Who doesn’t know them, those mildly irritating requests to type up the letters of a small picture in order to log in somewhere. I knew they are useful as they ensure the site we are logging in to that we are humans instead of spam-bots. So they will know that we really want to buy those tickets, post a comment, etc. But today I learned there is much more behind [full post]
This Friday, 9 December 2011, all 27 EU Member States and Croatia will sign the Accession Treaty making it possible for Croatia to become the 28th Member State. This will happen, if all Member States and Croatia itself ratify the Treaty without hitches, on 1 July 2013. From Croatia’s application for membership in February 2003 until then a bit more than a decade will have gone by. So what happened [full post]
