Worried About Legal Remedies
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Starting with the course “Legal Remedies in Europe” and the new group of students this Thursday at the University of Tartu, I have thoughtfully read Rafal Zakrzewski, Remedies Reclassified (Oxford University Press, 2005). The book bases o...
Dear Commissioners, stop broadcasting, and start engaging!
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In the new European Commission set-up, there are two nominations that make me quite sceptical: that of Neelie Kroes at the Digital Agenda, and that of Viviane Reding at Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship. First the person who will be in char...
Fine Gael National Conference Survey
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Image via Wikipedia On the 19th/20th March Fine Gael will hold a National Conference in the Malton Hotel, in Killarney. As part of the preparations for the conference, a survey was circulated to members. I have posted it below, how would you respo...
European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 9 February
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A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1923 Birth of...
Les think tanks turcs, agents du changement
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« Au cours des huit années écoulées depuis que le Parti de la justice et du développement (AKP) est arrivé au pouvoir, le nombre de think tanks en Turquie a explosé. Fondations et instituts se sont diversifiés, sont devenus plus ind
Rencontre Abbas – Moubarak au Caire
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Le Président de l’Autorité palestinienne Mahmoud Abbas a rencontré samedi le 6 février au Caire le Président égyptien Hosni Moubarak, au sujet des nouvelles propositions américaines visant à relancer indirectement les pourparlers de paix.
Its time to go?
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Image via Wikipedia Enda Kenny has been the leader of Fine Gael since 2002. In that time he has revitalised the party but he has failed to capitalise on the failures of Fianna Fail. Today’s resignation of George Lee is the final nail in the...
The Dutch: not tolerant, only pragmatic
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A bunch of stoned people (perhaps that is what’s blurring their minds and making them so liberal?), going everywhere on a bike (because it is cheaper?), eating cheese, raw fish (and an occasional potato) in case eating is really necessary (and...
What is entrepreneurship all about?
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Have you ever thought of being your own boss, of being an entrepreneur? Do you want to do what you believe in instead of following the orders of someone who pays you? If yes, you are different. The majority of people in Europe never had this kind of...
Farm content
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I imagined it could exist but I under-suspected the scale of it. Read this article by the NY Times (of course) about a company who provides content to everyone on the net, creating literal “farm content” where free-lancers are under-paid...
Palestinian Authority still studying US ideas on negotiations
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The Palestinian Authority (PA) is still studying ideas the US has presented to renew negotiations with Israel, a senior Palestinian official said Monday – denying reports that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to resume indirect talks under th...
Brussels Briefing on Biodiversity 10th March 2010
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On 10th March (8h30-13h00), the next Brussels Development Briefing will discuss the key role Biodiversity plays in rural development, especially for ACP countries. Issues at stae include: the relationship between poverty and biodiversity, the effec...
Dealing with a More Assertive China
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BRUSSELS — The mood on China in Western capitals is beginning to darken. From cyber-attacks to obstinacy in Copenhagen, Beijing’s assertiveness and the hardening tone of its diplomacy are prompting a rethink. If the competitive aspects of the...
Fine Gael celebrate expulsion of “dangerous radical” from party.
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Sources in Fine Gael are praising party leader Enda Kenny for shrewdly engineering the departure of George Lee from the party. A party spokesperson said: “We knew from day one that fella was going to be trouble. Sure he walked into the parliame...
“World’s Best Think Tanks
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World’s Best Think Tanks (UPenn Rankings) by Reflection Cafe THE THINK TANKS AND CIVIL SOCIETIES PROGRAM James G. McGann, Ph.D. / Director University of Pennsylvania / January 25, 2010 THE TEA PARTY from Global Guerrillas by John Robb “It&#...
A million signatures, but why bother?
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David Cameron's speech infront of a photogenic youff audience today had some things to recomend it. Support for the UKIP policy of recall for one, however a mjor piece of his new policy seems slightly too little, too late,Any petition with a million...
On George Lee
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Image via Wikipedia So George Lee has resigned from Fine Gael and from the Dáil. This isn’t good news for Fine Gael, George Lee or the people of Dublin South. Its not exactly good news of Fianna Fail either. Labour will probably win the sea...
Further reading: Brussels
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Greece and the Eurozone: Halcyon no more (Ralph Atkins and Kerin Hope, FT) French language losing its cachet? Au contraire! (Harvey Morris and Stanley Pignal, FT) Europe needs to show it has a crisis endgame (Wolfgang Münchau, FT) EU debt crisis hig...
Why let the facts get in the way of a good EU scare story?
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Following a post about so-called Euro-myths last year I read with interest that the Daily Express has been forced to publish an apology following its latest half-baked EU scare story, which made page one last Wednesday.The story (now removed from the...
Two more acts chosen. [Eurovision 2010]
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Image via Wikipedia After I finished my post last night, Cyprus and the Netherlands completed their selections for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. Cyprus went for Jon Lilygreen & The Islanders with “Life looks better in spring”.
“Teens Love Facebook, Hate Blogging, Are Always Online, and Don’t Use Twitter
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Pew Survey: Teens Love Facebook, Hate Blogging, Are Always Online, and Don’t Use Twitter Rent vs. Own: The Streaming Music Debate Continues from MediaShift The exponential growth of Internet bandwidth combined with the ability to significantly...
