Posts tagged EU
Bled, Slovenia (Re-post)
The Rynek (main square) of Krakow, Poland.
Late-winter in Paris.
Avenue Molerie (Brussels)
The Reichstag, at this time of the year. (Berlin, Germany)
Not surprisingly, Europeans in the eurozone share a consensus that Deutschland is (and probably, rightfully so) the least corrupt in the region; as reported by The Economist. Story in http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/05/greeks-say-they-are-hardest-working-european-nation.
The report is largely drawn from the recent survey done by Pew Global as discussed here: http://www.pewglobal.org/2012/05/29/chapter-4-views-of-eu-countries-and-leaders/
La Defence (Paris)
In 2010 George Papaconstantinou, chief negotiator of Greece’s first bail-out by the EU and IMF, took delivery from the French government of a disk with the names of 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts. He kept it and deleted names of members of his family. The planned investigation was dropped.
Delft, The Netherlands.
Who’s ready for the carnival in Venice, which starts on 2 February?
St. Michael Cathedral (Brussels, Belgium)
Wet Dreams (Brussels in Winter)
Passion. (Winter in Brussels)
Love in Spring.
(Atop the Main Tower. Frankfurt, Germany)
The longer the euro area’s debt crisis drags on, the more it resembles an instrument of economic torture. Like the medieval rack, every turn of the crisis tears Europe further apart. —The Economist, 6 July 2012 (Image also from The Economist)
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