Public Secrets

From the website Open Europe:
“The analysis finds that only 10 out of 250 proposals in the new treaty are different from the proposals in the original EU Constitution. In other words, 96% of the text is the same as the rejected Constitution.” [link]
From the Former President of Germany Roman Herzog about the European Union and [...]

Historisch Openlucht Museum Eindhoven, link

From an article in the NRC newspaper, section Hollands Dagboek.
Elma Verhey describes what happened in her week and writes that at the last day of the week she is finally called by one of the top-brass of the SP (probably somebody in the house of commons). They have a conversation and I thought one line [...]

It seams that the political party SP is having problems keeping all members together. A recent conflict about the election of a member to the ‘eerste kamer’ (house of lords) has escalated into the suspension of the editor of the party newspaper. The editor had written a critical piece about the election procedures in the [...]

After the worldwide Al Gore/Music show and the movie “The unconvenient truth” the Dutch TV program Reporter is showing a program of the opposition (the Great Global Warming Swindle), the one who is doubting whether mankind is (fully) responsible for the global warming effect. The program will be followed by a discussion.
On Dutch radio some [...]

One week after the introduction of the iPhone the excitement has lowered to a more normal level. Prices on Ebay have dropped as most people now understand that the iPhone is a nice gadget but it is not worth paying twice the market price.
What can be said about the iPhone.
It does most of the [...]

Recently the Dutch public transport firm Connexxion was sold to the French company Transdev. Connexxion was sold because it was owned by the Dutch government and we want competition on the transport market. So, now it is sold to a French company which is owned by the French state.
Who thought of that???