EuroBubba

New eastern EU members may enjoy open borders by Christmas

EU Business reports that senior European Union officials expect a final decision to end passport and security checks at land and sea borders between the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia and their adjacent older EU member states in November, meaning freer travel by the Christmas holidays. Airports are scheduled to join the zone next March.

Meanwhile, the EU Observer reports that non-members (so far) Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia have signed visa agreements to make travel to the EU easier and less costly for their citizens. The Balkan countries are pushing for visa requirements to be eliminated altogether; the EU remains hesitant.

$2 euro?

Jérôme at European Tribune notes the correlation between record high oil prices and a record low dollar against the euro and asks, “Should I start a ‘Countdown to the $2 euro’ series…?”

The Beatroot: Idiot’s guide to Polish elections

Expat blogger the beatroot offers a tongue-in-cheek idiot’s guide to Polish elections, noting, “Being an idiot is not a disadvantage when trying to understand the Polish political scene. In fact, it maybe an advantage.”

Sellin’ something

I’ve been wanting to write about the Cluetrain Manifesto for a while now but haven’t really managed to organize my thoughts yet. I’d like to share a couple of observations here and will probably return to it in later posts.

Continue reading Sellin’ something…

Howdy!

Welcome to the new and improved EuroBubba blog. I want to do some things here that I can’t do on the old hosted blog at wordpress.com, so this is where I’ll be posting from now on. There’s not really a lot of content back at the old blog — it was only up for about six weeks and I didn’t really write much during that time — but feel free to have a look if you’re interested.