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17.03.2007 EU Politics

Johanna Graf, Congress Blogger

http://www.dailymotion.com/blog/video/2462895 Johanna is one of my fellow bloggers at the Congress – her own blog is here. She want to give every delegate the chance to express themselves on her blog, even if they can’t speak on the podium of

17.03.2007 Technology

Up and running

It’s taken longer than I would have thought, but I’m now online at the Congress. Seems the technology is far from perfect at the 1960s conference centre. The first few videos will be online very soon. My fellow bloggers here

13.03.2007 Observations

World Cup underway

Don’t worry, this is not going to turn into a blog about sport. But cricket is a great British institution, especially when you’re listening to Test Match Special on Radio 4 or 5 Live. With 6 weeks of cricket ahead

13.03.2007 EU Politics

Blogging the SAP Congress – in English

Sometimes strange things happen in party politics. This coming weekend will be one of those odd occasions. I am going to be one of the official bloggers at the party congress of the Socialdemokraterna (SAP) in Sweden. Why me? OK,

Dead Linux Penguin - source http://www.timheuer.com/blog/archive/2006/09/30/13545.aspx

09.03.2007 Technology

Tories not practicing what they preach on Open Source

So the Tories are in favour of Open Source software. Open Source Whitehall is the headline on BBC News, reporting a speech that Tory Treasury spokesman George Osborne made today at the Royal Society of Arts. Even Demos are trumpeting

09.03.2007 Technology

Web design: Victoria Climbié Foundation, and this blog

I’m happy to be able to announce the launch of the new site I’ve just completed for the child protection charity the Victoria Climbié Foundation UK. The site has been made in very quick time on a shoestring budget, using

08.03.2007 EU Politics

UK has the worst gender pay gap in Europe – the government should be ashamed

The EU has been doing some interesting research into gender and pay in the labour market across the EU, and the statistics in the report make startling reading in general – and especially from the UK perspective. Euractiv has a

06.03.2007 EU Politics

Poettering around the issue

I’m a bit slow on the uptake – I had not until today really noticed the inaugural speech that was made by new European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering. See the EP’s News Service about it here. That’s probably because his

06.03.2007 EU Politics

Spanish labour market undergoing unprecedented change

Chatting with my Italian teacher recently, he mentioned that the Italians are scared that next year Spain is projected to overtake Italy in terms of GDP per head. I’ve today been reading Le Monde, and the stats they present tell

06.03.2007 EU Politics

Same old inconsistencies from the Tories on Europe

In Europe, not run by Europe. That’s what William Hague once said as leader of the Conservative Party. I happened to hear him on the Today Programme this morning advocating a similar sort of line in his current role as

05.03.2007 UK Politics

Accosted on the street by MENCAP

Today I was accosted on Villiers Street, close to Embankment station. No, it wasn’t those annoying people from London Lite and The London Paper trying to thrust a nasty rag in my face, but instead it was a guy trying

04.03.2007 EU Politics

Take the Euroblog survey

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