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Ein Ausstieg Deutschlands aus dem EURO?
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Ein venezianischer Abgeordneter der Lega Nord fragt nach deutschen Plänen zu einem Rücksturz in die D-Mark. Parlamentarische Anfragen 9. Dezember 2011 E-011671/2011 Anfrage zur schriftlichen Beantwortung an den Rat Artikel 117 der Geschäftsordnung...
The Avaaz Petition on ACTA and the Commission campaign
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I haven’t signed the Avaaz Petition on ACTA (because I find it exaggarated) but 1.3 Mio citizens have: As concerned global citizens, we call on you to stand for a free and open Internet and reject the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Tra...
How to import twitter feeds to your RSS feedreader
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It’s very simple: Twitter username, mine for instance is “agonarch“. Using http://www.idfromuser.com/ you can convert the username into an $ID_number The rss feed is http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$ID_number.rss &#...
Open Access
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Open Access in der Wissenschaft ganz einfach erklärt als Lösung zu dieser Situation: we write for free (because we want our work read or known), we edit or referee for free and then pay large amounts of money to buy the work back. Prima!
Kangaroo Group kicked out of Parliament?
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The Kangeroo Group, a lobby group that emerged as an MEP round table in the early stages of the European Parliament and chaired by Karl von Wogau, finally moved its office out of the European Parliament buildings. It was quite odd to have a lobby pla...
European advisory groups
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Ron Paz found a list of Council working Groups(not sure whether I mentioned it here before) and is digging into the advisory groups of the European Commission. The Commission fully discloses the groups but offers only a burdensome and complicated dat...
Commission seizes power to adopt certain measures blink-blink
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Something from the Trade Committee INTA of the European Parliament. Amendment of certain regulations relating to the common commercial policy as regards the procedures for the adoption of certain measures – PE 478.430v01-00 – Committee on...
Ron Kirk at CES Las Vegas mentions technology choice
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Us Trade Representative Ron Kirk in his speech: “We also have to be vigilant against the temptation for governments to try to capture the next good thing for themselves or their industries. They can do this either by prescribing standards that fore...
U.S. military refocuses on Asia
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Bad news. U.S. partial withdrawal from the European theatre: The Obama administration has decided to remove two of the four U.S. Army brigades remaining in Europe as part of a broader effort to cut $487 billion from the Pentagon’s budget over the n...
The Public Access Recast: new broad IPR exemption to transparency
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In its recast of the Public Access to Documents implementation the Commission proposed a remarkable change to Article 4 (exemptions), paragraph 2: 2. The institutions shall refuse access to a document where disclosure would undermine the protection o...
Die deutsche Euro-Blogosphäre
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Europaeum.eu Blog listet unglaublich viele Europa-Blogs deutscher Autoren auf. Mich findet man alphabetisch zwischen MEP Reinhard Bütikofer und RandomInsights aus Österreich (sehr “idiosynkratisch”), in der Liste viele Bekannte und Unbe...
Wulff tritt nicht zurück
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Heute abend also das Interview. Durchgesickert ist schon jetzt, Bundespräsident Christian Wulff tritt nicht zurück. Das mag richtig sein aufgrund der Sachlage. Allerdings hat die gesamte deutsche Medienlandschaft wie nie zuvor gegen ihn geschossen,...
Suchmaschinenoptimiertes Schreiben
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T3N: 10 Tipps für suchmaschinenoptimiertes Schreiben: Optimierung ist oftmals überschätzt. Aber bei PR-Leuten dreht sich immer viel um das Thema. Für das Internet zu schreiben ist anders als klassischer Journalismus. Es geht nicht ausschließlich...
Document Exchange – EU Commission explains how they slapped their citizens in the face
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A controversial document has been published by the European Commission DG informatics: Inter-Institutional Committee for Informatics: Conclusions on document exchange formats following the discussion on office automation platforms “The minimum...
Jerzy Buzek highlights importance of civic participation in the EU
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From today’s speech of Jerzy Buzek (EPP, PL), President of the European Parliament: Today citizens’ ‘virtual participation’ is changing the world we live in. Dear Friends, Today citizens are much better connected. They are as...
No ACTA today
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The item ACTA was deferred today, I am told: The adoption was delayed as a result of the Dutch parliament vote on the mandate for the Dutch government being delayed. The ministers will adopt tomorrow.
IUWIS und die europäische Initiative für verwaiste Werke
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IUWIS hat eine kluge Würdigung der Anträge geschrieben, die demnächst im Rechtsausschuss des Europaparlaments zu “verwaisten Werken” zur Abstimmung stehen. Verwaiste Werke sind ein besonderes Problem im Urheberrecht. Dabei geht es um d...
CSUnet zur verdachtslosen Speicherung von Verbindungsdaten
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Ein Positionspapier von CSUnet mit einigen Überraschungen. Zunächst mal, es heisst der CSUnet: Der CSUnet hat als netzpolitischer Arbeitskreis der CSU das folgende Konzept zum 21 Themenbereich der Vorratsdatenspeicherung erarbeitet. Am besten einma...
Neelie Kroes answers her German critics
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As a result of turmoil in parts of the German society on the appointment of Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg for her “No Diconnect Strategy” Neelie Kroes issued another statement in her blog in German and English language. She eloquently defend...
K.T. zu Guttenberg, CSIS, No Disconnect Strategy
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Former German defense minister Karl Theodor von und zu Guttenberg serves as a lobbyist for the CSIS, a Think Tank in the United States. Today EU-Commissioner Neelie Kroes launched an initiative with him to help net dissidents abroad. Let me quote fro...
