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		<title>Dancing angels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon we went to a dance show in which N° 1 sprog was performing. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience with she and all her fellow dance school pupils being put through their paces to Stravinsky and more contemporary music, from Philip Glass to Bjork. But ,not for the first time, I found myself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinwestlake.eu/dancing-angels/</link>
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		<title>A sci fi lake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this morning&#8217;s Guardian newspaper I read about an extraordinary lake in South America which has started to make the headlines now because suddenly it is no longer extraordinary. I quote:  &#8216;Darkness rarely lasted long in the skies over Lake Maracaibo. An hour after dusk the show would begin: a lightning bolt, then another, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On why time can go fast and slow simultaneously&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been a particularly heavy week. On two days I had back-to-back appointments, meetings and functions from eight in the morning till eight in the evening with literally not a moment to look at those e-mails or start on the files as they piled up. The other three days were scarcely less heavily charged. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cooperation with the Committee of the Regions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon my CoR counterpart, Gerhard Stahl, and I co-chaired a regular meeting of the two Secretaries-General and the Directors of what we call the &#8216;joint services&#8217;. Under the terms of a cooperation agreement the two Committees pool their resources to achieve economies of scale which are to the benefit of both Committees and, I always [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinwestlake.eu/cooperation-with-the-committee-of-the-regions/</link>
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		<title>Farewell, Michael Foot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Decidedly, it&#8217;s a week for sad news. Yesterday former Labour Leader and great man of letters, Michael Foot, passed away at the ripe old age of 96. I had the privilege of meeting and interviewing &#8216;Footie&#8217; (as Neil affectionately called him) when I was researching my biography of Kinnock. I was warmly received at Foot&#8217;s Hampstead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinwestlake.eu/farewell-michael-foot/</link>
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		<title>Le jour aux ignorants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s another book in the family, I am proud to report. My better half and a poetess friend have just published Le jour aux ignorants, winner of the 2009 Prix Ex Libris: &#8216;Dans le creux de l&#8217;hiver/Nous verserons de la lumière/Dans les mains des mendiants/Nous poserons nos poings/Dans les mots nous mettrons/Des cailloux des journées des brindilles/Toutes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinwestlake.eu/le-jour-aux-ignorants/</link>
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		<title>Giorgio Napolitano visit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, the Presidents of the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions jointly hosted a state visit from the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Franco Frattini. The three Presidents, Napolitano, Mario Sepi and the newly-elected Mercedes Bresso, spent almost an hour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinwestlake.eu/giorgio-napolitano-visit/</link>
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		<title>Arrivederci Adriano Baroni</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sad news from Bologna. Adriano Baroni, the founder of the Chet Baker Jazz Club, passed away on 26 February. Before he founded the club Adriano, whom I always knew as &#8216;Baroni&#8217; ran a small osteria, Della Fatica, in via Torleone, dangerously close to the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center. As a student there back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinwestlake.eu/arrivederci-adriano-baroni/</link>
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		<title>Up Rompuy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This evening we went to the annual press review &#8211; a comedy review of the year written and performed by members of the Brussels-based press corps. The title of this year&#8217;s review was &#8216;Up Rompuy&#8217; (from an old British comedy, &#8216;Up Pompei!&#8217;) The running theme was, of course, the new President of the European Council [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinwestlake.eu/up-rompuy/</link>
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		<title>Syracuse talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This evening I gave a talk to a bunch of young Syracuse University students on a visit to Brussels from their Strasbourg campus. I have been giving these talks now twice a year since 1987 (see 15 October 2009 post). The curiosity and alertness of my audiences has never changed but the tenor and themes [...]]]></description>
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