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The Norwegian meat industry is teaming up with its EU counterparts to
get a ban on carbon monoxide as a constituent
of packaging for preserving meat freshness overturned,
writes Jens Kyed for Nationen
(in Norwegian).
Gábor Szántó
is editor of the Hungarian Jewish cultural monthly Szombat
(Sabbath). Mike Standaert interviews him for Nextbook.
Mike Standaert interviews Chinese
avant garde poet, novelist and painter Yan Li for Ohio
State University's Modern
Chinese Literature and Culture resource centre.
Hollow words and lost moral authority:
the case of the Bulgarian medics in Libya
serves to illustrate how America and Britain have lost their moral authority
as a result of events in Iraq, writes Stephen Gardner
for Newropeans
Magazine.
France remembers the key battle of Diên
Biên Phu, at which its forces were defeated in Vietnam
in 1954. Click here for Emilie
Boyer King's article, which originally appeared in the South
China Morning Post.
The number of EU official languages has increased from eleven to twenty.
David Ferguson reports for the Slovak
Spectator on concerns about the position of the Slovak
language.
British universities are
offering degrees in computer game technology.
Katharina Strobel reports for ZDF
Online that it all started in Dundee in Scotland (in German).
The dumb referendum: Tony
Blair has decided the UK will have a referendum on the European
Constitution, but if citizens are ignorant
of EU affairs, politicians only have themselves to blame, writes Stephen
Gardner for Newropeans
Magazine.
EDITORIAL
D-DAY TOURISM UPSETS FRENCH VILLAGE LIFE
D-day tourism is getting out of hand in
the villages of Normandy that were the first to be liberated as the Allies
advanced in 1944. Emilie
Boyer King reports from Sainte-Mère-Eglise in advanced of
the D-day 60th anniversary celebration in June. This article was originally
published in the South
China Morning Post.
SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE
-- When allied forces landed on the Normandy beaches sixty years ago,
most of the villages in this luxuriant coastal region in North-western
France relied on farming for a living. Today, D-day tourism has become
a booming industry in the area.
But for the locals, historical notoriety comes at a cost. At Sainte-Mère-Eglise,
the first village to be liberated on the western front, traditional businesses
are being pushed out in favour of D-day souvenir shops and tourist facilities.
The village counts six souvenir shops for less than 2000 inhabitants.
"This is definitely becoming a problem," said Joseph Leprieur,
general secretary at the village town hall. "When I came here in
1977, there were no souvenir shops at all but they have been multiplying
ever since. We cannot let it go too far."
Only two months ago, a charcuterie closed down to be replaced by 'Le Jour
J', another souvenirs business selling D-day trinkets and military memorabilia.
A snack bar on the central village square is currently undergoing refurbishments
to accommodate a section for souvenirs.
To read the article in full, click here.