Put an end to State Visits with red Carpet within EU
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Monday, January 23rd 2012, the new Belgian Prime Minister di Rupo flew to Berlin for a one-hour working lunch with his German counterpart, Chancellor Merkel, to make her personal acquaintance and prepare for the European Council meeting on January 30...
Cameron’s pot has the temerity to call the Eurozone’s kettle black
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David Cameron is one of those people who never fail to take the biscuit, and his attack on Angela Merkel in Davos yesterday was a massive one covered with lashings of chocolate. Cameron had the temerity at the World Economic … Continue reading...
"Viktor Orban’s David Act is a sad Joke" by Gabor Gyori
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The government under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is seeking to frame the debate between itself and Hungary’s international partners, the EU and the IMF as the struggle between a valiant and...
ACTA: Nu har det blivit åka av
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Det händer osannolikt mycket runt ACTA just nu. Jag försöker samla lite länkar. Stora demonstrationer i Polen mot ACTA. Nyheter24: Kravaller i Polen – men i Sverige är det locket på BBC: Thousands march in Poland over Acta internet treaty...
Formal informal in Copenhagen
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I’m attending a so-called informal council meeting in Copenhagen. And by “informal”, I don’t mean relaxed discussions by the fire, without any strict agenda. On the contrary, we are more numerous than ever – all EU membe...
Europe’s SOPA?
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The European Parliament’s website has been shut down by hackers today, allegedly in a denial-of-service attack from Anonymous in protest of imminent anti-piracy legislation restricting internet freedom. But as the IT folks in parliament scramble to...
I’ll be Tweet-chatting next Monday, 30 January
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I’m really positive about how the Internet helps – not just one-way communication – but genuine interaction. So I am happy to announce that I will have another tweetchat on Monday 30 January 3 to 3.30pm (Brussels time). Anyone can j...
Once in a Generation?
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Yesterday, Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom - which is currently chairing the UK - addressed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The main part of the speech concerned the European Court of Human Rights. Cameron pack...
President Klaus: The present EU is a straightjacket blocking economic activity
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Czech President Václav Klaus is always worth listening to. In a key-note speech given at the 13th GCC Industrialists’ Conference in Riyadh, Klaus describes what went wrong with the European project, "which started with a rational an...
Reining in Corporate Pay: Europe as a Model of Fairness for America
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Corporate compensation—executive pay in particular—represents a “clear market failure,” so said Vince Cable, the business secretary in the E.U. state of Britain. While suspected, the sheer explicitness, or blatant manner, of this verdict is i...
Why are we boarding the Titanic?
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It’s quite fashionable to compare the EU to Titanic these days. Maybe it won’t sink, but the European project is not attractive as it once was, that’s for sure. That’s why many international analysts and bloggers just can̵...
Three Years in Bloggingportal
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Back in January 2009, our little experiment called Bloggingportal.eu officially started and today, three years later, we are still here. Three years in the life of a social media project is long, especially with the world of social media rapi...
Happy Birthday Bloggingportal.eu!
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The EU blog aggregating website Bloggingportal.eu is 3 tomorrow. Since it was launched the number of blogs being aggregated has ballooned to 904, with over 250 posts being generated over the past week. The Euroblogosphere is definitely more vibrant t...
Aid has to be modernised; EU is not pulling out from middle income countries (MICs)
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The European Union, like many other donors, is currently exploring the best ways to fight against poverty around the world. Faced with differentiation between developing countries, some of which have become aid donors themselves while others suffer f...
Happy birthday: Bloggingportal.eu turns 3
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Update: See the collective anniversary post by 12 Bloggingportal.eu editors! Tomorrow, on 26 January 2012, Bloggingportal.eu celebrates its third birthday. I haven’t been an editor right from the start, but I followed the development of the po...
Towards Jan 28: Anonymous targets Facebook; International Privacy Day and more. A cyberculture roundup…
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Anonymous Targets Facebook For A January 28 Attack [UPDATED] from All Facebook by David Cohen Hacktivist group Anonymous may have Facebook in its cross hairs for an attack at midnight January 28, no time zone specified. This potentially makes the so...
