Ungarn überall
Menschen, Pässe, Grenzen: Ungarn und die Slowakei streiten erbittert um ihre Staatsbürger. Denn Budapest möchte ganz rücksichtslos seinen Einfluss erweitern © ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images Nationalismus auf Kosten der Nachbarländer: Ungarns neuer Premier Viktor Orban Was braucht es, damit ein Pass zum Politikum wird, damit ein Stück Papier zwei Länder gegeneinander aufbringt? Mitte Mai trat das […]
Une „Highway to Hell” pour le groupe AC/DC en Roumanie?
Le groupe australien de rock AC/DC a sans doute chante des milliers de fois „Highway to Hell” sans imaginer qu’il decouvrirait en Roumanie un nouveau sens a son tube en se voyant bloque sur la route, a la frontiere avec la Hongrie, pour une question de vignette. Le groupe australien de rock AC/DC a sans […]
Bellu reprend l’equipe roumaine
Octavian Bellu, myhtique entraineur de l’equipe de Roumanie de 1981 a 2005, fait son retour a la tete de l’equipe nationale, annonce la federation roumaine de gymnastique. Cinq ans apres son depart du a des allegations de mauvais traitement sur ses gymnastes, Bellu remplace Nicolae Forminte, demissionnaire. Ce dernier a declare ne plus „avoir sa […]
Sunstroke Project and Olia Tira – Run Away
„Let me breathe, let me leave” My god, don’t they look happy? Scary happy. Consider this my (very late) Eurovision post. I watched the competition on Sunday and, as usual, thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the overall quality was better than last year, and there were definitely plenty of wtf acts to laugh at (singing […]
Rothschild wines at the greengrocers?
A new up-market greengrocery (and a wide range of other foodie delights) is due to open in West London in July 2010 – Union Market – but this is no ordinary cabbage and carrots merchant – this store also stocks some classy wines and has just opened its online wine selection: The easy-to-navigate website will […]
Points chauds
Les fonctionnaires roumains en greve contre le plan d’austerite Des milliers de professeurs, gardiens de prison, employes municipaux et infirmieres etaient en greve hier en Roumanie pour protester contre un plan d’austerite du gouvernement qui prevoit des coupes de 25 % dans les salaires du secteur public. Cette greve intervient alors que le gouvernement de […]
Czech Vote Presages Spending Cuts
PRAGUE—Leaders of three Czech center-right political parties worked to assemble a governing coalition Monday after an unexpectedly strong showing in parliamentary elections over the weekend, setting the stage for spending cuts in step with a broader European shift toward fiscal austerity. Led by the Civic Democrats, the three parties captured nearly 48% of the popular […]
THE LIST: Sportsmail’s top 50 World Cup icons, Nos 40-31
World Cup fever has the pulse beating and the temperature rising as the countdown to South Africa 2010 continues. It’s not just the winners and the heroes who live long in the memory and this week’s edition of The List celebrates 50 icons who will forever be associated with those few weeks every four years […]
Book review: HITCH-22
To read this article in full you must have registered and have a Premium Content Subscription with the scotsman.com site. Galloway is one of many characters expunged from the memoirs of „the Hitch”. paraging reference, and fellow ex-firebrand Tariq Ali barely features at all. Such Orwellian excisions show how the avowedly „Janus-faced” boy from Crapstone […]
World Cup 1970 review
ENGLAND went into the tournament in Mexico as World Cup holders but it was Pele and the boys from Brazil who would emerge triumphant. The two teams met in a group match that will live long in the memory. Bobby Moore made a succession of perfectly-timed tackles, keeper Gordon Banks denied Pele with the […]
