Jacob Christensen

Spain is the traditional nemesis of Denmark in international soccer tournaments and of cause I hope for the Spaniards to … no, I don’t, because Spain will be playing Italy in the Euro 2008 quarter-final and I hate hate hate the Machiavellian Italian soccer.

Or to quote Jan Weiler of Die Zeit:

Es gibt wenige Gründe, den italienischen Fußball, diese tätowierten Daumenlutscher, diesen kickenden Frisurenkatalog zu mögen. Außer natürlich, man ist Italiener.

Sure. Italy will win 1-0. And it will be boooooring.

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  (tags: internet communication media inequality sociology)
• »DR var under angreb« – Lisbet Knudsen
  Der var tidspunkter, hvor den politiske opmærksomhed omkring hvert eneste indslag i TV-avisen havde en sådan karakter, at vi i direktionen sad med fornemmelsen af, at det kunne påvirke medieforligsforhandlingerne og dermed licensen.
  (tags: denmark politics media dr publicpolicy ideology)
• de Heus – Dronkers: Can educational systems compensate for societal features
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  (tags: netherlands education sociology religion)
• Alesina – Wacziarg: Lisbon Treaty as Trojan horse | vox
  This column argues that the Lisbon Treaty is a Trojan horse where better rules of government (a good thing) are associated with fears of their misuse (excessive centralization). No wonder voters won’t open the gates.
  (tags: eu politics politicalscience)

Swedish readers might like to note that the editor of the Danish conservative broadsheet Berlingske Tidende has a column where she comments the act giving the Swedish FRA the rights to intercept and analyse all electronic and data traffic crossing Sweden’s physical borders.

She has – to put it very mildly – little positive to say about the act which she (perhaps not quite correctly) calls a digital Berlin Wall (and more correctly) building on the principle that you are considered guilty until the Swedish state in its infinite wisdom decides otherwise.

See also my earlier post about the act.

At least when we are talking about international football matches: Somewhere I managed to predict a Euro 2008 final between the Netherlands and Portugal.

Well, the Germans sans Löw had few problems with the Portuguese and the Dutch never really knew what hit them. But what a great match that still was.