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I recently appointed two new interns Ruby Thompson and Caitlin Fitzmaurice. Congratulations to them, they came through a field of hundreds. I have received many requests for feedback and it is tricky with so many well qualified candidates to sugge...
How the current ‘debate’ about election reform is giving precisely the opposite of a principled outcome
So wrangles about how and when to hold a referendum on the future of the UK’s election system rumble on… and how messy the whole thing gets. The only given is that there will be a referendum sometime in this parliament –&...
Towards Referendum (1): a roundup
Unfortunately, I could not find an English translation of proposed changes. I am working on it. You can find a documents where all changes in Turkish are listed. Besides, AKP set up a website again only in Turkish about the changes here. I will decla...
Correspondent's diary, day three: Hungary maligned
A Washington Post attack on Hungary's government irritates our correspondent.
RE-ORDERING EUROPE: ENEROPA
Noting the EU’s heterogenity in terms of energy supply and economic sustainability, the thinktank AMO of the well-known dutch architecte Rem Kohlhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) re-ordered geographical Europe – according to...
European Union - Africa Partnership on Cotton
This document provides an update of the EU-Africa cotton Partnership concluded between the EU and African countries in July 2004 (at the Paris Forum). This Partnership led to an action plan, which developed into a framework for action following a mid...
Latvia: The Demographic Price Of Procrastination
One of the things I think we can safely say about the impact of the current economic crisis is that the face of Macro Economic theory will never be the same again. Quite what the macro economics of the future will look like is too early to say, but w...
Bullfighting – another Euromyth
On the day that Catalonia bans bullfighting, I just thought I would make clear that whatever you might have heard, the EU doesn’t subsidise bullfighting, either directly (which it never did) or indirectly (through subsidies for raising bulls).
UK Tories say 'no no no' to EU evidence sharing
As reported in our press review earlier this week, the right-wing UK press have been up in arms over plans to provide EU police forces with 'Big Brother' surveillance powers...
Time for UKIP MEPs to grow up
It seems like UKIP MEPs are spending their summer by taking part in a letter writing campaign to their local papers with scare stories about supposed EU plans to require the UK to dissolve dead bodies in acid and tip them down the drain to save on bu...
Did the Icelandic EU membership talks inspire the latest viral football goal celebration?
The European Union officially opened membership talks with Iceland yesterday, with the EU’s common fisheries policy arguably the largest obstacle for the parties to overcome in order for the island to become a fully-fledged EU member.Speaking to th...
Is our Tithe to Europe exempt from austerity measures?
Lord Vinson asked a question along these lines, the answer he gets back is interesting.,To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to make a proportional cut to the United Kingdom's European Union net contribution of approximately £7 billio...
Europe’s Federalism Debate Revived
This issue is of persistent concern for investors worldwide. Holders of European government bonds believed that they knew what they had bought. Sure, there was no such thing as a eurozone sovereign security. But German, French, Spanish, and even Gree...
Now where is Finland?
Being a Finnish expat is, most of the time, wonderful. There’s never any trouble crossing borders – just a flash my Finnish passport and a look of boredom will appear on the Customs official’s face as they see it’s only anothe...
Macroeconomics, Representative Agents and Demographics (wonkish)
Upon first reading what I am, more or less, pasting below, my thesis councillor opinioned that this particular piece of text was a malignant tumor that had to be surgically removed if the patient (in this case, my master’s thesis) were to ma...
