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The Week in Bloggingportal: ACTA, the crisis, and a half-naked EU Commissioner
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To make a long story short: The best post I read during the week was L’Europe Libre’s observations on a speech Merkel held China on the topic of Europe. Besides this short geopolitical-philosophical dissection of the queen’s speech...
Three Years in Bloggingportal
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Back in January 2009, our little experiment called Bloggingportal.eu officially started and today, three years later, we are still here. Three years in the life of a social media project is long, especially with the world of social media rapi...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Schulzinisation, Orbanisation and the downgrading of the Union
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The week in triples (1 ) First the Union got downgraded. Then the European Parliament was Schulzinised. The day after, it was Orbanised. (2 ) Diana Wallis will leave the European Parliament. Commissioner Barnier may leave the European Commission. US...
Week in Bloggingportal: Always ask someone else to proof-read your constitution
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“From post-Communist to present-Orban: People’s Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Hungary, the Orbarony of Hungary.” Picture: BY CC Európa Pont It looks like it’s going to be another interesting year for the EU (c...
The Week in Bloggingportal: It’s all about image(s)
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(Move the mouse over the images to read the comments; click on the images to get to the blog posts) Picture credits: KT zu Guttenberg by CSIS: Center for Strategic & International Studies | BY-N...
Week in Bloggingportal: #We’ll meet again…(?)#
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Europe: Heartbroken. BY CC RTP (Really Terrible Photographer) What a week for Europe. We’ve had a new fiscal compact, and it seems we’ll all remember the day Britain left. Or should that be, the day the UK fell out of the...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Summary without Cameron
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We will ignore him. He’s not among us anymore. He’s to the Union what the Union is to him. Even if he couldn’t have done anything else, it is clear: He and his country are on the edge now. He said goodbye, but we do not react to h...
Week in Bloggingportal: Would a fiscal union by another name smell as sweet?
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BY CC jaldrome Fiscal union is the order of the day, and some – including some with the money to boost the markets, though they seem to do that after every Euro announcement (maybe they just like Merkel’s soothing voice?) – t...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Iceberg ahead!
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When you listen to economic journalists these days, all you hear is “Iceberg ahead!“. They announce the perfect storm, not least after Germany failed to sell some of its bonds offered at a record-low interest rate this week. These news cl...
The Week in Bloggingportal: No comment
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Almost 60 blog post have been promoted by our editors during the last week, and we’ve selected relevant quotes from each of these posts for this week’s “The Week in Bloggingportal” without any further comment: “Never bef...
The Week in Bloggingportal: A Greek and German Tragedy
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After the gouls and ghosties of Halloween, we get a week of high drama. EU politics has rarely been so exciting… though I expect most EU bloggers would prefer a slightly more boring (and slightly safer) script to work from. Like the Gre...
Week in Bloggingportal: Witching Hour
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BY CC typicalgenius. Tomorrow is Hallowe’en, an old Celtic holiday when spirits were close and had to be warded off. Nowadays, we make our own frightening spectres, like that of European financial catastrophe: well, we’re romantic...
The Week in Bloggingportal: No Panic on Planet Brussels
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Hey you, big politicians, big media, big players, you would like us bloggers to talk about European summits and party pre-summits, European budgets and Greek debts, Eurozone crisis and Eurozone panic, wouldn’t you? You think we shoul...
Week in Bloggingportal: Euro Default Mode
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CC BY Kevan. You might say “crisis”, but in Brussels it’s pronounced “default mode”: yet again the Euro has been at the top of the agenda, and it will remain there for the weeks and months ahead. While Slovakia ki...
The Week in Bloggingportal: They just can’t kill the beast
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It was Jean Quatremer who started the week with a reference to Hotel California, and so we could not resist also to reference this song in the title of this Week in Bloggingportal. In fact, JQ’s musical citation was not the only cultural refere...
The Week in Bloggingportal: The State of the Union (euroblogosphere style)
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It’s not every day that one of the presidents of the European Union is trying to imitate the US president, and this year’s State of the European Union (SOTEU) sounded like a certain José Manuel Durão Barroso really wanted to impress the...
Barroso Buzzword Bingo 2011
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Creative Commons BY Annie Mole. It’s that time of year again, with Barroso’s State of the [European] Union address. At 9:00 a.m. CET on Wednesday this week, Barroso will make his speech to the European Parliament, setting out his v...
Week in Bloggingportal – Sending out an SO€
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Creative Commons BY Jayel Aheram Once again there have been calls for all hands to man the Euro battle stations as SO€s – Save our Eurozones – have been broadcasted, with apparently only 6 weeks to save the Euro. Saving it isn...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Welcome to Silly Season!
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Summertime is in the air! EU politics takes a long, sleepy break as the parliament goes on holiday and journalists struggle to fill their papers with stories. Let “silly season” commence, then, as the media circus starts reporting non-sto...
Week in Bloggingportal: Roll up, roll up!
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BY CC Phillie Casablanca Roll up, roll up, get your Week in Bloggingportal News! (Or should we rename it the Bloggingportal on Sunday?). Great news and comment without having to hack into phones, and we always quote – or link – our sources...
