Tag: Europe
Nobel Prize: “your peace, your prize” The European Parliament’s President Martin Schulz will go to Oslo for the official ceremony to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union. In Strasbourg and Brussels, live broadcasts of the ceremony, a photo exhibition, and a formal ceremony in the Strasbourg plenary chamber will mark the occasion. Many activities are also planned in EU capitals. Click for more on the schedule and further details of events!
The European Union picks up its (our) Nobel Peace Prize next week. 🙂 Great video by the European Council. 🙂 (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
US election: Europeans endorse Obama for a second term | EurActiv Interesting piece on why we in Europe care about this election at all…
Every year, 26 September is the day we celebrate Europe’s rich linguistic heritage – the EU’s 23 official languages, the 60 or so regional/minority languages, and the languages spoken by people who’ve come to Europe from other parts of the world. As Italian director, Federico Fellini put it: "A different language is a different vision of life.“ To learn more about European Day of Languages and find language learning resources, click on the following links: European Day of Languages homepage European Commission’s page on Languages Council of Europe’s page on Language learning
Who works the most hours in Europe? Hungary is second on the most hours worked list, and also second on the least productive list. It’s not at all surprising knowing Hungarian work ethics (both on employers’ and employees’ sides). I think it’s specific of post socialist countries – during long decades of full employment economy people learned well how to pretend to be working. It explains why none of those states are on the most productive list. And in general, there seems to be an inverse connection between number of hours worked and productivity. But enough of late night sociological…
On the anniversary of the 2004 Madrid train bombings Europe remembers the victims of all forms of terrorism around the world.
