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Reaching out and reaching in
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Some clippings:I wrote about love on the Atlantic Review and got a comment thread from hellThe campaign for the European Parliament elections is finally getting started. Such as it is. Here's a mini-roundup on the th!nk about it community site.Someth...
On Hiatus, Again
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As I'm now an editor on two widely read blogs, the Atlantic Review and the European Tribune (and I can put my snark up on twitter), this crappy-looking blog will likely see even less frequent posting.Some service announcements will still be made when...
Libertas FAIL
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EUbusiness announces the end of a rather strange campaign by the Irish anti-Lisbon Treaty party Libertas to be recognised as a European political party. The question remains why it tried to take this avenue in the first place. Does being a European p...
What Carbon Blindness Hath Wrought
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SPIEGEL: Wind Turbines in Europe Do Nothing for Emissions-Reduction GoalsTo be uncharitable: SPIEGEL continues its anti-wind campaign and displays the stupidity of our current discourse on climate change policy, which is staring itself blind on the e...
Investigate, Confiscate, Imprison
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Like Jerome says on eurotrib, the long term solution for this crisis involves taking back the money showered on bankers for feeding a bubble.Here's non-crazy guess on how to proceed with this: due to an actively pursued lack of oversight, there has p...
Renewal Postponed
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The EUobserver has a very good report that I think supports my take on this first round of stimulus bills in Europe. No direction whatsoever in them. A few quotes:"Much more could be done in the areas of energy- and climate," said Jakob von Weizsäke...
Thursdays are for Twestival
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One of the interesting personalities I got to know around the th!nk about it launch event was Bente Kalsnes. I've been following Bente's blog for a while now in my RSS reader (now migrated to teh google, and yes, it's better). As far as I can see she...
Iceland & The EU Fisheries Bind
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Publius reminds us all that if Iceland doesn't move to join the EU, it will largely be because the EU's fisheries policy is a disaster.That may be so, but the British, Irish and Danes have all kinds of exemptions. Why not a fisheries exemption for Ic...
Blogging Projects
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It's been a while since I've metablogged.That is, the community of the th!nk about it blogging competition, in which I am an editor alongside three other famous eurobloggers. Curious yet? Read the about page. This is the biggest blogging nursery Euro...
Overton Window Politics Done Wrong
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Seems like everyone in the UK is having a fun time bashing Jonathan Porritt. Here's a quote from the (sabotaged) wiki:In February of 2009, Jonathon stated that population growth is a serious threat to the global environment and that contraception, ab...
A short message to my green friends
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The financial sector has turned into something of an ally on green issues. The big banks, insurers and reinsurers have taken up challenges in regard to climate change, ecosystem services, sustainable development. And they have lobbied for clear gover...
Decoupling on the Way Down
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We've been seeing that there is little relationship between economic growth and job creation in the US. Now that economic fortunes have declined, everyone expects a massive unemployment hike. But this outcome of the 'economy' can be influenced by pol...
Jobs, jobs, jobs
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The Financial Times suddenly decides that this is a good time to go beyond gdp.(via Jerome a Paris on Eurotrib)...
The Best of the Worst Times
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Politically and in my lifetime (so far, knock on wood), anyway. With a hat-tip to Thomas Friedman I'd say this is the Silver Icing at the end of the Dark Cake. Gone in three days. To celebrate:...
The Prankster Presidency
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The French Presidency of the EU turned out to be less fun than I thought it would be. There turned out to be enough real crises for Sarkozy to satisfy his desire for action and grandstanding, and well, he did manage those quite well.The Czechs, thoug...
