The joys of EU energy market liberalisation. EDF, the French mostly state owned energy firm, bought London Energy a few years ago – the firm is the main electricity company for most of London. Personally I don’t have any problem with this, with the partial difficulty that EDF is pro […]
I wrote a little while ago about the efforts of the Bruges Group to force the Tory MEPs to quit the EPP-ED group in the European Parliament – read that detailed post here. I am quite amused today to discover that a blog has been launched to defend the other […]
Excellent news: the Labour Party has just released 2 new blogs. Bad news: these are about football! Yes, I’m quite serious. Alistair Campbell and Sadiq Khan MP will write blog entries about the World Cup – click here for the website. OK, it’s fun. But does Labour not have any […]
From Polly Toynbee’s article from today’s Guardian: How tragically revealing that half of all prisoners are completely illiterate and another 20% have a reading age under eight. Plus prison numbers will hit record levels this week, and the UK has Europe’s longest sentences on average. Hell. And this is after […]
The French finance ministry has not been having a fun time recently – exceeding the 3% of GDP deficit limit imposed by the stability and growth pact for the Eurozone. So what’s the solution? Well, in part it seems, it comes in the form of Cyber-Budget, a web-based game that […]
It makes me most concerned to have to write something positive about eurosceptics here, but give credit where it’s due: the Independence-Democracy group in the European Parliament, containing luminaries [sic] such as Jens Peter Bonde and Nigel Farage are sending a bus around the EU to talk about EU democracy. […]
I was quite startled to read (EUObserver article) that the German Embassy in the UK has commissioned model Claudia Schiffer to dress up in a German flag and pose seductively on a billboard advertising campaign under the slogan ‘Invest in Germany, boys’ – details from the embassy’s website here. Now, […]
June is Amnesty International’s anti-torture month, and a group of enterprising bloggers have set up Bloggers Against Torture. All you have to do is link to them (I have here, and also in ‘Links’ in the right column) and write about the issue – in my case this has been […]
Summer is normally the time I get a bit more active and do some sport – mosting inline skating. But I seem to have been very lazy this year so far, put off by lousy weather and not being in London on many Fridays to join the Friday Night Skate. […]
It’s all over the press in most European countries today: the Council of Europe has released its report about the so called ‘Rendition Flights’ – basically illegal transport of terror suspects. Plenty of countries have been involved with it – even Sweden is among the accused – see this from […]
The Daily Telegraph’s Brussels Correspondent David Rennie. One of his first postings was about the onseat.eu petition, and Rennie writes how JEF member Peter Strempel wrote to him about the petition – quite amusing. Read the post here. While I don’t like the Telegraph’s EU line very much, the blog […]
OK, we’re finally ready to go! The branch of the Labour Movement for Europe in London and the South East are launching this month… The LABOUR MOVEMENT FOR EUROPE LONDON AND SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND REGIONAL BRANCH invites you to its Launch Event, which will be held on FRIDAY JUNE […]
