Alejandro@Oxford

US State of Illinois Governor, Ron Blagojevich, has been indicted today for trying to sell Obama’s vacant senate position to highest bidder.
U.S. Constitution’s seventeenth amendment enables the state governor, under approval of the state legislature, to appoint a new senator until an election is held. This time Governor Blagojevich thought it was a good business [...]

I don’t normally agree with Thomas L. Friedman, the New York Times columnist and author of “The World is Flat,” a celebrated book on gloablization. His vision of the Middle East conflict is, I reckon, misled by an argument to moderation based on a false compromise between Israel and the Palestinians. It is also blinded [...]

Puzzling. That’s how I should describe an awkward “innovation” in Moscow’s Domodevo airport.
At the moment of writing this post I am sitting there in a waiting space hoping that my BMI (in fact, Transaero, whatever this company is, for it is a unified flight) plane to London Heathrow is not delayed any longer – [...]

I am currently in Moscow, as you can see from the pictures that accompany this post. It is my fifth time here, I regularly come every 6 months to teach a seminar on EU negotiations to a group of 80-100 civil servants doing a Masters about the European Union in the МГИМО (MGIMO or Moscow [...]