Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Europe'
Why Christine Lagarde Is the Right Person to Lead the IMF
by Moyara deMoraes Ruehsen -USA- UPDATE: Yesterday, the IMF’s board blocked Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer from the race for the top IMF job. -Ed. With her distinctive silver coiffure and impressive couture wardrobe, it is hard not to...
There’s Something In The Air: Copenhagen Prepares for COP15
by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - Copenhagen has been buzzing with activity the last two months. After the Olympics committee met here in October with a slough of American cameos from Oprah and the Obamas, the city quickly switched gears...
Art Imitating Life: Berlin Through the Eyes of Käthe Kollwitz
by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - This year marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Celebrations for the historic occasion have been planned for months, and next week, Angela Merkel – Germany’s first and now second-term...
She Is the Matador: Blood Sport, Sexism, and Steadfast Ambition
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Maripaz Vega, currently the world’s only professional female matador, emerges triumphant from yet another death-defying bullfight. Her jeweled matador jacket and pants are covered with as much blood as sparkle while the crowd’s enthusiastic...
Sex Trafficking in Europe: A Holistic Front for Organized Sex Trade
by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - Some people no doubt find it exciting to adjust to a new society or a new city. My time in Copenhagen – nearly nine months so far – has not been completely negative, but...
Will NATO Agree to Stabilize Afghanistan?
by Patricia DeGennaro - USA - This year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates its 60th birthday. President Obama will take his first European trip since the presidential campaign to meet NATO’s twenty-six members. While there, he’ll have to pinch...
The Rise of the Right: Europe’s Solution to Immigration
"Austria has inhaled enough people - we are full."
by Handan T. Satiroglu - Turkey / Western Europe - Not too far from the Baroque palaces and Gothic cathedrals that made the city of Vienna famous, a group of jubilant men and women are packed into a café. Glasses...
Interview with Polish Director Andrzej Wajda: An Elegy for Poland’s Painful Past
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - Andrzej Wajda was 13 years old when World War II broke out. Together with his mother he lived most of his life in the vain hope that his father might have survived the...
Much Ado about Everything: Berlin’s 58th International Film Festival
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - This year’s 58th International Film Festival in Berlin is offering a heterogeneous mix of topics and genres with many documentaries, a lot of pathos, a few lost souls, war and violence, politics as...
Argentina’s Elections: Another First Lady Has an Excellent Chance of Becoming President on Her Own Merits
by Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany/Argentina • Sept 12 - Austria: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner meets with Austrian chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer. •Unless there is a dramatic and highly improbable last-minute shift in the voter polls, the 28th of October will prove...
From Hamburg to the World: Over 5 Million European Emigrés from The “Port of Dreams" Are Documented by New Museum
Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany • Emigrants preparing to depart from Hamburg. Photograph courtesy of Bildarchiv Denkmalschutzamt Hamburg •Nowadays the city of Hamburg in northern Germany is well-known for its monumental port, where thousands of containers depart every day from its...
Bureaucracy Killed a Man: Slovenia's Health Care System Creates Another Tragedy
by Viktorija Plavcak Slovenia Two weeks ago in Celje, the third largest city in Slovenia, a fifty-year old man, barely able to drive himself to the hospital, walked into the ER in the middle of the night complaining about shortness...
Producing Artisan Cheeses in Provence: A Proud Tradition Still Lives
by D-L Nelson France France is a mecca for the large number of small-scale raw milk cheese producers that live and work in the region. • Photograph by Jacob Rushing •Cheese lovers in the United States must content themselves with...
The “Concert for Diana” Wasn’t Just a Concert: Her Legacy Lives On in Her Sons’ Commitment to Humanity
by Daisy Tormé USA/UK Sunday the Concert for Diana was aired live on VH1 and yes, I found myself huddled in front of the TV watching the entire thing along with millions of other viewers. The concert was organized from...
Art Against Forgetting: stumbling over Germany's sordid past
By Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany Ever since the memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe was inaugurated in Berlin two years ago, it has become a major tourist attraction. The vast monument consists of a sprawling field of 2,700 stone...
A Chair Can Be a Powerful Symbol
by D-L Nelson France Geneva, Switzerland - “The chair is back,” Geneva residents are saying to each other. The Broken ChairThey are referring to a 12-meter (39-foot) wooden chair that stands between spouting fountains at the recently renovated Place des...
Ecole Hostalet
by D-L Nelson France Not having any business experience didn’t stop artist-sculptor, Cristina Schønberg, from creating an arts and culture center in the tiny Catalan village of Argelès-sur-mer, France (www.argeles-sur-mer.com) at an age when most women are thinking of retirement....
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