Time on my hands
… or the art of procrastination. I am busy. Rushed off my feet. By tomorrow evening I will have seen my husband for 16 hours since Monday morning and we’ll have been asleep for more than 12 of those. Not good. We’re still surround...
The Concept Of ‘The Political’ (I)
Europe consists of at least 27 countries. Each country has its own public sphere and only on rare occasions national debates are discussed on an international platform. To change that, we want notions to all of our issues from all countries.
EU Commission outlines plans to strengthen privacy law | Pinsent Masons LLP
EU Commission outlines plans to strengthen privacy law | Pinsent Masons LLP"The European Commission is planning to beef up the Data Protection Directive, strengthening the enforcement of the EU law and including introducing new demands that technolog...
Changes to EUR-Lex, Official Journal of the European Union (EU), Legislative Acts, New Numbering in Treaties : EUR-Lex Newsletter 8/1/2010
The EUR-Lex Newsletter 8/1/2010 : Access to European Union Law contains important information about changes to EUR-Lex, to the Official Journal of the European Union, to a distinction introduced between legislative and non-legislative acts, and refe...
EUR-Lex : Free Access to European Union EU Law : Official Journal, Treaties, Legislation, Case Law, Legislative Proposals
EUR-Lex"EUR-Lex provides direct free access to European Union law. Here you can consult the Official Journal of the European Union as well as the treaties, legislation, case-law and legislative proposals. You can also use the extensive search f...
aces - Academy of Central European Schools: Call for Project Proposals 2010
The new call for the successful school partnership project “aces – Academy of Central European Schools” was launched on 1 February 2010.As international school partnerships offer a concrete opportunity for intercultural exchange and cooperation...
Objectives of the fiveIPoffices : EPO, JPO, KIPO, SIPO, USPTO
For the Objectives of the "five IP offices" - EPO, JPO, KIPO, SIPO, USPTO - see here.
European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 4 February
A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1935 Martti Talvela,...
European Patent Office (EPO) Official Journal January 2010 is Now Online
The Official Journal of January 2010 of the European Patent Office (EPO) is now online here.
Nuclear arms will soon proliferate. So here's a plan to scrap them all | Timothy Garton Ash
The tipping point is close when every country will want to be another nuclear France. Changing our global course is vital'Peaceniks" is not the word that immediately comes to mind as you contemplate this array of smartly dressed present and former...
European Commission Report on Social Trends in Europe
Social climate in Europe – European Commission survey delivers mixed results"Europeans quite happy with their personal situation, but less satisfied with economic and social climate in their country.Despite hard economic times, Europeans are genera...
Europe Direct Leeds - Bringing Europe To You!
Europe Direct Leeds - Bringing Europe To You!"Europe Direct Leeds is part of a network of 16 centres in the UK, 500 across Europe which aim to act as an interface between the EU and its citizens at local level. We can help with general questions on...
Key Questions: How much "de-coupled" ....? 22 months later!
I wrote this post in my old blog, 22 months ago, on Thursday, March 27, 2008. When experts where posing the question how subprime led the US economic crisis was going to affect other economies, ie how dependent or "coupled" they were with the US econ...
The EU's Increasing Irrelevance to the US
Reuters reported yesterday: The European Union and the United States are likely to scrap plans to hold a summit in Madrid in May because U.S. President Barack Obama has decided not to attend, EU diplomats said on Tuesday. Oh, that will make...
Senior Fatah official visits Hamas-run Gaza
A senior member of Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas‘ Fatah party returned to Gaza for the first time since the territory was seized by Hamas in 2007, in a bid to encourage stalled reconciliation efforts. Nabil Shaath, a Gaza nativ...
Facebook looks lively
Fans of the European Parliament Facebook page have been extremely active lately. It’s not always obvious to us why this happens on this or that subject, but of course we are delighted to see it when it does so. In particular, we have seen a ver...
Is social media jeopardizing our careers?
Is social media jeopardizing our careers? This is the question I ran upon when reading through an article today. And here is one piece of advice – job seekers ought to pay much more attention on where and what exactly they are posting on the...
Obama 'snubs' Europe
Given that this is a blog about EU-US issues, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the sad, sad tears that are being shed today over Barack Obama’s decision to ditch the planned EU-US summit in Madrid in May.Spain appears to be livid about it, w...
Moratinos tells Palestinians to re-engage in talks with Israel
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos Tuesday urged the Palestinians to re-engage in the peace process with Israel. Speaking at a press conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, Moratinos said a re-engagement will...
Milk and honey
I’m sure today’s Express article (strap on front page, article page 3, opinion page 12) had the good burghers of the UK spitting out their Earl Grey in disgust, where it broke the story that the EU was planning to ban milk jugs in the goo...
Money matters
This afternoon I attended a meeting of the Committee’s enlarged Presidency (an informal meeting of the President, Vice-Presidents and Group Presidents). There were several ‘money matters’ on the agenda: the consequences of the Lisbo...
Obama's not the only one confused by Lisbon
The Obama "snub" continues to gather headlines in today's papers. PJ Crowley, the US Assistant Secretary of State, today confirmed that the uncertainty created by the new posts created under the Lisbon Treaty had been a major factor in Obama's decisi...
