Today I offer you what could be the first in a new occasional series of posts – I thought it might be useful to focus on a particularly new, unusual, interesting or difficult term (in any language) from time to time. What do you think?
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A court in the Southern District of New York found that Apple had engaged in a per se illegal horizontal price-fixing conspiracy with five of the six top national book publishers to raise the price of e-books.
Dear Readers,
These are really greetings for you all, because you make the blog a living entity, and spur me on with your comments and input.
It is two years today since I launched this blog. Many, many thanks to you all for following, reading, contributing and sharing here.
Best wishes to everyone.
A recent European Commission press release gives clear and informative answers to some frequently asked questions on languages in Europe.
The United Nations in The Hague is seeking a Translator/Revisor (French) at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Yesterday (or perhaps today depending on your time zone), was International Literacy Day.
I came across an instance of the crossover between literacy and law in this article published in Punch, the Nigerian newspaper, by Kaine Agary, who works to increase the level of legal literacy in society.
As I did last year, in case any readers have been away for the summer (hope you had a good time!), here is a digest of some key posts in the last month or so, divided into categories.
You can also browse the blog by using the category list in the left-hand sidebar, or the monthly archives, or with the search box at the top right.
The British Academy, in collaboration with the European Commission, has released a new booklet for undergraduates and school pupils (but it’s really interesting for all of us!) called “Talk the Talk: A Guide to Maximising your Prospects Using Languages”, which promotes languages as a “long-term investment for you, your career and for society”.
Dr Ian Borg, the Parliamentary Secretary for EU Presidency 2017 and EU Funds in Malta is calling for more Maltese candidates to apply for posts as translators and interpreters in European institutions.
I’m on a roll about derivatives at the moment (see Friday’s post on terms, and last Monday’s about cheese as collateral).
I happened upon this Wall Street Journal article about walking tours of the financial centre. You can find out more at The Wall Street Experience website here. Interesting way to change career direction.
The European Commission is taking action to improve Union-wide prosecution of criminals who defraud EU taxpayers by establishing a European Public Prosecutor’s Office. Its exclusive task will be to investigate and prosecute and, where relevant, bring to judgement – in the Member States’ courts – crimes affecting the EU budget. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office will be an independent institution, subject to democratic oversight.
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