EU agriculture and rural develpment commisioner Dacian Ciolos (L), Hungarian minister of Rural Development Sandor Fazekas(C) and EU commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy John Dalli(R) give a press conference at the end of an Extraordinary Agriculture Council on June 7,2011 at the EU Headquarters in Luxembourg. European Ministers of agriculture debated on the food safety and market implications of the E. Coli outbreak. GETTY IMAGES
i should write this down
because it was pretty darn funny.
yesterday, a casual friday night, we went out. drank some beer at the blue bar in town and continued towards the centre. we hear drums and drums and tambourines and drums. turns out there was like a brazilian festival of some sort where they were dancing with costumes and feathers everywhere. people had gathered around to look at it. being in a really good mood and all we started dancing along in a quite spastic way but noticeable apparently, because one of the women dragged us in to dance with them. so we did. with about 50+ people watching having no idea what we were doing we just …. omg it was hilarious. such a great night. and we met a young woman from brazil who joined us for the night too. i dont remember much else but yes!
i’m the third from the left, then ali, tessa and maria/isabella :)
Sushis by deathtiny42 on Flickr.
The Court of Justice in Luxembourg, the European Union’s highest court, ruled Thursday that France had failed to protect the Great Hamster of Alsace, sometimes known as the European hamster, the last wild hamster species in Western Europe. If France does not adjust its agricultural and urbanization policies sufficiently to protect it, the court said, the government will be subject to fines of as much as $24.6 million.
Jean-Paul Burget, president of Sauvegarde Faune Sauvage, or Safeguard Wildlife, in Wittenheim, in Alsace, said in a telephone interview that “we are very happy,” and that “European rules must be followed.” France “now must work to raise the population of hamsters up to 1,500,” which would be enough to preserve the species, he said, and the prefecture of Alsace “must stop some urbanization projects and restore” older agreements to grow certain cereals that hamsters eat.
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Old town of Luxembourg
luxembourg…?
Sun Glitters - ‘Too Much To Lose’
Thank you Sarah! This is actually a scarily accurate portrayal of most Friday nights here.
