The German border in the eastern part with Poland is located in the town of Görlitz, which before 1945 was a single town. This border post shows the end of the country.

Eurostats has an interesting dataset showing the population change across Europe, including both the natural change and the net migration contribution. The graph above shows how the rapid decline trend is slowly reversing, but migration is the main component of this change.

According to the Central Statistics Office of Ireland, the adjusted unemployment rate in the country during the last 2 months has been 7.8%. The trend is definitively going down. I blogged about it in January and it was more than 8% back then.

The map above shows the countries that currently have or ever had a female head of state. It's true, the historic nomination of Hillary Clinton is a milestone achieved in U.S. politics, but not in many countries of the world.

Last weekend we did a long weekend trip with my girlfriend to the Ticino region of Switzerland, staying in Locarno. I wasn't aware that the Locarno Film Festival was starting this week, and part of this event was a preview showing of a movie on Sunday night open to the public.

The organizers decided to honor Bud Spencer, one of the classic Italian actors from the 70's in the action-comedy genre who passed away earlier this year. They featured Lo chiamavano Trinità, one of the best examples of the "Spaghetti Westerns". I really enjoyed this movie! It brought back nice memories, since the movies featuring the duo Bud Spencer / Terence Hill were one of my grandpa's favorites.

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