Thais…

A slow couple of days before the holidays, but we remain unconcerned about our readership as we know the Euro institutions about which we like to concern ourselves will remain firmly shuttered for this period. We also are amused, as even though we have failed to keep a tight rein on productivity with regards this site, we have a core readership who are endlessly seeking footage of the Brazilian-Italian Thais Souza Wigger. Having written briefly about her in the past (and we would be the first to admit it was a tangential reference at best merely to assuage some sort of desire to see attractive women on the site), she has now become something of a focus of searches directed towards us. So we could not resist repeating the experiment, this time in full motion:

Euro-dynamism

We are extraordinarily relieved to see that the image of the industrious Euro-worker is to be further burnished by the European Parliament’s vote to force Britain to remove its opt-out from the EU’s weekly limit on working hours. In these hard economic times, it is clearly the moment to leap forwards and place constraints upon working hours, especially when there are no aggressively industrializing third world nations eagerly stepping forwards to fill our shoes. It also rather amusing to see how contorted British politics have become over this, with Labour MEPs going against Gordo to axe the measure – oh the joy of intra-Labour politics, has nothing been learned from the Tories example?

We suppose there is an interesting comparison to be made here with the American auto-worker, who has recognized that their jobs are about evaporate and is consequently trying to do something about it to save things (we also love the UAW chief’s name). How long till that happens in fair Europa we wonder?

Maybe not the Euros in question - but amusing nonetheless

Too close for comfort?

As promised we are trying to be less erratic, and we also couldn’t help ourselves in sharing this rather too intimate picture of Frank-Walter S cozying up to someone we have to admit we did not know (but turned out to be prominent Israeli poet Amos Oz). We can only guess the good minister is enjoying his private reading….

Rat’s for a Euro

We apologize once again to our limited readership for our continuing inability to maintain this website with any regularity. We promise we are going to get better – please continue to pop by and you will see…

In part we have been awakened as a result of this charming story in Der Spiegel English: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,596705,00.html - where an aptly named Free Democrat has suggested that Berlin’s bottle collectors should retrain their efforts on capturing rodents loose in city for which they could be paid the princely sum of a Euro.

We think this seems an excellent solution to the credit crunch – let’s hope more of Europe’s politicians come up with equally ingenious festive ideas.