Jon Worth's Euroblog

27.02.2007 EU Politics

Communications concours – should I go for it?

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

25.02.2007 Technology

Global Policy, and why does technology always let me down?

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.

22.02.2007 UK Politics

UKIP has to pay back £300k – excellent!

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

22.02.2007 EU Politics

Appropriate plans to celebrate 50 years of the Treaty of Rome

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

22.02.2007 EU Politics

Dimas should purchase green and European, but it’s impossible

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

21.02.2007 EU Politics

Now the EU propaganda is run by the gay mafia

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

21.02.2007 EU Politics

Stay Prodi

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

19.02.2007 UK Politics

Expect no Désirs d’avenir from Gordon

Plenty of politicians in Europe are waking up to the power of the internet one way or another. SÃ©golÃ¨ne Royal has led the way, putting the website DÃ©sirs d’Avenir at the centre of her campaign. Margot WallstrÃ¶m has been blogging

19.02.2007 EU Politics

More Commissioners jump on the blogging band-waggon

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

18.02.2007 UK Politics

Segregation in Brixton

I went to a concert of the band Guillemots at the Brixton Academy on Friday. The concert itself was a bit strange – Guillemots are very professional, but they are hard to relate to as a live band. The main

13.02.2007 EU Politics

How Yomina v.d. Bismarckquelle and Corriecote Storm produced a Eurocrat

This is one of the oddest EU-related things I’ve come across recently. A colleague was looking for pictures of ‘Eurocrat’ in Google Images. That search drags up – among other things – a picture of Gerhard Schroeder, one of Daniel

13.02.2007 EU Politics

UK MEPs and Development Aid: do they not care?

I happened to be doing some research into the composition of the European Parliament’s Committees and came across the somewhat strange composition of the Development Committee (DEVE). It turns out that there are only 2 UK MEPs that are full