The Swiss have voted by a large majority to ban the construction of new mosque minarets. The right rejoices. In France, Xavier Bertrand, leader of France’s UMP didn’t seem terrbily concerned but Bernard Kouchner is a bit scandalised; in Germany the spokesperson for the ruling CDU says the fear of Islam must be taken seriously – yes, but how? [...]
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So the deal has been done (behind closed doors of course!) on who will fill the role of the new European Council President. Merkel and Sarkozy finally decided that Belgian prime minister Herman van Rompuy is their man. Van Rompuy is credited with being a strong behind the scenes negotiator, and with managing to not let Belgium [...] Here is a good article from the Times Literary Supplement explaining the new plan in the UK to asses scientific research and allocate funding partly (25% is the proposed weighting) on the basis of the “impact” the research or the department has outside of academia. “Outside academia” seems to have only three aspects according to [...] The New York Times reports that many of the speeches put into the official congressional record during the legislative debate on health care reform in the US House of Representatives were drafted (either in part or wholly) by lobbyists working for Swiss Drug company Roche. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Genentech, a subsidiary of the Swiss [...] I apologize in advance for this ranting…I have been traveling…was at the SPEP (Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy) conference last week: good conference, good papers and I was happy to see great attendance and hear three great papers at the Merleau-Ponty session. Sadly I missed the book panel on the book I’m currently reading, [...] |
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