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Week in Bloggingportal: Eurosceptic Chic
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BY CC Euro Realist Newsletter Europe’s turned Eurosceptic, is the not-entirely-surprising conclusion of an examination of attitudes to the EU over the crisis. So Euroscepticism was big in the Euroblogosphere this week. We&rs...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Not in the Mood to Slaughter the Sacred Cows
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“What shall we do to save Europe and give a future to Europeans? We need to make a U-turn: slaughter the sacred cows, not the black swan.” (Filippo Addarii, Dating 4 Good) What’s your mood today? Looking for a helpless cry for a &ld...
Week in Bloggingportal: Exercises in Democracy
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BY CC FutUndBeidl It may be a year until the European elections, but with Croatia joining the EU in July, Croats are heading to the polls today to elect their representatives to the European Parliament. It’s not been the bes...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Cyprus in (y)our heart
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Let’s put it like this: Adrenaline that comes with jumping from a cliff, as the Cyprus tourism video suggests as its first message, definitely was part of this week in Bloggingportal.eu. The tentative Cyprus deal agreed last week that was...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Show me the money, Jean Monnet and Margaret Thatcher!
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Dear Jean Monnet, dear Margaret Thatcher, we here at our idealistic European project called Bloggingportal.eu (that’s for you, Jean) that functions without any government money (that’s for you, Mararet), we hope you both had a modestly co...
Week in Bloggingportal: Money, Money, Money
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CC BY ppcv This week on the Euroblogopshere saw the scandal in Spain, where the ruling Popular Party and Prime Minister Rajoy are claimed to be part of a party funding and tax dodge. Meanwhile, the idea of a European Semester Off...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Leadership and unemployment in Europe
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In the week we turned 4, in the week Cameron held his speech on Europe, in the week Jeroen Dijsselbloem became head of the Eurogroup, in the week the EU adopted the Financial Transaction Tax, in the week the Franco-German friendship turned 50, the Eu...
Week in Bloggingportal: The Prime Minister’s Speech
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David Cameron, making a different speech CC BY DFID – UK Department for International Development The big buzz about the Euroblogosphere this week was the long-awaited speech of Prime Minister David Cameron. It was bound to be a car...
The Year 2012 in Bloggingportal: Post-Nobel and Pre-Apocalyptic
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Our children and grandchildren might remember this year as the year in which the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for its past achievements, a major topic in the euroblogosphere. It was a year in which, despite the Maya’s and the Euro...
Week in Bloggingportal: A Piece of Peace
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BY CC Mediocre2010 It was the week we all officially became Nobel Laureates, with the award ceremony for the EU’s Nobel Peace Prize. The Euroblogosphere was a-buzz with the event, with a debate over whether the EU deserved the...
Week in Bloggingportal: Cyberpunk Culture
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BY CC Campus Party Europe in Berlin. Surprisingly, the internet was a theme on the blogs this week, with Commissioner Neelie Kroes blogging for fast European broadband, and a good round-up of digital and internet culture here. The...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Non-nonsense, disorder and big questions
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The end of 2012 is approaching and the euroblogosphere is starting to look into the future, asking big questions and providing big answers. We here at Bloggingportal.eu have spent our week deciding about a decision mechanism through which we will dec...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Post-Nobel
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After last week’s noble surprise, this week was clearly post-Nobel. A last wave of blog posts on whether the prize was given for Europe’s boringness or whether this was a call for action rolled through the Euroblogosphere, but the more...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Post-Nobel
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After last week’s noble surprise, this week was clearly post-Nobel. A last wave of blog posts on whether the prize was given for Europe’s boringness or whether this was a call for action rolled through the Euroblogosphere, but the more...
Week in Bloggingportal: We won the Peace Prize!
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BY CC Mediocre2010 I don’t know if you’ve heard, but we picked up a nice little award this week. No, not the Ryder cup (you’ll need to catch up a bit), but the Nobel Peace Prize! Here’s some of the reaction from arou...
Week in Bloggingportal: We won the Peace Prize!
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BY CC Mediocre2010 I don’t know if you’ve heard, but we picked up a nice little award this week. No, not the Ryder cup (you’ll need to catch up a bit), but the Nobel Peace Prize! Here’s some of the reaction from arou...
The Week in Bloggingportal: A Giant leap for the Eurozone?
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CC BY UggBoy UggGirl The Euroblogosphere is buzzing about the idea of further integration: should it happen, what would it look like, what will it mean? We have posts wondering how far Germany will accommodate a multi-speed Europe,...
The Week in Bloggingportal: A Giant leap for the Eurozone?
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CC BY UggBoy UggGirl The Euroblogosphere is buzzing about the idea of further integration: should it happen, what would it look like, what will it mean? We have posts wondering how far Germany will accommodate a multi-speed Europe,...
The Week in Bloggingportal: The people chosen by the people with talent
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What’s a Week in Bloggingportal like? Well, it sure ends with you listening to the Berlaymonster talk about people chosen by people who were not chose by the people. And you think: WHAT? But then you read about people who might follow Barroso a...
