New procedures regarding access to documents in the EU Council?
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It was back in October when I discovered that on 29 June 2011 the EU Ombudsman had opened an own-initiative case against the EU Council regarding the appeals procedure (‘confirmatory application’) for access to documents requests. In sho...
Gove under fire over “Anti-Gay” booklet used in schools
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According to the Guardian: “Brendan Barber, the TUC’s general secretary, wrote to Gove in December expressing alarm that a booklet containing “homophobic material” had been distributed by a US preacher after talks to pupils at...
The Secrets and techniques To Multi Level Marketing Achievement Uncovered
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The Secrets and techniques To Multi Level Marketing Achievement Uncovered from Article DirectoryAn enormous advantage of multi-level marketing is the ability to generate organization associates who will broaden your system. Created a advertising team...
Warmist Schwarzenegger misinforming Indians about U.S. energy imports
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Former California governor Arnold Schwarzegger gave an interview to India´s NDTV television company during his recent visit to Delhi. The transcript of the interview shows that the warmist ex governor seriously thinks that India is going t...
Ed Balls – tax cutter?
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In an article for tomorrow’s Sunday Times, Ed Balls has reiterated his call for George Osborne to reverse his VAT hike: “the Chancellor should announce a temporary reversal of his VAT rise. This is part of Labour’s five point plan for j...
ACTA and the EU: Dangerous bedfellows?
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Europe and beyond last weekend to protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Citizens in several cities including Vilnius, London, Sofia, Valetta and Tallinn rallied together and p...
ACTA and the EU: Dangerous bedfellows?
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Europe and beyond last weekend to protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Citizens in several cities including Vilnius, London, Sofia, Valetta and Tallinn rallied together and p...
ACTA and the EU: Dangerous bedfellows?
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Europe and beyond last weekend to protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Citizens in several cities including Vilnius, London, Sofia, Valetta and Tallinn rallied together and par...
Interesting(?) development on jurisdictional issues in EU and Hungarian merger control
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About three weeks ago the Hungarian Metropolitan Tribunal obliged the Hungarian Competition Authority (Gazdasági Versenyhivatal (GVH)) to re-evaluate a merger decision. The interesting part comes here: the GVH decided that it has no jurisdiction sin...
It pays to scam, as typosquatters carry on after adverse ruling
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This Kat admits to being guilty of the occasional screaming howler of a typographical error (but not in this instance -- as was cheekily suggested by a certain Blogmeister). It is not surprising then that she frowns upon others seeking to take advan...
Why I’m sending out Lynton Crosby’s emails
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This evening I took the unusual step of emailing my campaign’s supporters today to tell them what Boris Johnson’s campaign director has been telling the Tory candidate’s own backers. In fact I went one step further and forwarded the Tory email...
In the mean time, German president quits in scandal, Germany vs. Greece tension continues…
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German president quits in scandal from BBC News | Europe | World Edition German President Christian Wulff announces his resignation, after prosecutors called for his immunity to be lifted amid a home loan scandal. Is the troika punishing Gr...
Austerity hits Italian agriculture as 20,000 businesses close
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The sector’s troubles are another blow to women Twenty thousand agricultural businesses closed in Italy last year and pessimism reigns among the survivors, according to Coldiretti, an organisation representing the sector. This is another blow t...
Gibraltar Parliament 'closer to the people' as records of proceedings now put online
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In a bid to bring the Parliament of Gibraltar and its work closer to the electorate, full audio and written recordings of parliamentary proceedings are to be made publicly available online from today.In line with the policy of the Rock's new GSLP/Lib...
Belgian murder mystery: Young lord slain in castle
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By DON MELVIN BRUSSELS – It seems a mystery worthy of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s fictional Belgian detective: A lord goes missing from his chateau, leaving behind a spent cartridge and a trail of blood. His body is discovered 15 d...
Do they Realize that this Involves Genetic Modification?
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They tried to give us “the new man,” and it failed. Now they’re working on “the new cow.”Scientists from across Europe are gathering in Aberdeen this week to draw up a programme of research aimed at mitigating some of the causes of climate...
Good Reads - Author Special 21/02/12
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This week, two of E&M's best writers share their favourite European reads. From blog posts to essays, it can be anything that amused them, worried them or got them thinking about Europe. Ziemowit Jóźwik Not only for par...
Good Reads - Author Special 21/02/12
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This week, two of E&M's best writers share their favourite European reads. From blog posts to essays, it can be anything that amused them, worried them or got them thinking about Europe. Ziemowit Jóźwik Not only for par...
Eurozone: changes to the EU Treaty create fresh conflict between the institutions
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Can the new fiscal agreement save the Eurozone? - 1. Analysis / European Commission, European Parliament, European Council & Council of the European Union...
Serbia’s Russian bases alternative
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It is a well-known geopolitical fact that from 1914 to this day, Serbia has received military support or security guarantees from Russia. The latest such support was in evidence during NATO’s intervention in Kosovo, when Russian troops were present...
Polish Immigrant Hotline: Geert Wilders and the PVV shame the Netherlands again!
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We have sat and watched how Geert Wilders and his PVV “political party” have again embarrassed the Netherlands with a webpage-hotline that is intended to “report bad behavior of Polish immigrants.” This action by the PVV has now angered many...
EFF states that Bloggers under fire all over the world…Western technology companies helping torturing dictators… A cyberculture roundup
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EFF Unveils New Project: Bloggers Under Fire from EFF.org Updates by jillian 2011 was by many accounts ‘the year of the protester.’ From Tunisia to Oakland, activists took to the streets—and to social networks—to express themselves and thei...
Sticking.
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“As for you, I tell you what the epitaph on you Scottish dissenters will be – pure but impotent. Yes, you will be pure all right. But remember, at the price of impotency. You will not influence the course of British politics by a hair’s...
Per Kirkeby at the Bozar
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To the Palais des Beaux-Arts this morning, to a major retrospective, scheduled to coincide with the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU, of Per Kirkeby’s work, together with an intriguing exhibition of Kurt Schwitters’ ‘for...
Securing a legacy for Michael Foot
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It’s almost two years since former Labour leader and writer Michael Foot died. It seems relevant to question his political legacy for both current and future generations. One cannot see many existing members of the current Shadow Cabinet as rep...
MEPs again vote in favour of a single seat for the European Parliament
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This week in Strasbourg a majority of MEPs have again voted in favour of creating a single seat of the European Parliament in order to cut operating costs.In a report giving the Parliament's views on the Guidelines of the 2013 EU budget, a majority o...
Learn Everything You Wish To Know About Blogging
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Learn Everything You Wish To Know About Blogging from Article DirectoryArticle with a standard routine. In the event you post your posts on particular days at specific times, this will workout visitors to see your website at those occasions. Prospect...
An international atmosphere in my life!
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Two years ago my life could be described pretty easily: I was a young girl from a town in Southern Germany dreaming about discovering the world, travelling to Africa or Latin America. But thinking about it more, I realised that I didn't even know Ger...
An international atmosphere in my life!
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Two years ago my life could be described pretty easily: I was a young girl from a town in Southern Germany dreaming about discovering the world, travelling to Africa or Latin America. But thinking about it more, I realised that I didn't even know Ger...
Solidarity is good – But a new Greek state is Better
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People in Europe and across the world are mobilizing to show solidarity to the Greeks who have been hardly hit by the greatest economic depression in the history of their country. Being a Greek myself I can only express my gratitude to those who unde...
Solidarity is good – But a new Greek state is Better
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People in Europe and across the world are mobilizing to show solidarity to the Greeks who have been hardly hit by the greatest economic depression in the history of their country. Being a Greek myself I can only express my gratitude to those who unde...
The BBC reruns Jonathan Dimbleby´s uncritical "An African Journey"
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The BBC is currently rerunning Jonathan Dimbleby´s "An African Journey". The three part series shows Dimbleby uncritically praising "not a continent of beggars but of industrious people". Barely a word about dictatorship, corr...
