French feminists join campaign against EU Fiscal Compact
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French feminists have joined a growing campaign against a new EU treaty arguing that women would be in the frontline of a scary new world of ‘permanent austerity’ . The Fiscal Compact, set to be tabled for a vote in the National Assembly...
Corporations and Political Debate: Taxation & Regulation
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Under an American judicial doctrine, the corporation is a legal person, whose wealth translated into political influence is speech protected by the first Amendment. It is no matter that the corporation is an artifice constructed by the state for econ...
BÜRGER and Bürgerbräu
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Dinner This Kat loves beer and burgers, and in an ideal world, a burger and a beer at the same time. So it was with a slightly distracted mind that the General Court's recent decision in Case T-460/11 Scandic Distilleries SA v OHIM finding a likelih...
Moscow closes US Agency for International Development (USAID) mission in Russia
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Agency for International Development U.S. ( USAID ) has ended its work in Russia, at the request of the Russian side, it said in a press statement issued by the State Department, without specifying the reasons that generated the request of the a...
The Closer
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ROUND-UPFedEx shares fell 3.1 per cent after it cut its forecast for the 2013 fiscal year, an outlook which helped to send the rest of the market struggling to post gains. The...
Russia: Continued Scandals Plague the Registration of Opposition Candidates
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Earlier today, blogger Maksim Kononenko highlighted [ru] the Coordinating Council candidacy of convicted terrorist and neonazi Nikolai Korolev, who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of fifteen people in 2006. On the election's offi...
A “Federation of nation States” and other keywords of the State of Union address
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On Wednesday 12th September 2012, the President of the European Commission (EC), José Manuel Barroso, addressed the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), during their plenary session, to deliver the annual State of Union address. This initiativ...
Germans are finally losing patience with the euro racket
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Forty-nine per cent of Germans, according to Die Welt, think they would be better off without the EU, as against only 32 per cent who think they would suffer. Who'd have thought it, eh? Germans being fleeced by the EU? Es braucht keinen Geist, Gnäd...
David Viniar retiring as Goldman CFO
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From the bank on Tuesday…NEW YORK, September 18, 2012 — The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced that Harvey M. Schwartz, the global co-head of the Securities Division,...
Russia: Omsk Telecom Temporarily Bans YouTube
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For roughy seven hours earlier today, Rostelecom's customers in Omsk were unable to access YouTube. The short-lived ban prompted a flurry of panicked online activity, including urgent tweets [ru] from the city's most vocal netizen, Viktor K...
The EU Needs an Avantgarde
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Unconventional times call for unconventional solutions . As painful as the process of adjustment will be ,it is inescapable. The sooner it happens, the better.
Part-time work helps employment
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Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute in Munich have recently published a comparative study on European labor markets during the period of economic crisis. It has presented a [...]...
Wylaczenie stosowania Dyrektywy Obronnej ze wzgledu na koniecznosc ochrony informacji niejawnych
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Ze wzgledu na kwestie zwiazane z bezpieczenstwem panstwa, zamówienia publiczne w sektorze obronnym zawsze charakteryzuja sie duza wrazliwoscia. Próba znalezienia zlotego srodka miedzy otwarciem rynku na konkurencje, przy jednoczesnym za...
As trouble brews in East Asia – the EU is quiet
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The Head of FRIDE’s Agora Asia-Europe programme, Gauri Khandekar, has written an opinion piece for EUobserver about the ongoing dispute between China and Japan in the East China Sea. The original version can be found here, and the text is also...
Russia: SocialCamp, Crowdsourcing and Open Data
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A SocialCamp Russia 'unconference' took place in Moscow from 7th to 9th of September. Over the course of three days social activists spoke about projects aimed at raising awareness, improving mutual understanding, promoting philanthropy, and much mor...
A Cyprus cultural evening at the EESC
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The opening of the exhibition was followed by a Cyprus cultural evening, with our President, Staffan Nilsson, welcoming the Permanent Representative, Kornelios Korneliou and Androulla Vassiliou, the (Cypriot) European Commissioner for Education, Cult...
Kelvin MacKenzie doorstepped over Hillsborough
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He didn’t like it up ‘im From Alex Thompson’s Channel 4 blog: Mr MacKenzie has not given any interviews at all since the publication of last week’s Hillsborough report. Channel 4 News repeatedly called him requesting an interview.
Kelvin MacKenzie doorstepped over Hillsborough
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He didn’t like it up ‘im (-self): From Alex Thompson’s Channel 4 blog: Mr MacKenzie has not given any interviews at all since the publication of last week’s Hillsborough report. Channel 4 News repeatedly called him requesting an i...
FOMC doves speak first
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A cheat sheet for the hawk-dove breakdown on the FOMC (click to enlarge, via Credit Suisse):Two of the dove-iest doves gave speeches today, expressing support for what the committee did last week....
Envision Cyprus – Memories Alive
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This evening, back at the EESC’s Jacques Delors headquarters building, an art exhibition, Envision Cyprus – Memories Alive, was opened by the Committee’s Vice-President, Anna Maria Darmanin, and the Permanent Representative of Cypru...
What the tomb of the unknown man tells us | Peter Thompson
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He was buried in the Italian town where he died 15 years ago and given a headstone by a local man. It's a story that says much about what it is to be human"There is always a benefactor looking after you."This was the message inscribed on the tomb of...
New Tension Over Russian Media Law
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A move by Russian authorities to ban a trailer for the anti-Islamic film has revived tensions over a controversial new media law and has led the communications minister to warn that it could result in all of YouTube being blocked.
'Lack of ambition' in EU energy directive
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Ordinary consumers were often forgotten in the debate over the Energy Efficiency Directive that was passed by MEPs last week – and some fundamental flaws meant it fell short of what it could have achieved, writes Monique Goyens...
Bulgaria butts into Scots booze plans
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MINIMUM pricing plans for booze have come under fire from the Bulgarian Government. The 50p minimum unit price for alcohol was passed by MSPs in Holyrood earlier this year. But the Bulgarian Government has objected to the European Commission about th...
EU dependence on foreign oil and gas not sustainable
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Europe's reliance on imported energy results in geo-strategic problems related to foreign policy - given that Russia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria are the major suppliers - says Britta Thomsen...
British politicians are praising Germany: but is it just a passing fad?
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Labour figures have praised the 'German model' and Tories admire Berlin's fiscal prudence. Behind the scenes, it's a little more complicatedHistorians of the future may have to conclude that Anglo-German relations peaked in 2012. Britain's political...
The OMT and ‘limits’
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Well, this is good news… Reuters have corrected their copy on what had sounded like confusing remarks made on Monday by Luc Coene, Belgian central bank governor, about the...
EESC September plenary: the cost of non-Europe
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This afternoon’s plenary saw the debate and adoption of a keynote Committee opinion on the cost of non-Europe. The chairman of the study group that produced the opinion was Henri Malosse, the President of the Employers’ Group. The rapport...
