Tour de France - Tur d'Franzú

EURO2008 - Congratulazon to Espanú (La gloria para el mejor)

SEPA Single Euro Payments Area

The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) initiative for the European financial infrastructure involves the creation of a zone for the euro in which all electronic payments are considered domestic, and where a difference between national and intra-European cross border payments does not exist. The project aims to improve the efficiency of cross border payments and turn the fragmented national markets for euro payments into a single domestic one: SEPA will enable customers to make cashless euro payments to anyone located anywhere in the area using only a single bank account and a single set of payment instruments. The project includes the development of common financial instruments, standards, procedures, and infrastructure to enable economies of scale. This should in turn reduce the overall cost to the European economy of moving capital around the region (estimated today as 2%-3% of total GDP)...more

Cowen gets year to sell 'Lisbon II' in new vote

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has been given a year by his European counterparts to push through a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, the Irish Independent has learned...more here

Sejm celebrates 100 years of the Universal Esperanto Association

The Sejm, Poland’s lower house, is today celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Universal Esperanto Association in 1908 by Swiss journalist Hector Hodler.
Politicians have unilaterally hailed the continuation of the work started by Dr. Ludwik Zamenhof, a Polish opthalmologist and philologist who invented the language in 1887 in the north-eastern city of Białystok.

Parliamentarians declared in their bill that “in creating Esperanto [Dr. Zamenhof] wished to grant people the possibility to understand one another regardless of nationality, race, religion, or religious views.”

Esperanto is an international auxiliary language, and takes its name from the pseudonym originally taken by Zamenhof. According to some estimates, there are between 200 thousand and 2 million speakers of Esperanto around the world.

I dag est votir Irú on "tratado d'Lisboa" - Ireland says NO!

Dublin. Ireland voted and they voted NO to the Lisbon treaty. One reason which circulated among political and goverment figures causing the rejection obviously seems to be the late campaign start of the yes supporters, while the opponents benefitted from intense and wide spread initiatives.

Ni ponti d'Prag - The bridges of Prague

Praha/Prag. Aft analysi d'lingi germanúz y romanúz v velkom nu lingo Czeqún to Europún.