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Letters From Europe
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Despite appearances to the contrary, this goblin isn’t quite dead… he’s just resting his eyes. In the meantime, check out Letters From Europe – an irreverent (and informed) look at European politics by journalist Craig Willy.
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On “Tranzie-ism”
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Tranzi. Noun. Pejorative. Derived from “transnational progressive,” a term coined by John Forte in 2001. Note: Please, please, please – even if you are opposed to transnationalism, stop using this term on your opponents. For your o...
In, Out, Shake-It-All-About: The Pro-EU Case for a Referendum
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LAST WEEK, I had a post published in Comment is Free arguing that an in-out referendum on British membership of the EU could be won by the “In” camp. I didn’t have the space to really expand on my argument and put the case for why...
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Will Prisoners’ Voting Rights Destroy the EU?
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NIGEL FARAGE IS PLANNING A JAILBREAK! The UK Independence Party MEP claims that the controversial issue of granting prisoners the vote (as ordered by the European Court of Human Rights) will give the Prime Minister the opportunity to test his new ...
For Shame, Belgium! For Shaaaame!
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THE CHEEKS of Belgium’s political class must be glowing ruddy red with embarrassment. On Sunday, 34’000 citizens took part in a march across the capital demanding that the country’s two main linguistic groups set aside their differe...
Let’s Have a British In / Out Referendum and Get it Over With
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I’M OFTEN critical of my MEP – Daniel Hannan, but I nonetheless respect the man. He’s passionate, intelligent, plainly puts his beliefs before his party career (a rare thing in politics) and is an eloquent orator. In his latest bl...
We Are the Knights Who Say… No!
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I HONESTLY can’t be bothered to fisk the latest “crusade” from the Sunday Express. If the best they can offer is lazy clichés about the EU being a “dictatorship” that would cause the envy of Hitler and Napoleon, then I...
The Curse of the Rotating Presidency
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VIA England Expects, my attention was drawn to a letter from former MEP Richard Corbett, now a member of the “Horizontal Questions” team in Van Rompuy’s cabinet. Corbett complains that the rotating Presidency of the Council of the...
Euro-Remorse in Estonia?
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ON 1 JANUARY 2011, Estonia was duly ordained the 17th member of the Eurozone. Welcome to the party, my Baltic chums! Are the children of Kalev now waking up from their festive-season hangovers and thinking “Blimey, chaps! Look at our money! It&...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Blogactiv!
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ROLL ON 2011! We’ve got big plans for Blogactiv in the New Year, and we’re looking forward to growing our community and expanding the EU debate online. In the meantime, the front page is going on holiday until January 3rd – when we&...
Quantity has a Quality all its Own
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MATHEW was a tad non-plussed by my last post on the Berlusconi ”Twitter Wall” story. He wonders if there’s really any value in seeking “buzz for the sake of having some buzz.” If you’ve missed this story, you coul...
EU Twitter Wall Hijacked by Anti-Berlusconi Protesters
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ON THE FACE of it, this was a massive Twitter #FAIL. The EU Council’s press team had a couple of flatscreen TVs up in the atrium of the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels (the building where the Council summit was taking place) and invited mem...
#EUuk
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AFTER MONTHS of planning, the #EUuk event finally took place in London last Friday. Walaa Idris and Dick Puddlecote have already pipped me to the post by producing the first write-ups of the event. It’s a bit disheartening to find that, despite...
Back in Blighty
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IT WAS a bit of a schlep, but I’m back in the UK after spending six months on the African continent. The journey back was particularly gruelling (mostly self-imposed due to “budgetary discretion”). I left Nairobi on December 3rd bou...
New Job at BlogActiv
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FROM DECEMBER 13th, I will be the new BlogActiv Director. I’ll be taking over from Stuart, who’s held the post for the last two years. It’s a fantastic opportunity - especially as I’m also an editor over at Bloggingportal.eu.
