I’m a bit late reposting this EU newsletter from Finland:

CONCILIUM IUSTITIAE ET RERUM DOMESTICARUM (JHA) BRUXELLIS DIEBUS 4-5 M. DECEMBRIS

Ministri UE, quorum est negotia iustitiae et rerum domesticarum procurare, die Lunae sive pridie Nonas Decembres et die Mercurii sive Nonis Decembribus Bruxellas ad conventum Concilii ministerialis agendum congregabuntur. Concilio propositum est inter alias res ea confirmare, quae de Programmate Hagensi perficiendo iudicata sunt.

Die Lunae participes duce ministra iustitiae Leena Luhtanen de consulto generali consentire conabuntur, quod eo spectat, ut praeiudicia in alia UE civitate facta in nova causa criminali respiciantur. Idem ministri, quoad eius fieri potuerit, consultum generale de captivis transferendis comprobare et de administratione UE iurum fundamentalium condenda decernere studebunt.

Die Mercurii, cum Kari Rajamäki, minister a rebus domesticis, conventui praesidebit, primum constituetur, quae tempora regioni Schengenianae amplificandae praestituantur, deinde omnes revisiones Schengenianae, quae Austriacis et Finnis praesidentibus factae sunt, ad tempus aestimabuntur. Alia negotia, quae participibus praeterea approbanda erunt, sunt strategia custodiae confiniorum UE provehendae et iudicia de futuro ordinis Europol. Huc accedunt relationes earum quaestionum, quatenus strategia ad necessitudines exteras pertinens processerit et qualem successum strategia antiterroristica habuerit, item relatio de iis consiliis perficiendis, quibus propagatio radicalismi et conquisitio terroristarum impediantur. Concilium id quoque decernere conabitur, quibusnam rationibus pecunia rei servatoriae suppeditetur.

www.eu2006.fi/calendar/vko49/1147766959515/

The Plain English Campaign don’t like Kant. Perhaps they should try Hegel.

Germaine Greer writes:

The campaign’s press officer, the ruggedly monosyllabic Ben Beer, informed me as plain Ms Greer – no honorifics – of my unlooked-for good fortune thus: “I am writing on behalf of the Plain English Campaign with the news that you have won one of our infamous ‘Golden Bull’ awards this year. The award is for a sentence published in your Guardian article published on October 23 2006 … some of our supporters were somewhat baffled by the following: ‘The first attribute of the art object is that it creates a discontinuity between itself and the unsynthesised manifold.'”

There’s some heated discussion in the comments too.

Glossary of terms in Kant

The Romanian village of Glod (pictures here) is suing in New York, Florida and Germany, according to Salon last week.

Lawyers representing the villagers of Glod, Romania, say they’ll be filing three lawsuits against the makers of “Borat” in New York, Florida and Germany, asking not just for damages — they’re seeking over $30 million for the way they were portrayed in the film — but also that the film be edited to cast them in a better light.

One of the lawyers is Ed Fagan.

Where is Glod? Some Google Earth Community links suggest it is not far from Braşov / Kronstadt. I wonder if it’s a Transylvanian village now largely inhabited by Roma?

(Via RA-Blog)

Here and here

Time for something legal again.

All the partners in Ashurst’s London office (that’s over 120) apparently received the following email on Tuesday November 28:

From: Partners Kitchen
Subject: Steamed Treacle Sponge Pudding
Dear all,
This is to convey our sincere apologies for no steamed treacle sponge pudding today; I know you were looking forward to it… I’m afraid it just hadn’t cooked through properly and we couldn’t serve it. I promise to have it as an extra tomorrow along with the starter & main course.

Treacle pudding is described by Collins as im Dampfbad gekochter, mit Sirup angereicherter Teig. It’s a bit like a Germknödel.

(Via RollOnFriday)

Greenhaddock is an Englishman living in Germany, whose blog is new to me. Here is his advent calendar:

Those are very German figures on there.

Via PapaScott

And here’s a Swiss advent calendar. The entry for December 1st starts with an unacknowledged translation from Hamlet.