I’m no fan of George Bush. But he did do one good thing – he lengthened Daylight Savings Time in the USA by 4 weeks, and made Daylight Saving more symmetrical – now clocks change back in the USA the
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Category: EU Politics
Elmar Brok: Ukraine is not your brothel
(nudity in the video – not for watching on your office computer) Elmar Brok is a portly German CDU MEP, and a well known character in Brussels. This video of him being accosted by a FEMEN activist poses more questions
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A perfectly correct border control. No, sorry, identity control. Between Puttgarden and Oldenburg (Holst), 1105, Friday 1st March
The 0744 København H to Berlin train (although I’m getting off at Hamburg Hbf). Friday 1st March. Two policemen wait at the German border station Puttgarden, board the train at 1040, it departs at 1042, and the two of them
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Brussels EU tweetup, Irish Presidency version, 6th March, James Joyce Pub
After the successful first event back in November, there will be a second EU Tweetup – this time on Wednesday 6th March, from 1800, at the James Joyce Pub, Rue Archimède 34, 2 minutes away from Schuman. The basic idea
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Lobbyists feeding amendments to MEPs – I’m surprised that this is even news (but we need to know)
Brussels is lobby-central. Everyone is at it – companies, NGOs, national governments, trade associations – trying to shape legislation that has an impact on 500 million citizens and the market rules for the products these people buy. It’s generally said
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Permissible ID checks in EU Member States – I need your help
As regular readers of this blog know, the problems within the Schengen Area have been giving me cause for concern over the last few months. I have been wondering what best to do in light of my experiences, and my
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No secret ballot in the European Parliament on the EU budget vote!
So it looks like the European Council has agreed a real-terms cut in the EU budget for the 2014-2020 period. This has, understandably, been labelled unacceptable by the 4 largest groups in the European Parliament. Yet, fearing coercion from Member
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Why Labour’s critique of migration within the EU must stop
While the columns in newspapers criticising Cameron’s referendum commitment continue to be written, I nevertheless have a nagging fear – that while Cameron’s strategy may be ill-advised, the main pro-EU party in the UK, Labour, has nothing really to say
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techPresident | After the Hype, What’s Next for the German Pirate Party?
“To explain the transformation of people’s interaction with a new technology, Gartner coined the term “hype cycle”. After its initial invention, the new tool sees a peak of hype, followed by a trough of disillusionment, and finally a plateau of
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De eurostriptease / The Euro striptease – a video on a Flemish MEP’s official Youtube channel
UPDATE 14.30 – the original video, as I suspected, has been pulled from Youtube (it was here). As I stated in my blog post at 10.08 this morning, I downloaded the video before it was removed, and hence can show
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Following #TheSpeech – Cameron in Amsterdam
NOTE: Speech has now been postponed. Will not be 18th January. New date tbc. David Cameron’s long awaited speech will take place Friday 18th January at Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Here are some ideas to allow you to follow
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Bullshit Bingo – Cameron EU Speech (aka #TheSpeech) edition
NOTE: Speech has now been postponed. Will not be 18th January. New date tbc. All entries below remain valid for take 2 of the speech. So Twitter (#TheSpeech) and the newspapers are full of analysis and gossip about David Cameron’s
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