Thank you so much for stating that, Niall!!

Lees ik deze scheurkalender verkeerd? 1425 is 600 jaar geleden en geen 800 jaar. Evengoed mijn felicitaties aan Leuven.

The photo is not Amsterdam, but Utrecht, Oudegracht, The Netherlands.

Was dat niet op 28 juni? En toevoeging: het gaat om de moord op Frans Ferdinand en zijn echtgenote Sophie Chotek. Politiek is zij natuurlijk minder belangrijk maar hun drie kinderen verloren op die dag allebei hun ouders.

I just checked. 28 june 1914 was a Sunday. So no newspapers. The news of the assassination would have became world news in the morning papers of Monday 29 June 1914 www.europeana-newspapers.eu/wwi-in-histo...

The first assassination attempt was around 10.15 hrs in the morning. The second and successful assassination attempt was 45 minutes later, around 11 o'clock local time Thanks to the telegraph everybody at least in Europe knew it the same day.

The EU has a balanced system and strategy to promote and support international and EU norms and standards. EU influence on global norm setting is undeniable. An example: ec.europa.eu/docsroom/doc...
Thank you for the informed discussion but I have to stop now. I really have to go to work.

Absolutely right! The EU member states have the formal voting power in those international organizations but it in practice it is a considerable EU influence.

'Win the negotiation' mode is a very traditional British thing!! The EU, and you know this, is about co-operation, mutual benefits but also (and always) about protecting and promoting the interests of EU member states and the EU as a whole.

It's more complicated. The EU is very active in international standardization bodies and has substantial norm-stetting power. Once the international standard is set, it helps the EU to improve the functioning of the EU single market. It becomes a EU regulation that influences the rest of the world.