On Cameron’s ‘No more Greeks’ policy
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According to The Guardian Website, the UK Prime Minister told MPs that UK ministers have examined legal powers that would allow Britain to deprive Greek citizens of their right to free movement across the EU, if the eurozone crisis leads to “st...
A Digital Internal Market for Europe – within our reach?
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[This post is a rewrite of an old post from about a month back, which entered data oblivion under the "care" of my less than competent old hosting provider. Upside: I can include a comment on the directive draft for … Continue reading →...
The row over the uniforms and the WTO factor
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My comment re "Made-in-China US Olympic uniforms spark political row" (Reuters): China joined the WTO in December 2001. Is it time the US considers leaving the WTO? The EU? A departure of the US (and the EU?) from the WTO would not mea...
Enabling Non-Empathetic Leaders: Paterno at Penn State
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In January 2011, the illustrious football coach at Penn State University, Joe Paterno, learned that prosecutors were investigating his longstanding assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, for sexually assaulting young boys in the football team’s locker ro...
Social Liberal Forum Conference
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The Social Liberal Forum obviously fulfils a need within the Liberal Democrats, as the healthy turnout for its conference at King’s College Waterloo campus in London today testified. Since the party went into government it has been important to...
Ancient Greek lessons for 2012 Europe
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What would the history of the world be like if the Greek city-states had formed a "united states" type of entity? Lessons for 2012 Europe.NickPthinks on business, EU policy, socio-economics and systemics in Europe. North America and the world...
From the systemics Eurozone perspective
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My comments on "Deutsche Maschinenbauer für Rauswurf Griechenlands aus dem Euro" in Deutsche Mittelstands Nachrichten : If 1.8% of the Eurozone economy (Greece) creates structural instability, what does that say re the whole structure (of the...
If the Euro had remained within a 1.0 and 1.2 USD range in the last 10 years, ...
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If the Euro had remained within a 1.0 and 1.2 USD range in the last 10 years, what would the situation in the Eurozone today be? (food for thought, contact me to discuss) PS. It was supposed to be a Euro not a EuroDM (see eg inflation policy) N...
Portugal – Please Switch The Lights Off When You Leave!
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The recent decision by the Portuguese constitutional court to unwind public sector salary cuts included by the government in its austerity measures has once more given rise to speculation the country may not meet it’s 4.5% deficit target for 20...
Putin´s and Gazprom´s dirty gas game in Europe
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Aviezer Tucker, assistant director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin has written an article in the Washington Times which deserves to be widely read - particularly in Europe - because it reveals the truth: W...
It Doesn't Matter What Mitt Romney Says at the NAACP, They Are Going to Call It Racist Anyway
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Ann Althouse notes that Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi goes all racial on Mitt Romney's appearance before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ("a genuinely repugnant human being [and] a grasping corporate hypocrite", thanks fo...
A look at the German centre left
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No alternative to austerity The politics of the economy in Germany is much like elsewhere, like the UK, like the US and in fact like most of Europe. In an effort to appear serious the German centre left, the SPD, has neither confronted austerity nor...
On BSkyB discussing the New Great Depression: Yanis Varoufakis and Julian Jackson
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Filed under: European Crisis, Politics and Economics...
On BSkyB discussing the New Great Depression: Yanis Varoufakis and Julian Jackson
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Filed under: European Crisis, Politics and Economics...
Former editor of the Economist: Being part of the EU is the same as membership in Fifa!
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The Economist has spent years trying to convince the British that the European Union and the euro are very much part of the UK future. No wonder then that Bill Emmott, editor of the europhile magazine during the years 1993 - 2006, is still so b...
Tory MP thinks NHS services could be funded by car boot sales
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A Tory MP has praised plans to part-fund key NHS services through car boot sales. With a number of NHS trusts thought to be on the brink of bankruptcy, Stockton South MP James Wharton claimed that proposals by North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundat...
Germany in the News: Is the German Image Shown by the Press during the Financial Crisis Accurate? 180th Edition of Blawg Review Reposted Here Shows German Americans are the LARGEST Acknowledged Ancestry Group in America
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Who are the Germans? Did you know that German Americans make up the largest acknowledged ancestry group in America, larger even than that of the Irish or the English? See the facts further below. And consider that [Old English viz. Anglo-Saxon] is...
Jon Danzig on BBC: 'My life as a journalist & film maker'
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Journalist & film maker, Jon Danzig, talks on BBC about his life, including how he was locked up with crocodiles in Florida and why he was asked to film nudists in France.
To the members of the European Council
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Note: This opinion column was published on June 27th, 2012 together with JEF-Strasbourg, ahead of the European summit of June 28th and 29th, 2012. We, European citizens, involved in the association “Young European Federalists” in Strasbourg and a...
At the end, Germany always wins… or not!
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Mario Monti, Italy’s PM (left), Mario Draghi, President of the ECB (center), and Angela Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor (right), during the EU summit of June 2012. (Flickr) It’s a surprise, a big surprise! The latest European Council of Br...
Giovanni Falcone: a citizen and a hero
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Note: This article was first published on May 23rd, 2012, on the French blog, on the day of the 20th anniversary of Judge Giovanni Falcone’s assassination. On May 23rd, we record a discrete hero, Judge Giovanni Falcone, killed 20 …...
Why the UK’s “audit” of EU law is a waste of time
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So, supposedly in a bid to allow any future in-out referendum on UK membership of the EU to be based on facts rather than ideology (fat chance), Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced an “audit” of the influence of EU … Conti...
Tips on how to Renounce Your Polish Citizenship
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In case you have a Poland citizenship that you might want to renounce since you would want to enjoy rights coming from another administration, then you have fallen on the ideal place. Nothing is bad with obtaining 2 citizenship at one time; but, some...
Support for saving the Euro within German industry is deeply split. Large exporters want to see the Euro continue, small and family firms do not.
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Do German business leaders support measures to prop up the Euro and prevent Greece from exiting the currency? Philine Schuseil writes that there seems to be a division in support, with German family businesses in favour of regulatory rules and less...
Living next to a volcano? Lucky you
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I am at the Euroscience Open Forum in Dublin this week, which is Europe’s largest science conference. Today I attended an extremely interesting session about volcano research, and was struck by a worrying thought. Although the idea of living ne...
Visa restrictions are shutting Turkey out of the EU | Egemen Bağış
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The idea of Turks flooding into the EU is absurd, yet ours is the only candidate country to be kept outside the Schengen zoneIstanbul enjoyed the honour of being recognised as the European capital of culture in 2010, and the European capital of sport...
Lampedusa øy, port og himmel og helvete.
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Er ankommet Italias sørligste øy som heter Lampedusa. Lampedusa ligger etter all normal fornuft i Afrika, men er altså en av Europas mange yttergrenser mot “resten” av verden. Jeg ankom Lampedusa i går kveld etter en flytur fra Bergen...
The commons: beyond the market vs. state dilemma
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"Rather than the vision of competition for scarce resources, the way of the commons is to look for support in what is needed, and not to consumption; to use more than to exchange, in the conviction that there are sufficient resources for all. In...
Woody Guthrie at 100
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Woodrow Wison Guthrie, born July 14 1912 in Okemer, Oklahoma. Died October 3 1967 in New York (from the effects of Huntington’s Chorea). A great man, highly influential musician and committed socialist. He deserves to be remembered and honour...
