Young David Sears
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This evening, with the day’s session safely out of the way, I happily joined the UK members of the European Economic and Social Committee in a central Brussels restaurant. I had received a kind invitation to join them to celebrate the 70th birt...
The Closer
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ROUND-UPUS stocks did not have a contingency plan for European tape-bombs. Shares were hit hard by news of preparation for Grexit, only to rally late on hope that the EU summit...
EUphoria for Swedish PM Reinfeldt
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On the doorstep of Wednesday’s informal EU summit, leaders gathered for another high-level meeting to search for the elusive combination of growth and jobs that will end the continent’s woes. As they ran through the standard script – spending w...
Bloggers meeting the Cyprus Council Presidency: My five cents
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Soon Cyprus – the island presidency – will take over the EU Council Presidency from Denmark. And they have proposed a bloggers meeting on 12 July in Brussels, a meeting that should bring together bloggers from Cyprus and other European bloggers,...
Worry about idiocy not inflation (part 4) - Helping Greek bureaucrats not businesses
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Dear reader,the author here has to confess that he is currently restraining himself not to write several articles per day whenever another idiocy of the eurozone is brought to his attention.One short blog entry needs to focus on the current approach...
What Bagehot said…
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Brad DeLong’s note on the first decades of central banking practice and theory didn’t get as much attention as his paper on fiscal policy at the zero bound (co-authored...
Staats- und Regierungschefs der Europäischen Union
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Beim Abendessen im Kreise der Staats- und Regierungschefs der Europäischen Union dürfte Angela Merkel nicht alles gemundet haben. Vor allem Frankreichs neuer Präsident François Hollande brachte keine politischen Delikatessen mit. Sofortige Euro-B...
Ten reasons for an open access scientific publishing policy in EU´s Horizon 2020
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The EU should promote the sharing and dissemination of scientific knowledge European taxpayers pay for the research and, therefore the public should have access to the results. Open access will quickly provide professionals and policy makers with cru...
A lesson from Serbia | Misha Glenny
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As the Balkan economies struggle, the temptation for nationalist solutions will grow. Europe must take noteTwo weeks after the political earthquake in Greece, Serbia has now registered a powerful aftershock with the defeat of its incumbent president,...
Italy: Army Evicts Art Workers from Occupied Building
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The art worker's collective Macao in Milan, Italy were evicted from the second building they occupied in less than a month by army and police. The group aims to free more public space for the arts and highlight their precarious work conditions.
Wednesday whimsies
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The IPKat and Merpel: on thescent of a technical solution-- or on their way to Wordpress? An open letter to Google. If anyone from Google is reading this, or has any influence with anyone who works for Google, can they please assist? This blogger ha...
"Why Do Economies Stop Growing?"
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“Many of the growth strategies tried around the world have turned out to have built-in limitations or decelerators – what one might call elements of unsustainability.” Absolute must-read article in Project Syndicate by 2001 Economics Nobel laur...
Clean energy as culture war
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“Conservatives say the American way is to use more and pay less, Walmart-style. No wonder they’re scared about the shift to clean energy and sustainability.” Good article by David Roberts on the Grist about how clean energy is quickly repla...
Rewrite the Azerbaijan Narrative
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We need to do a better job of considering Azerbaijan's role much more broadly than just an energy powerhouse that often gets a free ride from the West.
Putin's gang
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SINCE last September we have known that, come inauguration day in May 2012, Vladimir Putin would return to Russia's presidency, swapping jobs with Dmitry Medvedev, who would take up where Mr Putin left off as prime minister.Yet despite the months of...
Candidate photoshops his Jewish mother out of leaflets for non-Jews
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A United States congressman fighting for re-election has been caught photoshopping his Jewish mother out of a picture on leaflets going to non-Jewish voters. Voters with Jewish surnames in California’s 27th congressional district would receive...
Finally, good news from Greece: Greek beaches cleaner than French and German bathing sites!
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Among the beaches on the French Riviera several are quite dirtyFinally some good news from the European Union - and Greece! 92.1 % of bathing waters in the European Union now meet the minimum water quality standards set by the Bathing Water Dire...
This EU referendum malarky
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Sometimes I am old fashioned. Despite all its flaws, I still see no better way of governing a country than representative democracy. Almost all of the advanced societies in the world use that system. These representative democracies of course need to...
EP to help save bluefin tuna
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With the aim of further reducing illegal catches of bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and therefore ensuring more sustainable development of stocks, MEPs recently backed new international measures, which were agreed a...
The EU's Big Five (& Austria): where are they at ahead of tonight's summit?
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The 'growth dinner' of EU leaders is about to start. No big decisions are expected (this is a meeting of EU leaders after all) but here's an overview of where the different big countries are at:GermanyBerlin remains fiercely opposed to Eurobond...
