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Banking Union - unintended consequences and path dependency
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I kept silent for 6 months or so.... Was I too busy? Or my personal computer went down which forced me to use the older, crappy one. Anyway, my previsions for steps to federation during last December proved overly optimistic and a bit too early. But...
The EU on a way to federation
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So it looks like France and Germany agreed for a new treaty change. Yet this time the logic of change is different. It is enough if some 17 plus countries ratify the new treaty for it to come into force. This looks like a situation experienced by the...
So much going on in the world... it made me silent...
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Dear readers,I have been silent for a while, almost 9 months. This is a suicide for a blogger. In the world of twitter, on-line news, Arab spring and euro zone fighting for credibility this is an inexcusable absence. But what means 9 months in our li...
on burka ban
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Very good article from Bruno Waterfield (here). I can hardly imagine people going to jail because wearing wrong clothes.Europe has a problem facing islam. And it even fails to admit that there is an issue. Banning is not the best basis for a dialogue...
The faces of Brussels
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I have recently attended a Brussels Citizen University. An event organised by the team of Eric Corijn. We have discussed in English, French and ... Flemish the future of this city. The biggest discussion was of course about financing of the investmen...
Stress and IT projects
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I think my blog will change a bit its nature. During the first year it was mostly about my thinking about Europe and the world at large. But time has come to come back to the basics of a weblog: to assist the author in his daily activities.I have an...
My 2010 Green manifesto
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I have decided to join the Green movement. It took me 13 years to take this decision. Decision to join a political party. If you are born in a Communist party lead country party does not necessarily mean something good. Now I am ready.Back in 1997 I...
my history as a Polish
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Having spent 4 years in Brussels I begin to look at Poland with a mix of nostalgia and criticism. Nostalgia is self-explanatory. I spent the first 30 years of my life predominantly in this country; I come from a family where both parents spoke Polish...
Balkans - 2010
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I read a couple days ago that Balkan states launch 'mini-Schengen'. Euobserver.com revealed that'Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo have created a passport-free zone, called a "mini-Schengen" by Kosovo president Fatmir Sejdiu, in ord...
The independance of Flanders
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Like with the financial crisis people will say that nobody had seen it coming. And then you find some guys who actually did and they become famous, get invited to newspapers and become celebrities. That is my goal too :) but let's go back to the fact...
Danish Design
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If anybody is looking for ideas how to improve the world we live he should go to Copenhagen to the Danish Design Centre. It is impressive and I mean it. I spent 3 hours in altogether 4 rooms watching films, listening to interviews and discovering wha...
On Turkey
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We have recently forgotten that Turkey has not only a Muslem but also a secular political force. Maybe the struggle of the Kemalist party to survive should be more a barometer of the future of Islamic states. Please read for details The Economist.
Turkey revisited
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One more interesting article about Turkey; this time in the context of NATO. My personal and strictly personal view is beginning to firm up. 1. If we looked backwards at the history of European culture, Christian links and the affinity between nation...
On Jeremy Rifkin and his works
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Jeremy Rifkin has become one of the prothets of the XXIst century. He is appearing in all possible media spreading the gospel of climate change and the end of fossil fuels. So what is the catch?After reading couple of interviews with this guy I think...
How to engage with the Arab world
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Recently I am lucky in finding interesting suggestions for the future of the EU policy. Here is an article that brings in some interesting comments. I quote the 6 points of Mr Abdulfattah Yaghi: ...'I propose six-point model to improve Europe-Arabs...
Key recomendation for developement
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Another article I found really inspiring gives 4 recomendations about the development funds and how to improve our 'donor' performance:I quote:...'• Remove the disbursement pressure. I have worked with donors where it was in reality forbidden to di...
Belgium outlines ideas on EU diplomatic appointments
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Very interesting article scatching the Belgian philosophy.EUobserver / Belgium outlines ideas on EU diplomatic appointmentsQuotes:Belgium's Mr De Ruyt aims to shift chairmanship of all EU Council working groups on foreign relations to the EAS by 2011...
EUrope is still alive!
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You were wondering if this blog is still alive? Yeah... actually I was looking around trying to catch up with the recent developments on the global scene. I have an impression that the pace of global politics has accelerated since winter. And it was...
Let's go East... Middle East
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Having spent around 10 years studying European integration, witnessing the Convention process and elections of Ms Ashton I grew a bit disenchanted. EU does not seem to be an independant entity with its own political forces. It is rather like a big Ti...
So Minister Jeleva is gone
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It seemed so boring... Dozens of Commissioners appeared in front of the parliamentary committees and were repeating nice briefings prepared by the Commission staff. Some had even some charisma: I mean Mr Oettinger, Ms Hedegaard. But still after the n...
