Is there room for civil society in the concept of stakeholder engagement in European research?
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The name for the next European Research Framework Programme which will apply from 2014 for the following 7 years – is Horizon 2020 – a name arrived at through means of a public consultation. That might suggest that there is … Contin...
Another corporate tax dodge
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This is, I suppose, the time of year for things to come back to life, and stories of corporate tax avoidance are among them. It is reported this morning that online retailer Amazon pays no corporation tax on profits in the UK, despite sales revenue...
Spanish bonds / banks / bonds / banks
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Beyond Thursday’s back-up in Spanish bond yields — questions about Spain’s banks.How could there not be when they’ve been buying so much sovereign debt since the LTRO....
EPLO Statement: The EEAS and Peacebuilding One Year On
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EPLO published a statement ‘The EEAS and Peacebuilding One Year on‘ which evaluates whether the EEAS has made the EU more effective at preventing conflict and building lasting peace. Click here to download the statement.
Experts on the Supreme Court: Lawyers Who Teach and Journalists
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For all the American lawyers and law “professors” who had been predicting clear-sailing for the Affordable Healthcare Act before the U.S. Supreme Court, the three days of oral arguments must have been a rude awakening. Lest the public be taken in...
Life before Greenies Exterminationists
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Alas, a fabled time, ere it was. One could produce food without irony, and feeding people with abundant crops was nothing to feel guily about.
Meet the Danish playwright staging Anders Behring Breivik’s 'Manifesto 2083'
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The Norwegian terrorist’s racist and anti-islam manifesto will be staged in the Danish capital in October 2012, despite criticism from the right wing and families of his 77 victims. ‘You can be disgusted by your own fascination,’ admits theatre...
Dutch DPA announces Google's compliance in WiFi data case
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"Since 15 November 2011 the Dutch DPA has sent Google a number of requests for information in order to determine whether, with the selected measure of allowing people to add ‘_nomap’ to the network name of their WiFi router, Google has complied w...
ComReg issues decision on WBA price control further specifications and amendment to transparency obligation
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ComReg has issued its decision as regards further specifications to the price control and amendment to transparency obligation in the wholesale broadband access market.
ComReg issues in final new PRS framework
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The Irish NRA has issued its decision on the new PRS code of practice and the new Licensing Regulation for the provision of PRS.
OFCOM undertakes dispute on BT's termination charges
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Everything Everywhere brings before OFCOM a dispute regarding BT's termination charges for 0844, 0843, 0871, 0872, 0873 and 090 number ranges (see related page).
Russian Orthodox Church Confesses to Doctoring Patriarch’s Photo
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The Russian Orthodox Church insists that its leader has nothing to hide. But someone controlling the Church's website this week doctored an official photograph to obscure the wristwatch Patriarch Kirill wore during a 2009 meeting with Russia's justic...
The mystery of Morgan Stanley’s footnote unravels – Part 2
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The story so far:In Part 1, we reminded you of Morgan Stanley’s footnote in their fourth quarter earnings, whereby the bank stated that it had reduced its exposure to Italy...
OFCOM issues provisional conclusions and updates provisional determination on Ethernet charges disputes
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Ofcom issued its provisional conclusions on the dispute brough by Verizon, concerning the level of BT’s charges for Wholesale Extension Services (“WES”)(see related page).OFCOM has update with new data its provisional determination of a dispute...
Snooping protesters plan to copy all emails to Theresa May for a day
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In an amusing use of social media, campaigners plan to bombard the home secretary with messages on a “National CC all your e-mails to Theresa May Day” to protest against the government’s email monitoring plans. A page on Facebook says: “The...
Commission staff working document on the implementation of national broadband plans
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The Commission has made public its working document on the implementation of national broadband plans.
German NRA prohibits for the time being DT's price model for VDSL bitstream access
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"With a decision published today, the Bundesnetzagentur has prohibited Telekom Deutschland GmbH from selling VDSL bitstream access under a new price model for the time being. The company had informed the Bundesnetzagentur back in mid-January 2012 of...
Günter Grass and changing German attitudes towards Israel | Hans Kundnani
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The poet hopes his latest work, What Must Be Said, will prompt others to break their silence on Israel's nuclear weaponsThe anti-war poem published by Günter Grass is a subtle but straightforward example of a tendency in Germany that the historian D...
The Republican Implosion
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I’m waiting to see who else gets kicked off the island, paraphrasing President Obama on the Tonight Show, when asked when he would start his campaign. And that’s true. Everyone who has been involved or even cared to follow the Republican...
Happy Easter
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The blog will be taking a break over Easter. Thank you to all our readers, and we hope that you all have a good break. We will be back soon!
Seven Days in Europe
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Eurozone unemployment reached 10.8 percent in February, the highest level since the currency was introduced in 1999, according to the latest Eurostat data. The statistics office estimated that more than 17.1 million men and women were out of work in...
Licences Creative Commons 4.0: vers de nouvelles avancées?
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A lire sur http://scinfolex.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/ouverture-a-la-discussion-des-creative-commons-4-0-eclats-de-s-i-lex/ Extrait Il s’agit d’une étape importante pour le projet Creative Commons, car lors du dernier Sommet Global organisé en 2...
A thought about modelling euroscepticism
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PSA 2012 is coming to an end and I’ve had some really interesting and useful discussions with colleagues on a number of subjects. One topic that came up was an old one, namely the continuing basic problems in researching euroscepticism. From th...
Francesco Sessa v. Italy: A Dilemma Majority Religion Members Will Probably Not Face
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This post was co-authored by Saïla Ouald Chaib and Lourdes Peroni This week, in a 4-3 judgment, the Court ruled against a violation of the freedom of religion of Mr. Sessa, a lawyer and member of the Jewish faith, unable to attend a court hearing sc...
A rare case of par in Greece
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Ha! Greek sovereign structured finance ha!A great spot from Owen Sanderson over at IFR:The desperation of the Hellenic Republic has had an unexpected upside for some ABS noteholders....
The water drop that makes the difference
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By Joëlle Verstraeten The conceptual artist Sam Hopkins presents his latest exhibition ‘Dead insects in my parents' pool’ (2010), curated by Samantha Ripa di Meana at Roots Contemporary in Brussels. Through an installation of light boxes, he e...
The water drop that makes the difference
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By Joëlle Verstraeten The conceptual artist Sam Hopkins presents his latest exhibition ‘Dead insects in my parents' pool’ (2010), curated by Samantha Ripa di Meana at Roots Contemporary in Brussels. Through an installation of light boxes, he e...
EU institutions are not lagging behind in their social media presence. But they mistake being on social media with having a social media strategy.
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Do you ‘like’ the European Parliament on Facebook? More than 370,000 citizens do. But this impressive number hides that the European institutions are still lacking a social media strategy, argues Aurelie Valtat. In her first of two articles, she...
A Cuban voice on Che and Galway who is not a hysterical right winger
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Declan Ganley and the hard right cabal he has mustered to try and influence Galway Council over plans to put a up statute of Che should read the below. Cuban academic, Manuel Barcia, Deputy Director at the Institute for Colonial and Postcol...
Running, Walking and Writing
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I’ve never had the slightest desire to jog, let alone run, and to be brutally frank have always felt rather sorry for the poor guys and gals trotting past me along the road, attached to their iPod, bound up in their own thoughts and physical...
Is the Aussie dollar becoming a reserve currency?
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The IMF’s latest quarterly update on the currency composition of official foreign exchange reserves (COOFER) is out. One person excited by the numbers is Simon Derrick at BNY Mellon....
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story! Another terrific Express ‘exclusive’
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Never let the facts get in the way of a good story! By David Seymour There used to be a joke among journalists that the perfect story combined religion, sex and mystery. The Daily Express has its own variation – a combination of immigration, welfar...
Last Brussels Development Briefing
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The last Brussels Briefing on "Small island economies: from vulnerabilities to opportunities" took place on 4th April, 2012. More than 100 ACP and EU policy-makers, NGO representatives and Member States delegates actively participated. A wider au...
Main ACP-EU events for the week from 09/04 to 15/04/2012
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European Parliament 10 April: Committee on Foreign Affairs ACP Group 13 April: ACP-EU S/C on Trade Cooperation 13 April: 4th meeting on ACP-EU Dialogue on Migration You can also read our newspaper “CTA Brussels Daily” (fed by our Twitter account...
Brian Paddick publishes personal details along with accounts
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Nobody expected the accounts and tax returns of the Liberal Democrat’s mayoral candidate to be of particular interest, but in what looks like a serious cock-up Brian Paddick seems to have published an unredacted scan- complete with personal inf...
