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The Wankin' Noodles, four boys from Rennes who sing about girls
Romain, Regis, Jean-Sylvain and Guillame went from being graphic design, cinema, information technology and literature students, to being backed by big names as France's latest post-teenage kicks band. Quick catch up with the twelve-eyed foursome at the Transmusicales festival in their hometown
men and women, bands, culture calendar, rennes, music, interview, students
Hello? Could you put me through to the EU president please?
On 19 November we finally find out who will represent Europe as president of the EU council, a new post which was created by the Lisbon treaty and which enters into force on 1 December. Lacklustre candidates, socialists and conservatives, the ping pong balls between national policies, men and women – these are some of the issues in question. Whoever it will be, the future face of Europe won’t have an easy time of gathering 27 national concerns under one hat; the EU council is also responsible for choosing the future head of diplomacy in Europe, in the post of high representative for foreign affairs
- Historical dinner live: on the menu, one president
- An EU Foreign Minister: it’s not ‘Fantasy Politics’
- Women on the verge of a political equality attack
- 'An anti-Tony Blair, please': European press reacts prior to EU president election
- EU press talks of virginity and Benjamin Button as Lisbon treaty is ratified
Guide: the curiosity of Tel Aviv's dog, gay and religious beaches
A lowdown on the rules - or lack of - to alternately abide by at neighouring sections of the city's 14km stretch of coastline
men and women, dog, homosexuality, separation, gay, guide, beach
Lazy Bundestag showdown
The uninspired German election campaign will probably continue ailing until elections take place on 27 September. A fibreless TV chancellor duel and lustless candidates have had a somniferous impact on the electing nation. Will Angela Merkel, the most 'powerful woman in the world' over the last four years, seduce the girls? Or will Steinmeier hack into the Russian Facebook community first? Maybe subjects like climate change from eco-showman Guttenberg or the fictional candidate, the comedian Horst Schlämmer, could shake up the dozing federal republic
Why Turkish band Kim Ki O can't break Europe
The Swedish pop elite love them, but EU bureaucracy is preventing Ekin Sanac and Berna Göl from breaking Europe. In Istanbul, music is an unstable bridge between east and west. Part one of a special feature
men and women, education, education system, europop, member states, kim ki o, konzert
Swedish women, the ideal woman?
Tall, dashing, blond hair and a blue-eyed stare. The list of clichés regarding Swedish women is long. Courted by men, envied by other women; how do the women in question live with these stereotypes? Part II in a special edition marking the six-month Swedish presidency of the EU
men and women, sweden, erasmus, seduction, sexism, feminism, feminism
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
men and women, television channel, european media, gender equality, europe on the ground, cities, women
Men on British writer Charlotte Roche’s Wetlands
The 31-year-old’s polarising debut novel has triggered a media avalanche in Germany, topping its Amazon bestseller list and was released in the UK in January 2009. Is Wetlands a feminist plea or pornographic trash? What do men really think about Roche’s tour de force through the ‘moist areas’ of the female body?
Green Monica Frassoni: 'Barroso out, woman in'
The leader of the European green party is tired of the current head of the European commission: the time has come for a woman to take charge
men and women, josé manuel barroso, ecología, los verdes, environment, health, european parliament
Lívia Járóka: female, Roma and Euro MP
The first female Roma member of the European parliament takes stock of her first term in office and announces that she will run in this year’s European elections in June. We talk women, Roma statistics and the EU institutions
men and women, roma, right-wing, health, unemployment, hungary, feminism
Spotlight on fighting prostitution in Strasbourg
In the last year, the picturesque city of Strasbourg has become known as the red light district of Alsace, a veritable European capital of prostitution. Is Strasbourg really a big brothel, where locals and EU officials indulge their peccadilloes?
men and women, germany, villes, mep, red light district, two seat system problem, prostitution
Spain, crisis and the difference between equality and parity
For the first time in the economic crisis, men are proportionally losing jobs faster than women are. Is it a victory for the latter? It’s a long road to equality – or should we say, to parity?
men and women, work, gender equality, parity, spain, economical crisis, feminism
'Immigrants take bread from our mouths': racism adapts to the 20th century
Discrimination has modernised to become more subtle and respond to the politically correct parameters that have spread throughout society
men and women, gay rights, racism, gianluca costantini, immigration, feminism, society
Verena Gerlach: 'font design is a very white male heterosexual field'
Berlin is the inspiration behind the German font designer’s creations, so we meet the 38-year-old there. We talk type, women, men and originality
men and women, typography, germany, berlin, art, brunch, history
Zita Gurmai: 'Women in Europe work around 54 more days than men'
The socialist, 43, demands feminism from European leaders. While she renews her candidacy for the European parliament, she dreams of seeing Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, the socialist president, as president of the European commission, after Jose Manuel Durao Barroso's term is up
men and women, pes, economical crisis, feminism, parti socialiste européeen, poul nyrup rasmussen, european parliament
Lucia Etxebarria: ‘it's a threat if women sell more books than men’
The Spanish sex, drugs and rock’n’roll writer, 41, juggles motherhood and feminist ideals in her literature, and explains why she is sometimes categorised as a lesbian or 'at best, emasculator'
men and women, sex, literature, madrid, kurt cobain, brunch, spain
Cinema: Persepolis hits the UK
Released on 25 April in an English-dubbed version, a review of Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi's Oscar-nominated animation of a girl displaced in Vienna
men and women, vienna, middle east, discrimination, tehran, iran islamic republic of, western eu
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