Europe’s Persecuted Citizens
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Across Europe there is one minority that is routinely, devastatingly discriminated against. This minority is the Roma, whose community spans across Europe numbering 10 – 12 million. Little has been achieved in terms of integrating them into wider s...
Spread the word about this EU push for citizen participation
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Most people probably won’t have even heard of the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI), introduced on the 1st April last week. Hailed as the first transnational instrument of participatory democracy in world history, it allows members of the publi...
Expert snapshot: Barah Mikail on Syria
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FRIDE expert Barah Mikail analyses the situation in Syria as government forces continue their attacks on civilians and the opposition is yet to establish a unified message, even after the celebration of the ‘Friends of Syria’ conference i...
Spread the word about this EU push for citizen participation | Paul Haydon
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A new initiative allowing Europeans to propose legislation can be an important democratic step – as long as it's well-publicisedMost people probably won't have heard of the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI), introduced last week. Hailed as the fi...
The fickleness of lake winds
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There are several sailing schools dotted about the Lago di Como and yesterday and today their pupils got an excellent illustration of the fickleness of this beautiful lake’s winds. When we learned a few years ago, in the summer, we sailed with...
Four Kopimist Sermons
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Easter is the most religious holiday in Christianity. It could be in Kopimism too, if we choose to copy. Missionary Kopimism is a fine religion, but I think we need to deepen the theology a little, in order to reach more would-be converts. I would li...
Four Kopimist Sermons
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Easter is the most religious holiday in Christianity. It could be in Kopimism too, if we choose to copy. Missionary Kopimism is a fine religion, but I think we need to deepen the theology a little, in order to reach more would-be converts. I would li...
Greek hopes for economic recovery rest on an illusion
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Solar energy will not save GreeceIf there still are some people, who have the illusion that Greece could be able to return to real growth under the present regime, these words by PM Lucas Papademos must mean the end of that false hope: ...
Portugal: Police Prevents Workers From Writing a Banner for the General Strike
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Francisco da Silva, on his blog Artigo 58, shares a video [pt] that shows a group of domestic workers in Lisbon preparing a banner for the general strike (March 24, 2012). The police enter the scene and put an end to the freedom of expression in a pu...
Funding the Extremes
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On 29th March 2012 a considerable majority of MEPs voted in favour of introducing tougher rules regarding the funding allocated to racist and xenophobic parties functioning in the EU. While there is no denial of the abhorrence of the views espoused b...
Ignoring contradictory findings: EU structural funds spending
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Achim Kemmerling, in a post over at the EUROPP blog, argues that because of the way they are spent, it was “perhaps naive to expect that structural funds policy should have an immediate and direct influence on regional growth“. However, l...
Florence Hartmann
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Ina Vukic, in her screeds against Carl Bild's visit to Sarajevo, reminds me that I haven't blogged yet about the Florence Hartmann case. (Although I have expressed my opinion on Opinio Juris in the past.) Normally I wouldn't write about a case that i...
Video: E-ticaret nedir?
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E-ticaret Günleri İst. Bilgi Üniversitesi E-ticaret Kulübü Program için tıklayınız Related posts: Eskişehir’de Palto Film Günleri başlıyor…19-25 Aralık… @paltofilm Bilgi’de 16 Mart’ta Sempozyum: Tür...
The allocation of EU structural funding is not only determined by economic and social needs. It is also a political game.
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The European Union is set to spend more than 300 billion Euros between 2007 and 2013 on Structural Funds which aim to support the development of poorer regions. However, their allocation is not only determined by need, argues Achim Kemmerling, …...
How ACTA stinks of Big Tobacco
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Should an industry that causes five million deaths per year be given any say in drafting public policy? From the outset, Big Tobacco has been one of the driving forces behind the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). To my astonishment, this c...
Fransız Kaldım (@FransizKaldim): Manzaralı bir ev
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Fransız kaldım : Manzaralı bir ev Sıkıldım artık ben, İstanbul’daki yabancı arkadaşlarımın manzara yarışmasından. Dün yine biri sordu : - Evin nerede? - Beşiktaş’ta. - Manzaralı mı? - Manzara yoksa gelmeyecek misin?? Böyle d...
Collective identity? C’est terrible!
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In a controversial speech, Klaus Welle MEP, the Parliament’s Secretary General said more was needed to foster a collective European identity. This was a bold and blusterous statement, but he makes an interesting case. Is this the right attitude for...
The Euro-2012 and European standards
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The head of the Euro-2012 Ukraine local organising committee Markiyan Lubkivskyi called Ukraine’s preparation for the soccer “the peculiar rehearsal of Ukraine’s entering to the EU”. “By preparation for the soccer we have reached new standa...
Presidential Candidates, Presidential Posters
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Two weeks to go until the election. One of the many things I like about French political...
On The Internet Article Directory Packed With Collectible Critical Information
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THE INTERNET IS LITERALLY A BROAD PROVIDER FOR SPECIALIZED OPINIONS, REVIEWS, AS WELL AS HOW-TO ARTICLES...
Tory council scraps their school buses as “too expensive”
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Hot on the heels of this week’s revelation that school meals have been shrunk to cut costs, the company responsible for Plymouth’s bus network has announced it will be scrapping its school bus service due to costs. Citybus was owned by the local...
Further reading
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Posting on FT Alphaville will be light to non-existent until New York hours on Monday, because of the holiday in Europe. Normal service including Markets Live will return on Tuesday....
After the arrest of Andrea Masiello
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Evidence has recently surfaced which suggests that Italian football has secretly been placed on the market and is available to manipulation, with individual players being approached by influential cliques who offer financial incentives in return for...
CBS’s 60 Minutes program on An Imperfect Union: Europe’s Debt Crisis. An ‘eyewitness’ assessment
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On 8th of April, CBS’s 60 Minutes featured a section on the Euro Crisis in which I appeared. Here is my account, and assessment, of it. Last month I was invited to participate in CBS’s 60 Minutes piece on the euro crisis. First came a meeting wit...
CBS’s 60 Minutes program on An Imperfect Union: Europe’s Debt Crisis. An ‘eyewitness’ assessment
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On 8th of April, CBS’s 60 Minutes featured a section on the Euro Crisis in which I appeared. Here is my account, and assessment, of it. Last month I was invited to participate in CBS’s 60 Minutes piece on the euro crisis. First came a meeting wit...
I’m a little nervous about Aaron Sorkin’s new TV show.
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There’s a generation of political activists, and I’m one of them, for whom “The American President” and “The West Wing” are sacred texts to be quoted and paid homage to on a regular basis. Sorkin, to his credit, m...
J.A. McCarroll: Grand Bizarre #8: FREELCNC COFFE BLOGGER
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Grand Bizarre #8: FREELCNC COFFE BLOGGER By J.A. McCarroll March 29: 2 48 P.M. “So,” my barista, proprietor of Galatasaray’s Kronotop Cafe, asks as I stare frantically at the espresso machine and massage my temples, “are you going to the...
Easter gives us hope we desperately need
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Christians from all over the world celebrate Easter, the greatest day among the followers of Christ. His resurrection has given the mankind a drop of hope that everything we do on this Earth isn’t meaningless. Living in times of severe politica...
The regions = the spices
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Europe has been unifying for the last decades. But also, calls for autonomy or independence have increased rather than seized: In 2006, the Catalonian people approved in a referendum the Statute of Autonomy which allows Catalonia to be called a ̷...
