Among Paris’ many attractions there are also a lot that aren’t as well-known as the main ones. Like a journey on the old partially underground canals in the Bastille area of the…
Author: JR
Otto von Habsburg – the end of an epoch
Otto von Habsburg, once crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian empire, has died aged 98 and must be said to have had a remarkable life that spanned almost the entire 20th century. He…
German Greens’ success in BW
From what it looks, the German Greens have won their first government premier position in the state elections of Baden-Württemberg. With 24.2 percent of the votes the Green Party managed to become…
“Betrayed by our own data”
Die Zeit has a very interesting article – in English even – showing exactly how much you can do with data collection from today’s mobile phones. For a technology-interested geographer like me,…
The problems with nuclear power
As if the earthquake and the following tsunami were not enough, Japan got into another nightmare with its damaged and apparently out-of-control Fukushima nuclear power plant. It can of course be argued…
Twitter subpoenas: Highlighting the problem with globalized data
Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of the Althing – the parliament of Iceland – and a former Wikileaks supporter has apparently been informed by Twitter that the US Department of Justice has demanded…
Hungary’s EU presidency marred by their new media law
As Hungary takes over the EU presidency for the first half of 2011, there remain a controversy over the country’s newly approved media law that will impose a rather strict government body…
Västra hamnen, Malmö, Sweden
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Swedish parliament election
The Swedish parliamentary election resulted in a new mandate for the sitting center-right coalition government. The coalition did however lose their majority in the parliament and will continue govern as a minority…
Polish presidential election
Bronislaw Komorowski, currently acting president of Poland after the death of president Kaczynski in a tragic plane crash in May, has been elected as president after winning the second round of voting…