Matthew Lenton’s Interiors
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This evening we went to Bozar Theatre to see Matthew Lenton’s Interiors. Broadly inspired by a theatre piece by Belgian symbolist Maurice Maeterlink, Interiors is more particularly inspired by a story Lenton read about a Norwegian, living in a...
High Noon, or firing blanks?
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Do not Forseke me, oh my darling, as Frankie Lane might have sung, had he been an Alliance Trust shareholder. That’ll be Karin Forseke, the new chairman, and next Friday...
”Svensk nätretorik klingar ihåligt”
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Sam Sundberg (som skrev reportageboken Piraterna tillsammans med Anders Rydell) har skrivit en krönika om nätfrihet som är bland det bästa jag läst: Utomlands är censur och övervakning dåligt (förutom då svenska företag som Ericsson och Te...
”Svensk nätretorik klingar ihåligt”
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Sam Sundberg (som skrev reportageboken Piraterna tillsammans med Anders Rydell) har skrivit en krönika om nätfrihet som är bland det bästa jag läst: Utomlands är censur och övervakning dåligt (förutom då svenska företag som Ericsson och Te...
Brighton Declaration will lead to ‘substantial’ reforms to the European Court of Human Rights
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Members of the Council of Europe unanimously voted in favour of reforming the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Thursday, at a conference in Brighton, UK. The conference, instigated by the UK chairmanship of the council, involved delegates fr...
Brighton Declaration will lead to ‘substantial’ reforms to the European Court of Human Rights
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Members of the Council of Europe unanimously voted in favour of reforming the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Thursday, at a conference in Brighton, UK. The conference, instigated by the UK chairmanship of the council, involved delegates fr...
Weekender
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This week on FT Alphaville,- De-euroisation remained a problem.- Natgas prices remained depressed, but that may not last.- David Murphy of Deus ex Macchiato submitted a guest...
Continuing or changing? I’m voting for François Hollande
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The official French electoral campaign ends tonight at midnight. From this hour, all media will have to stop broadcasting any information and/or electoral propaganda to let the electors to make their choice freely. I followed the presidential campaig...
Brighton Declaration will lead to ‘substantial' reforms to the ECHR
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Members of the Council of Europe unanimously voted in favour of reforming the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Thursday, at a conference in Brighton, UK. The conference, instigated by the UK chairmanship of the council, involved delegates fr...
UKIP seems to have got past the 'First they ignore you' stage
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The slow but steady rise of UKIP in the polls over the last few months went almost unheralded until the weekend before last when in what still looks like an outlier poll, the Mail on Sunday put UKIP as equalto the Lib/Dems on 11%. Since then the...
Poland leads the fight against EU`s disastrous global warming policy
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Poland again shows the way in the fight against the European Union´s disastrous and stupid climate change/global warming policy:A European Commission plan to boost the carbon market is unfeasible and could bankrupt Polish companies, Poland's en...
Anders Breivik is a terrorist, so we should treat him like one | Jonathan Freedland
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We comb over every word from Oslo, but disregard al-Qaida's rants. The lack of consistency speaks volumesDoes Abu Qatada play World of Warcraft? Did he once, like Anders Behring Breivik, dedicate a sabbatical year to "hardcore" playing of the ga...
The Referendum Question wording
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The wording of the Referendum was published in the Dáil Order Paper for today (PDF) . You are being asked if Ireland may ratify the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union. The Thirtieth Amendment of the...
Christina Romer Pleads for Less Austerity, More Stimulus
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Add another voice to the chorus calling for European nations to rethink their disastrous commitment to austerity before it is too late.Incidentally, Romer shrewdly notes that Sarkozy's retirement reform is a back-loaded fiscal consolidation of the ty...
Greek Communists promise radical action on unemployment as they present lists for May 6 elections
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The Greek Communists (KKE) would introduce ‘radical measures for the protection of the unemployed’ and ‘mass hiring’ in social services, public works, health and education if they won power on May 6 parliamentary polls. They w...
Home Is Where the Investors Are
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The growing dependence of Spain and Italy on domestic investors.
The ECB loads up on PIIGS exposure
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Reuters MacroScope blog covers some of our updated figures on the exposure of the ECB to the struggling peripheral countries. Following the ECB’s Long Term Refinancing Operations (LTRO) the ECB’s exposure to these countries has increased signific...
YouTube Hits a Wall Near Berlin; Googlers Concerned
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This U.S. Kat rarely meows about European IP issues. There are much more knowledgeable Kats in this herd to discuss the goings-on on the other side of the Atlantic. But this is breaking news which was brought to this Kat’s at...
London protest against Bahrain Grand Prix
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From the Peter Tatchell Foundation Bahrain protesters urge cancellation at Formula One HQ Date: Saturday 21 April 2012 Time: 12.30 -1.30 pm Address: Formula One HQ, 6 Princess Gate, London SW7 1QJ Bahrain exiles and their British supporters will gath...
London protest against Bahrain Grand Prix
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From the Peter Tatchell Foundation Bahrain protesters urge cancellation at Formula One HQ Date: Saturday 21 April 2012 Time: 12.30 -1.30 pm Address: Formula One HQ, 6 Princess Gate, London SW7 1QJ Bahrain exiles and their British supporters will gath...
Seven Days in Europe
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EU Council chief Herman Van Rompuy has said in a letter to outgoing Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that Russia’s internatioinal reputation is at stake over the murder of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. “The case of Mr Magnitsky has come to sy...
How the Internet powers German small businesses
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In Germany, we’ve long believed that the Internet helps create innovative new small businesses - and that SMEs that go online, grow faster, export more and create more jobs than their offline competitors. But to prove it, we needed solid evidence.
Being Salt and the Light – Paul Parrish in Kenya, blog II
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“‘If the world is broken, where are are the Christians?’ This is a common sentiment amongst the African Friends I’ve encountered. From food sufficiency and orphans to gender injustice and conciliation, social action features...
De-euroisation is (still) de problem
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Or, imagine foreign holdings of eurozone sovereign debt turning back the clock some 15 years… to before there was a eurozone.A few charts from Rabobank on Friday (click to enlarge):...
Could US natural gas run out of storage capacity?
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We keep reading about how US natural gas prices are depressed because of the glut of supply and unseasonably warm weather, driving down demand. Hard to argue with this –...
EP in urgent call for an EC proposal on the 7th EAP
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According to a resolution recently adopted by MEPs, the Seventh Environment Action Programme (EAP), the EU's next flagship environmental strategy, must outline steps and set targets to protect the EU's environment and encourage a more efficient...
