Christopher Hitchens’s Mortality
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This evening I read Christopher Hitchens’s posthumously published collection of essays, Mortality. Cumulatively, the collection is, in Hitchen’s words, an account of ‘living dyingly’. It is full of wrily witty observation -
The Netherlands: fool's gold | Editorial
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Mark Rutte's VVD now advocates the cutting of the nation's development aid budget by two-thirds (Geert Wilders wanted all of it to go). Is this the price of putting stability before intolerance?Brussels breathed an audible sigh of relief at the resul...
An iPhone 5 release roundup…
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iTunes 11: What’s New from Mashable! by Emily Price Will the iPhone 5 Be Apple’s Best-Selling Gadget? from Mashable! by Joann Pan iPhone 5 Sells Out; Apple Delays Ship Date from Mashable! by Todd Wasserman iPhone 5 or 4S? These People Don
Mr Teagarden amongst friends and equals
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Jack Teagarden was , I think, the third jazz musician I learned to identify just by his sound on a record. As I recall, the first was Sidney Bechet, and then Bix Beiderbecke. He died in 1964: the year that I first discovered jazz music. I’ve...
Nigel Farage takes on Barroso
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UKIP´s Nigel Farage is once again worth listening to. Barroso´s "European democracy", which requires "absolute loyalty", is nothing but a call for even more Soviet style centralism:...
These photos of Kate will only add to the myth of monarchy | Tanya Gold
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It is a love of sorts. The worst nightmare for the royals is indifference. Fascination, no matter how squalid, is essentialThe Duchess of Cambridge is topless in the French magazine Closer, and it is too close. The Duchess is no feminist, or anything...
Confusion about feedbacks
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Dear reader,pay attention when you talk about feedbacks.If you want to talk about feedback meant as reward, a positive feedback is a reward a negative feedback is not.If you want to talk about feedbacks in the context of loops, the positive feedback...
How can we ensure global food security?
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Ultimately, what matters most is “bread and butter” politics. It’s easy to obsess about the current state of Europe’s economy, but there’s no shortage of other challenges facing the world right now; issues like energy s...
ECMI Caucasus forms election observatory in Georgia
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On 1 October Georgian citizens cast their votes in the parliamentary elections. Prior to, during, and after elections ECMI Caucasus’ so-called election observatory will follow the parties’ attitudes towards the country’s minorities. Continue re...
GCHQ in UK right to get serious about cyber-attacks
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The world is slowly waking up to the harsh realities of the cyber threat landscape, but there is not time to waste - warns Paul Davis...
Cyprus, 38 years later
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The Committe of the Missing People is set in front of the biggest mass grave in the Turkish-occupied territory of Cyprus, according to information provided by the Cypriot daily Liberal. The first bone remnants have started to be collected being attri...
Obronnosc i dialog techniczny - kolejna wazna nowelizacja ustawy Prawo zamowien publicznych
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Jak informuje Urzad Zamówien Publicznych, dzisiaj Sejm uchwalil ustawe o zmianie ustawy – Prawo zamówien publicznych oraz ustawy o koncesji na roboty budowlane lub uslugi.
Hillsborough in two sentences
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From today’s Guardian letters page: Tory government, dodgy coppers, Murdoch press? We’ve come a long way in 23 years, haven’t we? Phil Thorp, Bury, Lancashire [The Hillsborough Justice Campaign (HJC) was set up to help the families...
European Law Institute issues Statement on the Common European Sales Law
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Recently a working party of the European Law Institute (the ELI) has published its Statement on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Common European Sales Law. The report was approved and adopted by the European Law Institute on 7 September 2...
ECMI Kosovo co-produces TV and radio series
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ECMI Kosovo currently co-produces a number of television and radio programs. They focus on social and economic conditions of the Serb population in Kosovo. Continue reading →Source: ECMI InfoChannel @ European Centre for Minority Issues.
Bailouts, Bond-Buying: E.U. Plows Ahead!
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On September 12, 2012, a psychological threshold was passed in the E.U. toward “ever closer union.” That is to say, Europeans could only then feel a sense that come what may, the euro would be protected and the E.U., at least for the states using...
Guest blogger: Monique Clark on the Italian-American “Gravy” vs. the American “Sauce”!
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At my invitation on one of my former posts (August 12) for guest bloggers who want to share an aspect …Continue reading »...
EU Commission study on shale gas raises serious doubts about European "golden age of gas"
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A new research report written by the Joint Research Centre of the EU Commission suggests that under a best case scenario, taking into account environmental considerations, future shale gas production in Europe could help the EU maintain its dependenc...
Drinking water and irrigation override ecological arguments
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EU law theoretically does not preclude the diversion of a river, but the member state must precisely identify the adverse impact of the project on sites concerned and take all compensatory measures needed to protect the environment. This was the answ...
Electronic Display Organization History Including Scrolling and Other Things
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Douglas Engelbart, the man who invented the mouse, got nothing, while billions of dollars are being gifted to some company for banal bounce-back scrolling having next to nothing to do with the basic functions of a gadget and you wonder if the patent...
Gazprom - Myth and Reality
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Schröder and the "flawless democrat"Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder has today announced the date for the inauguration of the second Nord Stream gas pipeline: The second line of the Nord Stream gas pipeline linking Russia and Ger...
Procedures in Getting a Polish Citizenship
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The crucial point in submitting an application for a Polish citizenship is planning your Polish roots. The jus sanguinis law of the land otherwise known as the blood principle is the absolute policy of getting citizenship in Poland. On this law, it d...
Is the crisis starting to get to Juncker?
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Asked by a journalist earlier this afternoon what the significance the upcoming Troika report would have for the further Greek rescue effort, eurogroup head and Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Junker replied that:"If the donkey were a cat it co...
Can Facebook challenge Google on search?
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Google is a formidable opponent but Facebook is in a position to compete with its own search engine, and Mark Zuckerberg has every intention of grasping the opportunity, writes Andreas Pouros...
Comment on German Constitutional Court Ruling Market Positive…Or Is It? by Robert
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The complete documentation about the decision of the German Constitutional Court http://www.robertmwuner.de/verfassungsbeschwerden_esm.html...
London, Ireland
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Ushered in with no more hullabaloo than the quiet scratching of a Minister's pen, the IPKat learns that Ireland has quietly acceded to the London Agreement. Even for animals with hearing as sensitive as a Kat, a ministerial pen can be hard to detect,...
The SEC and the milliseconds
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SEC slams NYSE for sending market data to proprietary customer feeds before the one for the wider public (“the disparities ranged from single-digit milliseconds to, on occasion,...
What If Germany’s Highest Court Views ECB Bond Buys Illegal?
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Germany’s top court may have approved the creation of the euro-zone's anti-crisis firewall Wednesday but the threat that Germany may yet tear it down hasn't gone away for good.
Nick Clegg says Conservatives 'infantile' over EU
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Britain's Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister Nick Clegg describes the Conservative party as "increasingly Europhobic and isolationist" in an outspoken attack on his coalition colleagues...
Comment on German Constitutional Court Ruling Market Positive…Or Is It? by Xaviervb
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Thank you. One question though: Why drawing such a direct link between the 190bn ceiling (i.e.27% of 700bn of authorized capital or the "overall size" of the fund as you call it) and the lending capacity (500bn based on the 15% ratio...
Obituary of my partner Chris Underwood
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Below is an obituary which appeared in today’s copy of the Times of my beloved partner, Chris Underwood. If you are a subscriber you can also read the article from the Times website here. Last week the Press Gazette also … Continu...
This Week in Luxembourg
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The Grand Chamber (per Judge Bay Larsen) dealt with some issues regarding the effect of Directives that have not yet entered into force in the environment law case of Nomarchiaki Aftodioikisi Aitoloakarnanias et al. v. Ipourgos Perivallontos, Khorota...
EU must voice Tibetan human rights concerns with China
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Since 2009, more than 50 Tibetan people have set themselves on fire in protest at Draconian Chinese rule – reveals Vincent Metten of the International Campaign for Tibet...
