Dominique de Villepin forced out of the race
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Dominique de Villepin announced this evening that he will no longer be running for President of France....
Fascists Unfunded
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News from Hope Not Hate:- A few weeks ago BNP leader Nick Griffin boasted that he and two other fascist MEPs were going to share €289,266 with the prospects of much more to come. This morning Griffin woke up to the realisation that this funding is...
Fascists Unfunded
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News from Hope Not Hate:- A few weeks ago BNP leader Nick Griffin boasted that he and two other fascist MEPs were going to share €289,266 with the prospects of much more to come. This morning Griffin woke up to the realisation that this funding is...
My first day in Italy
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It has been an exciting first day in Italy, with a lot of interesting encounters. I thank all of you who have tweeted about my visits and shared photos of me with the rest of the world. Below you can see my day in pictures.At the Joint Research Centr...
Gay marriage: this is a battle the Churches will lose – and it will be a messy business
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Dr Rowan Williams is getting out in the nick of time. Let’s be clear about this: the Churches will lose their fight against gay marriage becoming part of the law of the land – and it’ll be a messy business. This week various bishops have pointe...
The Closer
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____________Round-upConsolidation was the word in US stocks. The S&P 500 stayed above 1,400 (Financial Times). But Brent crude rose by more than $2 a barrel as Iran-inspired...
Why the Berlaymonster is wrong
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My team has told me that the well-known Berlaymonster believes I should not be able to react to comparisons of the EU with the USSR because I was not elected. I should remind the Berlaymonster that I am elected by the European Parliament (Article 14...
Germany, Europe's reluctant Goliath, is hiding its true strength | Jonathan Freedland
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Germany is saving the eurozone from disaster, but it can't glory in its role. The past means it still fears its own shadowEveryone agrees: the future of Europe lies in German hands. Berlin is now the de facto capital of the European Union, the place...
[Greece CDS] Net notional outstanding is NOT $3.2bn
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The actual amount of net notional that settles in the Greece CDS auction on Monday isn’t going to be $3.2bn.That $3.2bn has been the amount that’s been reported far and wide —...
‘EU visa policy on Turkey is illegal,’ German-based advocacy group says
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‘EU visa policy on Turkey is illegal,’ German-based advocacy group says – March 16th 2012 I quote: “The Germany-based, non-profit research and policy institute European Stability Initiative (ESI) has said the European Union...
A proper debt restructuring
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It was never going to be the world’s largest sovereign debt write-down. That was Greece last week. Anyway, how could it. The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis is the smallest...
EU regulators say telecoms block Skype and Other VoIP Services
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I am always amazed why the many EU institutions ponder why they are unloved by there European citizens. I understand many aspects of industry there are legal, technical, and cost considerations to be pondered in the maze of EU … Contin...
EU regulators say telecoms block Skype and Other VoIP Services
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I am always amazed why the many EU institutions ponder why they are unloved by there European citizens. I understand many aspects of industry there are legal, technical, and cost considerations to be pondered in the maze of EU … Contin...
EU regulators say telecoms block Skype and Other VoIP Services
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I am always amazed why the many EU institutions ponder why they are unloved by there European citizens. I understand many aspects of industry there are legal, technical, and cost considerations to be pondered in the maze of EU … Contin...
EU regulators say telecoms block Skype and Other VoIP Services
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I am always amazed why the many EU institutions ponder why they are unloved by there European citizens. I understand many aspects of industry there are legal, technical, and cost considerations to be pondered in the maze of EU … Contin...
Greek Debt Agreement Met With Cautious Optimism
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As usual, article can also be found at http://bit.ly/ztYYlD Last Friday saw the culmination of efforts that had started their official trajectory in the last days of July of last year when it was made official that Greece would be allowed to w...
Socialist Societies – more than the sum of our parts
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Labour’s Socialist Societies represent an enormously diverse range of topics and communities. As you will see from the pieces published on LabourList today, we are a vibrant group with interests ranging from education to the law, the environment to...
Trust and Sovereignty: please meet Reality
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When I left the Foreign Office at the end of 2007 and started up my own blog, one of my first postings was on Trust: Here is my own Grand Unifying Theory of Politics. The core question of politics and economics is Trust. More specifically, under what...
EESC management board seminar
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I spent most of today in an EESC management board seminar devoted entirely to the issue of resources, particularly in the light of the current period of crisis and austerity. Where resources are finite and may be shrinking we must note the priorities...
The hairy one's knickers get even further twisted
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Our favourite Labour MEP, Hairy Moneyball is at it again, fulminating on how awful it is that UKIP - but more especially Nigel Farage gets press coverage.Apart from the obvious point that as UKIP is rising across the polls again, and that by and larg...
The NHS, and our campaigning weaknesses
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The Government’s proposals for NHS reform are opposed by almost every part of the NHS, but they have been very good for the development of the Socialist Health Association. During 2011 we have really lived up to our description of ourselves as a ca...
Nicolas Sarkozy can't blame illegal immigration on the EU | Simon McMahon
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In courting far-right voters, Sarkozy has misrepresented EU policies. Border controls are France's responsibilityLast Sunday, Nicolas Sarkozy intensified his campaign for re-election as the president of France with a highly nationalistic speech in wh...
Seven Days in Europe
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused the EU of colonialism and meddling in his country’s domestic affairs. His words come after Budapest was hit with a €500 million EU funds freeze for its continued budget deficit and with legal...
The kindly, muddled Rowan Williams will do well in academia, but he was too meek to defend the Church
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Poor Rowan Williams has for the last ten years been victim to the old Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times.” Women bishops. Gay bishops. The church and the urban poor. And might it be possible to pacify British Muslims by including in...
Never mind Kony, let's Stop Clooney
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So George Clooney has been arrested outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington. After a week addressing Congress, briefing his president and bringing Sudan back into the limelight, he has taken his awareness-raising campaign to the next level by maki...
Save the NES
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The SEA is proud to be the only educational organisation affiliated to the Labour Party. The Association has a proud history. Since its inception as the National Association of Labour Teachers in the 1920s, it has grown into a broader church and in t...
