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Montreal international poetry prize 'for poets by poets'

('Kris Anderson',) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:32:49 -0000

Poetry is enduring, if not a deep freeze, at least a hard frost. Austerity measures across Europe and Canada have led to severe cuts in arts funding. Amidst the scrabble to fund prizes whose state subsidies have been slashed, a brand new award has emerged on a different funding model, with the winner to scoop 50, 000 Canadian dollars on 15 December

Roller hockey, tennis and basket ball wins: golden age for Spanish sport

('Silvia Alexe',) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:55:25 -0000

Not everything is in crisis in Spain. Football, basketball, tennis and even roller hockey: Spanish sport seems to be experiencing a golden age

2011 win for Azerbaijan: Eurovision returns east

('Dave Keating',) — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:43:35 -0000

Norway, Germany...after two years in western Europe, Azerbaijan was the surprise winner of the Eurovision song contest on 14 May. The 2012 contest will be held in the Caspian Sea coast city of Baku, an awkward host city given that the country is in an ongoing military conflict with its neighbour Armenia

Best and worst of Eurovision 2011

('Dave Keating',) — Thu, 05 May 2011 13:18:04 -0000

It's a year of astonishing comebacks, pleas to stop climate change and, most intriguing of all, France's entry singing entirely in a language other than French. The famed song contest is held between 10 - 14 May in Duesseldorf, Germany. We've put ourselves through the best of Europe out of the 43 participants - especially for you

After JC Decaux’s Vélib’, 6, 000 bicycles for London

('Susannah Readett-Bayley',) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:00:00 -0000

Its recent success in the public bicycle market has led the French advertising giant into a race against competitors to secure the multiplying contracts popping up all over Europe

Nobel prize for literature: Horace Engdahl on 'ignorant' American writing

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:55:47 -0000

The permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy criticises US writing days before the winner is announced, on 9 October

Map: EU growth will slow down in 2008

('Pedro Pic\xc3\xb3n',) — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:56:00 -0000

The EU’s economy will grow slower than expected, falling from 2.7% in 2007 to 2.0% in 2008. Things will worsen in 2009. Take a look at your countries’ growth rates

Michel Barnier: 'we won't be naive about agriculture'

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:00:00 -0000

The French minister of agriculture on the farm subsidies (CAP) reform which the European commission will present in November

Inflation: 'the convergence of eastern and western prices will have to wait 20 years'

('Andrew Burgess',) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:00:00 -0000

What do you Europeans really think of rising prices and inflation in the Eurozone?

Lux Voor: the changing face of politics

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:00:00 -0000

Neither coalition nor legal organisation, the ‘Lux Voor’ movement, founded in March 2006, radically questions contemporary Dutch politics. We take a look at this flourishing network