Jon Worth's Euroblog

21.04.2006 Technology

2 new websites launched: AMRIE & JEF-Malta

As ever I have been busy working on new website projects and have managed to launch two new sites in the last few days. The first is for AMRIE (The Alliance of Maritime Regional Interests in Europe). It’s a site

21.04.2006 EU Politics

Germany: get the policy right, not the language

Germany is apparently stepping up its efforts to allow German to have more prominence in Brussels, according to this article from EUObserver. Bundestag president Norbert Lammert wrote in a letter to European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso that the German

20.04.2006 UK Politics

Dave the Chameleon: fun, but little impact?

In the best tradition of UK election campaigns, Labour has come up with Dave the Chameleon, an amusing campaign that aims to show that Tory leader David Cameron says he’s conservative but changes his colours to suit. When you see

20.04.2006 Technology

Google and the blog

The version of this blog at the old address managed to attract quite some hits thanks to rankings in Google – try searching for Lingon Berry and you get this blog top of the list. But with the move to

18.04.2006 EU Politics

Pälsdjur eller ej pälsdjur: that is the question

It’s quite important to have a laugh when you are trying to make the first steps learning a foreign language. Swedish has plenty such amusing phrases, normally involving you getting your tongue around horrid sj and sch sounds in Sju sjösjuka

18.04.2006 Observations

Mämmi and Easter in Helsinki

I seem to be writing all my posts here in the wrong order! I write about the journey back to the UK after the Easter weekend before explaining what I was doing over the four days… Anyway, Helena and I

18.04.2006 Technology

Web Design Index 6 – a thoroughly pleasant book

While in Helsinki over the Easter weekend, I happened to be browsing in the shop of the Kiasma Modern Art museum (nice site actually – runs on Typo3, my favourite content management system) and came across an excellent book: the

18.04.2006 Observations

The Art of Possibility. Maybe.

I have just finished reading The Art of Possibility by Rosamund S. Zander and Benjamin Zander (link to Amazon’s page about it). Helena’s mother had given it to me to read after some interesting debates about management and leadership a

18.04.2006 EU Politics

Prodi: it’s a departure. But where is the destination?

Romano Prodi has started to talk about Europe. Not a surprise really – he is a former Commission President after all, and plenty of people hoped his approach to the EU would be quite a lot more positive than Berlusconi’s

13.04.2006 Technology

.eu frustrations

It’s always good to be a pioneer, especially if it’s something to do with both politics and technology. So on Friday 7th April I rushed to register the domain jonworth.eu, and by Sunday 9th April everything was up and running

11.04.2006 EU Politics

Italians outside Italy come to haunt Berlusconi

After more than 24 hours of intrigue and wrangling, it looks like Prodi’s Unione has managed to achieve the narrowest possible victory in the Italian election. The margin for the Camera was something ludicrous like 0.06% but the election system

11.04.2006 Technology

Blogging: will politics sit up and listen?

Today on BBC News Online there is this interesting piece about the relationship between blogging and business. The essential thrust of the article is that if businesses do not listen to the swell of opinion written on blogs their business