Russian bullying is great!

Daniel Gross: Marc Champion writes in the Wall Street Journal about Eastern Europe's belated interest in energy efficiency.

Gender gap stats

EU's gender gap still wide open

An oldish but interesting (but depressing) little BBC News article. Via Michael.

Birthday child

Today marks the first anniversary of A Few Euros More*. While I don't think it's reached its full potential, it turned into a pretty good blog, and I think it was well worth the effort.

*You might have noticed that the archives go back much longer. Quicklinks, a sidebar semi-blog, was hardly the same blog as afem however.

Iraqi kurds and Turkey make nice?

Turkey & Kurdistan: shelling or selling? | Needlenose

The Roma goes to court

Gypsies Gain a Legal Tool in Rights Fight

But now, some leaders of the Gypsies, or Roma, are looking to a new model to try to achieve equality: the civil rights struggle of black Americans. More and more, the Roma are going to court to secure their rights, and doing so where they think it will have the best chance for success — among the new East European members of the European Union and those trying to join, which are seeking to impress Western Europe with strict interpretations of their new antidiscrimination laws.