A headline is a powerful thing
February 19, 2009
A misleading headline suggesting EU involvement in a deportation case this morning sparked a ponder about the power of the press.
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The EU, UK and civil liberties
February 12, 2009
Via the Convention on Modern Liberty’s Twitter feed and following yesterday’s post on German concerns about the EU being used as a democratic bypass comes news of a worrying development for the freedom of every EU citizen:
People may be aware of the debate in the UK over access to communications data… but are less familiar […]
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The Euro and the credit crisis
February 5, 2009
Interesting analysis from European Voice today:
Some members of the European Monetary Union (EMU) – Ireland and Greece obviously, and Italy, too – are discovering that what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) adjudges a global recession is cruelly exposing their failure in the past ten years to adjust to the rigours of membership of a currency […]
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How will the downturn affect the EU?
February 4, 2009
Interesting post from new EU/US politics blog Entangled Alliances, taking a look at the fate of European integration during times of recession, worth a look in full:
Economic slowdowns have historically – almost without exception – led to greater protectionism as each country faces demands from its electorate to shield them from the rising storm of […]
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And another promising new EU blog
February 3, 2009
This time from the editors of the European Parliament’s own website, with all sorts of hints of interesting new developments in the EU’s previously more or less dire online communications policy. From the early posts, they seem to get it – both tone and approach are altogether different from what we’ve seen from official EU […]
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Just like busses, you wait ages for some promising new EU-focussed bloggers, and then 81 turn up at once… (And, judging from their photos, they aren’t all youngsters, as I was expecting, and there are even some GIRLS! Shocking! Though once again there appears to be a definite under-representation of non-white faces among their number, […]
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European elections: UK voting intentions
January 11, 2009
Six months to go, and the first poll of UK voting intentions appears. Much of interest.
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The failures of EU democracy
December 5, 2008
On why attempts to engage the people in EU politics are going to continue to fail.
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“Under the illusion that the borders are disappearing, they are actually rapidly growing”
November 26, 2008
On Zizek, multiculturalism, the EU and rising political disengagement
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Bananas, euromyths and ridiculous regulations
November 12, 2008
On why the EU just can’t win with some people…
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