television
Dinner for one in 2012
The Brits have spent the end of year in a 'lull' whilst the Germans are going through 'new year's fatigue'. In their new year's addresses at least, Europe's Franco-German leaders warned us it won't be getting any better this new year
television, cinema, tower of babel, christmas, germany, alcohol, languages
Most expensive EU TV production Borgia: outsiders from Spain in renaissance Italy
The fifteenth century Italian crime family is the subject of a hit Franco-German TV series originally filmed in Prague and screened as of this summer in three European countries. We discuss reality and fiction with French Borgia expert Pol Bruno at his welcoming home on the Breton coast
Missing you already Berlusconi - young Italians speak
It's official! Monti's in, Berly's out! His anti-politics, his vulgarity, his gaffes - at least three reasons why we won't be missing our beloved prime minister, who has been in power in Italy four times since 1994 - 2011. He announced his gradual resignation in mid-November, after Italy was forced to adopt a final series of austerity measures. Is it a trick? Will he be bouncing back into office, immune as they come? The state of the country's finances might ensure that won't happen. The 75-year-old seems to be alone, psychologically fragile and abandoned by his most loyal colleagues. 17 years of bad behaviour is enough. Better late than never (Image: © Kristof)
- Read the special edition Missing you already Berlusconi - young Italians speak
- Bunga bunga: European hanky panky guide for Mr. Berlusconi
- Meeting Mario Monti, interim Italian prime minister
- Berlusconi’s greatest crime is humiliating Montesquieu
- Four young Europeans react to Berlusconi's resignation: 'There will be civil war'
- Berlusconi raised us; how to re-educate Italy?
- Italian writer Alberto Toscano on political gaffes
Three gays and a christian democrat: Irish presidential elections
What do an 81-year-old sports commentator, a ‘Dragon’s Den’ panelist and an international gay rights activist (David Norris, pictured) have in common? They’ve all been put forth for the Irish presidency. But as the government scrambles to hold onto the ‘highest office in the land’, the public is steadily boiling with rage. Elections take place on 27 October
television, dublin, homosexuality, campaign, sinn fein, ireland, politics
Pope Benedict on TV on 22 April: church in crisis?
5pm on Good Friday or 22 April 2011. That's when the pope will make an appearance on Rai 1, the most popular television channel in Italy. The revolution in the catholic church follows suit from pope John Paul II. Television is a powerful means of communication where matters of faith and religion can be discussed; Joseph Ratzinger is taking it one step further by not only participating in the programme, but being open to questions
television, media, religion, chiesa, josef ratzinger, catholicism, papa benedetto xvi
Aids, Alzheimers, abortion: Europe's most shocking adverts
From Spain and Italy's saucy adverts, via the UK and Germany's treatment of diseases, to Poland's nazi memories - a video tour of the banned adverts which most recently shocked modern European society
television, italy, rocco siffredi, aids, advertising, germany, video
Young Europeans remember 9/11
It’s eight years since the attacks which killed 2, 752 people, destroyed the World Trade Centres and damaged the Pentagon on 11 September 2001. The cafebabel.com editorial team share their memories from across the waters on the event which shaped America and the world today
television, italy, reaction, germany, anniversary, testimony, poland
Poland: Solidarnosc 30th anniversary through Hackers cinema keyhole
'I'm taking over the TV network'...When we Poles watch the cult movie Hackers (1995) featuring Angelina Jolie, one line from the movie's main character makes us feel good to remember that the real takeover of the Polish TV network took place ten years before
television, solidarnosc, history, poland, internet, trade unions, politics
Post-dictatorship Spanish TV: 20 years after Crystal Ball
‘I adore the economy, capital gain and dysentery!’ chanted an ‘ugly, evil and electrocuting’ puppet with bulging eyes and cables for hair. Bruja Avería (Breakdown Witch) was the wicked witch from the legendary eighties programme. It's been off-air for over twenty years, but audiences are still shocked by its brashness
television, la movida, best of cafebabel.com, culture, culture calendar, spain
Three Croatian journalists to remember on world press freedom day
When renowned sports journalist Zarko Susic died a natural death aged 95 on 26 April, it was almost a shock that his passing wasn't suspicious. The US-based watchdog Freedom House ranks Croatia 85th in the world for its lack of press freedom
television, media, balkans, croatia, censorship, mafia, journalism
Internet killed the TV star
In 1960s UK, there were 10.5 million television sets. There will be a predicted 74m by 2020. Welcome to an era where a converging consumer revolution dictates that at least 20% of the market will have internet powered TV sets in Europe, and where the first European three-dimension TV channel, Sky, went live in April. Television, a marker of post-war middle-class American affluence, has stayed central to peoples lives. Focus on whether that affluence has become an influence that the Europeans just can't shake via TV and web series
Nick Clegg for European British prime minister?
Since 1918 the prime minister of Britain has been either labour or conservative. Red or blue. The 6 May elections were set to be no different. The two-party system seemed safe. Murdoch's papers screamed blue. Until Mr. Nick Clegg, leader of the liberal democrats, entered. The final televised leaders' debate in the UK takes place on 29 April
television, liberls, labour, economical crisis, london, europe, facebook
Europe falls in press freedom rankings
If the old continent believes it still represents the paradigm of press freedom, then it is in for a rude awakening: in the worldwide rankings of freedom of the press published by Reporters Without Borders, many European nations are in a state of free fall. Yet a defence organises for what Kant called 'freedom of the pen'
television, media, italy, wire-tapping , anna politkovskaya, reporters without borders, european media
Europarl TV: 'technology is more fast-paced than the institutions'
In September 2008, the TV channel started streaming parliamentary sessions and news features on MEPs and their speeches on the European parliament’s webpage. The challenge is to give the institutions a human face - press service chief Jean-Yves Loog tells us how
television, brussels, internet, strasbourg, european media, european parliament, journalism
Lorella Zanardo: real women 'endangered species' on Italian TV
Chat with the co-writer of the documentary 'Il Corpo delle Donne', which looks at how Italian TV dissects 'women’s bodies'. Since spring 2009, it has attained enormous exposure across all networks thanks to its intelligent and ruthless critique of Italian television
television, italy, feminism, culture, silvio berlusconi, society
The randomness of voting and the media in Greece
The country is experiencing a political and economic crisis of such enormity that prime minister Costas Karamanlis called a snap election on 5 October, which he promptly lost. Coverage was chaotic
FrauTV, Emma: women top the media tower in Cologne
Over a third of German national TV programmes are produced in Cologne. Alongside the eight channels based on the banks of the Rhine, in ‘media city’, are the offices of the young, resolutely feminist FrauTV and the militant magazine Emma
television, women, feminism, television channel, men and women, europe on the ground, european media
European elections night: I was watching TV
The night that most centre-left governments took their batterings, you might have caught a show about an unemployed mother-of-two in Spain or the final of 'The Apprentice' in the UK. Glance at the programmes for which viewers gave up the EU election coverage ghost on the evening of 7 June; results came out at 8pm, signalling a lower voter turnout than 2004
television, germany, european elections 2009, bulgaria, poland, poll, best of cafebabel.com
Sexy EU election candidates from France to Romania via Lithuania
It's European election time again. As per usual there are some 'special' candidates hoping to win a seat. In 2004, a French orchestra conductor, a British actor, a Czech cosmonaut and even a Lithuanian hockey player became MEPs. What does the 2009 edition have in store for us? Featuring Elena Basescu, Barbara Matera and Donala Meiželytė-Svilienė
television, humour, scandal, sexism, sex, video gallery, european elections 2009
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