Lasting Heritage
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Fri, 2008-12-19 16:32
A quote from Strange Maps, 15 December 2008
The divide between the (more free-market) PO and the (more populist) PiS almost exactly follows the old border between Imperial Germany and Imperial Russia, as it ran through Poland! How about that for a long-lasting cultural heritage?!?
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Shelters in the Emirates, Women’s Lib in Geneva
From the desk of Alexandra Colen on Fri, 2008-12-19 14:33
Last week, from Dec. 2 to Dec. 4, I headed the Belgian delegation to the Interparliamentary Union’s annual conference in Geneva dealing with “gender equality.” The IPU represents the world’s 143 national parliaments and acts as a kind of United Nations Parliamentary assembly. This year, the conference’s topic was “A Parliamentary Response to Violence against Women.”
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