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Tony Blair will not become the first EU President
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As Julien Frisch correctly points out in fact it is not the position of EU President that Blair would be running for in any case – indeed quite a cock-up for Le Monde. In any case, Charlemagne over at the Economist has rushed to inform of that...
The Obamagasm shadow
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Reading some comments and blog posts, I came across the wonderful word. “Obamagasm“ The magic of hope, joy, explosive power, change, challenge, and mystery; all in one word. And although I am not a skeptic, I can’t help but be conce...
ALDE leaves out the boring stuff… MEPs apparently not squandering all their money :)
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Update: Brusselsblogger went into the trouble to question ALDE on the matter (original post in quote further below). It seems that in the effort to make the pages of the press, ALDE left out some important details. The very fact that there is interac...
Obama Election: EU Reactions
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With Obama’s Coronation as the new President of the United States of America, Europe was quick to react. A collection of reactions can be found below: European Commission: COMMISSION PRESIDENT BARROSO CONGRATULATES SENATOR BARACK OBAMA Comm...
Palin prank is sad indeed…
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Sarah Palin was pranked last night by a Canadian radio station pretending to be French President Sarkozy. The pranker talked about hunting, Joe the plumber, Carla Bruni, Dick Cheney, and even went as far as to make references to the “documentar...
Who’s Nailin’ Palin? Flynt porn hits Palin…
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So Larry Flynt, porn mogul is launching a film entitled “Who’s Nailin’ Palin”. A teaser of the film was leaked on you-tube last night, but was pulled by this morning by claims of copyright by the Larry Flynt Productions compan...
Barroso Bus Campaign – Why not…
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Following up from Jon Worth’s Post about the Atheist campaign on UK Busses, I thought this little bit of satyr would be funny… Posted in Eurotalk, Politique Tagged: Atheist Campaign, Barroso, Barroso Campaign, EU, EU affairs, EU Elections...
Virtual Strip Search – Giving security a whole new dimension… Hello Genitalia!!!
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Press Release – A proposal to introduce body scanners at European airports – which show a person’s naked image and genitalia – raises serious concerns about human rights, privacy and personal dignity, Philip Bradbourn MEP, Conservative justic...
MyParl.eu – No take-off, No crash-and-burn
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Gawain Towler has announced the death of MyParl.eu with the followup of Jon Worth . The project was simply a waste of money. A project which didn’t take off so it doesn’t crash land! Because the project would simply crash-and-burn. Somet...
Wanted: The Lisbon Treaty
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I wanted to see what everybody thinks… Though I don’t expect a huge voter turnout… Just looking back on some emails, I recieved mixed messages: The President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, welcomed as a stron...
President Kaczynski Cartoon…
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With Poland’s President Kaczynski having stirred the waters with nearly every one of his visits to Brussels, his government is now literally begging him not to come to Brussels next week for the EU Summit. Little gold star for Foreign Minister...
Golden Expat Allowance – Welcome to the European Commission
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Not to anger all those very good people working in the European Commission- but I think giving expat allowance is simply ridiculous. From what I understand, and perhaps i’m wrong, people are paid expat allowance of a minimum of 400 or so euros...
Is Microsoft paying in barter? Or… Time to go Open Source
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A few years ago Microsoft got hit by a monster fine of about 500 million Euros which was then jacked up to 900 million earlier this year. Microsoft failed to comply with Antitrust legislation which is quite strict on a theoretical level. See Wikipedi...
Mandelson back in “action”
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Peter Mandelson gave trade concessions worth up to £50m a year to Russia’s richest man who has entertained him on his superyacht. Following my post Bye Bye Mandelson… Back to Business… I found this on a fellow bloggers site. Apparently, M...
More money into markets = stocks going to hell
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Countries are putting up billions like they have bottomless pockets. The stocks are still however, falling.. lower and lower… and lower… (see below from Yahoo finance). Maybe, just maybe, the approach might be wrong?!?!?!?! FTSE 100...
Barroso is no Delors… Europe needs someone better
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A conversation with Jon Worth after his post “Brown, Barroso and the Baroness” has prompted me to write this post… The aim of the blogosphere is to be able to share thoughts and ideas; my thought today is that Barroso should not be...
Obama vs McCain - Dirty politics… or Just kids having fun
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I came across this video on a republic blog. The video portrays youths training and showcasing their I-heart-Obama routine. Lots of blogs have put this up as democrat propaganda, saying Obama is training the youth with a nazi-youth methodology. Being...
EU Elections - Opportunity to go transnational for parties
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MEP Andrew Duff has set about to change things up a little bit in the way EU elections are run. Amongst other things, he proposes that a number of MEPs from lists put together by the European parties to be voted on at the EU-level and not the memb...
First Russian Checkpoint Dismantled… A necessary step.
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And so we have a step for the better… But god knows that things aren’t great. Besides- what’s the difference… Moving 50-100-200kms away just means it takes a few hours for the troops to get back there “if necessary”...
Bye Bye Mandelson… Back to Business…
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“Business leaders have welcomed Peter Mandelson’s return to the political fold, characterising the incoming business secretary as just the sort of “big hitter” needed during the current economic instability.” Says the G...
