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Week in Bloggingportal: Eurosceptic Chic
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BY CC Euro Realist Newsletter Europe’s turned Eurosceptic, is the not-entirely-surprising conclusion of an examination of attitudes to the EU over the crisis. So Euroscepticism was big in the Euroblogosphere this week. We&rs...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Not in the Mood to Slaughter the Sacred Cows
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“What shall we do to save Europe and give a future to Europeans? We need to make a U-turn: slaughter the sacred cows, not the black swan.” (Filippo Addarii, Dating 4 Good) What’s your mood today? Looking for a helpless cry for a &ld...
Week in Bloggingportal: Exercises in Democracy
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BY CC FutUndBeidl It may be a year until the European elections, but with Croatia joining the EU in July, Croats are heading to the polls today to elect their representatives to the European Parliament. It’s not been the bes...
BM, now EU-approved!
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Well that was odd. Today's European Commission midday briefing ended with an extraordinary endorsement from presiding spokémon Olivier Bailly. A propos of absolutely nothing, he appealed to the gathered hacks and the literally several who tu...
Brussels blog round-up for 9 – 15 February: A reduced EU budget, the Anglo-German axis, and a transatlantic trade pact?
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Chris Gilson takes a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU centre Last week, the European Council agreed to a deal that would reduce the European budget in real terms for the first time (Open Europe has a good … Continue reading &...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Show me the money, Jean Monnet and Margaret Thatcher!
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Dear Jean Monnet, dear Margaret Thatcher, we here at our idealistic European project called Bloggingportal.eu (that’s for you, Jean) that functions without any government money (that’s for you, Mararet), we hope you both had a modestly co...
Week in Bloggingportal: Money, Money, Money
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CC BY ppcv This week on the Euroblogopshere saw the scandal in Spain, where the ruling Popular Party and Prime Minister Rajoy are claimed to be part of a party funding and tax dodge. Meanwhile, the idea of a European Semester Off...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Leadership and unemployment in Europe
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In the week we turned 4, in the week Cameron held his speech on Europe, in the week Jeroen Dijsselbloem became head of the Eurogroup, in the week the EU adopted the Financial Transaction Tax, in the week the Franco-German friendship turned 50, the Eu...
Week in Bloggingportal: The Prime Minister’s Speech
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David Cameron, making a different speech CC BY DFID – UK Department for International Development The big buzz about the Euroblogosphere this week was the long-awaited speech of Prime Minister David Cameron. It was bound to be a car...
How the dominance of English kills the European debate
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Spanishwalker has already argued some months ago that one of the problems of the European blogosphere is the dominance of English. He sees the problem in English being the gatekeeper language between blogging and writing in most other European lang...
The Year 2012 in Bloggingportal: Post-Nobel and Pre-Apocalyptic
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Our children and grandchildren might remember this year as the year in which the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for its past achievements, a major topic in the euroblogosphere. It was a year in which, despite the Maya’s and the Euro...
Eurosphere roundup: Berlusconi attempts to be back, EU postpones reforms until 2013
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MAIN FOCUS: Berlusconi launches election campaign | 12/12/2012 from euro|topics Italy’s ex prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday attacked the government of his successor Mario Monti and accused it of being “German-centric&...
Week in Bloggingportal: A Piece of Peace
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BY CC Mediocre2010 It was the week we all officially became Nobel Laureates, with the award ceremony for the EU’s Nobel Peace Prize. The Euroblogosphere was a-buzz with the event, with a debate over whether the EU deserved the...
Ad hoc EU nerds tweetup – blogup, Monday 26th November, 1830, Café des épices, Pl Jourdan
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After lots of tweets and e-mails exchanged it seemed best to summarise everything in a blog post… I’m going to be in Brussels for 48 hours 25th-27th November, and as I haven’t been in the city for a while it seemed like a good idea...
Week in Bloggingportal: Cyberpunk Culture
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BY CC Campus Party Europe in Berlin. Surprisingly, the internet was a theme on the blogs this week, with Commissioner Neelie Kroes blogging for fast European broadband, and a good round-up of digital and internet culture here. The...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Non-nonsense, disorder and big questions
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The end of 2012 is approaching and the euroblogosphere is starting to look into the future, asking big questions and providing big answers. We here at Bloggingportal.eu have spent our week deciding about a decision mechanism through which we will dec...
A million thanks to our readers
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A little while ago this afternoon a very special little something happened in the IPKat's life: we welcomed our one millionth visitor to our weblog this year. This is the first time this has happened. Our previous best calendar year for receiving v...
Russia: Blogging Conference Draws Regional Participants
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Regional bloggers convened at a Moscow conference organized by a state run news agency. Was it simply an overture aimed at new media, or an attempt to exert more control over the internet?
Kicking off a new Beyondbrussels.com
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Hi, and welcome to the new version of Beyondbrussels.com. In cooperation with the design-bureau can. we’ve made a redesign of Beyondbrussels.com, and we have made some changes on the way this site functions. Here’s a few. … Continu...
The EU law blogosphere
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We wanted to draw readers’ attention to a few other blogs dealing with matters of EU law. First of all, we are delighted to draw attention to a new blog, europaeuslaw, founded by our loyal contributor Professor Peter Lindseth (U.Conn.), wh...
Systemics and Dynamics Live NPthinking Blog, October 30, 2012
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Read from the bottom up to follow the flow: USA: Time for allegiance between people > Obama to the Rescue | The Big Dog Barks | No Time for Politics? http://t.co/bZw1okwP Nature is showing who is the real boss, and should make lots of people thin...
Systemics and Dynamics Live NPthinking Blog, October 29, 2012
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Please read from the bottom up to follow the flow: Schauble says EU needs the UK at Oxford: Or Schauble simply playing "good cop" on the UK to Merkel's "bad cop" on the UK? The reverse roles compared to Greece, that is! lol Maybe Schauble's call on...
Personal live blog, October 29, 2012
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Read bottom up to follow the flow: Vlogs: For fans: Have you watched: My Brunswick Vlogs (parts 1-3) http://t.co/TGd0B4EQ 3 vlogs total 10 minutes. Recorded: Oct. 1, 2012. 20+ yrs of monitoring and analysis: If your following my tweets is conditio...
Are you paying someone to do this?
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The IPKat spends a good deal of time, as has been mentioned in the past, deleting spam, junk, phoney comments, irrelevant and unsolicited advertisements and feeble attempts at search engine optimisation. He has just received yet another on...
Blogging in Solidarity's shadow
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Three decades ago in Gdansk, Poles rose up and created a marvel - an independent trade union Solidarity that, after a decade of non-violent struggle, threw off the shackles of communism. Today, the country is part of the European Union and has create...
Thursday thingies
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We had so many junk comments that we neededa white van to take them all away ... Over the past nine and a half years, the IPKat's weblog has featured more than 7,200 posts and has attracted over 14,400 comments from readers. Sadly, the blog al...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Post-Nobel
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After last week’s noble surprise, this week was clearly post-Nobel. A last wave of blog posts on whether the prize was given for Europe’s boringness or whether this was a call for action rolled through the Euroblogosphere, but the more...
Brussels blog round up for 13 – 19 October – EU summit, the Banking Union and who should collect the EU’s Nobel Prize?
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Chris Gilson and Stuart A Brown take a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU centre The European Council meet for their latest summit this week. Peter Spiegel at the FT’s Brussels Blog has a rundown of the latest developments through ...
Macedonia: Fashion and Style Blogs
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Skopje Casual blog, run by “3 girls, showing off their daily inspirations and casual fashion from the streets of Skopje,” posted [mk] a list of Macedonian fashion/style blogs. Some of them, like Diario creativo and Sanja's Burgundy Bl...
Intense 1-Hour Debate Between Conservative and Liberal Bloggers Shown Daily at 6 PM
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Remember: my one-hour debate with Ellen Kountz of the Obama à la carte blog, with Beseat Kiflé Sélassié moderating, is being re-broadcast daily at 6 pm Paris time (at noon, New York City time) this week on the la Locale TV station…Tune in and...
Week in Bloggingportal: We won the Peace Prize!
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BY CC Mediocre2010 I don’t know if you’ve heard, but we picked up a nice little award this week. No, not the Ryder cup (you’ll need to catch up a bit), but the Nobel Peace Prize! Here’s some of the reaction from arou...
Intense One-Hour Debate Between Conservative and Liberal Blogger Shown Daily at 6 PM
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My one-hour debate with Ellen Kountz of the Obama à la carte blog of last Thursday, with Beseat Kiflé Sélassié moderating, is being re-broadcast daily at 6 pm Paris time (at noon, New York City time) this week on the la Locale TV station…Tune...
FT Alphaville, refreshed
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Notice something different? We hope you like our fresh livery and new functionality. The changes we’ve made are not drastic. After all, FT Alphaville wasn’t broken, and frankly it’s the content and the discussion that matters most.
Brussels blog round up for 29 September – 5 October: Georgia votes, the third phase of the eurocrisis, and is Mitt Romney anti-EU?
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Chris Gilson and Stuart A Brown take a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU centre Open Europe speculates on the next EU summit (due on 17-18 October) arguing that although the early signs all point towards mutually beneficial agreements...
Site Move
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Site has moved. Some quirks remain, but we’re not really using this part of the site much these days so I’m not going to spend too much time fixing.
The Week in Bloggingportal: A Giant leap for the Eurozone?
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CC BY UggBoy UggGirl The Euroblogosphere is buzzing about the idea of further integration: should it happen, what would it look like, what will it mean? We have posts wondering how far Germany will accommodate a multi-speed Europe,...
this blog has moved to:
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My blog has moved to the following new address:http://npanayotopoulos.blogspot.comSorry for the incovenience! Please go to and bookmark the new blog!Thanks...
Brussels blog round up for 22 – 28 September: Maastricht 2.0, Westerwelle’s fantasy, and can some good come from eurocrisis?
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Chris Gilson and Stuart A Brown take a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU centre The EU Energy Policy blog examines efforts by energy efficiency experts to reduce the level of electricity consumption in Europe. They wonder if “smaller...
Welcome to FT Betaville
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FT Alphaville is in testing-mode!We’ve been working behind the scenes with FT Labs to improve the site, and we’re very excited about how it’s been coming along....
Random thoughts about Euroblog research
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On the Spanishwalker blog, Javier Ruiz Soler - @spanishwalker on Twitter – announced the publication of his master thesis about the Euroblogosphere in the context of an online European Public Sphere (here). The multilingual aggregator Bloggingp...
Academic research on EU blogging
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I was one of the people interviewed for Javier Ruiz Soler‘s European Studies Masters Thesis “Who blogs what? A qualitative study on the role of the Euroblogosphere in a context of a European Public Sphere.” The PDF of the thesis is...
The Week in Bloggingportal: The people chosen by the people with talent
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What’s a Week in Bloggingportal like? Well, it sure ends with you listening to the Berlaymonster talk about people chosen by people who were not chose by the people. And you think: WHAT? But then you read about people who might follow Barroso a...
Brussels blog round up for 15 – 21 September: Growing opposition to quotas for women on boards, ‘SimEurope’, and can the EU become a major player in the Arab world?
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Chris Gilson and Stuart A Brown take a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU centre Open Europe asks whether France and Germany still believe in Europe. Recent opinion polls suggest that attitudes towards the EU and the euro are hardenin...
I’m back, Arnie style!
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No, dear reader, I won’t annihilate anyone, I’m just back to the blogosphere. To make a long story short, last few months were pretty chaotic, draining all the energy out of me so I’ve temporarily quit writing this blog. It wasnR...
Brussels blog round up for 8 – 14 September: The Netherlands votes, Barroso’s state of the union, and ESM gets the thumbs up
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Chris Gilson and Stuart A Brown take a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU centre The European Citizen previewed European Commission President José Manuel Barroso’s annual State of the Union address to the European Parliament on Wed...
The week on the EP Library’s blog: close to your concerns
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At the Library, we try to stay close to our clients wherever they are. This week, we had an information stand in Luxembourg, where we presented a selection of our products. In Strasbourg, as for every plenary session, we handed our latest plenary bri...
I said I was coming back
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And I will… I am just wrapping up stuff with my PhD. With the highlight of the defense next week. If you stop by Orsay, France on Thursday morning, come and discover the mysteries of Super Heavy Elements stability. (Also, there will be a buffet...
Rentrée des Cabris : 3ème saison, 2ème génération !
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C’est reparti pour une 3ème année d’articles, d’opinions, d’analyses, de verres sur et autour de l’actualité politique européenne… avec une nouvelle équipe ! Des articles toutes les semaines, un Euro-apéro tous les deux mois Comme...
…..and all that Jazz!
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No long ruminations today. Those of you who follow me on Facebook will know why. I am recovering from sleep deprivation caused by two drunken Ukrainian ladies, one of which was the good lady wife, pillow fighting and wrestling on my settee until...
Brussels blog round up for 1- 7 September: Barroso starts tweeting, Draghi’s big announcement, and a 6-day work week for Greece?
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Chris Gilson and Stuart A Brown take a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The Euro centre Lost in EUrope complains that as the Eurozone crisis continues, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is likely to use his new Twitter account fo...
New media and the Library: a happy marriage
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By MEP Alexander Alvaro (DE/ALDE), Vice-president of the European Parliament Two months after its launch, the EP Library’s arrival on the web looks to be a success. Already active on social media with Facebook, I have a feeling the Library̵...
We are back, with a new campus and ‘old’ themes as relevant as ever
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We are back and apologize to our readers for the long break. We have a whole set of really good reasons why posting was interrupted for so long: the main ‘institutional’ one being that we, as part of the Institute of Public Administration...
Blogs review: The Fiscal Cliff
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Authors: Jérémie Cohen-Setton, Martin Kessler, David C. SahaWhat’s at stake: In an update to its budget and economic outlook, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reminded of the approaching “fiscal cliff” – a popular wonk-speak used to de...
Bloggingportal.eu reaches the 1000 Euroblog mark!
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Bloggingportal.eu, a Euroblog aggregation site that I'm a voluntary editor for (one of many), now aggregates 1,005 Euroblogs.It's not only a good sign for Bloggingportal.eu, but also shows healthy growth in the Euroblogosphere and online debate on th...
I stand for election to the Parliament of Lithuania
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Therefore this blog will be frozen until October 2012.
My participation at the Conference: United we Stand?
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Restablishing the connection on my blog, that hasn’t been updated in the last months due to the work with my thesis, I would like to comment a few lines about my experience in a Conference I participated in late June … Continue reading →...
About cobwebs and new beginnings
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I admit it has been a while. It has been a very long time. After two years of lying dormant in the back of my mind, covered in piles of dust and cobwebs, I decided to revive this blog from its comatose state of being. It’s only fitting to do it...
New location
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Dear visitor, Thank you for looking into my blog on European affairs and liberal values. This website has moved to EuroDale – Ideas on Europe. Please follow the link to read new and old posts. Best regards, Erik Dale...
Meta-Blogging Update: Less “mortiferous perfectionism”
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In a recent post I went through who visits this blog and how the experiment of bilingual blogging led to a massive increase in French readership, so that it now represents a quarter of the total. The flip side is … Continue reading →...
Brussels blog round up for 18 – 24 August: Hollande’s ‘austerity for the rich’, barriers to movement for same-sex couples, and is Europe lacking ideas?
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Chris Gilson and Stuart A Brown take a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU Centre The European Commission is currently running a public consultation on EU citizenship. Writing in relation to problems EU citizens may have travelling withi...
Updating Google's voice in Europe
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Today, this blog is making a small but significant change to its name. The Google European Public Policy Blog is becoming the Google Europe Blog. When we first launched this blog four years ago, the idea was to focus on Brussels-based European Unio...
Week in Bloggingportal: A Week of Narratives
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Are you sitting comfortably…? BY CC Abdulla Al Muhairi. We all enjoy a good story, and there have been some big ones around Europe in the last week, from a new European narrative to the one about Germany being a Eurozone scapegoat.
Back from a far away land
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As you may have noticed, this bog was dormant for the past 6 months or so… This was due to me being overwhelmed with work: I am just finishing a PhD. on stability of Transfermium elements and was also tied up by personal projects like gettin...
Russia: Yekaterinburg University Begins Masters Program in Blogging & Political Journalism
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Yekaterinburg's Ural Federal University is for the first time offering a Masters Degree [ru] in “political journalism” with specific training in blogging and “image-making.” In February 2011, UFU hosted [ru] journalist a...
Guest blogs: An invitation.
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Just on the off chance that you get tired of my tiresome repetitive whining (imagine that) I’m throwing out an appeal to readers who may like to submit a guest blog. Here’s the rules: 1. Length as suits, but I suggest around 600-800 words...
Brussels blog round up for 4 – 10 August: A bad week for Monti, poverty in Poland, and a German referendum on Eurobonds?
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Chris Gilson and Stuart A Brown take a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU Centre Stephen Tindale at the Centre for European Reform discusses Iceland’s potential accession to the EU. Although there is some broad support for Iceland’s...
The week on the EP Library’s Blog: on a slower pace
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Those of you who live in Brussels must have noticed that in this supposed-to-be summer holiday, the city turned completely its attitude. You find free seats on the bus and you can even cross the street quite safely without being crushed. I think our...
Bloggers and the Council Presidency: #Cy2012eublogs
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I attended the European blogging event held by the Cypriot Council presidency two weeks ago (you can find the event on Twitter with the hashtag #cy2012eublogs). It was a well-run event, with four panel discussions between bloggers on Europe in the Wo...
Who reads this blog anyway?: Conclusions from two months of bilingual blogging
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It has been just over two months since I relaunched this blog (my it feels longer). As it’s been quite a shift in terms of style, substance and method, I figure it’s a good time to take stock and assess … Continue reading →...
Russia: Political Ambitions for Most Influential Blogger?
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Earlier this week, members of Aleksei Navalny's inner circle announced that they are forming a new political party called "People's Alliance." Navalny is expected to abstain from the party, but he is likely to take part in upcoming protest elections...
Brussels blog round up for 28 July – 3 August: Croatia shames tax evaders, Draghi disappoints and will Europe become a world power?
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Chris Gilson and Stuart A Brown take a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU Centre Open Europe examine the results of the latest Eurobarometer survey, noting in particular that trust in the EU has reached an “all time low” amongst ...
Eurobee migration
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Hello readers, I have just migrated all Eurobee content into this blog, so it’s all coming together now. Dear Eurobee followers, I will continue to write about the EU, so stay tuned. Dear Climate Change readers, you might be interested in the o...
When the EU Cypriot Presidency meets the bloggers
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On the last 26th of July, the EU Cypriot presidency invited bloggers at the Council of the European Union headquarters in Brussels. Not being able to go in the Belgian capital city, my colleague Estelle Delaine for “Le Café de … Continue rea...
Back from holiday
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With today’s Daily Digest, BeyondBrussels has kicked of a new season, where we are ready to present new bloggers for you. Bloggers with great knowledge and insight in European politics. During the coming weeks we will deliver our usual Daily Di...
