As the back and forth on Brexit dominates political debate in the UK, the European Union, as ever, is working on new ways to make everyday life more irksome, intrusive, and overpriced.
Quoted by Food&Drink International
I was quoted by Food&Drink International on a public consultation on proposals to introduce a 9pm watershed on TV and online adverts for food and drink high in fat, sugar or salt, launched by the UK government. Can read the full quote down below, or on their website.
[Video] Your professor might be funded directly by the European Union
Click down below to see my latest video on EU Updates. I’m talking about the “Eramus+”-coordinated Jean Monnet programmes.
Fanatics drive politics
The most fanatical of activists have an impact on actual policies. That is why they cannot be ignored.
We need to talk about the word “populism”
The European elections are coming up, and so are some predictable headlines. More stories have probably been written about “the rise of populism” than there are fish in the sea. It is easy to find who these populists are. A simple Google search does the trick: Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orbán, Matteo Salvini, Jarosław Kaczyński. […]
Protecting the environment should be about being pro-human
In figures released by Eurostat this month, it was reported that only 6.4% of energy consumed in the Grand Duchy in 2017 came from renewable sources, making Luxembourg stand more than ten percentage points below the EU average of 17.5%as well as the member state producing the least amount from renewable energy. Granted, this number […]
Speaker at CDE Great Lakes Academy
I was so honoured to be invited as a guest speaker by the Centre for Development and Enterprises Great Lakes, for a seminar of their on blogging and journalism. The seminar took place on March 1 in Burundi, and I spoke to the participants through a pre-recorded video (as I was in Istanbul, Turkey at […]
What the Dutch airtravel tax proposal reveals about our political class
The Netherlands is pushing for a new tax on air travel. The story is very under-reported in the media, even though it reveals something quite striking about the current political establishment.
International school students should not be required to learn Luxembourgish
Education minister Claude Meisch in a Luxembourg Times interview recently said he would require international schools to teach Luxembourgish. This is part of a coalition plan to reform the international school system, and to add affordable public international education in an effort to foster “social cohesion”.
Rewatch my first Facebook live broadcast!
On Sunday I broadcasted my first livestream on Facebook, in the context of my regular EU Updates videos. Click down below to rewatch the full one-hour broadcast.
Bill Wirtz 