It just happened to be St. Patrick’s Day that Helen McEntee had chosen to speak about the future of Europe in Vienna. Deliberately or not, the Irish Minister of State for European Affairs used Ireland’s quasi-national day to present the Irish vision for the future of the European Union. During her visit, McEntee reaffirmed the […]
For years, Ryanair has been synonymous with cheap prices and the ability to travel across Europe. Indeed, it was Ryanair that paved the way for low-budget airlines, like EasyJet, Wizz Air, Euro Wings and many others. The company was founded in 1985, ten whole years before EasyJet and has driven flight prices down for consumers […]
Some Italian news reports are well crafted stories about migrants and criminality, with dramatic CSI-style crime and mystery soundtracks playing in the background. Italian Broadcasting has its own peculiarities and is unlike any news format found around the World. To an outsider, the television programs look and, most importantly, sound baffling. The first thing one […]
South Tyrol (Alto Adige ital.) is a region with a complicated history. It is located in the North of Italy, bordering on Austria’s Tyrol and Switzerland’s Grisons. History Originally, it was settled in part by Alpine-Romans and by the old Bavarians. Then, it belonged to Austria-Hungary until 1919, before it was separated from the remaining […]
Last November the long-anticipated sequel to Electronic Arts’ 2015 Star Wars: Battlefront hit the shelves. The game was predicted to do better in sales than its predecessor and get more favourable reviews, as Swedish developer DICE had gone out of its way to listen to its fans and set out to fix pretty much every […]