European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 7 February
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A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1927 Juliette Gréco,...
Music matters
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This evening we went to a double charity performance for the Human Rights League. First up was Anakrouze, an all-female a capella choir. They treated us to a whistle-stop tour around the world, with songs from Corsica to the Congo, from Bulgaria to T...
Nancy: the best writer on the ‘Graun’…by far
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“When someone points to a box of fireworks and says ‘They should be in the cellar’, you know the whole place is about to go up. Trust me, I’m a critic” - Nancy Banks-Smith As regulars here will know, I have something of...
Midi Libre: Odyssea deviendra un projet européen?
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Le 21 janvier dernier à Paris, à l’Hôtel de Marigny, jouxtant l’Elysée, une délégation Odyssea conduite par le président de la FFPP, Serge Paillarès, accompagné notamment par le maire de Saint-Cyprien, président de la communaut
Why this image makes me unspeakably angry
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What on earth is all this about??? Have you ever seen a pink zebra? Why is there any need for a pink version of a perfectly good black and white “bounce and spin”? Yes it’s a lovely, happy girl in a green t-shirt that’s ri...
Le Monde: Le TGV Tanger-Casablanca promis à une « forte rentabilité socio-économique »
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Le projet de Train à grande vitesse (TGV) Casablanca-Tanger, qui transportera ses premiers passagers à partir de décembre 2015, est promis à « une forte rentabilité socio-économique« , affirme le quotidien français «&#...
Lammas School and Sports College
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As you can see yesterday I received an enthusiastic welcome from Lammas School and Sports College pupils in Waltham Forest. I was due to be debating climate change with my fellow London MEP Conservative Marina Yannakoudakis. Marina unfortunately had...
Web 2.0 & EEAS keeps us busy….
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What happened after we send an Open Letter to Barroso and the incoming new Commissioners? A number of us had a chat with a member of his “cabinet” (private office) who was genuinely interested in what we proposed. The Open letter and an a...
Europe should adopt US behavioural advertising icon, and quick | Pinsent Masons LLP
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Europe should adopt US behavioural advertising icon, and quick | Pinsent Masons LLP...
GATA incident, EMASYA annulled, one more military official arrested- roundup on Turkish politicis
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Ergenekon Col. Dönmez purged from TSK, sentenced to four years imprisonment Today’s Zaman Dönmez who has been considered as a key suspect in the ongoing Ergenekon investigation which aims to reveal the shady network within state, escaped from...
EU-US Summit: a surfeit of summitry
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President Obama did the EU a favour by deciding not to attend the scheduled 24-25 May EU-US summit in Madrid, for two reasons. First, because he prevents Spain from ignoring the spirit of Lisbon. Second, it will force the EU to rethink the whole...
“Details of honor killing shocks Turkey” (UPI)
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The hole where Medine Memi was buried by her relatives in the courtyard of their house in Adiyaman, southeastern Turkey, February 4, 2010. Memi, a 16-year-old girl, was buried alive by relatives in southeastern Turkey in a gruesome honor killing carr...
Xuventude!
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Como sabeis muchos de vosotros uno de los principales motivos por los que escribo este blog, es el de informar a los más jovenes (entre los que me cuento, jajajaja!) de las oportunidades de: movilidad, formación, etc. que nos brinda la UE.El día 2...
Reblogged: Towards a European Identity
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From five years ago (originally published 4th February 2005) – a repost seemed appropriate as someone asked about my views on European Identity just the other day, soon after a user purporting to be Jurgen Habermas cropped up on Twitter. Despit...
After SWIFT – sudden EU-US data protection agreement consultation
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Lately the Commission, the Council and the US administration have been as busy lobbying the SWIFT / TFTP agreement on rendering financial data from the European Union to the United States as they previously were anxious to keep the European Parliamen...
Tax matters for Switzerland and the European Union
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The basic positions on tax could hardly be more different: virtuous tax competition or criminal tax fraud? The official Swiss view is that tax competition is healthy. Not only do federalism and [direct] democracy promote sound public finances, but t...
