Eurostar terminal Brussels on a Friday morning, 0830. Why so many people? Apparently it’s normal a stressed UK Borders passport checker informs me. Coach 17, filled with doddering pensions and Flemish children. Why can’t Eurostar do a business standard coach? And why can’t Flemish parents control their kids a bit […]

From the start of the French Presidency of the EU (1st July), a 300km/h Thalys train is going to be hired to transport MEPs and EP officials from Brussels to Strasbourg for the monthly plenary sessions. Sounds like a reasonable idea – via the high speed line towards Paris, skirting […]

So private train companies cause more crashes do they? That’s the message being put out by SEKO, the Swedish trade union of Service and Communication Employees. They use the image above, with the slogan ‘Mer konkurrens?’ (shown as a small version in the image here to the right), making people […]

I’m on the road for 10 days, doing all kinds of website work and running training courses. I’ll blog when I can, but don’t expect any detailed analysis of European politics in the next few days… Plus I’m in Berlin now, my favourite city in Europe, so that makes me […]

I like to consider myself as being reasonably environmentally friendly but I’ve not been as systematic about it as I might have been until now. So 2008 I’m going to do better… All electricity at home is green electricity, supplied by Lampiris and I have a smart electricity meter to […]

Belgium is one of the last places where the priorité à droite rule still applies to traffic (more from Marko and Expatica) – i.e. when on any road you should give priority to traffic joining from the right. If you’re on a major thoroughfare and there’s a piddling side-road to […]