Dëse Reportage gouf fir RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg produzéiert ginn, an ass den 3. Juni gelaaf. De ganze Beitrag fënnt een hei. D’Ukrain ass aktuell an engem inoffizielle Krich mat Russland, zënter der Annexioun vun der Krim-Hallefinsel duerch de Regimm vum Vladimir Putin. De Bill Wirtz war zu Lviv am Weste vun der Ukrain, a schwätzt […]
RTL report: Church houses skeleton population
This report was translated into English by RTL Radio Luxembourg, for RTL Today. The original was a Luxembourgish radio report about the UNESCO World Heritage site in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. At an 85km distance from Prague – which translates into roughly an hour an a half’s journey by train – makes the site a […]
[Reportage] Kutná Hora: UNESCO-Weltkulturierwen an Tschechien
Dëse Reportage ass fir RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg produzéiert ginn an ass de 29. Mee iwwerdroë ginn. De ganze Beitrag kann een hei lauschteren. Kutná Hora, op Däitsch Kuttenberg, ass eng Stad an Tschechien déi zum UNESCO-Weltkulturierwen zielt. Besonnesch bekannt ass de Sedletz-Ossarium, eng kleng Kierch an där dausende vun Doudekäpp hänken.
[Podcast] The Innocents Abroad Episode 25: Who and what is Europe?
I was a guest in The Innocents Abroad podcast run by my friend and colleague Yaël Ossowski. We spent 40 minutes in an hotel café in Vienna, philosophising about the politics and culture of this continent. Click down below to listen to the entire episode.
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”.
[ZOOM] Poeten mit Gießkannen
Dieser Artikel wurde für die luxemburgische Tageszeitung “Lëtzebuerger Journal” geschrieben. Die Rubrik “ZOOM” greift junge, alternative und unternehmerische Themen auf und bringt sie den Lesern näher. (Text in veränderter Form im Print) Poetry Slam hat sich in Luxemburg in den letzten Jahren langsam aber stetig zu einer etablierten literarischen Unterhaltungsform entwickelt. Immer mehr Menschen – […]
Salvini’s ethnic shop restrictions are purposefully destructive
Italy’s interior minister, Matteo Salvini, suggested this month that “ethnic shops” should not be allowed to remain open past 9 p.m. The suggestion is not only bigoted, it is also likely to worsen the state of integration in the Southern European country.
EU-movie quotas are cultural protectionism
The European Parliament calls for a 30 per cent mandatory quota of European productions for audiovisual content providers, surpassing the Commission’s suggested 20 per cent. We have to call this proposal what it is: cultural protectionism.
Who replaces entertainment funding? Streamers have part of the answer
Back in November, I wrote an FTN piece about the fight of students such as Frédéric Jollien, against the mandatory media royalties in Switzerland. They campaigned for the abolishing of a yearly tax of 450 CHF (€385/$453), used to finance public TV and radio stations. One of the most vile criticisms howled at them was that such […]
Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia was jeszcze zaskoczy
Gdy byłem nastolatkiem, nie wyobrażałem sobie, żeby Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia mogła być pożądanym kierunkiem podróży. Składam to po części na karb zachodniego systemu edukacyjnego.