interview
From Russia with cold: 30 hour Moscow experience
Taxi driver no 1: “Until this country starts producing something, it will go nowhere”
Lyudmila Alexeyeva: “It is not awarded to me, but rather to all of us, especially those, who have lost their lives for the cause. If they were alive, they would be happy”
Sergei Kovalev: Russia is currently a stumbling block in the way of international progress. It’s not alone; some other countries are also “splendid” enough.
Oleg Orlov: “Sometimes you feel that you are scooping the sea with a spoon”
Taxi driver no 2: “Airports, hotels, nightclubs, you wouldn’t service them without payoffs to gangs”
@ the Airport café: “Man, move to another café. They sell the same stuff there, I’m busy”
About cycling and fulfilling election promises
Fishing for public attention is the daily business of politicians; therefore it is always a pleasure to witness some original and positive ideas in this respect. One such election project was a Czech MEPs idea to cycle from Prague to Strasbourg and to announce it as [...]
The human faces of (some) public faces
“One must go in and fetch a diamond out” says one of Arthur Miller’s characters in “Death of a Salesman”. The same process applied to collecting 10 reasons to vote from ex-EP presidents when they gathered in Brussels last week. I met them together with other three editors and our photographer Pietro and asked them to give our readers the reasons to participate to the European elections.
The devil is in the quote
It is gray and rainy Brussels Tuesday morning. Would it be really unjust to say it is just Tuesday morning in Brussels? Three people leave their cosy editorial lair on Rue Montoyer and go hunting. Armed with one light dictaphone between two, supported with a heavy pro DSLR operated by our Italian condottiere-photographer, shielded with [...]
A big cheese and sacred cows
Afficionados of the elections website may have noticed our debate of the week focuses again on economic matters. Of course. “It’s the economy, stupid”, it was once famously observed – and that was in relatively good times. Right now, with the sense of slight unreality with which the current crisis was perhaps initially viewed (all [...]
She came… and I just saw her
There are people that mean something to us personally, that can touch us with their story and whom we really want to take the opportunity of talking to: it can be now or never. I am sure each one of us has at least a name to say, someone they would really like to ask about an experience, an opinion, a fact. In my case one of those big names is Ingrid Betancourt.
She is coming! And I saw her first!
In one month (8th October), Ingrid Betancourt will come to the European Parliament, and I imagine every single member of this team would love to interview her… If the agenda of the visit is not very tight, if she is not very tired, if we manage to get an interview with her, if….you will see [...]
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