I am simply lacking. And, based on the data from other Times readers playing the game I am not the only one to struggle with borderline cases like this. TARGUS REPLACEMENT WHEELS Targus Customer Support. So basically Targus does have replacement parts if your case is less than 2 years old, but if it is more than 2 years old they will not sell you replacement wheels. This strikes me as absurd, and should be a warning to anyone buying such a case – if it’s over 2 years old and the wheels break you’re basically stuck. STUCK BETWEEN PUBLIC SERVICE AND A FOR-PROFIT COMPANY I travel a lot on German railways. Barely a week goes by without me making a long distance trip from Berlin to Brussels (via Köln), or somewhere further afield. I paid the company more than €2000 in the calendar year 2013, and the sum will be roughly the same in THE POWER OF A TITLE TO MAKE A PICTURE GO VIRAL For the last 5 days the picture shown above has been shared far and wide on Twitter (link to the tweet), and to a certain extent on Facebook too. The title “Politicians discussing global warming” and the stunning picture match perfectly. I too was one of the peoplewho
JON WORTH EUROBLOGBREXITEU POLITICSTRANSPORTGERMAN POLITICSUKPOLITICSTECHNOLOGY
The problem when journalists don’t ask the obvious question. Yesterday the European Parliament Conference of Presidents agreed that two Committees – INTA and AFET – would vote on the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) this week, but that any decision as to when the plenary of the European Parliament would vote on it wasdeferred.
HOW TO USE A MAC MINI AS A HOME SERVER, PART 1 For some years I’ve been wondering whether to run a server at home. With time on my hands due to the Coronavirus lockdown it was time to finally get around to doing it. This blog post (part 1 of the series) explains the requirements and the purchase of the hardware. THE SIMPLE GUIDE TO GOOD ESPRESSO WITH A I’ve been the happy owner of a Gaggia Classic espresso machine for more than 2 years. It’s a stout, shining beast of a machine that sits proudly in my kitchen and provides 3 or 4 excellent cups of espresso that make my daily website programming much more pleasant. Sopleased
BREXIT. THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT FROM ME. It has been something akin to a pathology of a dead political system, diagnosing what went wrong. But with neither hope nor expectation that something better could come afterwards. So that is pretty much it from me for the moment on Brexit. Sure, I will keep half an eye on it, and on UK-EU relations, but if you want a take on every twist and COALITION OPTIONS FOR GERMANY AFTER THE 2021 BUNDESTAG Germany’s proportional election system (Mixed-member system), six parties represented in the Bundestag (CDU/CSU, SPD, AfD, FDP, Die Linke, Grüne) of which five could possibly participate in a government (only AfD would not), and no party likely to receive more than a third of the votes at the 26th September Bundestag election mean that a coalition government after the election is almost A BRIEF HISTORY OF BREXIT A brief history of Brexit. British politics is messed up. Brexit shows it. The previous PM Cameron promised an in-or-out of the EU referendum back in 2013 if the Conservatives won the General Election, despite the fact that EU matters were considered rather unimportant by votersat that time.
WHAT IS A LINGON BERRY? There are some small things about spending time in other countries that it’s just hard to get your head around. Matters that are more complex than translation difficulties. One such complication in Sweden has been the lingon (-et) which literally translates as lingon berry. So what, you ask, is a IS A RIMOWA SUITCASE WORTH THE MONEY? Is a Rimowa suitcase worth the money? €529 for a suitcase? A suitcase? Yes. I paid that, back in June 2013, for a Rimowa Topas Cabin Trolley IATA 55cm (model details here). It is one of the very best purchases I have ever made, and now, with hindsight, I do notregret it
THE DESIGN OF A POLITICIAN'S TWITTER PROFILE The design of a politician’s Twitter profile. Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach has been coming in for some heavy criticism today on Twitter (his account is here) for his statements about Danish aid to Egypt. As a result I looked at his Twitter profile for the first time for some months and it’s quiteawful.
GADGET REVIEW: KINGSTON MOBILELITE MLW221 tl;dr – if you’re looking for a portable, battery powered, wireless card reader for use on holiday, this is an excellent gadget. It’s especially good if you use an iOS mobile. I’ve just returned from a 3 week trip to Central Asia. Throughout this trip I knew that Iand
JON WORTH EUROBLOGBREXITEU POLITICSTRANSPORTGERMAN POLITICSUKPOLITICSTECHNOLOGY
The problem when journalists don’t ask the obvious question. Yesterday the European Parliament Conference of Presidents agreed that two Committees – INTA and AFET – would vote on the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) this week, but that any decision as to when the plenary of the European Parliament would vote on it wasdeferred.
HOW TO USE A MAC MINI AS A HOME SERVER, PART 1 For some years I’ve been wondering whether to run a server at home. With time on my hands due to the Coronavirus lockdown it was time to finally get around to doing it. This blog post (part 1 of the series) explains the requirements and the purchase of the hardware. THE SIMPLE GUIDE TO GOOD ESPRESSO WITH A I’ve been the happy owner of a Gaggia Classic espresso machine for more than 2 years. It’s a stout, shining beast of a machine that sits proudly in my kitchen and provides 3 or 4 excellent cups of espresso that make my daily website programming much more pleasant. Sopleased
BREXIT. THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT FROM ME. It has been something akin to a pathology of a dead political system, diagnosing what went wrong. But with neither hope nor expectation that something better could come afterwards. So that is pretty much it from me for the moment on Brexit. Sure, I will keep half an eye on it, and on UK-EU relations, but if you want a take on every twist and COALITION OPTIONS FOR GERMANY AFTER THE 2021 BUNDESTAG Germany’s proportional election system (Mixed-member system), six parties represented in the Bundestag (CDU/CSU, SPD, AfD, FDP, Die Linke, Grüne) of which five could possibly participate in a government (only AfD would not), and no party likely to receive more than a third of the votes at the 26th September Bundestag election mean that a coalition government after the election is almost A BRIEF HISTORY OF BREXIT A brief history of Brexit. British politics is messed up. Brexit shows it. The previous PM Cameron promised an in-or-out of the EU referendum back in 2013 if the Conservatives won the General Election, despite the fact that EU matters were considered rather unimportant by votersat that time.
WHAT IS A LINGON BERRY? There are some small things about spending time in other countries that it’s just hard to get your head around. Matters that are more complex than translation difficulties. One such complication in Sweden has been the lingon (-et) which literally translates as lingon berry. So what, you ask, is a IS A RIMOWA SUITCASE WORTH THE MONEY? Is a Rimowa suitcase worth the money? €529 for a suitcase? A suitcase? Yes. I paid that, back in June 2013, for a Rimowa Topas Cabin Trolley IATA 55cm (model details here). It is one of the very best purchases I have ever made, and now, with hindsight, I do notregret it
THE DESIGN OF A POLITICIAN'S TWITTER PROFILE The design of a politician’s Twitter profile. Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach has been coming in for some heavy criticism today on Twitter (his account is here) for his statements about Danish aid to Egypt. As a result I looked at his Twitter profile for the first time for some months and it’s quiteawful.
GADGET REVIEW: KINGSTON MOBILELITE MLW221 tl;dr – if you’re looking for a portable, battery powered, wireless card reader for use on holiday, this is an excellent gadget. It’s especially good if you use an iOS mobile. I’ve just returned from a 3 week trip to Central Asia. Throughout this trip I knew that Iand
TRAINS FOR EUROPE PROJECT NOW LIVE For years I have made pretty much every long distance trip I can by train. Conference in Iași? Sure, train via Ukraine to get there. Teaching in Geneva? Night train back to Berlin. Holiday in the Balkans? I’m the one who will take the Bar-Belgrade train. But whatcan I
THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD OF EIFFEL TOWER REPLICAS AND 🆕 17.2.2021 – Now 100 Towers mapped on Google Street View and loaded into Geoguessr! 🆕 It was one of those COVID-lockdown walks – go and explore every last street in my neighbourhood. At Bergholzstrasse 11 (edge of Tempelhof towards Neukölln) I stumbledacross a
I LIVE IN BELGIUM'S POOREST COMMUNE IN EUROPE'S THIRD When I’m in Belgium I am a happy resident of St Josse-ten-Noode. It’s on the doorstep of the EU institutions and it’s Belgium’s poorest commune with an average income of only €7079 per year per inhabitant. Lathem-St-Martin is the richest commune in Belgium with an WHY YOU SHOULD BUY A BIKE TRAILER FOR CARGO In 2009 I asked my parents to buy me a bicycle trailer as a birthday present. It was a Croozer Cargo, original 2003-2013 model (no longer manufactured, but you can find the manual for it as a PDF here), and cost £160 back then (about €200). Looking back little could A WELSH WASTE OF TIME A Welsh waste of time. So Welsh has been used for the first time in a meeting of the Council of the EU today. Woo hoo. Let’s all jump up and down and beat the nationalist drum! Ordovicius is happy and Alun Ffred Jones who spoke Welsh at the Culture Council stated “ Welsh is one of Europe’s oldest languages and I am delighted that my IF THERE'S DEMAND FOR A NIGHT TRAIN ON A ROUTE, AND A Solid analysis, Jon. 2 thoughts: 1. On routes where they currently run high-speed services, SNCF could increase the potential margin on a night-train service by introducing more of a segmented offer i.e. catering to students and families yes, but also catering to people who want more of a hotel experience and are willing to pay for it (eg. business travellers, but not only). SAGE OF THE SUBURBS? WHEN NEW YORK TIMES MAKES A KIND OF 12/16, sage of the suburbs. In retrospect rounds 10 and 11 were bad calls. Round 9 and round 14 rely in knowledge that – as a non-American – I am simply lacking. And, based on the data from other Times readers playing the game I am not the only one to struggle with borderline cases like this. GADGET REVIEW: KINGSTON MOBILELITE MLW221 tl;dr – if you’re looking for a portable, battery powered, wireless card reader for use on holiday, this is an excellent gadget. It’s especially good if you use an iOS mobile. I’ve just returned from a 3 week trip to Central Asia. Throughout this trip I knew that Iand
HOW TO FIND A FLAT IN BERLIN 4. Searching for a flat – criteria. Flats in Berlin are categorised by numbers of rooms, excluding kitchen and bathroom in this number. So “1 Zimmer” is a studio, plus kitchen and bathroom. “2 Zimmer” is a bedroom and sitting room and kitchen and bathroom. STUCK BETWEEN PUBLIC SERVICE AND A FOR-PROFIT COMPANY I travel a lot on German railways. Barely a week goes by without me making a long distance trip from Berlin to Brussels (via Köln), or somewhere further afield. I paid the company more than €2000 in the calendar year 2013, and the sum will be roughly the same in JON WORTH EUROBLOGBREXITEU POLITICSTRANSPORTGERMAN POLITICSUKPOLITICSTECHNOLOGY
The problem when journalists don’t ask the obvious question. Yesterday the European Parliament Conference of Presidents agreed that two Committees – INTA and AFET – would vote on the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) this week, but that any decision as to when the plenary of the European Parliament would vote on it wasdeferred.
HOW TO USE A MAC MINI AS A HOME SERVER, PART 1 For some years I’ve been wondering whether to run a server at home. With time on my hands due to the Coronavirus lockdown it was time to finally get around to doing it. This blog post (part 1 of the series) explains the requirements and the purchase of the hardware. THE SIMPLE GUIDE TO GOOD ESPRESSO WITH A I’ve been the happy owner of a Gaggia Classic espresso machine for more than 2 years. It’s a stout, shining beast of a machine that sits proudly in my kitchen and provides 3 or 4 excellent cups of espresso that make my daily website programming much more pleasant. Sopleased
BREXIT. THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT FROM ME. It has been something akin to a pathology of a dead political system, diagnosing what went wrong. But with neither hope nor expectation that something better could come afterwards. So that is pretty much it from me for the moment on Brexit. Sure, I will keep half an eye on it, and on UK-EU relations, but if you want a take on every twist and COALITION OPTIONS FOR GERMANY AFTER THE 2021 BUNDESTAG Germany’s proportional election system (Mixed-member system), six parties represented in the Bundestag (CDU/CSU, SPD, AfD, FDP, Die Linke, Grüne) of which five could possibly participate in a government (only AfD would not), and no party likely to receive more than a third of the votes at the 26th September Bundestag election mean that a coalition government after the election is almost A BRIEF HISTORY OF BREXIT A brief history of Brexit. British politics is messed up. Brexit shows it. The previous PM Cameron promised an in-or-out of the EU referendum back in 2013 if the Conservatives won the General Election, despite the fact that EU matters were considered rather unimportant by votersat that time.
WHAT IS A LINGON BERRY? There are some small things about spending time in other countries that it’s just hard to get your head around. Matters that are more complex than translation difficulties. One such complication in Sweden has been the lingon (-et) which literally translates as lingon berry. So what, you ask, is a IS A RIMOWA SUITCASE WORTH THE MONEY? Is a Rimowa suitcase worth the money? €529 for a suitcase? A suitcase? Yes. I paid that, back in June 2013, for a Rimowa Topas Cabin Trolley IATA 55cm (model details here). It is one of the very best purchases I have ever made, and now, with hindsight, I do notregret it
THE DESIGN OF A POLITICIAN'S TWITTER PROFILE The design of a politician’s Twitter profile. Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach has been coming in for some heavy criticism today on Twitter (his account is here) for his statements about Danish aid to Egypt. As a result I looked at his Twitter profile for the first time for some months and it’s quiteawful.
GADGET REVIEW: KINGSTON MOBILELITE MLW221 tl;dr – if you’re looking for a portable, battery powered, wireless card reader for use on holiday, this is an excellent gadget. It’s especially good if you use an iOS mobile. I’ve just returned from a 3 week trip to Central Asia. Throughout this trip I knew that Iand
JON WORTH EUROBLOGBREXITEU POLITICSTRANSPORTGERMAN POLITICSUKPOLITICSTECHNOLOGY
The problem when journalists don’t ask the obvious question. Yesterday the European Parliament Conference of Presidents agreed that two Committees – INTA and AFET – would vote on the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) this week, but that any decision as to when the plenary of the European Parliament would vote on it wasdeferred.
HOW TO USE A MAC MINI AS A HOME SERVER, PART 1 For some years I’ve been wondering whether to run a server at home. With time on my hands due to the Coronavirus lockdown it was time to finally get around to doing it. This blog post (part 1 of the series) explains the requirements and the purchase of the hardware. THE SIMPLE GUIDE TO GOOD ESPRESSO WITH A I’ve been the happy owner of a Gaggia Classic espresso machine for more than 2 years. It’s a stout, shining beast of a machine that sits proudly in my kitchen and provides 3 or 4 excellent cups of espresso that make my daily website programming much more pleasant. Sopleased
BREXIT. THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT FROM ME. It has been something akin to a pathology of a dead political system, diagnosing what went wrong. But with neither hope nor expectation that something better could come afterwards. So that is pretty much it from me for the moment on Brexit. Sure, I will keep half an eye on it, and on UK-EU relations, but if you want a take on every twist and COALITION OPTIONS FOR GERMANY AFTER THE 2021 BUNDESTAG Germany’s proportional election system (Mixed-member system), six parties represented in the Bundestag (CDU/CSU, SPD, AfD, FDP, Die Linke, Grüne) of which five could possibly participate in a government (only AfD would not), and no party likely to receive more than a third of the votes at the 26th September Bundestag election mean that a coalition government after the election is almost A BRIEF HISTORY OF BREXIT A brief history of Brexit. British politics is messed up. Brexit shows it. The previous PM Cameron promised an in-or-out of the EU referendum back in 2013 if the Conservatives won the General Election, despite the fact that EU matters were considered rather unimportant by votersat that time.
WHAT IS A LINGON BERRY? There are some small things about spending time in other countries that it’s just hard to get your head around. Matters that are more complex than translation difficulties. One such complication in Sweden has been the lingon (-et) which literally translates as lingon berry. So what, you ask, is a IS A RIMOWA SUITCASE WORTH THE MONEY? Is a Rimowa suitcase worth the money? €529 for a suitcase? A suitcase? Yes. I paid that, back in June 2013, for a Rimowa Topas Cabin Trolley IATA 55cm (model details here). It is one of the very best purchases I have ever made, and now, with hindsight, I do notregret it
THE DESIGN OF A POLITICIAN'S TWITTER PROFILE The design of a politician’s Twitter profile. Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach has been coming in for some heavy criticism today on Twitter (his account is here) for his statements about Danish aid to Egypt. As a result I looked at his Twitter profile for the first time for some months and it’s quiteawful.
GADGET REVIEW: KINGSTON MOBILELITE MLW221 tl;dr – if you’re looking for a portable, battery powered, wireless card reader for use on holiday, this is an excellent gadget. It’s especially good if you use an iOS mobile. I’ve just returned from a 3 week trip to Central Asia. Throughout this trip I knew that Iand
TRAINS FOR EUROPE PROJECT NOW LIVE For years I have made pretty much every long distance trip I can by train. Conference in Iași? Sure, train via Ukraine to get there. Teaching in Geneva? Night train back to Berlin. Holiday in the Balkans? I’m the one who will take the Bar-Belgrade train. But whatcan I
THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD OF EIFFEL TOWER REPLICAS AND 🆕 17.2.2021 – Now 100 Towers mapped on Google Street View and loaded into Geoguessr! 🆕 It was one of those COVID-lockdown walks – go and explore every last street in my neighbourhood. At Bergholzstrasse 11 (edge of Tempelhof towards Neukölln) I stumbledacross a
I LIVE IN BELGIUM'S POOREST COMMUNE IN EUROPE'S THIRD When I’m in Belgium I am a happy resident of St Josse-ten-Noode. It’s on the doorstep of the EU institutions and it’s Belgium’s poorest commune with an average income of only €7079 per year per inhabitant. Lathem-St-Martin is the richest commune in Belgium with an WHY YOU SHOULD BUY A BIKE TRAILER FOR CARGO In 2009 I asked my parents to buy me a bicycle trailer as a birthday present. It was a Croozer Cargo, original 2003-2013 model (no longer manufactured, but you can find the manual for it as a PDF here), and cost £160 back then (about €200). Looking back little could A WELSH WASTE OF TIME A Welsh waste of time. So Welsh has been used for the first time in a meeting of the Council of the EU today. Woo hoo. Let’s all jump up and down and beat the nationalist drum! Ordovicius is happy and Alun Ffred Jones who spoke Welsh at the Culture Council stated “ Welsh is one of Europe’s oldest languages and I am delighted that my IF THERE'S DEMAND FOR A NIGHT TRAIN ON A ROUTE, AND A Solid analysis, Jon. 2 thoughts: 1. On routes where they currently run high-speed services, SNCF could increase the potential margin on a night-train service by introducing more of a segmented offer i.e. catering to students and families yes, but also catering to people who want more of a hotel experience and are willing to pay for it (eg. business travellers, but not only). SAGE OF THE SUBURBS? WHEN NEW YORK TIMES MAKES A KIND OF 12/16, sage of the suburbs. In retrospect rounds 10 and 11 were bad calls. Round 9 and round 14 rely in knowledge that – as a non-American – I am simply lacking. And, based on the data from other Times readers playing the game I am not the only one to struggle with borderline cases like this. GADGET REVIEW: KINGSTON MOBILELITE MLW221 tl;dr – if you’re looking for a portable, battery powered, wireless card reader for use on holiday, this is an excellent gadget. It’s especially good if you use an iOS mobile. I’ve just returned from a 3 week trip to Central Asia. Throughout this trip I knew that Iand
HOW TO FIND A FLAT IN BERLIN 4. Searching for a flat – criteria. Flats in Berlin are categorised by numbers of rooms, excluding kitchen and bathroom in this number. So “1 Zimmer” is a studio, plus kitchen and bathroom. “2 Zimmer” is a bedroom and sitting room and kitchen and bathroom. STUCK BETWEEN PUBLIC SERVICE AND A FOR-PROFIT COMPANY I travel a lot on German railways. Barely a week goes by without me making a long distance trip from Berlin to Brussels (via Köln), or somewhere further afield. I paid the company more than €2000 in the calendar year 2013, and the sum will be roughly the same in JON WORTH EUROBLOGBREXITEU POLITICSTRANSPORTGERMAN POLITICSUKPOLITICSTECHNOLOGY
The problem when journalists don’t ask the obvious question. Yesterday the European Parliament Conference of Presidents agreed that two Committees – INTA and AFET – would vote on the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) this week, but that any decision as to when the plenary of the European Parliament would vote on it wasdeferred.
HOW TO USE A MAC MINI AS A HOME SERVER, PART 1 For some years I’ve been wondering whether to run a server at home. With time on my hands due to the Coronavirus lockdown it was time to finally get around to doing it. This blog post (part 1 of the series) explains the requirements and the purchase of the hardware. WHAT IS A LINGON BERRY? There are some small things about spending time in other countries that it’s just hard to get your head around. Matters that are more complex than translation difficulties. One such complication in Sweden has been the lingon (-et) which literally translates as lingon berry. So what, you ask, is a BREXIT. THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT FROM ME. It has been something akin to a pathology of a dead political system, diagnosing what went wrong. But with neither hope nor expectation that something better could come afterwards. So that is pretty much it from me for the moment on Brexit. Sure, I will keep half an eye on it, and on UK-EU relations, but if you want a take on every twist and A WELSH WASTE OF TIME A Welsh waste of time. So Welsh has been used for the first time in a meeting of the Council of the EU today. Woo hoo. Let’s all jump up and down and beat the nationalist drum! Ordovicius is happy and Alun Ffred Jones who spoke Welsh at the Culture Council stated “ Welsh is one of Europe’s oldest languages and I am delighted that my THE DESIGN OF A POLITICIAN'S TWITTER PROFILE The design of a politician’s Twitter profile. Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach has been coming in for some heavy criticism today on Twitter (his account is here) for his statements about Danish aid to Egypt. As a result I looked at his Twitter profile for the first time for some months and it’s quiteawful.
IS A RIMOWA SUITCASE WORTH THE MONEY? Is a Rimowa suitcase worth the money? €529 for a suitcase? A suitcase? Yes. I paid that, back in June 2013, for a Rimowa Topas Cabin Trolley IATA 55cm (model details here). It is one of the very best purchases I have ever made, and now, with hindsight, I do notregret it
BRITISH OBSESSIONS: CARPET From the passport check area at Heathrow airport, to the floors of government buildings. Brits tend to also put fitted wall-to-wall carpets in all of their houses, sometimes even in the bathroom! This strikes me as a very unhealthy obsession indeed. Carpets are harder to clean than solid floors, although they do not show the dirt so easily. TWEETLEVEL - INTUITIVELY ABOUT RIGHT. NO MORE, NO LESS TweetLevel – intuitively about right. No more, no less. I’ve managed to cause quite a fuss after my previous post about the main players in the EU-Twittersphere. So much so that some more reflection is needed, something that, due to the lack of nuance of 140 characters, I’ve been thus far unable to provide to (among others)@mathewlowry
RIGHT THEN, NICKI BROOKS, LABOUR CANDIDATE FOR MEP IN THE 09:05 on 9th April, this comment appeared in response to my blog post about Labour MEP selections, by a chap called Joseph who also did not leave a valid e-mail address and is hence untraceable: Hi Jon, Interesting selections from Labour again .. JON WORTH EUROBLOGBREXITEU POLITICSTRANSPORTGERMAN POLITICSUKPOLITICSTECHNOLOGY
The problem when journalists don’t ask the obvious question. Yesterday the European Parliament Conference of Presidents agreed that two Committees – INTA and AFET – would vote on the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) this week, but that any decision as to when the plenary of the European Parliament would vote on it wasdeferred.
HOW TO USE A MAC MINI AS A HOME SERVER, PART 1 For some years I’ve been wondering whether to run a server at home. With time on my hands due to the Coronavirus lockdown it was time to finally get around to doing it. This blog post (part 1 of the series) explains the requirements and the purchase of the hardware. WHAT IS A LINGON BERRY? There are some small things about spending time in other countries that it’s just hard to get your head around. Matters that are more complex than translation difficulties. One such complication in Sweden has been the lingon (-et) which literally translates as lingon berry. So what, you ask, is a BREXIT. THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT FROM ME. It has been something akin to a pathology of a dead political system, diagnosing what went wrong. But with neither hope nor expectation that something better could come afterwards. So that is pretty much it from me for the moment on Brexit. Sure, I will keep half an eye on it, and on UK-EU relations, but if you want a take on every twist and A WELSH WASTE OF TIME A Welsh waste of time. So Welsh has been used for the first time in a meeting of the Council of the EU today. Woo hoo. Let’s all jump up and down and beat the nationalist drum! Ordovicius is happy and Alun Ffred Jones who spoke Welsh at the Culture Council stated “ Welsh is one of Europe’s oldest languages and I am delighted that my THE DESIGN OF A POLITICIAN'S TWITTER PROFILE The design of a politician’s Twitter profile. Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach has been coming in for some heavy criticism today on Twitter (his account is here) for his statements about Danish aid to Egypt. As a result I looked at his Twitter profile for the first time for some months and it’s quiteawful.
IS A RIMOWA SUITCASE WORTH THE MONEY? Is a Rimowa suitcase worth the money? €529 for a suitcase? A suitcase? Yes. I paid that, back in June 2013, for a Rimowa Topas Cabin Trolley IATA 55cm (model details here). It is one of the very best purchases I have ever made, and now, with hindsight, I do notregret it
BRITISH OBSESSIONS: CARPET From the passport check area at Heathrow airport, to the floors of government buildings. Brits tend to also put fitted wall-to-wall carpets in all of their houses, sometimes even in the bathroom! This strikes me as a very unhealthy obsession indeed. Carpets are harder to clean than solid floors, although they do not show the dirt so easily. TWEETLEVEL - INTUITIVELY ABOUT RIGHT. NO MORE, NO LESS TweetLevel – intuitively about right. No more, no less. I’ve managed to cause quite a fuss after my previous post about the main players in the EU-Twittersphere. So much so that some more reflection is needed, something that, due to the lack of nuance of 140 characters, I’ve been thus far unable to provide to (among others)@mathewlowry
RIGHT THEN, NICKI BROOKS, LABOUR CANDIDATE FOR MEP IN THE 09:05 on 9th April, this comment appeared in response to my blog post about Labour MEP selections, by a chap called Joseph who also did not leave a valid e-mail address and is hence untraceable: Hi Jon, Interesting selections from Labour again .. HOW TO USE A MAC MINI AS A HOME SERVER, PART 1 For some years I’ve been wondering whether to run a server at home. With time on my hands due to the Coronavirus lockdown it was time to finally get around to doing it. This blog post (part 1 of the series) explains the requirements and the purchase of the hardware. I LIVE IN BELGIUM'S POOREST COMMUNE IN EUROPE'S THIRD When I’m in Belgium I am a happy resident of St Josse-ten-Noode. It’s on the doorstep of the EU institutions and it’s Belgium’s poorest commune with an average income of only €7079 per year per inhabitant. Lathem-St-Martin is the richest commune in Belgium with an COALITION OPTIONS FOR GERMANY AFTER THE 2021 BUNDESTAG Germany’s proportional election system (Mixed-member system), six parties represented in the Bundestag (CDU/CSU, SPD, AfD, FDP, Die Linke, Grüne) of which five could possibly participate in a government (only AfD would not), and no party likely to receive more than a third of the votes at the 26th September Bundestag election mean that a coalition government after the election is almost THE SIMPLE GUIDE TO GOOD ESPRESSO WITH A I’ve been the happy owner of a Gaggia Classic espresso machine for more than 2 years. It’s a stout, shining beast of a machine that sits proudly in my kitchen and provides 3 or 4 excellent cups of espresso that make my daily website programming much more pleasant. Sopleased
THE WORLD'S 11 COOLEST TRAIN STATIONS Huffington Post has a piece listing The World’s 11 Coolest Train Stations. Problem is I’m rather unconvinced by their choice, as is @christianwolmar.So here’s my own choice of 11 stations – and I have been to all of these.Perhaps these are not as cool as HuffPost’s, but they are stunning, historic or functional, and sometimes a combination of those things. IS A RIMOWA SUITCASE WORTH THE MONEY? Is a Rimowa suitcase worth the money? €529 for a suitcase? A suitcase? Yes. I paid that, back in June 2013, for a Rimowa Topas Cabin Trolley IATA 55cm (model details here). It is one of the very best purchases I have ever made, and now, with hindsight, I do notregret it
THE POWER OF A TITLE TO MAKE A PICTURE GO VIRAL For the last 5 days the picture shown above has been shared far and wide on Twitter (link to the tweet), and to a certain extent on Facebook too. The title “Politicians discussing global warming” and the stunning picture match perfectly. I too was one of the peoplewho
TARGUS REPLACEMENT WHEELS Targus Customer Support. So basically Targus does have replacement parts if your case is less than 2 years old, but if it is more than 2 years old they will not sell you replacement wheels. This strikes me as absurd, and should be a warning to anyone buying such a case – if it’s over 2 years old and the wheels break you’re basically stuck. CHARLEMAGNE COLUMN IN THE ECONOMIST IS THE NEXT TO HAVE A It seems the European Parliament can do no right just at the moment. Following hot on the heels of Jack Straw calling for the European Parliament to be abolished, the Charlemagne column in The Economist has weighed into the debate with a piece entitled Elected, but how democratic? in which the EP as an elected institution is defended, but with the proposal to prune the number of MEPs, and the STUCK BETWEEN PUBLIC SERVICE AND A FOR-PROFIT COMPANY I travel a lot on German railways. Barely a week goes by without me making a long distance trip from Berlin to Brussels (via Köln), or somewhere further afield. I paid the company more than €2000 in the calendar year 2013, and the sum will be roughly the same in JON WORTH EUROBLOGBREXITEU POLITICSTRANSPORTGERMAN POLITICSUKPOLITICSTECHNOLOGY
The problem when journalists don’t ask the obvious question. Yesterday the European Parliament Conference of Presidents agreed that two Committees – INTA and AFET – would vote on the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) this week, but that any decision as to when the plenary of the European Parliament would vote on it wasdeferred.
HOW TO USE A MAC MINI AS A HOME SERVER, PART 1 For some years I’ve been wondering whether to run a server at home. With time on my hands due to the Coronavirus lockdown it was time to finally get around to doing it. This blog post (part 1 of the series) explains the requirements and the purchase of the hardware. I LIVE IN BELGIUM'S POOREST COMMUNE IN EUROPE'S THIRD When I’m in Belgium I am a happy resident of St Josse-ten-Noode. It’s on the doorstep of the EU institutions and it’s Belgium’s poorest commune with an average income of only €7079 per year per inhabitant. Lathem-St-Martin is the richest commune in Belgium with an WHAT IS A LINGON BERRY? There are some small things about spending time in other countries that it’s just hard to get your head around. Matters that are more complex than translation difficulties. One such complication in Sweden has been the lingon (-et) which literally translates as lingon berry. So what, you ask, is a THE DESIGN OF A POLITICIAN'S TWITTER PROFILE The design of a politician’s Twitter profile. Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach has been coming in for some heavy criticism today on Twitter (his account is here) for his statements about Danish aid to Egypt. As a result I looked at his Twitter profile for the first time for some months and it’s quiteawful.
THE TWO VERSIONS OF THE £350 MILLION FOR THE NHS SLOGAN The two versions of the £350 million for the NHS slogan. The lines in Iain Dale’s blog post about the EU referendum yesterday started to gnaw at me. Here are the lines in full: They don’t even really take on the argument that the £350 million a week “promise” wasn’t in any way a promise. BRITISH OBSESSIONS: CARPET From the passport check area at Heathrow airport, to the floors of government buildings. Brits tend to also put fitted wall-to-wall carpets in all of their houses, sometimes even in the bathroom! This strikes me as a very unhealthy obsession indeed. Carpets are harder to clean than solid floors, although they do not show the dirt so easily. TWEETLEVEL - INTUITIVELY ABOUT RIGHT. NO MORE, NO LESS TweetLevel – intuitively about right. No more, no less. I’ve managed to cause quite a fuss after my previous post about the main players in the EU-Twittersphere. So much so that some more reflection is needed, something that, due to the lack of nuance of 140 characters, I’ve been thus far unable to provide to (among others)@mathewlowry
IS A RIMOWA SUITCASE WORTH THE MONEY? Is a Rimowa suitcase worth the money? €529 for a suitcase? A suitcase? Yes. I paid that, back in June 2013, for a Rimowa Topas Cabin Trolley IATA 55cm (model details here). It is one of the very best purchases I have ever made, and now, with hindsight, I do notregret it
THE POWER OF A TITLE TO MAKE A PICTURE GO VIRAL For the last 5 days the picture shown above has been shared far and wide on Twitter (link to the tweet), and to a certain extent on Facebook too. The title “Politicians discussing global warming” and the stunning picture match perfectly. I too was one of the peoplewho
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The problem when journalists don’t ask the obvious question. Yesterday the European Parliament Conference of Presidents agreed that two Committees – INTA and AFET – would vote on the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) this week, but that any decision as to when the plenary of the European Parliament would vote on it wasdeferred.
HOW TO USE A MAC MINI AS A HOME SERVER, PART 1 For some years I’ve been wondering whether to run a server at home. With time on my hands due to the Coronavirus lockdown it was time to finally get around to doing it. This blog post (part 1 of the series) explains the requirements and the purchase of the hardware. I LIVE IN BELGIUM'S POOREST COMMUNE IN EUROPE'S THIRD When I’m in Belgium I am a happy resident of St Josse-ten-Noode. It’s on the doorstep of the EU institutions and it’s Belgium’s poorest commune with an average income of only €7079 per year per inhabitant. Lathem-St-Martin is the richest commune in Belgium with an WHAT IS A LINGON BERRY? There are some small things about spending time in other countries that it’s just hard to get your head around. Matters that are more complex than translation difficulties. One such complication in Sweden has been the lingon (-et) which literally translates as lingon berry. So what, you ask, is a THE DESIGN OF A POLITICIAN'S TWITTER PROFILE The design of a politician’s Twitter profile. Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach has been coming in for some heavy criticism today on Twitter (his account is here) for his statements about Danish aid to Egypt. As a result I looked at his Twitter profile for the first time for some months and it’s quiteawful.
THE TWO VERSIONS OF THE £350 MILLION FOR THE NHS SLOGAN The two versions of the £350 million for the NHS slogan. The lines in Iain Dale’s blog post about the EU referendum yesterday started to gnaw at me. Here are the lines in full: They don’t even really take on the argument that the £350 million a week “promise” wasn’t in any way a promise. BRITISH OBSESSIONS: CARPET From the passport check area at Heathrow airport, to the floors of government buildings. Brits tend to also put fitted wall-to-wall carpets in all of their houses, sometimes even in the bathroom! This strikes me as a very unhealthy obsession indeed. Carpets are harder to clean than solid floors, although they do not show the dirt so easily. TWEETLEVEL - INTUITIVELY ABOUT RIGHT. NO MORE, NO LESS TweetLevel – intuitively about right. No more, no less. I’ve managed to cause quite a fuss after my previous post about the main players in the EU-Twittersphere. So much so that some more reflection is needed, something that, due to the lack of nuance of 140 characters, I’ve been thus far unable to provide to (among others)@mathewlowry
IS A RIMOWA SUITCASE WORTH THE MONEY? Is a Rimowa suitcase worth the money? €529 for a suitcase? A suitcase? Yes. I paid that, back in June 2013, for a Rimowa Topas Cabin Trolley IATA 55cm (model details here). It is one of the very best purchases I have ever made, and now, with hindsight, I do notregret it
THE POWER OF A TITLE TO MAKE A PICTURE GO VIRAL For the last 5 days the picture shown above has been shared far and wide on Twitter (link to the tweet), and to a certain extent on Facebook too. The title “Politicians discussing global warming” and the stunning picture match perfectly. I too was one of the peoplewho
HOW TO USE A MAC MINI AS A HOME SERVER, PART 1 For some years I’ve been wondering whether to run a server at home. With time on my hands due to the Coronavirus lockdown it was time to finally get around to doing it. This blog post (part 1 of the series) explains the requirements and the purchase of the hardware. I LIVE IN BELGIUM'S POOREST COMMUNE IN EUROPE'S THIRD When I’m in Belgium I am a happy resident of St Josse-ten-Noode. It’s on the doorstep of the EU institutions and it’s Belgium’s poorest commune with an average income of only €7079 per year per inhabitant. Lathem-St-Martin is the richest commune in Belgium with an COALITION OPTIONS FOR GERMANY AFTER THE 2021 BUNDESTAG Germany’s proportional election system (Mixed-member system), six parties represented in the Bundestag (CDU/CSU, SPD, AfD, FDP, Die Linke, Grüne) of which five could possibly participate in a government (only AfD would not), and no party likely to receive more than a third of the votes at the 26th September Bundestag election mean that a coalition government after the election is almost BREXIT. THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT FROM ME. It has been something akin to a pathology of a dead political system, diagnosing what went wrong. But with neither hope nor expectation that something better could come afterwards. So that is pretty much it from me for the moment on Brexit. Sure, I will keep half an eye on it, and on UK-EU relations, but if you want a take on every twist and THE SIMPLE GUIDE TO GOOD ESPRESSO WITH A I’ve been the happy owner of a Gaggia Classic espresso machine for more than 2 years. It’s a stout, shining beast of a machine that sits proudly in my kitchen and provides 3 or 4 excellent cups of espresso that make my daily website programming much more pleasant. Sopleased
TAXING PUBLIC SERVANTS (NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY So when I worked for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in the UK (as was, now it’s BIS) I earned in the region of £28000 a year, and took home a net salary of about £21400 or £1780/month. This leads to two issues: practical and ethical. Essentially the state was paying DTI cash, a portion of which was then returned to HM Revenue THE WORLD'S 11 COOLEST TRAIN STATIONS Huffington Post has a piece listing The World’s 11 Coolest Train Stations. Problem is I’m rather unconvinced by their choice, as is @christianwolmar.So here’s my own choice of 11 stations – and I have been to all of these.Perhaps these are not as cool as HuffPost’s, but they are stunning, historic or functional, and sometimes a combination of those things. TARGUS REPLACEMENT WHEELS Targus Customer Support. So basically Targus does have replacement parts if your case is less than 2 years old, but if it is more than 2 years old they will not sell you replacement wheels. This strikes me as absurd, and should be a warning to anyone buying such a case – if it’s over 2 years old and the wheels break you’re basically stuck. EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS SEEM TO HAVE MISSED THE SOCIAL In Gartner’s hype cycle, users of a technology encounter a trough of disillusionment after the initial peak of inflated expectations. The use of Twitter by the 28 Members of the European Commission (Twitter list here) feels like being in such a deep trough that it’s almostas if this is
STUCK BETWEEN PUBLIC SERVICE AND A FOR-PROFIT COMPANY I travel a lot on German railways. Barely a week goes by without me making a long distance trip from Berlin to Brussels (via Köln), or somewhere further afield. I paid the company more than €2000 in the calendar year 2013, and the sum will be roughly the same in 2014.* Home
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