Selected news photos from 2008
Every year before Christmas like many of my colleagues I look at my pictures taken during the year. Sometimes I find one or two I like. This year is a little different because I found a few more. Maybe I have become more relaxed or maybe not so critical.
You will not see all the photos here because some of them are in other posts on this blog. Take a look but do not expect to much.
BRUSSELS - BELGIUM - 14 MARCH 2008 -- EUROPEAN COUNCIL SUMMIT SLOVENIAN PRESIDENCY -- Ilkka KANERVA, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland looking at his GSM which forced him to resign from the position due to a scandal involving hundreds of text messages he sent to an erotic dancer from his work mobile phone. Kanerva left for a sick leave on 1 April, and his term officially ended on 4 April. Photo: © Erik Luntang
BRUSSELS - BELGIUM - 24 JANUARY 2008 -- Denmark ' s PM Anders FOGH RASMUSSEN (Le) and European Commission President Jose Manuel BARROSO during a news conference at the EC headquarters in Brussels. Photo: © Erik Luntang
The Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty made some think!
BRUSSELS - BELGIUM - 13 JUNE 2008 -- Jose Manuel BARROSO, President of the European Commission, gives a statement on the outcome of the Irish referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon, which was a clear NO!. Photo: Erik Luntang
And others happy!
BRUSSELS - 13 JUNE 2008 -- MEP Nigel FARAGE, (UK - Independence Party), celebrates the NO! vote of the Irish referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon with a glass of Guinness outside the Brussels Irish kitty O'Shea's Pub, next to the European Commission Building Berlaymont. Photo: © Erik Luntang
Others just want another government!
BRUSSELS - BELGIUM - 28 MAY 2008 -- Maryam RAJAVI, President-Elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, with her aides. Photo: Erik Luntang
And here it just went wrong
Alvaro MIRANDA from Brasilia being take to the hospital after falling with his horse Ad Ornella during a accidental jump at the World Equestrian Festival in Aachen. Click on images to see more. Photo: © Erik Luntang