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Kinda green: five myths about sustainable development in Bulgaria
Ah, the Bulgarians. They're relatively apathetic. Most companies are interested in either doing only the legally required minimum for the environment or in using their ‘green’ activities as marketing tools. But counterintuitive though it may seem, the financial crisis actually promotes sustainability
myth, environment, economy, attitude, green cities, energy, technology
Sweden straddle EU
Sweden's somewhere up there. But at the moment Europe's northern lights are somewhere kind of everywhere: take the eternal sandy or shock blonde ex-pat stereotype, the Swedish pirate political party which snatched a seat in the brand new European parliament in June, and the fact that the country is running the EU until the end of the year! Their political focus is on the crisis and the environment. Skål captain!
- Why Swedes go next door to Denmark to buy alcohol
- Swedish Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström: ‘Europe is stronger than the US’
- Swedish women, the ideal woman?
- Sweden's Cecilia Malmström: 'I'm a politician. It’s not my task to impose an identity on people'
- Study in Sweden: an American on Swedish and alcohol for the cold
America: five eurosceptic myths about sick old EU
With the stock market jittery over Iraq, the housing crisis and huge trade deficits, investors are wringing their hands about the US economy. Chinese and Indian economies roar, but what about Europe on the eve of the EU-US summit in Slovenia on 9-10 June
myth, welfare state, world affairs, united states, us elections, eurosceptic, ecology
