The IPKat and his blogging family: a round-up
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As is traditional in the first full week after the Easter break, the IPKat reminds readers of some of the intellectual property-flavoured blogs with which he and his authors are involved. Blogs listed below may be "IPKat-approved", which does not mea...
Tiens! Sarkozy Isn't Happy with Eurozone Governance Either
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Nicolas Sarkozy, who has mocked François Hollande's pledge to "renegotiate" the "Merkozy accord" imposing a tighter watch on the spending of EU member states, has now launched his own call for a rethinking of the way business is done in the Eurozone...
French Presidential Candidate's Video to Attract Minorities
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François Hollande, the left wing candidate in the French presidential elections recently posted a video on youTube showing him walking in the French suburbs surrounded by minorities to the music of “Niggas in Paris” by Jay-Z and Kanye West. Comm...
Regional Global Governance Is Rising Out Of Sovereign And Banking Insolvency
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A report on the death of capitalism and the rise of regional global governance. The degree to which European stocks, VGK, particularly Spain, EWP, and its banks, STD, BBVA, and Italy, EWI, and Greece, GREK, have now fallen, suggests that Europe is...
Giuliano Ferrara: Italy's elephant in the TV | John Hooper
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Silvio Berlusconi's influence continues untrammelled, as Ferrara's nightly comment show illustratesGiuliano Ferrara is a corpulent journalist who was a minister in Silvio Berlusconi's first government back in the 1990s. He is also the central – ind...
Joined Cases C-72/10 and C-77/10, Marcello Costa et al.
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EU law precludes national betting and gaming legislation requiring minimum distance between betting outletsThese references for a preliminary ruling, which concerned the interpretation of Arts 43 EC and 49 EC, had been made in criminal proceedings br...
Joined Cases C-72/10 and C-77/10, Marcello Costa et al.
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EU law precludes national betting and gaming legislation requiring minimum distance between betting outletsThese references for a preliminary ruling, which concerned the interpretation of Arts 43 EC and 49 EC, had been made in criminal proceedings br...
No Briton can be indifferent when it comes to making a proper cup of tea
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George Orwell once wrote an essay called A Nice Cup of Tea. It wasn't a political allegory. It was about how to, you know, make a nice cup of tea. British people tend to give this question due reverence – as, indeed, do our kindred in the Anglo...
EASO is recruiting: Operational Support Officer
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Logo from site. We just noticed another vacancy published by EASO, for an Operational Support Officer. Application deadline is 7th May. The information on EU-Jobsite is as follows (together with a link to an information document): Workflow...
Review: in which modern science finally explains the economics profession
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Daniel Kahneman, the cognitive psychologist who with Amos Tversky won the Nobel Prize for Economics, has a major book out. Thinking, Fast and Slow is basically an effort at a popular synthesis of the state of research into human cognition … Con...
FTfm on AV
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Some highlights from Monday’s FTfm.New rules will decimate profitsA tightening of the International Accounting Standards Board’s IAS 19 directive from 2013 will...
How much is the Secret Service scandal the embarrassment for Obama?
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Secret Service agents and US military members are being investigated for alleged involvement with prostitutes in Cartagena, site of the Summit of the Americas summit. Read comments by W. Alex Sanchez, Research Fellow, Council on Hemispheric Affairs...
How much is the Secret Service scandal the embarrassment for Obama?
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Secret Service agents and US military members are being investigated for alleged involvement with prostitutes in Cartagena, site of the Summit of the Americas summit. Read comments by W. Alex Sanchez, Research Fellow, Council on Hemispheric Affairs...
Money illusion as a solution to the eurocrisis?
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Many neoclassical macroeconomists uphold that a higher inflation rate in the eurozone in the range of 5-6% constitutes a large part of the remedy to the ongoing crisis. It is those people who were happy with the LTRO among others, while they remain t...
