Sarrebruck, Germany, August 21st 2008
Written by Lena Morel
Translated by Géraldine Guérin
Always switching from one language to another, never stopping, almost getting lost…
I am not talking about day-to-day life in a European institution or an international organization: there, you can always speak in the lingua franca, English. No, I am talking about the peculiarities of a cross-borderers’ life. Such a life is torn between two cultural and linguistic surroundings; the work environment can be far removed from the social and union demands of the homeland.
On 22nd October, the Presidency of the European Union issued a statement regretting “the US Supreme Court’s rejection of an appeal filed by Mr. Troy Davis, an American citizen sentenced to death in 1991 in Georgia, and the competent authorities’ subsequent decision setting the new execution date for this coming 27 October.”