Comments on: Alexandra Dobolyi…?

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:54:46 +0000

Erm, sorry, don’t get me wrong – I’m enough of an EU geek to be interested in chemicals legislation too. But it’s not necessarily what I want to read on blogs about EU affairs…

By: James Stevens

James Stevens — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:11:26 +0000

Careful, Jon. Some of us can get quite excited by the prospect of talking about EU chemicals policy. My colleagues and clients can attest to my ability to get passionate about the provisions of REACH.

However, not sure if it is better to be excited by REACH or Hungarian women with vacuum cleaners. Jury is out.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:55:43 +0000

Thanks for the clarification – I’m glad there was a (half) sensible reason for the picture, but the CV stuff is more alarming – why did the Social Democrats not force her to resign for such behaviour?

By: Hettie

Hettie — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:37:39 +0000

The story about the "interesting details" of Dobolyi's cv broke last June. Ukridge got it from a well respected weekly political magazine HVG The picture was part of a campaign run by a women's equality charity/ngo/foundation to celebrate the European Year of Equal Opportunities. Successful Hungarian women were shown doing household chores in an out of context/sexy way. I had a look at Dobolyi's cv and it's been changed to reflect the reality.

By: Waldo Vanderhaeghen

Waldo Vanderhaeghen — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:23:38 +0000

Quite funny, probably an old boyfriend or something (how else could he get the picture). But it might be true she claimed “Dr.”, just search on google. If you look on google you also find that she started a doctorate, however, not that she ended it.