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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Cruised down to Luxembourg city for a weekend break. Sitting at lunch on Saturday arvo we noticed heaps of supporters dressed in red and white. When we enquired we discovered that it was a World Cup game there that night Switzerland vs Luxembourg. Ah that explained all the cow bells We followed the crowds to the venue and scored a couple of tickets outside the gate. It had been sold out
Hedge Fund Jobs (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Hedge Funds Moving to Luxembourg Many Funds Moving Onshore Could Choose Luxembourg Hedge funds are expected to relocate in the wake of some high-profile financial scandals which have investors demanding greater liquidity and less counterparty risk. This has persuaded some hedge funds to move onshore to European cities, although impending taxes could drive most of the migration to Switzerland as reported...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
LUXEMBOURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skype today announced that it has appointed Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg as Chief Technology Strategist, effective immediately. Reporting to Daniel Berg, Skype’s Chief Technology Officer, Rosenberg will be responsible for shaping and driving the company’s technology strategies and overall architecture to continue delivering a best-in-class Skype experience to users...
Ismailimail (Free subscription) | yesterday
Microfinance Focus, Nov. 06, 2009: European Microfinance Week 2009 will take place from 24th – 26th November 2009 in Abbaye de Neumunster, Luxembourg. Conference will be organized by the European Microfinance Platform, a microfinance network of over 115 organizations active in microfinance. The theme for the 2009 meeting will be ‘Microfinance in a new financial era’ [...]
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
This post is an annual favorite -- not only because I get to use "hegemony" and a Rembrandt painting [Podium Cafe: cycling's classiest fanblog], but because I get to exercise my inner optimist and predict something that would make cycling even better: a wave of killer Dutch talent washing over the sport. As cycling nations go, the Netherlands is a big deal: plenty of history, decent-sized...
Rock on the Streets (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ian Brown has announced a slew of European dates set for next year. The singer will kick off the extensive jaunt on January 14 in Paris and will play dates in Zurich, Milan, and Berlin, among several others. Brown will be touring in support of his latest album, ‘ My Way ‘. Ian Brown Tour dates: Paris Trabendo (January 14) Luxembourg Den Atelier (15) Mannheim Alte Feuerbach (16) Zurich...
Label & Narrow Web Breaking News (Free subscription) | yesterday
ChemInstruments Inc. has announced the reorganization and expansion of its Manufacturers Representative organization in Europe. The ChemInstruments Manufacturers Representative group is responsible for selling and servicing the ChemInstruments line of adhesive testing and development equipment in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In order to better serve its customer base in the EU, particularly...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
LUXEMBOURG - Skype today announced that it has appointed Dr. Jonathan Rosenberg as Chief Technology Strategist, effective immediately. Reporting to Daniel Berg, Skype’s Chief Technology Officer, Rosenberg will be responsible for shaping and driving the company’s technology strate
Bearwatch (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
It seems the next bubble could be “life insurance securitization”. The idea is to buy other people's life cover, that maybe they would otherwise let lapse. So you then collect on the insured, face-value payout. This will lead to problems. When setting premium levels, insurers factor-in the likelihood that the policy will not be maintained up to the point of a claim. This helps them cut...
Boardgame News (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I started off last time by mentioning I was about to swan off around The Netherlands and France for a month with the family. Well, the swanning’s been done and won. I guess we could have delayed for a month or so and visited Essen, but I much preferred having the warmer weather of September. Staying on a house boat in Amsterdam was very neat (on Raamgracht, if you’re familiar). I picked...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Although blogging is somewhat difficult at the moment, I really cannot resist a belated comment on the EU presidency charade, and in particular the Guardian report . It notes that, while the "ideal appointment" has been suggested as "someone who could stop the traffic in Beijing", with the emergence of the Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, as frontrunner, "Europe"...
Catholic Fire (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Today is the feast of Saint Willibrord, a Benedictine, who is the patron saint of the Dutch. He was born in Northumberland (northeastern England) in 657 and was educated at Ripon monastery and the Abbey of Rathmelsigi in Ireland. After he was ordained in the Benedictine Order, in 690, he set out with eleven companions for Friesland (a province in the north Netherlands). In 692, he went to Rome and...
Lindsay Mitchell (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
October quarter data shows that US unemployment rose from 9.8 to 10.2 percent. This is apparently a bigger jump than was predicted. Meantime NZ unemployment climbed from 6 to 6.5 percent for the September quarter. The OECD average is 8.6 percent. NZ ranks 10th and the US 25th. The full list; Norway 3.0 Netherlands 3.5 Korea 3.8 Switzerland 4.1 Austria 4.7 Japan 5.5 Australia 5.7 Denmark 5.9 Mexico...
The anger of a Quiet Man (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Didn't take them long, soon after Lisbon was signed they're up and running to take away British representation on the IMF. 'Lisbon Treaty should mean single EU seat on IMF board' Simon Johnson, a former IMF chief economist, said that the passing of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, should accelerate moves towards a common European position in international economic institutions. The Lisbon Treaty will...
Keep Tony Blair For PM (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Jean-Claude Juncker's challenge to Blair's candidacy - You're TOO Big! Big countries agreed NOT to take the presidency first time round. List of EU presidential candidates.
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