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Babelblogs: Macedonia, cloning and praying in Berlin

In front | REVIEW
(Photos: ukemi_42/ Xavier Häpe/ Flickr)

Europe is often seen as boring and bureaucratic - not the case with cafebabel.com’s community blogs. European debate is in full swing, bloggers are up in arms and words are flying

by Jean-Sébastien Lefebvre // 28/03/08

FEATURE

Batman, goats and internet in Cavas do Monte, Portugal

The living conditions in the north Portuguese mountaintops of S. Pedro do Sul have hardly changed in hundreds of years. Bit by bit, however, the uniting, modernising world is moving in, and the children are moving out

by Laura Daub // 26/03/08

FEATURE

Exhibition brings Israel and Palestine 'face to face'

Face2Face is a unique and edgy photography show by French and Swiss friends JR and Marco, They stick the Israeli-Palestinian conflict right under European noses

by Virginie Gerhard // 21/03/08

PORTRAIT

Euthanasia: Noel Martin wants to die

The British citizen of Jamaican origin, has been a paraplegic ever since he was attacked by a band of neo-Nazis. In 2007, he made headline news in Germany and is still fighting to be able to decide the date of his death

by Isaac Risco Rodríguez // 21/03/08

REPORT

12:08 - East of Pristina

In the Serb enclave of Gracanica, young people are becoming aware that a good future involves teenage crushes, good friends and weekends

by Peter John Collins // 18/03/08

REPORT

St. Patrick's Day: drowning the shamrock in Dublin

Alcohol, religion and fireworks - we swoop over Dublin on 17 March, feast (and party) day of the patron saint of Ireland

by Angela Steen // 17/03/08

TESTIMONY

Hunger strike for illegal immigrants in Belgium

162 protestors have came to a provisional deal with the government - but they haven't eaten for 50 days

by Giovanni de Paola // 14/03/08

FREEZE! by the Eiffel Tower in Paris

On 8 March 2008, 3, 000 people suddenly stopped dead in their tracks and froze like statues at the Trocadero Square 'because we usually spend all day long running around like lunatics'

by Jane Mery // 14/03/08

PANORAMA

Blogging Kosovo, Erasmus and poetry

Existential crises in Berlin, self-critical French and new nation states - the best of our babelblogs this fortnight

by Jean Sébastien Lefebvre // 13/03/08

PANORAMA
Street in BedZed (Photo: hotzeplotz)

Eco-housing renaissance: put less carbon in the air!

The ‘built’ environment in the UK, Germany and Sweden are good examples of how our lifestyles have to adapt in a changing world

by Chris Adams // 11/03/08

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Remembering the riots in Tallinn

One year later everything passed quietly and, although the Russian MFA would not agree with me, it seems that people have finally learnt a really important lesson: violence does not help on getting anything. Not in Europe, at least.

by g.angioni // 28/04/08

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Road without madness day

Today we will be safe on the road, even if we gear up our vehicles. It has to be so. The 27 of April is The European road safety day. This day officially came into being last year. There was never unofficial one before.

by erika // 27/04/08

erika

A wider way for bloggers

How do Lithuanian writers of internet diaries live? A few weeks ago they met at the second Lithuanian bloggers conference BLOGin 2008 in Vilnius. The communication about the event was planned effectively - the tickets, worth a sell-out play, were all bought. Approximately 400 participants attended. This professionally organized meeting of ...

by erika // 17/04/08




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