Hurricane: the People’s Champion
RIP Hurricane, 1949 -2010 The People’s Champion found dead, alone and emaciated in his flat. He was poverty-stricken, toothless and had endured two major operations for throat cancer. But… …(in the words given to him by actor Richar...
Bloggingportal2: What, Why, How … and When?
As I and other BP editors have hinted at recently, over the past 6 or more months we’ve had a series of email discussions about how to develop BloggingPortal. In fact, one such discussion - based around an idea I launched via a Google documen...
There’s Nothing Right About Daniel Hannan
DANIEL HANNAN, YOU ARSE! DON’T GET me wrong, Hannan’s probably a thoroughly decent chap in real life… but he can be infuriating in blog form. Today’s post, for example, bangs on about how the far-Right, sorry, racist British N...
European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 26 July 2010
A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europe on this date in history:1945 - The Labour...
Oireachtas Committee Report on National Parliament involvement in EU legislation
The Oireachtas (both houses of the Irish Parliament) Sub-Committee on Review of the Role of the Oireachtas in European Affairs has published its report (PDF) on how the Irish Parliament should adapt to the new European institutional setting after the...
Spiders’ webs
Much of the initial research for my dissertation project has inevitably been done online (for more on what it’s all about go here). That’s the way of the world these days, and you won’t find me complaining about it. But it can be a...
Honeyball’s weekly Round-Up
It was a week of gaffes as Deputy PM Nick Clegg stood in for the Prime Minister at PMQs this week and announced that the war in Iraq was illegal. Clegg accused the former minister, Jack Straw, of being involved “in the illegal invasion of Iraq.”...
Euroblog Round-up: A Crowd of Talkative Europeans
THE LATEST Euroblog Round-up is now up on Bloggingportal. Read it here.
Elif on alcohol-free wine(!)
This is certainly the example of ‘Political Economy’ Just after the shocking speech of the prime minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in which he told that that people should prefer fruits instead of drinking alcoholic beverages since these d...
Now what?
Our Balkans correspondent discusses the background and implications of Kosovo's victory at the International Court of Justice...
Woerth/Bettencourt: efforts to cap the well fail, storm approaches
This week’s Canard Enchainé has a cartoon likening the Woerth/Bettencourt scandal to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This annoys me, as I’ve been making the same joke to anyone who will listen for weeks. So what happened? Well, just to...
Under Stress
After a long and rather tense wait, the initial response to the publication of the European bank stress tests was always going to be something of an anti-climax. Indeed the results should hardly have comes as a surprise to anyone It is hardly break...
The Kosovo ruling and obstacles to enlargement
Last week’s ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence did not contravene international law was bitter news for Serbia, which had brought the original case. The Serbian president Boris Tadic...
The Kosovo ruling and obstacles to enlargement
Last week’s ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence did not contravene international law was bitter news for Serbia, which had brought the original case. The Serbian president Boris Tadic...
Stress Tests: Have Investors Moved On?
As the dust settles around Friday’s European bank stress tests, and analysts begin poring over the wealth of new bank data, it’s hard to find anybody in the financial markets who was impressed by the toughness of the exercise.
For those who still don’t understand how crucial Twitter is?
If you want to change the world, as they say, and still don’t understand how important social media (Twitter, Facebook et al) is as a primary tool, then you might want to watch this short video featuring digital strategist, Cheryl Contee. Conte...
Cecilia Malmström och hederlighet om manga-censur
En svensk översättare av japanska manga-serier har blivit dömd för barnpornografibrott av Uppsala tingsrätt, sedan polisen efter en husrannsakan i mannens bostad hittat 51 teckningar som bedömdes som olagliga, bland de hundratusentals teckninga...
“Obama Narrative 2.0″ by The Global Language Monitor
Obama Narrative 2.0 from The Global Language Monitor Out-of-touch moves into No. 1 position over Deficit Spending; Oil Spill tops Health Care Reformer Austin, Texas, July 24, 2010 – As the political calendar inexorably heads toward the Mid-term ele...
Dog owners are a social menace
Right, this is a blog entry that’s going to annoy a lot of people. But I’m very annoyed. So here goes. I’m totally, utterly and completely sick of dog owners. Note I am not completely and utterly sick of dogs. I’m no...
The Week in Bloggingportal: A Crowd of Talkative Europeans
THIS HAS been, without doubt, one of the busiest weeks we’ve ever had here at Bloggingportal towers. There have been so many great conversations going on in the blogosphere that the Editor-in-Chief has been reduced to a gibbering wreck trying t...
Labour MEPs promised voice in Shadow Cabinet under David Miliband
According to Tribune Magazine Labour’s MEPs in the European Parliament have been promised a seat in the shadow cabinet if David Miliband secures the party leadership.Throughout the leadership campaign, Mr Miliband has pledged to “bring European m...
Erkan’s Field Diary: Top posts of the week and the month
Submitted by: chris Posted at: 2010-07-11 11:58:35 See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/28919 found in Watching Porn ************* Top Posts for 7 days ending 2010-07-25 1- A video: Turkish Porn Star Şahin K’s comedy film trailer 2- Alic...
Times’ paywall experiment down, but is it out?
Although the paying-members-only policy recently enacted by The Times in the UK reportedly has caused online readership to plummet 90 percent (see here), it’s still too early to declare the experiment a dead duck, according to a blog post by Pe...
Man’s ingenuity at its finest.
Captain Brian Bews of the Royal Canadian Air Force ejects from his CF-18 Hornet after the engine stalls in a low pass. Pics by AP.
The Union Book Club: Kalevipoeg – Canto I
THE FIRST canto (i.e. chapter) of the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg is now up on Eurogoblin. You can find it here (don’t forget to comment if you have any thoughts, questions or if you want to let people know what … Continue reading &...
Frontex annual report includes demand that Frontex be allowed to process personal data
Frontex wants to be allowed to collect, store and exchange personal data: “effectiveness could be increased by enriching intelligence and intelligence products with personal data. Furthermore, operational/administrative task could be conducted...
DIIS Working Paper: Sovereignty at Sea: The Law and Politics of Saving Lives in the Mare Liberum
DIIS (Danish Institute for International Studies) has published a paper by Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Tanja Aalberts, Sovereignty at Sea: The Law and Politics of Saving Lives in the Mare Liberum (DIIS Working Paper 2010:18). The paper addresses “...
CARIM: Updated migration profile for Senegal
CARIM has published an updated migration profile for Senegal. CARIM profiles are “[d]ivided into three parts – the demographic-economic, legal, and socio-political frameworks [and] portray key trends and dynamics as well as legal and policy dev...
