Quo Vadis Europa? – Drei Schritte hin zu mehr Integration
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Die gegenwärtige Krise in Europa, ob man sie nun Eurokrise oder (Staats-)Schuldenkrise nennt, hatte für lange Zeit die Debatte über die Zukunft der EU und Wege der weiteren Integration in den Hintergrund gedrängt. Gipfeltreffen, Sondersitzungen,...
One way for the EU to move forward is ...
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The main mistake of Maastricht Treaty was using EMU as step towards Political Union whereas full Political Union was/is actually a prerequisite for EMU (aka the Euro). So how does one repair the mistakes of the Treaty of Maastricht? Well, not...
Is it time to vote Green?
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At last month’s Rio+20 summit, world leaders chalked up what for many people was a failure too far on the environment. The lack of binding agreements on anything, and the general lack of urgency shown by governments, led Greenpeace chief Kumi N...
“Stop the Presses” | Youropa’s press review #8
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In the Sunday media review, Youropa’s editors dig into a week of EU coverage and pick a few pieces that caught their attention. Some of the most interesting stories from international newspapers, handpicked by Youropa. ...
Teflon Terry dodges another bullet
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by representingthemambo Above: sadly, this guy wasn’t being ironic……… Regular readers of this here blog (ie Representing The Mambo) won’t be hugely surprised to be reading another piece about John Terry. After all, he has certainly been in...
Unwilling European unionists | Political union: time to take sides | Blog
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Europe continues to lurch toward ever-greater union, but few ever make a positive case for it, says Jason Walsh. Eurogroup head and prime minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker has come out in favour of an EU president – a real, elected-...
Does the case of Abdus Salam tell us something about Pakistan’s future?
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According e. g. this report The Guardian the one and only Pakistani Nobel laureate Abdus Salam is largely scorned in his homeland. Question: Would you say that Pakistan can change in the future to fully accept people like Abdus Salam or not, and why?
Farewell to Bush House
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This week, the BBC World Service completed its move out of Bush House in the Aldwych to the state-of-the-art new news and current affairs HQ attached to Broadcasting House in Portland Place. As I drove past Bush House yesterday afternoon, a lump stu...
The Po Valley’s farmhouse blues
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In our second guest post, Italian journalist Carlo Cerutti looks at a changing agriculture in the Po Valley, Northern Italy. An EU directive that searches to promote the production of renewable energy sources is damaging the sustainability of farmi...
Eminent Domain and Sanctity of Contract: Mortgage-Relief as “Dangerous”
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With about half of the mortgages “under water” (i.e., being more than the houses are worth in terms of market value), government officials in San Bernardino County floated a proposal in 2012 to use California’s sovereign power of eminent domain...
Hollande says UK’s future lies within Europe
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David Cameron last month said Britain would roll out the red carpet for wealthy French nationals, but yesterday rolled out the red carpet for François Hollande’s visit to the UK, in his first official trip here&n...
Browser Performance upon Embedding Google Groups LawPundit Forum in Blogger: Gecko Wins (Firefox and Google Chrome), Opera Follows with a Bug, and Internet Explorer (Trident) Last with an Error Message: plus We Used Lunascape As the Toggle-Capable Test En
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Update on "the Browser Wars" as we just embedded the new Google Groups EUPundit, EULegal and LawPundit into the corresponding EUPundit, EULegal and LawPundit Blogger blogs. What happened browser-wise? Some strange things. Take it for what it is wor...
Castle man
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Early next year Czechs will vote for their president: the first direct election for the head of state in the country's history. In the past, the person in Prague castle has always been chosen by politicians. Now the race is on to replace Václav...
Online habits vary: social technographics applied to Brussels
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Forrester’s Social Technographics Profile Tool is superb; take a look if you haven’t previously. In short, it breaks down social users into different categories, ranging from inactives (don’t use social) to creators (produce and publish stuff).
Das Steuerabkommen zwischen Deutschland und der Schweiz
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Das Steuerabkommen zwischen Deutschland und der Schweiz ist tot. In der jetzt vorliegenden Form hat es keine Chance auf eine Mehrheit im Bundesrat, und das ist auch gut so… Mal abgesehen davon, dass politische Motive nicht per se ehrenrührig s...
The Golden Straightjacket and the Choke Effect in Practice
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This past week the Council on Hemispheric Affairs published an article on the Obama Administration’s actions to depressurize the relationship between Argentina and the “vulture funds” that made profit off Argentina’s default from their 2001 e...
Journey into the best Italy
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Here we are! Italia Viva has just started from Spoleto, a beautiful town in the heartland of the Beautiful Umbria, in Central Italy. Italia Viva is a trip around Italy aimed at visiting and supporting the Best experiences in Italy (www.primapersona.e...
Cohen on modern young Muslims
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Nick Cohen has written some shite over the years and his uncritical enthusiasm for liberal interventionism is not shared by anyone at Shiraz. But, like the little girl in the poem, when he’s good, he’s very, very good. If you don’t...
Multilingual Communication Is Easier With Simultaneous Translation Equipment
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Language has always been one of the biggest stumbling-blocks between people. The modern advent of simultaneous translation equipment is a great help in reducing this communication gap. The development of Improved global communication is facilitated w...
The European identity: a fundament of a political Union
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“How European do you feel?” is a project by Christos Floros, former student at the European School of Luxembourg, on his blog wordscover.me. Don’t hesitate to participate and send him/us your video answers. He leads us to think about the topic...
Of brands and bunk: the Yougov BrandIndex hits town
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It's a tough life if youare a branded Kat ... For all those readers who like quick statistics (you know who you are!), the results of the Midyear 2012 YouGov BrandIndex which were released earlier this week. The methodology is simple. Respondents...
Greece's Debt Paradox
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There is a well-founded "leitmotif" in Greek politics since 1980: when a party governs it tends to address national interest when declaring privatization of public-led institutions. On the other hand, opposition is vaguely talking about depreciating...
