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7 - 13 June, 2004
A Scottish village where troops trained
for the D-day landings reflects on the events of sixty
years ago, reports Katharina Strobel for ZDF
Online (in German).
Questioning American hegemony:
is American power really as overwhelming as we have been led to believe,
and if not what are the consequences for international relations, asks
Stephen Gardner on nthposition.com.
Last
week 58 heads of state and government convened for the third
EU-Latin America Summit. David
Ferguson previewed
the summit for Deutsch Welle's Newslink
programme. For more
information, click here.
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.
Cultural heritage in Bosnia
is being restored under foreign mandate, writes Mike Standaert
in an excerpt from an article for Maisonneuve.
The historic Russian town of Vyborg
lies close to the Finnish border and was formerly part of Finland. But
beneath the surface, unpleasant problems dwell, reports Veronica
Khokhlova for The
Morning News.
It's boomtime in the north east of England.
Katharina Strobel reports from Newcastle for Deutsche
Presse-Agentur (in German). Meanwhile, Glasgow
in Scotland is reinventing itself as a city of art (in
German for Spiegel
Online).
POSTCARD
FROM TALLINN
Justin Toland
spends
a Saturday evening in Estonia, and finds a curious combination of east
meeting west.
A
Saturday evening in Tallinn: a young man walks into the centre of Raekoja
Plats at the heart of the city's old town. Egged on by a group of a dozen
or more friends he proceeds to drop his trousers, exposing himself to
the world. His friends cheer. Bystanders look on with a mixture of shock
and bemusement. For myself, there is a sense of embarrassment; the British
stag party has found a new playground. Welcome to the EU, Estonia!
Throughout the evening, as I sit supping a beer outside Molly Malone's
bar, groups of young British males pass by, instantly recognisable by
their volume and yobbishness.
Unwelcome in Dublin, bored of Amsterdam, the capital of one of the EU's
newest members has become the new destination of choice for British stag
and hen parties. The beautiful medieval centre of Tallinn is now notable
for sights of another kind: rugby teams in togas, football lads leading
a bare-chested groom to be in a gimp mask by a leash. For the moment the
city is tolerant of these new visitors, but for how long?
To read the article in full, click here.
Tallinn photograph © European Commission.