Case against DSK on shaky ground
The free world was shocked when Dominique Strauss Kahn was charged with sexual assault a few weeks back. But now, DSK's bail conditions have been significantly relaxed after the Manhattan…
EU Politics
Germany says auf weidersehen to nuke plants
Germany's centre-right coalition announced this morning that it is getting out of the nuclear power business entirely. All seventeen of its plants will be closed by 2022 at the latest.…
Mladić arrested
The bid of Serbia to join the European Union, perhaps as early as 2014, may finally be on track with today's news that Ratko Mladić has been arrested -- in…
Strauss-Kahn arrested
When I heard the news late Saturday night after work that IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn had been arrested for an alleged sexual assault in NYC just as his flight…
Ireland hits the polls, and the wall
In terms of politics, this is truly an earthquake.True, the top two parties in Ireland are pretty much Tweedledum and Tweedledee (they're both centre right) but after all the ballots…