Pakistani Olympians hosted two minutes from Aidan Burley office
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Scrapbook wonders how Aidan Burley’s complaint that the London 2012 opening ceremony was “multi-cultural crap” will be received by the Pakistani Olympic delegation — whose only medal hope, the hockey team, stayed in BurleyR...
The average cost overrun for producing the Olympic Games has been more than 200% since 1976
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Will Jennings explores the history of vast cost overruns for Olympic Games. He isolates three common factors behind grossly underestimated costs since 1976: the bid process, uncontrolled growth in project specifications, and the failure to iden...
Russia: Senator Wants Criminal Case Against Satirical Blogger
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Novgorod Senator Dmitri Krivitskii has accused [ru] local blogger Vadim Beriashvili of violating the Russian criminal code's infamous Article 282 [en], alleging that he incited hatred against “a social group” when he wrote [ru] fa...
Olympics on the Kingston Big Screen
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It was perhaps perverse for someone like myself who lives so near to the London Olympics stadium to go right across town to the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames to watch last night’s opening ceremony, but I’m glad I did. Kingston L...
We Told You So: How U.S. economists predicted the Euro Crisis
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UPDATE: The original version of this post was lost following a hacking attempt on this website. New security and daily backups are in place so with any luck this will no longer be a problem in the future. It has … Continue reading →...
Ouray, Ouray
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We set off to the south early today, at first towards Ouray, following the Gunnison River. Off to our left were the mesas – table top mountains – but these soon gave way to more traditional (or familiar) alpine-type areas. This area is kn...
European biodiversity
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Reblogged from alleuropean: Back in April the EU adopted its report on biodiversity. This was then supported in the European Parliament. Now, the EC has put out to tender contracts for … Continue reading →...
CTA Weblog and weekly bulletin
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Dear Reader, Thank you for visiting the CTA Brussels Weblog and reading the weekly newsletter! Many EU and ACP offices in Brussels will be suspending their operations as the staff go on summer vacation. As a result, we will briefly halt the publi...
Main ACP-EU events for the week from 3/09 to 9/09/2012
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European Parliament - 3 September: Committee on Foreign Affairs - 3 September: Committee on Development - 3 September: Committee on International Trade - 3 September: Committee on Industry, Research and Energy - 3 September: Committee on Agriculture...
Main ACP-EU events for the week from 3/09 to 9/09/2012
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European Parliament - 3 September: Committee on Foreign Affairs - 3 September: Committee on Development - 3 September: Committee on International Trade - 3 September: Committee on Industry, Research and Energy - 3 September: Committee on Agriculture...
Our video guest: Robert van Otterdijk, FAO
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In the recent weeks, we posted some of the interviews that we conducted during the course of the Briefing on Food Losses and Food Waste. Robert van Otterdijk, the Agro-Industry Officer, Rural Infrastructure & Agro-Industries Division, FAO, was th...
Our video guest: Robert van Otterdijk, FAO
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In the recent weeks, we posted some of the interviews that we conducted during the course of the Briefing on Food Losses and Food Waste. Robert van Otterdijk, the Agro-Industry Officer, Rural Infrastructure & Agro-Industries Division, FAO, was th...
The opportunities of climate-smart agriculture for ACP countries
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The next Brussels Briefing will take place on 27th September 2012 and will be on the opportunities presented by climate-smart agriculture, or “agriculture that sustainably increases productivity resilience (adaptation), reduces/removes green...
The opportunities of climate-smart agriculture for ACP countries
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The next Brussels Briefing will take place on 27th September 2012 and will be on the opportunities presented by climate-smart agriculture, or “agriculture that sustainably increases productivity resilience (adaptation), reduces/removes green...
EU Counter-Terrorism Law: Pre-emption & the Rule of Law
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Some readers may be interested in the recent publication of the monograph, EU Counter-Terrorism Law: Pre-emption & the Rule of Law, by Dr Cian Murphy of the Dickson Poon School of Law. The book is the first sustained study of EU legislation in t...
EU Counter-Terrorism Law: Pre-emption & the Rule of Law
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Some readers may be interested in the recent publication of the monograph, EU Counter-Terrorism Law: Pre-emption & the Rule of Law, by Dr Cian Murphy of the Dickson Poon School of Law. The book is the first sustained study of EU legislation in t...
Who really runs the EU?
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The Berlaymont – EU Commission headquarters. The kinds of faceless offices where many imagine “Brussels” decides things. UPDATE: This post was originally published on 19/07/2012. It has been republished as the original was lost following a hack...
Romneyshambles
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The US Democrats have wasted no time in making capital out of Romney’s Olympian ineptitude. And who can blame them? Meanwhile US comedian Stephen Colbert urged Romney to “stay strong.” “Remember, your next stop is Israel. Keep up the cha...
23 crucial days for Greece
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On 20th August, the Greek government will have to borrow 3.2 billion from one arm of the Eurozone (from the EFSF) in order to repay another (the ECB). Yet Greece is insolvent. The very idea of an insolvent entity borrowing more from a community, like...
23 crucial days for Greece
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On 20th August, the Greek government will have to borrow 3.2 billion from one arm of the Eurozone (from the EFSF) in order to repay another (the ECB). Yet Greece is insolvent. The very idea of an insolvent entity borrowing more from a community, like...
Energiewende: Stoppt den Bioenergie-Wahnsinn
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“Kraftstoffe vom Acker können den Klimawandel nicht aufhalten. Sie verschärfen stattdessen das globale Hungerproblem, attestiert nun die Nationale Wissenschaftsakademie.” (Source: Die Zeit) A comprehensive new study published by the German Nati...
Will the referendum in Romania change something?
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Romania holds a referendum Sunday on impeaching a suspended President Traian Basescu. Regardless of the result would you say the referendum can solve anything, or not and why? Answer: Sergiu Miscoiu, Executive Director, Centre for Political Studie...
Will the referendum in Romania change something?
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Romania holds a referendum Sunday on impeaching a suspended President Traian Basescu. Regardless of the result would you say the referendum can solve anything, or not and why? Answer: Sergiu Miscoiu, Executive Director, Centre for Political Studie...
United Opposition welcome Svoboda to their ranks – Welcome to the far, far right!
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Oh dear! It’s a bit like a car crash in slow motion. You know its coming and you try to prepare yourself for the impact and yet when it comes you are still not ready for it. The United Opposition have welcomed aboard the good ship “anyb...
CTA Weblog and weekly bulletin
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Dear Reader, Thank you for visiting the CTA Brussels Weblog and reading the weekly newsletter! Many EU and ACP offices in Brussels will be suspending their operations as the staff go on summer vacation. As a result, we will briefly halt the publi...
Genocide is redundant: the long and the short of it according to law professor
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Referring to ICTY’s Radovan Karadzic trial and the June 28 acquittal of one charge of genocide pertaining to crimes committed by Serbs across several municipalities between March and December 1992 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Timothy W. Walters, asso...
Review: The Dark Knight Rises.
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Christopher Nolan’s third installment in the Batman trilogy is, arguably, the greatest superhero movie yet made. Simple as that. And yet, and here’s the funny thing, the movie is not as much about a superhero as the effect he has on a cit...
Scrapbook’s top five: our most popular posts this week
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The most clicked stories of the week were: Daily Mail tries to blame Olympics “transport chaos” on Muslims Homophobic bus tycoon threatens to “take poison” over routes row Louise Mensch has at least 17,000 fake Twitter followe...
EU2020 competitiveness stars and flops
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The blog post EU Single Market deepening mentioned the World Economic Forum (WEF) competitiveness rankings of EU member states 2012. When we think about the crisis and the threats in the eurozone, is it only a coincidence that the WEF ranks Greece...
Oldies’ juke box
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From The Economist: THE kids these days play their music too loud and it all sounds the same. Old fogies familiar with such sentiments will be happy to hear that maths bears them out. An analysis published in Scientific Reports by Joan Serrà of the...
PA professionals: picking the right “influential” people
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A Public Affairs staple, as with all fields of communications, is to seek out “influential” people who support your side of the story and are willing to say so. This gives you and your side of the story credibility, so the logic goes. So who is u...
Are institutions thermodynamic systems?
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I had an exchange on twitter with @noahpinion on this topic. Even if his knowledge about thermodynamics is better then mine (well, that's not so difficult!) I still feel unsatisfied. The whole discussion revolved about the "micro-foundations" of ther...
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