Woohoo. I received my very first ballot papers from the Italian consulate for the 12th of June referendum. This has nothing to do with the French one on the European constitution, which, by the way, we have wisely ratified via parliament. It is actually much more in line with what I believe referendums should be […]
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Having spent my night partying in the freezing cold in Brick lane, I woke up with a sore throat, a dry cough and a headache. Little did I know that the latter would be shared by so many fellow Europeans. My two French flatmates, Mathieu and Magali, didn’t wait for my cognitive faculties to fully […]
Last time Rome went through a pope’s funeral, the eternal city witnessed another major event, to me at least, my birth. Yes, 26 years ago, whilst world leaders gathered in St-Peter’s square for the memorial service of John Paul 1st , who has been a pope for only 33 days, my mother was […]
Beautiful. Finally we get some drama out of European politics. Yesterday, the European parliament forced José Manuel Barroso to withdraw his proposed commissioners team. How did we get to this? Ask Rocco…
Enter Rocco Buttiglione: full-time religious zealot, writer of papal encyclicals and big mate with the pope. Nothing odd, then, when such a human makes […]