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Poland-Germany exhibition in Berlin: let the neighbours talk
The exhibition ‘Good Neighbours? German Motifs in Polish Contemporary Art/ Polish Motifs In German Contemporary Art’ is showing at the Bethanien art gallery in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district until late October. The works on display reflect the quality of the German-Polish relationship today
stereotype , contemporary art, germany, berlin, poland, culture, art
German writer Hatto Fischer on Greece 'madness' and 'European debts’
The Bavarian-born philosopher and co-founder of the NGO Poiein Kai Prattein (‘create and do’), which launched in Athens in 2003, explains why Europeans have thought that the Greeks were mad, and how we can learn from their current fiscal tragedy
stereotype , germany, brunch, greece, society, interview, athens
Orient Express Reporter 2010/11: citizen journalism’s ‘corridor no.10’ in Balkans and Turkey
For nine months, this citizen media has been sending an editor from its team of six in Paris along with volunteer teams of journalists to the likes of Bosnia, Macedonia and the EU’s 28th member state as of July 2013, Croatia. A project initially born of idealism in the winter – the aim being to present ‘our Balkan neighbours’ from an on-the-ground, positive viewpoint – the monthly city missions became a veritable bastion of shared and unshared realities throughout the year (travel in the Balkans, football fever), even when some well-meaning articles inevitably dipped into the usual shadows of already mediatised topics. Politics decides the status of a Balkan member state in relation to the EU, and politics is unavoidable in the daily lives of young people. In December 2010, Montenegro and Albania respectively garnered ‘EU candidate’ status and celebrated visa-free access to the EU’s Schengen zone. Their journalists and Arab-revolutionary wannabes dream whilst in Kosovo, a Spaniard (whose homeland has not recognised the ‘world’s second newest country’) has a one-on-one with the prime minister. As Irishwoman simply tries to understand Serbia, which is racing ahead in its EU prospects after 'handing over old war criminals', whereas from Turkey, whose negotiations to join the EU seem stalled, the scene is set by a passionate cult of football supporters in Istanbul. And that was the key to this year's editorial mission: passion. Read the best of cafebabel.com’s jaunt in the east and south-east (Image: (cc) Ezequiel Scagnetti for Orient Express Reporter Kosovo/ ezequiel-scagnetti.com/)
- Read the special edition Orient Express Reporter 2010/11: citizen journalism’s ‘corridor no.10’ in Balkans and Turkey
- Hunting Hashim Thaci in Prishtina
- Being a Beşiktaş football supporter in Istanbul
- Vox-pop: Being a young journalist in Montenegro
- Selling Serbia, a PR nightmare
- Try finding an Arab revolution in Albania
Most annoying questions put to expats
Stereotypes, judgements, accidental offence or ignorance? After living between Japan, Hungary, Sweden and Israel of late, our resident Lithuanian blogger attempts to officially go where not many want to go, but do everyday... Extract from wonderland.cafebabel.com
stereotype , lifestyle, expatriation, expatriates, relationships, people, travel
Death of the Italian stallion?
An August survey reports that the myth is dying, with Italian men becoming 'too feminised'. Whilst we make up our minds, a quick filmic tribute to Italian action hero Sylvester Stallone, who has long claimed the nickname and is back on the big screen, where sexual stereotypes from Europe are prevalent. Term of the week
stereotype , italy, rocco siffredi, cinema, masculinity, lifestyle, sex
Greek, Romanian, Albanian: why are these racist terms in Europe?
It's a fine line between risky jokes and racist innuendo. Those who manage to be funny while staying on the right side of that line are pretty smart. Nevertheless, at a time when calls to reject that protean scapegoat, the Other, are growing throughout the four corners of the continent, a little self-examination in Europe might not be a bad thing
stereotype , european identity, italy, greece, europe, civil society, identity
Le Corps Mince de Francoise: 'fuck off saying we’re trendy. We sing about what we are'
The trio hail from Helsinki, record in Berlin and are managed in the UK. We meet in Paris to dissect their pan-European wanderings and find out why exactly they diss boys and Finland so much in their screamy surface pop-experimental sound
stereotype , women, industry, feminism, brunch, best of cafebabel.com, berlin
1000 euros for a night with Silvio Berlusconi
Southern Italian businessman Gianpaolo Tarantini stated* in a 29 July police interrogation that he had recruited 30 young women for 18 parties in the prime minister's private villas between September 2008 and January 2009. Some are said to have received up to £880 to spend the night with Berlusconi. The Spanish, Italian, French and British press is outraged
stereotype , italy, scandal, censorship, sex, euweek, united kingdom
Alberto Toscano: ‘The French will be happier the day they free themselves of the need to be normal’
The political journalist and polemist, 61, has been living in France for more than twenty years, and wonders if he gave French president Nicolas Sarkozy the literary impetus to marry a crooning Italian woman - interview of the week
Seraphim Fyntanidis 'the European elections are a form of anti-government protest'
I don't usually watch TV, but when I caught a programme about the modern vision of the Greeks one Sunday, I found myself chatting with its presenter a few days later in the Chalandri district of Athens
stereotype , brunch, greece, turkey, tv, enlargement, european elections 2009
Jeff Israely: 'In his fifteenth year in politics, Berlusconi looks more and more like a comedian'
The Paris-based American journalist, 41, is a correspondent for Time Magazine for southern Europe. His recently published 'Looks Like My Son Is Italian' is not a summary of Italian mentality, he says - 'I’m just balancing the scales'
stereotype , italy, brunch, best of cafebabel.com, saviano roberto, silvio berlusconi, gianfranco fini
Don't be a Jew!
The anti-Semitic expressions that are still present in European languages demonstrate just how much the fear and distrust of Jewish people has been engrained into our society
stereotype , money, tower of babel, jews, racism, languages, idioms
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