Well, I got in my third chapter of my thesis draft in this afternoon. Read all 63 pages of its working draft glory here if you’re really interested.
I had a great lunch with
As Drezner points out, there’s some problems going down in the EU:
Less than two months before 10 new member states join the European Union, it has emerged that about half have failed to translate the EU’s 85,000-page rulebook into their national languages.
The embarrassing disclosure could have serious legal consequences, because EU laws are only enforceable in the new member states when written in the national tongue.
Some countries began the vast translation exercise as long ago as 1996, but the complexity of the work – and a shortage of translators – has overwhelmed some accession candidates. “There is an urgent need for this to be done, or there will be problems in implementing EU law in some acceding states,” said a spokesman for GŸnter Verheugen, the EU enlargement commissioner.
Speaking of the EU, apparently if I was an EU citizen, then I could go to LSE for a lot cheaper. Right now, tuition and room and board for a single year (it’s a year program) would cost northward of $40,000. My Dad talked to me on the phone during my morning commute this morning and told me to think about it “as an investment in my future”. I still think it’s a lot of money, and I still think that I’d rather get a job. After Spring Break, my big job blitz will begin. *sighs*
Speaking of EU Citizenship, my friend Giselle who I met in Senegal (she goes to UPenn) has an Italian, Canadian and St. Lucian passport. Fuckin’ a. I’m picking her up at SFO in about two hours — she’s visiting for the week.
Now that I look at that quote again, I wonder how many people snicker when GŸnter Verheugen tells people at parties that he’s the EU’s “enlargement commisioner.”
