The fight over Lisbon competencies in EU fisheries policy continues
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It’s been more than two years now that the Treaty of Lisbon is the constitutional foundation of the work of the European Union. Yet, there are still turf wars between the EU institutions on how the powers laid out in the Treaties are to be impl...
Higher Education: A Public Good or Commodity?
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According to theNew York Times, the American states, much more so than their Europeancounterparts, began a gradual trend of what the paper calls “withdrawal” fromhigher education during the recession in the early 1990s. It is perhaps moreaccurate...
The mouth of the Yser
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To Nieuwpoort, to the mouth of the Yser river, to celebrate two birthdays. There was not a breath of wind and the sea and the river were calm. A long walk inland treated us to sightings of all sorts of waders and seabirds. Later, at the dinner table,...
World Stocks Trade Lower As Competitive Currency Devaluation Commences
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Financial Market Report for the week ending March 2, 2012 World stocks, VT, VSS, traded lower today on competitive currency devaluation, as investor’s started to loose faith in the world central banks’ capability to sustain the global debt tr...
Teenage star's attorneys chase Beaver
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The IPKat likes being immortalised as a cartoon character. The same, however, cannot be said for teenage Canadian popstar Justin Bieber. On 8 February 2012, RC3 Inc, a mobile game development company, released an mobile phone App called ‘Jou...
The EC proposes to suspend structural funds to Hungary
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Without precedent - why does the EU punish us? is the title of a (surprisingly objective if we look at the article but not at all surprising if we look at the author) article in the Hungarian financial and economic portal portfolio.hu. The author,...
Republican primaries: the fight for delegates starts now
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Partly, it has been said, to reduce the impact of a possible bid from Sarah Palin, the programme of Republican primaries this year was designed to be back-end loaded. This means that the early states – those contests scheduled to be held before...
Facebook Marketing: Simply What Does That Meme?
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Facebook Marketing: Simply What Does That Meme? from Article DirectoryThings rotate very fast in social website, as well as your business will have to evolve simply to a changes which they arrive. Just, some time ago, tablet computers and smart phone...
Facebook Marketing: Simply What Does That Meme?
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Facebook Marketing: Simply What Does That Meme? from Article DirectoryThings rotate very fast in social website, as well as your business will have to evolve simply to a changes which they arrive. Just, some time ago, tablet computers and smart phone...
Is Ordoliberalism the key to understanding a) the German or b) the Merkel way in Euro-economics
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A very interesting article by Ulrike Guérot and Sebastian Dullien, "Why Berlin is fixed on a German solution to the eurozone crisis', in The Guardian on March 2. The authors refer to Ordoliberalism and inter alia argue that: "..Crucially, its impor...
Helmer’s defection to UKIP ultimately the result of Tory confusion about selection processes
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At one level I can’t get very worked up about Roger Helmer MEP defecting from the Tories to UKIP today. Helmer has long held views on the EU-phobic right of the Conservative Party, in many ways closer to UKIP, so his defection is not a great su...
Stanford University activist wants to fight global warming with contraceptives
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Kavita Ramdas, executive director of the Program on Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford University, wants to fight global warming with contraceptives. Ramdas, who participated in a discussion at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Schol...
EUCO challenge: growth despite budget balancing
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We already looked at the summary offered by the European Council. Since I enjoy the luxury of being able to blog about yesterday's news, I'll try to discuss what EUCO said about economic growth, competitiveness and jobs. The conclusions of the Europe...
Some Important factors For Looking Great In The Future
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Some Important factors For Looking Great In The Future from Article DirectoryKeep your fruit ingestion high. Fruits are a fantastic source of antioxidants that assist inhibit getting older within our cells. Theyre also a good supply of other nutritio...
Some Important factors For Looking Great In The Future
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Some Important factors For Looking Great In The Future from Article DirectoryKeep your fruit ingestion high. Fruits are a fantastic source of antioxidants that assist inhibit getting older within our cells. Theyre also a good supply of other nutritio...
New Study Shows Vote Intentions Depend on Distance of One's Home From City Center
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According to an interesting survey in Le Monde, you can basically tell how people are going to vote by how close or by how far they live from the city center. As Thomas Wieder explains in Le Monde,• In the center of the city, they will vote left (F...
EU fiscal union and the democratic process: drawing the red line
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The European Union has always been considered a union of sovereign democratic nations. In fact, democracy is regarded as a sine qua non for EU membership as clearly stipulated in article 1a of the Lisbon Treaty which reads ‘...
Mumbo Jumble: The underwhelming response of the American economics profession to the crisis
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"In this extract from his forthcoming book, Never Let a Dire Crisis Go to Waste (Verso), the philosopher and historian of economics Philip Mirowski seeks to explain how the American economics profession has successfully avoided culpability for th...
Dennis Meadows: “it is too late for sustainable development”
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The Club of Rome and the Smithsonian Institution’s Consortium for Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet hosted a symposium on March 1, 2012 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the launching of Limits to Growth, the first report to the C...
Double Dutch: how the Rutte government nearly lost the europlot
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From the start of the current economic crisis the Dutch government has insisted on strict budgetary discipline in troubled eurozone countries – in particular for Greece. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, the Netherlands is one...
Double Dutch: how the Rutte government nearly lost the europlot
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From the start of the current economic crisis the Dutch government has insisted on strict budgetary discipline in troubled eurozone countries – in particular for Greece. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, the Netherlands is one...
The Victory of a Tea Party in China?
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Villagers in Wukan managed to oust local officials three months ago in protests over land seizures reports the BBC. As part of a deal to end the unrest, China's authorities made the rare concession of allowing fresh elections. The revolt in...
Five minutes with Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson: “Blogging is quite simply, one of the most important things that an academic should be doing right now”.
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Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson discuss social scientists’ obligation to spread their research to the wider world and how blogging can help academics break out of restrictive publishing loops. This article was first posted on the LSE’...
Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong
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"The claim that cap-and-trade legislation or carbon taxes would be ruinous or disastrous to our societies does not stand up to serious economic analysis." (Source: NY Review of Books) Economist William D. Nordhaus has been cited by lots of cl...
Saving the Planet with Morally Vain Bumper Stickers
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Will the prophet Putin be proven right?
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Last November, when the euro-shit really started to hit the fan, Vladimir Putin – with his habitual freedom of expression – predicted the European Central Bank would need to intervene to the tune of €1.5 trillion. Mario Draghi, who beca...
Will the prophet Putin be proven right?
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Last November, when the euro-shit really started to hit the fan, Vladimir Putin – with his habitual freedom of expression – predicted the European Central Bank would need to intervene to the tune of €1.5 trillion. Mario Draghi, who beca...
