After relatively mild weather during the Christmas holidays, winter has come in full force to Europe. It has brought strange sights such as the port in Marseille covered in snow! In a normally sunny French Riviera trains are halted and people are wary of venturing outside their homes. In my case I am having fond memories of my home in Florida… Read the rest of this entry »

President Sarkozy of France is not a quiet politician, on the contrary he is deeply involved in his country’s politics as well as in the world’s. France holding the Presidency of the EU at the moment, it was Sarkozy who hosted this past Friday the 22nd summit in Nice, France, between Russia and the 27 European nations. Read the rest of this entry »

With one week to go, I am probably going to give myself a break and short of something extraordinary happening avoid writing anything else about the U.S. elections until we know who is going to be the next president. By now anything I can write all of you would have probably read in the printed media or seen on TV. In the meantime I hope the Bush administration is not trying to go out with a bang. Read the rest of this entry »

End of the week and nor relief on sight! The bailout seems so far away and we are still asking ourselves if it accomplished anything. Now we are facing not just an American financial crisis but a global one. Read the rest of this entry »

This being his last NATO summit, our commander in chief must be wondering what his legacy is going to be, or maybe he does not care. But with his unequal capacity for it he almost created more mischief on his way to Bucharest and the summit. Trying to gather some strength before facing discord in the summit, he stopped in Ukraine to have a photo op with the country’s leaders. Read the rest of this entry »