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Croatians Say Yes to the European Union (EU)
So where is Croatia? and who are the Croatians?America's most famous Croatian descendent right now is surely Nick Saban,head coach of the current American national college football champion Alabama Crimson Tide.Martin Schulz,President of the European...
European Union Euro Situation: Structure not Funding is the Problem, Says Harvard's Rogoff
Euro Zone problems are discussed by Steven Erlanger at the New York Times inNew Warnings of Euro Zone Dangeras Erlanger writes:" For Kenneth S. Rogoff, an economics professor at Harvard, the biggest problem for the euro is not money so much as struct...
Euro Doomsayers Are Wrong: Jacob Funk Kirkegaard Reports via RealTime Economic Issues Watch at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
You know, sometimes it all depends on what you choose to read.At the website of the Peterson Institute for International Economics,Jacob Funk Kirkegaard reports via RealTime Economic Issues WatchonWhy the Euro Doomsayers Are Wrong.Is he right? Time w...
Donate to EU Pundit and the ISandIS Network
The blog EUPundit gets quite a few hits daily but we have been unable to devote much time to it in recent months, concentrating on our popular blog at LawPundit.We have now put up a donation button (to the right) to see if there is enough donor inter...
Learning to Think Critically: Maybe Everyone Should Go to Law School
At the New York Times discussion of "The Case Against Law School", former dean and former provost, Professor Geoffrey R. Stone of the University of Chicago in Learning to Think Like a Lawyer lists five "experiences [that] legal education can offer th...
Born in Europe: The Ph.D.: Are Doctoral Dissertations a Waste of Time? PhDs as Cheap Labor: The Economist Analyzes The Disposable Academic
A recent article at the Economist, Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic, alerts us to the fact that:"PhD students are cheap, highly motivated and disposable labour."That knowledge was confirmed already 10 years ago by Chris M. Golde and Timothy...
Dear Subscribers: Ignore Previous Data-Mining USA Court Case Posting
The previous subscriber posting -- now deleted -- about a pharmaceutical data-mining court case in the USA was published inadvertently to EU Pundit during the drafting stage by hitting a wrong keyboard button by mistake and should be deleted.If inter...
EU Internet Cookie Law Opt-Out Option Deadline: European Union Companies Given One Year by EU Commission to Standardize Cookie Tracking Consent Mechanism to Protect Privacy Rights
As we previously reported at LawPundit, the European Union "EU Internet Cookie Tracking Law" came into effect on May 26 of this year (2011) via the 2009 EU Directive, protecting user privacy rights by requiring that users be informed by companies of...
Obama Visits His Irish Roots in Ireland to Start G8 Summit Trip: Address of British Parliament on Tuesday: Deauville on Thursday
The Village of Moneygall in Offaly, Ireland, home of Obama's great-great-great-grandfather on the mother's side, has been spruced up as Obama kicks off Europe trip with ancestral visit to Ireland, as reported by Honor Mahony at EUobserver.com.
European Union Parliament Handles Financial Crisis in 60-Second Animation
The European Union EU Parliament has a nice 60-second animation on handling the financial crisis. Their suggestion is "Stick to the Rules", a somewhat simplistic approach that can be regarded as a sign of the times in which institutions and governmen...
Voice of America Reports on Spain Demonstrations as Inspired by Arab Protests:The Chains of Law and Order: Be Careful What You Wish For
It is one thing to be for democracy but quite another to cope with what mass democratically-inspired civil unrest can actually mean.Law and order may be our chains, but they also protect us.Lauren Frayer at Voice of America News reports on the newest...
Europe Day! May 9: A Marriage of Reason but not of the Heart
As the European Union writes on its website:On the 9th of May 1950, Robert Schuman presented his proposal on the creation of an organised Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations.This proposal, known as the "Schuman declar...
Today is Europe Day
Leigh Phillips at the EUObserver notes that Europe Day celebrated amid growing criticism of ECB, but points out that:"On 9 May 1950, one of the two main founders of the EU, Robert Schuman, presented his proposal for an organised Europe, known as the...
EU European Union Cookie Law Comes into Effect on May 26, 2011: Compliance and Consent
Pinsent Masons LLP at OUT-LAW News writes about compliance and consent as regards the new EU cookie law which goes into effect on May 26, 2011.
The UK has New Supreme Court Justices Appointed including the First Appointment Directly From the Bar
Image linked from BBC NewsAre you up-to-date on The Supreme Court and the United Kingdom's legal system?Did you know that Her Majesty The Queen signed a warranty granting "Courtesy titles for Justices of the Supreme Court" of the United Kingdom so th...
EU Directive on Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Goes into Full Force on May 1, 2011: Alternative Medicines to be Sold Must Be Registered for Safety and Efficacy
After a seven-year transition period which started in 2004, alternative, herbal, Ayurvedic, Chinese, African, etc. medicines must be registered in the European Union for safety and efficacy as of May 1, 2011, or they may not be sold as "medicines".Th...
The Recession: Profits Not Taxes or Wages in the UK, Germany and the USA Were Stoked by Economic Recovery and Bailouts
Nick Pearce of the influential Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) in Wages, profits and the recovery: cui bono? asks:"Where has the lion's share of the recovery gone in different countries: real wages or profits? This is a question asked b...
Germany and Austria Open Labor Markets on May 1 to EU Member States in the East Who Joined in 2004: Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Slovenia
As reported by Markus Dettmer and Jan Puhl at the Spiegel Online, the seven-year moratorium on full integration of citizens of the EU Member States added in 2004 by the European Union ends on May 1, 2011. Actually, this applies to 8 of 10 added in 2...
Compulsory Statutory Default Retirement Age of 65 Being Phased Out in the United Kingdom between April and October 2011
EIROnline at Eurofound.com writes that the UK Government confirms abolition of default retirement age.The compulsory (statutory default) retirement age of 65 in the United Kingdom is being phased out between April and October of this year.
Europe, Law, Democracy and the Role of Linguistic Diversity in Legal Processes
Research and Markets at BusinessWire.com asks in Linguistic Diversity and European Democracy:"What role does linguistic diversity play in European democratic and legal processes?"Read the article here.
