Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
March 8, 2010
This and that
We woke up today to the news of another earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6. It struck eastern Turkey in the pre-dawn hours killing at least 51 people. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
March 4, 2010
Animals and their lawyers
After writing about so many disasters, natural and man-made, I found some different news that could go under a Pet Politics category! Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 26, 2010
Lybia’s holy war against Switzerland
Preoccupied by the Afghan war, health care, the bizarre killing in Dubai and so much more, the situation between Switzerland and Lybia almost escaped us. And yet the tense relation between the two nations has been going on for a while. It all began apparently in 2008 when Gaddafi’s son, Hannibal, was arrested in Geneva accused of having abused his domestic servants. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
November 30, 2009
Switzerland bans minarets
While we were worried about the Afghanistan war, the dangers of pirates in the Indian Ocean, or the swine flu, a country we always though as being quiet and civilized surprised the world yesterday. Switzerland, the country of great mountains, chocolate, watches and beautiful countryside but also a country which likes to think is a neutral guardian of human rights, a country where the Red Cross was established and the Geneva convention was passed, voted in a referendum whose results brought fear among Muslims ans shocked the Swiss government. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
October 12, 2009
A very French scandal
Last June President Sarkozy, some say influenced by his wife Carla Bruni, drafted Frédéric Mitterrand – a nephew of late French President François Mitterrand- into his cabinet to become France Culture Minister. Probably Sarkozy could not imagine that a few months after a scandal would broke out with some politicians asking that his minister steps down. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 11, 2009
Ruling about the chocolate bunny
Forget about North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, foreclosures, … It is the chocolate bunny’s turn in the EU’s court of justice. A rule was handed there today at the request of Swiss chocolate maker Lindt on whether a chocolate bunny can be trademarked. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
December 2, 2008
In Switzerland, a legalized heroin program
Not so many years ago while I was living in Europe, I had to go to get some papers signed at the Spanish consulate in Zurich, Switzerland. When I was ready to leave, being a nice sunny day I decided to walk to the train station cutting across one of the parks just across from the consulate. Read the rest of this entry »
