What will China's rise mean for Europe?
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For the past few decades we are witnessing a transformation on the global politics and a slow shift of power towards the East. With western economies declining and being in recession, opportunities arose for new economic powerhouses on the planet, on...
What will China's rise mean for Europe?
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For the past few decades we are witnessing a transformation on the global politics and a slow shift of power towards the East. With western economies declining and being in recession, opportunities arose for new economic powerhouses on the planet, on...
The Closer
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ROUND-UPA slightly unusual ‘Dow up, Nasdaq down’ day in US stocks – with Apple down for a fifth day. Cue much worry over what – carrier subsidy cuts?...
Danish economy minister: Stop talking about ECB
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In a discussion with the known investor George Soros tonight, the danish minister of Economic Affairs and the current chairwoman of the Ecofin minister meetings in the Council of the European Union during the danish presidency, Margrethe Vestager, l...
Breivik trial: Norway's troubled example to the world | Editorial
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Yesterday's remarkable court proceedings were the start of a long and harrowing - but necessary – phase for NorwayIn a variety of ways Norway offers a model of the kind of country that many would like Britain to emulate. On the left, there is envy...
A Scottish earthquake that could bury Ed Miliband | Ewan Crawford
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If the Scottish National party takes Glasgow in May, the shock waves will go to the top of Labour's hierarchyIn days gone by there were some comforting certainties about Glasgow life. The Duke of Wellington statue always had a traffic cone on its hea...
Encouring news from Australia: Government to shed half of Climate Change Department staff
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Another encouraging piece of news from Down Under:The federal Department of Climate Change will shed nearly half of its Canberra-based staff within the next three years as it struggles with further deep budget cuts.Public service sources say the depa...
Breivik's toxic legacy | Aslak Sira Myhre
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Despite our hopes for unity, Norwegian attitudes to Islam and Islamophobia have hardenedThe terror of Oslo and Utøya has given us Norwegians a shared trauma that will stay with us for ever. We are also bonded by our sympathy for the survivors, and t...
Philippe Poutou (NPA) : “Mes propositions tournent le dos au chauvinisme, aux replis nationalistes”
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1. Les Cabris de l’Europe : Philippe Poutou, en une phrase pourquoi êtes-vous candidat à l’élection présidentielle française de 2012 ? Philippe Poutou (NPA) : Pour faire entendre la voix d’un salarié, pas celle d’un politicien professi...
Lt Col Shalom Eisner of Israel Defense forces shame on your Nazi style thuggery
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The people of Israel will know that this blog has been at the forefront of exposing the dark face of global racism, neo Nazi thuggery and Antisemitism. Therefore the people of Israel should take note that this blogger finds...
Brussels v Budapest
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IS BRUSSELS bullying Budapest? Andrea Hossó certainly thinks so. Last week Ms Hossó, a Hungarian-born economist who now works in London's financial district, wrote a blistering attack on the "bullies of Brussels" for the Daily Mail, a British Euros...
Danish PM: Denmark "the place to be" for wind energy - But is it?
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Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt today spoke at the annual gathering of the European wind power subsidy beneficiaries - also known as the European Wind Energy Association’s Annual Event - in Copenhagen: “This is the pl...
PS host Fête du Progrès on 27 April
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On Friday 27 April the Parti Socialiste Bruxellois will host their annual Fête du Progrès. This year’s event is taking place at the Quai du K-Nal, from 19:00. Tickets are on sale at €9 (pre-sale, includes free drink) or €10 on the night.
Executive committee minutes
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Executive committee minutes from the following meetings are now available: April 2010 | May 2010 | June 2010 | September 2010 | February 2011 | March 2011 | April 2011 | September 2011 | January 2012...
Looking for something? Last fortnight's Katposts
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What Kats do on their holidays Here's a batch of posts that might have escaped the attention of even the sharpest reader, amidst all the feasting, sleeping-in, going out for long walks in the fresh air or escaping to the beach which have been known t...
Helen Clark: Putting Resilience at the Heart of the Development Agenda | UNDP
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"At UNDP, we see development challenges in the 21st Century as different in nature, scale, and scope from those of the past. If our world is to be one in which poverty is eradicated, and inequality reduced; and where growth is inclusive and produ...
Italy/Spain and US Treasury yields
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The correlation is back:That’s via RBC, which notes that this is the highest negative correlation between Spanish/Italian CDS and 10-year Treasury yields since last September,...
Are You Registered to Vote?
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Its that time again to make sure that you are on the register to vote in the Referendum on the 30th Amendment to the Constitution (the Fiscal Compact) on May 31st. The deadline for the applying to be added to the supplementary register is Monday May...
Important notice
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Thank you for visiting my website. You may have be aware I have now resigned as a Member of the European Parliament. A full statement can be found here This website will remain in place as a record of my work as an MEP. You can follow my latest activ...
Spain – sliding down the Greece-y pole
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A condensed version of the Greek tragedy in recent years: 1) A new government comes to power and finds that the true state of the public finances is much worse than the previous government admitted to. 2) They want to stay in the Eurozone because the...
Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
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From an interview of ECB board member Jörg Asmussen with the Wall Street Journal ($): WSJ: Until last December you dealt with the debt crisis from the German finance ministry. Since January you are with the ECB. How has this change affected …...
Death in Smolensk: Two years on
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Two years have passed since the tragic plane crash in Smolensk. 96 people, including the ruling President Lech Kaczyński and former President of the Polish Government in Exile Ryszard Kaczorowski were killed. We still do not know exactly what happen...
From the horse's mouth: How the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights WAS to blame for higher insurance prices
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Over a year ago now, the ECJ ruled that, from December 2012, insurers can no longer offer different products and prices to men and women based on their sex, since it would constitute discrimination. We estimated that a 17 year old female driver will...
Monday miscellany
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ACTA: whether it's needed or not, it struggles to escape the shadow of its mysterious antecedents ACTA update. Earlier this month, on 4 April, the European Commission agreed on the form that would be taken by the question which, it was decided, shoul...
Romney sells $50k victory event tickets – six months before election
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The presidential election is six months away and the presumptive Republican nominee is 11/5 against with the bookies — but Mitt Romney is already planning his inauguration celebrations. In fact, he’s so arrogant that he’s already dishing ou...
Old-fashioned expropriation
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Though the Kirchner government called it ‘hydrocarbon sovereignty’ and ‘in the national public interest’ when making its move to nationalise YPF, in which...
The EESC Budget Group
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I went this afternoon to the EESC’s Budget Group, at the invitation of its Chairman, Vice-President Jacek Krawczyk, in order to listen in to the Group’s discussions about rapid follow-up to the recommendations in the European Parliament&#...
CARDI to help get Haitian agriculture back on its feet
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The Caribbean Agriculture and Research Development Institute (Cardi) will work towards boosting the Haitian agricultural sector, seriously weakened following the earthquake two years ago. Donor funding from Caricom, Australia, the Common Fund for...
