The references to the Moldovan language on the website of the EU Commission were changed, EU Commissioner for Multilingualism Leonard Orban told in a conference, on Friday:

On the European Commission’s web page the syntagm ‘Moldovan language’ is written, while in fact the text is in the Romanian language. It is a problem, when the site reads the Moldovan language and in fact this is the Romanian language. It cannot be accepted that a document said to be written in another language be written in the Romanian language.

The European Commissioner said that from now on the European Commission would monitor very strictly everything posted on its web page.

Orban said that this is a problem of ‘defending the Romanian language.’

Not only in Romania are the readers comparing the ‘traditional’ media with the blogosphere. In his interview for EurActiv, Joël de Rosnay, author of “The Pronetarian Revolution”, is talking about the road “from mass media to media of the masses”:

Another reason behind the mass media crisis is of course the increasing success of Internet and especially the creation of information by internet-users themselves. The blog phenomenon, interactive websites, P2P and personal diaries have contributed to flooding the Net with quality information that is extremely diverse but often original, giving a new angle to the news.

Media of the masses carry more nuances than classical media. Citizens recognise themselves in the multitude of diverse expressions, relayed by blogs inter-connected by RSS, a surprising amplification system. The “buzz” between internet-users can make opinions move, much more than traditional political campaigns using the big classical media.

We can easily recognize the same discussions that took place these days between some Romanian bloggers and the journalists.

… the European Commission’s antitrust department. The EU court dismisses Microsoft appeal.
Just this round … no doubt that Microsoft will appeal the decision to the European Court of Justice.

This decision will have very strong echoes in all software industry, because, as the Microsoft lawyers previously said:

The outcome of this case is critical not only for Microsoft, but for future innovation in our industry. Companies need to have confidence they won’t be forced to hand over their valuable intellectual property to their competitors. In addition, companies need to have confidence they can develop new products with the features their customers want.

So, Apple, Google, Intel etc. have reasons to worry, too. Let’s not forget that the US Government lobbied competition commissioner Neelie Kroes over Microsoft fine. Will they try again?

Today The European Court of First Instance will give its verdict on the appeal case against the EU executive’s antitrust decision to fine Microsoft.
We are talking about a nearly half-a-billion euros fine, and (till now) a nine year legal battle.

..speaking of Mr. Adrian Severin…

Dear fellow Romanians, you can find out here who are the MEPs that represent you, monitor how many times do they open their mouth and what did they say (or if they ever spoke a word) and other interesting staff. So, at the near to come European election you will think twice whether or not you’ll send them back.