Apologies for stating the obvious that it is the 1st of May today but quite a few things other than the usual Morris dancers, dancing about the Maypole and crowning of the May queen.
The most obvious for Europeans, East and West is that today sees EU-15 grow to EU-25 as Κυπρος, Česká Republika, Eesti Vabariik, Magyarország, Latvijas Republika, Lietuvos Respublika, Repubblika ta’ Malta, Rzeczpospolita Polska, Slovenská Republika and Republika Slovenija join the existing members which now makes the European Union rank 1st in terms of GDP and 3rd if listed by population if counted as a single country… €9.23 × 1012 and 453,300,000 people respectively. Welcome to all 75 million new European Union citizens and that the motto; In varietate concordia
holds true.
Of those 75 million, I shall single out a certain Latvian lady by the name of Inese Dūka whom has her birthday today! Happy birthday Inese and hope you have a wonderful day filled with lots of fun eating, drinking and celebrating with your friends and family!
For the remaining 450 million or so, the European Parliament has a little quiz on the EU with a prize! The top 25 will get a VIP journey for two (player and their “Parliamentary Assistant”) to Straßburg… The closing date is noon on Sunday, 13th of June 2004. European Union citizens, existing or just joined today, you better enter now if you fancy your chances!
Well, that concludes my post for today, having been inundated at work for the last couple months but we’re now on the final phase of the project and hopefully should get more time in the evenings to get back to blogging. Also, this post is the first post I’ve used as many languages as I have… all thirteen of them… Yipes! :D
