After Barcelona, Turkish Airlines gets Manchester United
Turkish delight for Manchester United WebWire (press release) - 9 hours ago Turkish Airlines, Europe’s fourth-largest Airline will transport the Manchester United team and officials on their travels for Champions League matches and&#...
Why U.S. - EU Economic Co-Operation Holds The Key To Global Governance
The globalised economy and the rise of new economic giants demand a radically reformed international system, says Robert Hutchings. But it will nevertheless fall to Europe and America to fashion these new structures for global governance. READ M...
Why U.S. - EU Economic Co-Operation Holds The Key To Global Governance
The globalised economy and the rise of new economic giants demand a radically reformed international system, says Robert Hutchings. But it will nevertheless fall to Europe and America to fashion these new structures for global governanceDespite th...
Baku-Yerevan: Competition For West
“Asia is not dead… Only its boarders have changed for good. Now Baku lies within Europe and this is not a coincidence. As there are no Asians in Baku anymore.” The kind of evaluation to the geopolitical situation established in the...
Russia and Croatia Resurrect Druzhba-Adria Oil Transport Scheme
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia and Jadranka Kosor of Croatia discussed the oil transportation scheme known as Druzhba-Adria integration during Kosor’s recent visit to Moscow. The trip marked Croatia’s accession to Gazprom&rsqu...
International Law in Cairo
I unfortunately did not notice earlier, but the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich in cooperation with the University in Cairo (AUC) are holding a summer program in international law in Cairo in five modules: Islamic and Middle Eastern Law...
Was there something you needed from me before ten?
The American NPR web site has a nice story about what happens when a company / organisation’s management stops caring about when employees come to work. And what happens is that employees not only get better lives, they up their output; at leas...
Brussels and London in finance face-off
Tensions between the UK and the EU over finance rules seem to be coming to a head this week. No sooner had news broke today that British prime minister Gordon Brown is blocking EU efforts to increase financial regulation of hedge funds and private eq...
Heavy-handed propaganda alienates Europeans from China
The following interview appeared in Global Times on 15 March 2010: Editor’s Note: China constantly complains of being misperceived by the West, but how much of that is China’s own fault? Do Europeans still see China through an ideologica...
European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 17 March
A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1820 Jean Ingelow,...
IPSA International Conference, Luxembourg 2010
The International Political Science Association (IPSA) is proud to co-host its latest international conference with the newly formed Luxembourg Political Science Association (Luxpol) and the European Governance Program at the Unive...
Cardinal Brady and the Pope
Image by Getty Images via Daylife From the Archdiocese of Dublin, the Primate of Ireland and now the Supreme Pontiff, allegations of involvement in the cover up of child abuse have been directed at them all. When reading the stories regarding the...
Forum: Rail safety
On 15 February this year, 18 people died and 200 were injured when two passenger trains collided on the outskirts of Brussels. Who or what is to blame? Two MEPs and the director of the European Railway Agency debate liberalisation of the sector, lack...
9 Challenges for the Spanish Presidency
Showing global leadership in EU’s external policies in a time of crisis: SOLIDAR calls on the Spanish Presidency in its responsibility for the Europe 2020 strategy and preparations for the 2010 review of the Millennium Development Goals, to use key...
More trouble for Bercow
Paul Waugh digs into teh Speaker's excerable performance today.It apperas that the dimunitive chap actually wants to lose all Tory support in Buckingham. Good, good.
EU, US and UN plan for relocation of 1 million Haitians
The European Union, the United States and the United Nations are going to divide up the workload in order to provide shelter for more than one million Haitians before the rains, which have already started in the Caribbean country, get any worse.
The Lapland experience
Finnish foreign minister Alexander Stubb has drawn up quite a useful metaphor for Catherine Ashton in her job as EU foreign policy chief. She is akin to a football club manager. She has to deal with 27 foreign policy egos or players – “27 Ronaldo...
Tuesday Open Thread
Public holiday here tomorrow, so it feels like a Friday afternoon....
Climate Change does not tolerate Complacency
The Copenhagen Climate Conference has been a water shed in the fight against climate change. Disappointment, indifference and frustration have annihilated the little hope that the endless series of preparatory UN conferences had generated. Today,...
Möjligheternas Land – how social democrats need a bit of Swedish optimism
I’ve been at a conference in Brussels this morning organised by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and I was asked to give a presentation about Social Democracy in the e-society era – you can find my slides...
The Party of European Socialists: A Democratic Way Forward
The Party of European Socialists has done some important initial work in preparing the ground for a more democratic and social European future. It has introduced consultation and participation into new areas of European politics. I think it needs to...
And From Berlin Down to Beijing, Can’t You Just Hear Those Factories Hum?
It’s curious how one and the same message is emanating from both Beijing and Berlin at the moment: “don’t blame us, it’s not our fault”. And it isn’t. According to the Financial Times, the Chinese Authorities spent...
A European own goal
Expectations were high when the Lisbon Treaty entered into force and Catherine Ashton was appointed head of EU foreign policy. One of the first questions asked at the press conference when Ashton was appointed, was whom the world should call on matte...
Roma Education Grand Chamber Judgment in Orsus
Today, the Grand Chamber of the Court delivered its judgment in the case of Oršuš and Others v. Croatia. It found that the separate education of many Roma children in several Croatian towns (in one school most Roma were put in separate classes, in...
Links 16 March 2010
Neelie Kroes encourages you to contribute to two public consultations Two important consultations are now live. First, we are asking citizens and businesses and other interested parties consultation on how can we guarantee access to communications se...
