This weekend I did a small city break to the Bulgarian capital. On my last day before coming back to Berlin, I experienced my first snowfall of 2016, and it was quite a big one, as you can see on this picture of the Sveta Nedelya cathedral.

This morning I was checking the GDP growth data in the European nations and I found out that last year it was particularly high in Malta, Czechia, Iceland and Sweden ... but in Ireland it was insane!. An interesting article from The Irish Times explains how despite this number being statistically correct it's due to huge multinational companies moving assets to their Irish branches, for tax reasons.

We enjoyed the sunny Sunday morning by making a quick visit to Freiburg. Last time I visited the city, they were restoring this building, and the result was great.

Not surprising. The Earth temperature measured by NASA in September was the warmest month ever. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/GLB.Ts.txt. This follows the same pattern as every month this year. The Paris climate agreement clearly recognized the wide impact of global warming, but with the recent results of the U.S. elections, this issue needs to be raised constantly.

This morning I woke up very early feeling a bit uneasy. I started to follow the live US presidential transmission and then slowly it began to be clear that the Republican nominee was going to win. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, the main danger with this outcome is that nationalist groups might feel empowered to spread and promote their hate speech. I'm really hoping this won't happen. And it was definitely a complete poll miss. A dangerous one.

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