Wind energy: No more turbo growth for the turbines
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Even the Wind energy lobby now has to admit, that there will be no turbo growth for the turbines during the next few years:The outlook remains bumpy for the wind-power industry after regulatory turmoil along with flattening demand in China hampered g...
The Closer
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ROUND-UP “Risk appetite built after a strong survey of German economic sentiment and firm demand for an auction of Spanish government bills reduced anxiety about the eurozone fiscal crisis....
‘Suspension will allow reform to continue and be rewarded" - MEP Girling on Burma EU sanctions
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Earlier today the South West Conservative MEP Julie Girling spoke during the Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg in the debate on the situation in Burma. Recalling her participation in the historic first official delegation visit from the Eu...
France: The March of the Suburbs
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The website Marche Paris 2012 [fr], emanation of the Indignados and Occupy movements, details the organization and the stages of the March of the Suburbs, which leaves from Saint-Denis on April 14, and proposes to go through the Parisian suburbs in 2...
Beyond social media: the digital evolution of EU institutions
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This is an excerpt from an article I recently published on the EUROPP blog of the London School of Economics (LSE). « Do you ‘like’ the European Parliament on Facebook? More [...]...
"The Hans-Werner Sinn Paradox" by Andrew Watt
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I have just learned that Hans-Werner Sinn has taken on even weightier subjects than rescuing the euro area from its crisis. Back in 2007 Germany’s best-known economist wrote articles on saving not just Europeans but the whole of humanity, namel...
Could we be voting on the ESM Treaty Amendment also?
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Independent TD, Thomas Pringle of Donegal South West, is taking the Government to court claiming that the ESM Treaty ratification should have been via a referendum rather then just a vote in the Oireachtas. This treaty change is linked to the Fiscal...
Говорот на Лидија Димова во Европскиот парламент (Committee on Foreign Affairs)
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Говорот на Лидија Димова во Европскиот парламент (Committee on Foreign Affairs) – 11.04.2012 година + видео од говорот со превод (title) на македонски За раз...
Говорот на Лидија Димова во Европскиот парламент (Committee on Foreign Affairs)
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Говорот на Лидија Димова во Европскиот парламент (Committee on Foreign Affairs) – 11.04.2012 година + видео од говорот со превод (title) на македонски За раз...
Simplistic portrayals of Putin as Bond villain cripple diplomacy
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By Darragh McDowell The West needs to look beyond the stereotypes if relations with Russia are to improve READ...
Online Cloud Services Rely on Coal and Nuclear Power, Report Says
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“The report, by Greenpeace, singled out Apple as a leader in the drive for cheap coal-fired energy to power giant data centers.” (Source: NY Times) This new Greenpeace report “How green is your cloud” confirms that greenIT and decarbonisation...
Until we’ve exhausted the opportunities within the current system: no EU institutional reforms please
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Here we go again. Today Steven Hill has laid out his institutional vision for the European Union on Social Europe journal. His plan – with a bicameral European Parliament – is not too distant from ideas raised by Denis MacShane in the pas...
WGE – April 2012
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This post provides a monthly overview for April of the most recent electoral happenings on the Who Governs Europe? website, at http://www.whogovernseurope.com. The Who Governs Europe? website is dedicated to documenting electoral developments in Euro...
How will the French Presidential election affect Europe?
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This Sunday, the first round of the French Presidential election will take place. The result, if frontrunner French Socialist candidate François Hollande wins (as widely predicted), could be a shift to the left for one of the most powerful countrie...
Imprisoned Italian sailors causing diplomatic tensions between Italy and India
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The Marò case. After over a month, nothing seems to have changed in this difficult diplomatic quarrel between Italy and India. Mistakes and delays are the only certainties in this long power play. And in the meantime, two Italian soldiers are still...
ECA’s Opinion on legislative proposals for the reform of the CAP
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The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has recently published its opinion on the Commissions’ legislative proposals for the reform of the Common agricultural policy as of 2014. Even if the Court recognises the efforts made by the Commission to sim...
EU energy aid to developing world may not cover biofuels
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According to the EU Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, part of the energy aid to the developing world could be spent on gas projects. However, biofuels, nuclear and coal energy will be excluded. Notably, the EU commissioner has said: “We...
As long as the Eurosceptic vote is fragmented, the Euro-enthusiasts will keep winning
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In 1993, Canada’s Conservatives were wiped out. The governing party lost all but two of its 156 MPs and began a lengthy spell in opposition. Defeat on such a scale doesn’t happen for just one reason, of course, but the Tories’ single biggest di...
Anders Breivik's trial will only vindicate Norway's liberal legal system | Erik Dale
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No punishment can ever fit Breivik's crime. If we stay true to the values of Norwegian society, it will strengthen us as a nationThis week Anders Behring Breivik has begun to explain his actions of 22 July 2011. Not since the end of the second world...
200 years of Vikram getting paid $1
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An advisory vote, but still – Pandit’s pay pack only got 45 per cent shareholder approval in Dallas. US corporate governance on a roll lately (or is that diminished expectations?)....
Are Italy’s forecast revisions already out of date?
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We were treated to a preview of the Italian government’s new deficit/debt/GDP projections on Tuesday, courtesy of Reuters…While considering those numbers, have...
Not without EU, says Financial Times… A foreign policy roundup…
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Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul (L) admires paintings during a visit to the Amsterdam Museum in Amsterdam April 17, 2012. Gul is in the Netherlands for a three-day state visit. REUTERS/Peter Dejong Triumphalist Turkey can’t go it alone from F...
Tim Farron to put tanks on Clegg’s lawn over benefits Legal Aid vote
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With the last few grains trickling through the hourglass on Legal Aid, Liberal Democrat President Tim Farron will put himself at loggerheads with Nick Clegg this evening — having tabled an amendment opposing plans to deny Legal Aid from disable...
Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy: Upcoming debate in the EU Council
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After the first orientation debate in the Council focussed on discards policy, the next Fisheries Council meeting on 26 and 27 April 2012 will continue the debate among member states’ ministers on the future Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) of the...
