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Christine Lagarde is right
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It is surprising how harsh the reactions were from the German side when French finance minister Christine Lagarde told policy-makers in Berlin to step up domestic consumption. German enterpreneurs suggested other Member States "do their homework...
Geschafft
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"Liebe Aktive auch alle anderen Freunde des ICJA,ihr habt es geschafft! Wie wir gerade erfahren haben, wird es auch ab Sommer 2010 Förderungen für internationale Freiwillige geben!Als Ergebnis des Drucks, den ihr alle mit Briefen, Protestaktio...
Internationales Freiwilligenprogramm: Weitere Informationen
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Nach meinem Post gestern hat Kosmopolito über die Pläne der Bundesregierung geschrieben. In den Kommentaren hat Felix das Anschreiben für die Abgeordneten etwas verändert, damit es in die Form bei abgeordnetenwatch.de passt. Abgeordnetenwatch ist...
Die deutsche Bundesregierung will das Internationale Freiwilligendienstprogramm einstellen!
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Mehr Informationen dazu gibt es hier.
Let's talk about EU!
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Because it's not enough to talk about European politics in the hallways of the EP and the Commission. Because European politics can be entertaining, controversial and informative. Because in the EP elections last year nobody talked about Europe save...
The Dutch remain calm after Geert Wilders' election victory
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After the Dutch anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders won the local elections in Almere and became second in the government city The Hague, political observers wonder what will happen at the June national elections.Students in Maastricht are less c...
Is the German public sphere Europeanizing?
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The online portal tagesschau.de is widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive and most-consulted online media for Germans. For readers in and outside the country, the website is one of the crucial actors in the German public sphere. In his dail...
The Lega Nord goes beyond any political decency
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Recently traveling to Italy I was shocked about the posters that the racist Lega Nord (Northern League, party for the promotion of an independent Italian north) put up in the regional election campaign. The campaign posters show a native American nex...
Minutes from Newropeans/Grillo meeting in Paris
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Newropeans is a supranational citizen organization that wants to make the European Union more democratic. Rather than on societal problems, Newropeans mainly focuses on the institutional reform of the European Union. At the European elections 2009, t...
Bye bye Moravcsik: Neofunctionalism is still on
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Adapting to an unprecedented outcome at the first Lisbon vote in Ireland by calling another vote. Electing the Commission President with the Nice treaty, his Commissioners with the Lisbon treaty. Filling up the ranks of the EP with 18 phantom MEPs, u...
EU Bachelors-/Masters-/PHD-Portal
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Since December, the European website mastersportal.eu has opened a search utility for bachelors and PHDs. On the website it is possible to compare European programs with one another to find the perfect education for yourself. The portal enters a nich...
French and Italian Environmentalists oppose high-speed railway lines
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As a part of the Trans-European Networks policy of the EU, the Commission is creating channels of transport and telecommunications along the main axes of the European continent (see map). 30 projects on the rail, on the road, in the water and in the...
Germany, the poor man of Europe
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Last week, Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble defended the 2010 state budget before the Bundestag. He plans an additional debt of 85,8 million to stimulate the economy, while he preferred to keep silence on plans for general tax relief (wh...
We need a truly European radio station!
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The EP webstream doesn't work with my Mac, so I couldn't watch the Ashton and Piebalgs hearings in video. Ska Keller has been doing a live-ticker via Twitter, but I'm not a Twitter fan and a live-ticker is different from listening to the audition you...
EP hearings start with a network failure
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Whatever I try to view the hearings, none of the webstreams work on my Mac. After installing about every plugin you can think of, is it the webstreams which don't work?
North Sea grid: A test case for European leadership
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With the new power grid that nine European countries are planning to install in the North Sea, the EU can easily increase the share of renewable energy to 30% by 2020, Justin Wilkes, policy director of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), tol...
Interacting with politicians? It's possible
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Germany is just struggling with a question of German-Polish relations. It's about the appointment for a cultural foundation that works on remembering European reconciliation after the second World War. The Chancellor wants a Polish-hostile CDU politi...
Due respects to Herman van Rompuy
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The new President of the European Council is changing the tone. For the first time, only the heads of state and government were allowed at the table of the European Council. Foreign ministers were banned from the room, as were all political advisors.
French blogosphere organizing a No Sarkozy Day on March 20th 2010
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The French press hasn't picked it up yet, the Italians were quicker. This article was in La Repubblica yesterday. After the success of No Berlusconi Day in Italy, organized through Facebook, French bloggers are up to do the same.Their actions were le...
Football and politics - an analogy?
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I don't often go to watch football games, but today I did. Inter Milan - Rubin Kazan. Champions League. Interesting game. Inter won 2:0.What I found just as interesting as the victory was the observations I made about the fans. The fans were the perf...
