Arianna Huffington: blogger role model for Greek girls
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:18:47 -0000
With quotes like 'Darlings, make blogs, not war', the Athenian, 60, has become a big name stateside. However, the woman once known as Arianna Stassinopoulos has never seen the same notoriety in Greek circles. Too bad
Agreement between Israel and Palestine for a road-map to peace in 12 months
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:52:10 -0000
New schoolyear in spotlight
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:05:10 -0000
This is going to be a melancholic post. After all, what else if not melancholy, sweet and ripe with memories or sad and heavy, is one supposed to feel, marking the third September the 1st as an ordinary workday? No feeling of celebration anymore, and seeing kids with sword-lilies on the way to school, makes you feel somewhat nostalgic (even if you would rather spend a day in hell than a day back in middle school). This day changes Vilnius, and does so in various ways.
But beware: I'm only paying a tribute to this day today. The next post is going to be angry. Beware.
Lithuania's female bloggers: cooking, sex and the city
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:11:53 -0000
Somewhere between the 200, 000 Lithuanians in the UK and the 3 million at home, bloggers are making their own female-shaped dent in the internet universe
Natalie Weiss: German fashion blogger 'Schnati in Paris'
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:00:00 -0000
'Schnati', 22, has been blogging on the biggest German fashion blog LesMad ('Les Mademoiselles') since 2008. In her own blog 'Schnati à Paris' she presents her own outfits, shares inspirations and reports from fashion events
Poland: Solidarnosc 30th anniversary through Hackers cinema keyhole
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:08:41 -0000
'I'm taking over the TV network'...When we Poles watch the cult movie Hackers (1995) featuring Angelina Jolie, one line from the movie's main character makes us feel good to remember that the real takeover of the Polish TV network took place ten years before
Berlin launch: Anti-islam book by German bank exec Thilo Sarrazin
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:25:08 -0000
The former politician launched his book 'Deutschland schafft sich ab' ('Germany abolishes itself' on 30 August in Berlin. Criticism of Germany's immigration policy is legitimate, writes the Italian, German and Austrian press, but don't attack muslims. Translated European press review selection
Tips: dating success the Greek way
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:56:46 -0000
Dear friends from the north. You can print this out and give it a try but it’s useless. Flirting in this part of Europe is an art. It’s impossible to learn it, because southern men are born casanovas. Opinion
Emilie Turunen on unpaid interns: ‘we risk losing our generation’
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:34:42 -0000
In her soon-to-be-adopted youth unemployment rapport, the 26-year-old Dane has surely rewritten the tune of an infernal chorus. At 26, who better than the youngest member of the current European parliament to discuss a disenchanted population?
A Parisian male dissects success behind sex toys
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:00:00 -0000
A cheeky little vibrating bath duck or Ben Wa balls between your legs...for us guys, it all seems a bit unreal. Having never watched Sex and the City nor participated in an afternoon Tupperware party with my aunt, I am missing two indispensable references which might allow me to understand the boom of sex games in recent years
Death of the Italian stallion?
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:24:56 -0000
An August survey reports that the myth is dying, with Italian men becoming 'too feminised'. Whilst we make up our minds, a quick filmic tribute to Italian action hero Sylvester Stallone, who has long claimed the nickname and is back on the big screen, where sexual stereotypes from Europe are prevalent. Term of the week
