Dear Reader,
Well, here we are in April 2010 with some new items which we would like to share with you. Everybody has been talking about Greece, but the Greeks are not going to let us have the last word, as you will see below.
We recently ran a blog about Macedonia on another website and it broke all records in terms of the number of posts it generated. The FYROMers were almost as eloquent as the Greeks!
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We hope you like what you read. Your feedback is always most welcome!
Best, Karin & Richard
We read in the news…
Every now and then, the British and German national media let their frustrations out on their neighbours, generally the smaller countries like Belgium (remember the coverage of the Dutroux Affair?) and now Greece. Of course, the Greeks brought it on themselves, but even so… Some of them take the trouble to react, like Dr Christos D Katsetos on the 'Modern Macedonian History' blog:
A Creative Solution…
On March 22, the International Herald Tribune carried an Advertising Supplement entitled "Greece: Laying the Groundwork for Recovery". Two days later the paper published the following correction:
It takes all sorts…
Back in February the International Herald Tribune ran a story that, maybe unwittingly, illustrates the cultural quirks of three very different cultures: the US American, the Afghan and the Italian.
