I was contacted by Myra von Ondarza, a Masters student at Hamburg University, about an academic survey of ‘Euroblogs’. As my own blog has the title Euroblog that’s why she came across me. I’ve been asked a number of questions about my motivation to write this blog, and how I […]
Was it a good idea? Not sure. I’ve just returned home after 2 hours of arguing with Tories on the internet TV station 18 Doughty Street, brainchild of Iain Dale. It really felt like walking into the lair of the enemy, but no centre-left organisation has managed to come up […]
The main news story today in the UK is contaminated petrol in UK filling stations operated by Tesco and Morrisons – see the reports from BBC and The Guardian. Initial investigations seem to show that problems might be related to a firm Greenergy that is supposed to supply greener fuels […]
EPSO will today publish a new concours to enter into the European Institutions, entitled: EPSO/AD/94/07 ADMINISTRATORS (AD5) IN THE FIELD OF INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION AND THE MEDIA The deadline for applications is the end of March. I really wonder whether I should give this a shot. I did not manage to […]
I launched a new website at the end of last week – for the Global Policy Institute of London Metropolitan University. The site is a little thin on content at the moment, but we have plenty more in the pipeline. I’ve been working on it with Henning Meyer at the […]
Just a quick post as I have to head to Stansted in 4 hours and need some sleep, but excellent news this evening: the UK Independence Party has been told to pay back £367,697 of donations it did not collect properly. See the full story in The Guardian here. So […]
The EU is gearing up for a party (of sorts) to celebrate 50 years of the Treaty of Rome. The exact date is 25th March which falls on a Sunday. So what should you do? If you’re in the UK and have an academic interest in all things European, the […]
EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas has caused quite a stir in Brussels by asking for a Toyota Prius as his next car, rather than a BMW or Mercedes as the Commissioners traditionally use. The Prius is a petrol-electric hybrid and has low CO2 emissions per kilometre. The whole story from […]
My attention has been drawn to plans for how the UK Foreign Office is to boost efforts to communicate the European Union to the British Public. The ideas were leaked to the Mail on Sunday in December 2006 – read the full idea here. The plans themselves seem all too […]
I was not the greatest fan of Romano Prodi as Commission President, but he has until now made a reasonable job of governing Italy with a wafer-thin majority. Yet today it looks like that is going to come crashing down [BBC Story], as the government’s foreign policy proposals were defeated […]
Plenty of politicians in Europe are waking up to the power of the internet one way or another. Ségolène Royal has led the way, putting the website Désirs d’Avenir at the centre of her campaign. Margot Wallström has been blogging for some time. The SPD tried out its Rote Blogs. […]
2 more European Commissioners – Janez Potocnik and Mariann Fischer Boel – have jumped on the blogging band-waggon. There’s also a blog by Toivo Klaar, the head of the Commission Delegation in Estonia. But it’s in Estonian, so I have no idea whether it’s any good! Sadly neither of the Commissioners’ […]
