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The Week in Bloggingportal: ACTA, the crisis, and a half-naked EU Commissioner
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To make a long story short: The best post I read during the week was L’Europe Libre’s observations on a speech Merkel held China on the topic of Europe. Besides this short geopolitical-philosophical dissection of the queen’s speech...
New Year reception at the Royal Palace
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To the Royal Palace with my President, Staffan Nilsson, and Vice-Presidents, Anna Maria Darmanin and Jacek Krawczyk, for the Belgian King’s New Year reception for the European institutions. The Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Secretaries-Gen...
Eurosphere roundup: ACTA, Davos, Bloggingportal.eu 3 years old
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Booklet: Why You Should Care About ACTA 14 November, 2011 » Campaigns | Intellectual Property Enforcement The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a plurilateral agreement which proposes international standards for enforcement of intel...
Chrome Users: Try the WordPress.com Extension
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Want to receive WordPress.com notifications instantly, even when you’re not on WordPress.com? Add the new WordPress.com extension for Chrome and as soon as you get a new follower or a new like on one of your posts, a notification will appear in...
Danish Presidency priorities: presented in EP Committees
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The priorities of Denmark's Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers has been presented to European Parliament committees by Danish ministers this week. According to Trade and Investment Minister Pia Olsen Dyhr, the EU's international trade policy...
A striking coincidence for Monday’s EU summit
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Monday’s meeting of EU leaders is meant to focus on growth and jobs, which makes it all the more ironic that it will likely be heavily disrupted by a general strike called by Belgian unions on the same day. The …Continue reading: "A striking...
Schulz, new president of European parliament: Martin who?
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Do you know who the president of the European parliament is? If not, read on: Martin Schulz isn't afraid of courting controversy and is planning to shake up the way Europe is run...
Blogguer pour l’Europe
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Blogger est bon pour l’Europe ! Depuis trois ans, BloggingPortal.eu a réussi à proposer une collection de blogs et autre site-web liés à l’Union Européenne. C’est un excellent portail pour obtenir les dernières informations...
Blogging for Europe
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Blogging is good for Europe ! For three years, BloggingPortal.eu has magnificently managed a pool of blogs and EU-related websites. It is a great portal to get the latest news and deepest insights on the European Affairs. Happy Birthday ! As a blog...
3 years of BloggingPortal.eu
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Today marks 3 years of our little blogging project – BloggingPortal.eu It started as a conversation between Stefan, Andreas and I, and all the coding work was done by Stefan. The inspiration for it came from this blog post I … Continue re...
Three Years in Bloggingportal
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Back in January 2009, our little experiment called Bloggingportal.eu officially started and today, three years later, we are still here. Three years in the life of a social media project is long, especially with the world of social media rapi...
3loggingportal.eu
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Three years of bloggingportal. And what a journey it has been. I remember sitting around a huge table in a flat in Brussels – with a certain Jon Worth and the (back then) mysterious Brusselsblogger – dreaming up something that is now know...
Happy Birthday Bloggingportal.eu!
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The EU blog aggregating website Bloggingportal.eu is 3 tomorrow. Since it was launched the number of blogs being aggregated has ballooned to 904, with over 250 posts being generated over the past week. The Euroblogosphere is definitely more vibrant t...
Bloggingportal.eu needs your help!
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The EU blog aggregator bloggingportal.eu is 3 years old – and needs your help! Bloggingportal is website that aggregates articles from hundreds of EU related blogs, including many of those hosted on blogactiv.eu. The project went online on 26...
Never waste a good (media) crisis
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OR How I learned to start reading every George, Nick’s and Harry’s blog and stopped worrying about the closure of …Continue reading »...
Happy Birthday, BloggingPortal(?)
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Apparently tomorrow – apart from being Australia Day – is BloggingPortal’s 3rd birthday. What does it’s state tell us about the EU Online Public Space? How many more friends can I lose anyway? [Update: read a blogtour of 11 ot...
Happy Birthday BloggingPortal.eu: three years young
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Tomorrow (Thursday 26th) marks three years since the launch of BloggingPortal - a website ran by volunteers that now aggregates more than 900 blogs written in an array of European languages and each discussing European affairs and political activity.
Here are the Eurobloggers
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Bloggingportal.eu is celebrating its third anniversary tomorrow, 26 January 2012. The website brings together 904 blogs in the different languages of the EU, written by individuals, journalists, Members of the European Parliament, European Commission...
Happy birthday: Bloggingportal.eu turns 3
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Update: See the collective anniversary post by 12 Bloggingportal.eu editors! Tomorrow, on 26 January 2012, Bloggingportal.eu celebrates its third birthday. I haven’t been an editor right from the start, but I followed the development of the po...
Rest in Peace dear Theo. A tribute to Theodoros Angelopoulos
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In the Summer of 2007, Theodoros Angelopoulos attended our Cinema and Media conference at Istanbul Bilgi University Communication School… Rest in peace Theo… View the story “R.I.P. Theo Angelopoulos” on Storify Storified b...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Schulzinisation, Orbanisation and the downgrading of the Union
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The week in triples (1 ) First the Union got downgraded. Then the European Parliament was Schulzinised. The day after, it was Orbanised. (2 ) Diana Wallis will leave the European Parliament. Commissioner Barnier may leave the European Commission. US...
State of the Labour blogosphere – into the darkness
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Let no one ever tell you that there are positives about being in opposition. Nothing about the gnawing impotence of opposition is positive. Nothing about waking up each morning to the sound of another government initiative is positive. Nothing about...
Contribute to Beyondbrussels.com
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Dear reader Since mid 2011 Beyondbrussels.com have delivered a digest on EU and European politics every day. From January 1. this have changed because I, EUgonzo, have decided to focus my writings on the danish EU presidency (starting with this post...
Read All Your Favorite Blogs in One Place
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If you feel like it’s a chore to keep up with all your favorite blogs, you can now read posts from all the blogs you follow (even the ones that aren’t on WordPress.com!) in one convenient place on the WordPress.com home page: Your reader...
The new face of the European Parliament
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Martin Schulz (S&D, Germany) was elected the 14th President of the European Parliament. EuroparlTV reportage comes here.
EU’s Barnier moving on?
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Rumours are afoot that EU Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier may be gearing himself up for a possible return to Paris after the French general elections. read more...
How Martin Schulz breaks stereotypes
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Yesterday, Martin Schulz, a bookseller from a small town in Germany, was confirmed as president of the European Parliament. He is a socialist, therefore not from the conservative majority in the Parliament, and a fervent supporter of Europe. Both fac...
European Parliament: Schulz to replace Buzek
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Martin Schulz will succeed Jerzy Buzek as the President of the European Parliament. The election is set for tomorrow. Questions: 1. How efficient, effective was Buzek in his position, what was his brightest hour and what about the biggest failure? 2.
EU Council: Evaluating the Danish presidency programme
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For friends of melodrama we suggest Public Service Europe's take on the Council of the European Union, but let us return to bumbling through the primary sources about the Danish presidency. Our roadmap is the programme presented by the government of...
Declan Ganley investigated on Primetime 2008 now he goes to court to silence press,( Again) Yawn
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Declan Ganley has finally issued a writ in the High Court in Ireland about the below show. Since then he has claimed all subjects therein are sub judice. In the last week he has recieved a great deal of publicity after co authoring a piece on Federal...
EU Council presidency of Denmark in the media 1/2
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After a look at media reporting about the Danish presidency of the Council of the European Union, the euroblogger Jon Worth pronounced ”perhaps not stellar, but at least there is some online discussion about the Press Trip and the launch of the Pre...
The launch of the Danish EU presidency: "a very, very sad day for Denmark"
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“This is a very, very sad day for Denmark”. Those were the most memorable words by Danish PM Helle Thorning Schmidt when she together with EU Commission president José Barroso yesterday launched the country´s EU presidency in Copenha...
Why Nick Archer’s blog doesn’t work
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I’m just back from the Presidency Press Trip in Copenhagen. It has resulted in numerous blog entries from me (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), a set on Flickr, and masses of activity on Twitter. The FT blog has a … Continue reading →...
Thorny questions for Denmark and EU Council
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Each EU Council presidency has to confront a number of difficult issues. Denmark is no exception. Here I am going to name but two thorny issues, both relating to the area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ), or justice and home affairs (JHA). Sch...
Work to do for the EU. The plans of the Danish Presidency for the first half of 2012
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It’s the start of a new year, and with the beginning of 2012 we also enter into a new Presidency for the EU. For the next six months it is up to Denmark to set the course for European policies. Last Friday, 6 January, the Danish Presidency presente...
An awkward start to Denmark’s EU presidency
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A good chunk of the Brussels press corps has been in Copenhagen this week for the formal kick-off of Denmark’s turn at the EU’s 6-month rotating presidency. Days of back-to-back ministerial briefings and ceremonial events have focused intensively...
What is danish “rugbrød”?
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In Denmark there is an expression called “et stykke rugbrødsarbejde” – translated directly into english “a piece of rye breads work”. This might not make sense for many foreigners, but for danes this means a solid and s...
How much does a Presidency cost?
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The only point of genuine contention in the first session of the Danish Presidency press trip with Europe Minister Nicolai Wammen was a debate about the cost of running a Presidency. What – a Polish journalist asked – is the … Continue read...
Growth and jobs: Denmark's EU Council presidency
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Prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and the rest of the Danish government presented the presidency programme Friday: Europe at work: Programme of the Danish Presidency of the European Union 2012, 1 January to 30 June 2012 (61 pages) The programme...
So who attends a Presidency press trip?
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One of my questions before arriving in Copenhagen was: who are the others who are attending the Danish Presidency press trip? Now I have the answer – albeit only on paper. This is a picture of the pages from the … Continue reading →...
Priorities of the Danish EU Presidency
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Denmark has recently presented the official programme of the Danish EU Presidency for the next 6 months. The programme, which has been unveiled to the Danish and international press along with the diplomatic corps in Copenhagen, notably presents 4...
Leading by example...
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Danish daily Politiken today informs us that the ongoing Danish Presidency of the EU - the Danes took over the rotating six-month EU chair on January 1 - will aim to be "one of the cheapest yet", with a budget of around €35 million.In comparison:Th...
Why there’s no LabourList column from me today
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It seemed like an excellent opportunity – to write a weekly column for LabourList, one of the biggest left-leaning blogs in the UK. Take EU matters to a new, wider audience. So I thought. In the second half of 2011 … Continue reading U...
What Sarkozy says about peace in Europe is nonsense
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We always need to have a sense of proportion monsieur Sarkozy. Image Source: The Guardian In a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, French President Sarkozy said the following (by Reuters): We do not have the right to drop...
2011′in en çok okunan EFD postları/ EFD’s Top posts in 2011-
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Top Posts for 365 days ending 2011-12-31 A video: Turkish Porn Star Şahin K’s comedy film trailer A video: ĐUBRIVO – PORNO STAR Bilgi’yi Bitiren Adam (Melek Çetin’den) “Remembering Egypt’s Martyrs”. Roundup continues.
Cabris de l’année 2011 : Havel en or, Merkozy en plâtre
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Vaclav Havel succède à Daniel Cohn-Bendit en remportant le Cabri d’or de l’année 2011. Couronné en 2010 du Cabri de plâtre, Nicolas Sarkozy signe le doublé avec l’aide précieuse de son homologue allemande, Angela Merkel. Havel en or Sur...
On Christmas holiday
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We’re having a little break here at beyondbrussels.com. Enjoying christmas and new year. We’ll be back by mid-January. Merry christmas and a happy new year. See you.
The Bulgarian Barroso
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The Bulgarian BarrosoDuring the last days of the Annus Horribilis 2011 for the eurozone, our thoughts go to the eurocrats in Brussels, who have had to forsake even their cherished Christmas parties in order to keep the dream of a succesful euro...
Nick Griffin tells the nativity story
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With the British National Party hanging over a financial abyss, our opportunities to laugh at Nick Griffin may soon be rationed. Let’s squeeze one more into 2011, with a reprise of Nick Griffin’s bizarre rendition of the nativity story:...
