Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsMrs Merkel holds out the prophecy of a political union.
THE Delta Works are a series of dams, sluices and dikes built in the second half of the 20th century to protect the lowest-lying parts of the Netherlands from the sea.
Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsIn November Poland's foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, gave a big speech in Berlin in which he urged Germany to act to save the euro.
I could cast my wife's proxy ballot in the waterschapsverkiezingen, which choose the boards that run the country's dikes and canals, but not in the provincial-assembly elections, because I was not eligible to vote in them myself.
THE Dutch perpetuated their reputation for quaintness on Wednesday by holding national waterschapsverkiezingen ("water-scape elections"), choosing administrators for the dikes and canals that prevent their low-lying country from sinking into a swampy morass.
This is to be supplemented by levees, dikes, bulkheads and beach strengthening.
Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsThe fuss erupted in January after media reports drew attention to how many of the party's leading lights are being spied on, sometimes with clandestine methods.
Somehow it all goes back to the complexities of timing ships' passage through the locks on the canals, or perhaps something about the dikes.
Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsPolls suggest that Mr Hollande will win (see chart).
Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsOn Yale University's Environmental Performance Index, the Netherlands comes 20th out of the 27 EU countries.* It scores particularly badly on the quality of its soil, where those phosphates and nitrates linger in large quantities.
Dirty dikes Angela the lawgiver ReprintsIn one sense, this is odd.
