Global Voices Online

Pestiside.hu writes an angry letter to Austria, “on behalf of Hungary.”

Desmond McGrath of A Fistful of Euros writes about football and politics: “Part of the fun of football is the way in which it overturns the international order of power politics.”

Balkan Baby writes about the “Balkan interests” in the Euro 2008 championship.

At A Fistful of Euros, Douglas Muir writes about Marshal Antonescu of Romania, and Alex Harrowell writes about an “outbreak of arseholes in Central Europe.”

IVAN vs JAAN writes about the EU stance towards Chechen asylum seekers - and about the ongoing row between the U.K. and Russia over the British Council.

“But why waste so much energy on that relationship with diminishing returns?” writes Itching for Eestimaa about Estonia's relations with Russia, and continues with an overview of Estonia's relations with other countries.

Transatlantic Politics writes about the news of Gazprom's involvement in the Nabucco gas pipeline project - which was originally supposed to be the EU's “attempt to build an alternative to the Gazprom-controlled, already-built natural gas pipeline-network”: “Can't own the pipeline? No big deal, we'll own the faucet.”

With Rakhat Aliev, the son-in-law of Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbaev, having been arrested in Austria and released on bail awaiting extradition to Kazakhstan to face kidnapping and other criminal charges, Bonnie Boyd examines some of the possible outcomes of his extradition hearing and what they might mean for relations between Kazakhstan and the EU.

Robert Amsterdam writes about the alleged ties of Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) of Austria to murder and money laundering in Russia.