I’m not in a position to judge the quality of their music, or indeed the quality of any music in the Eurovision Song Contest to be quite honest. But facing a series of political, democratic and economic difficulties succinctly outlined by Leigh Phillips, there’s only one act to vote for […]
I was on the BBC World Service programme “World Have Your Say” (programme site, blog) earlier to talk about the implications of the election success of Timo Soini’s True Finns party in yesterday’s parliamentary election. The discussion briefly examined the reasons for the support for this populist party, but the […]
Well, not quite, but figuratively speaking… Bear with me. The gentleman pictured is Gus Murray (on Twitter here), an Australian currently resident in Denmark. He’s a graduate of Copenhagen Business School, and has been involved in numerous startup businesses and seems to be well integrated into Danish society, but has […]
Yesterday and today NATO Foreign Ministers have been meeting in Berlin, no doubt an important meeting in light of the problems facing the mission in Libya. I also do not deny that these ministers are important people and are a possible target for extremists. But is it really necessary to […]
The Transport White Paper is coming to save us! Look kids, out of the window a stream of paper is going to deliver modern transport for you by 2050! Please, please can someone tell me why the European Commission spends cash on this? The video is well produced, clearly expensive, […]
When you enter Friedrichstadtpalast to go to re-publica you’re greeted by the sign to the right. Speakers, supporters, people on the guest list and press go the special desk. Everyone else – including bloggers – should join the regular queues to the right (which, incidentally, were very long on the […]
I’ve just heard a presentation about Flattr from Peter Sunde at #rp11, and thought it was about time I tried it out. Flattr works well in the German blogosphere already, but is basically non-existent in the UK and Brussels. Better start somewhere I suppose… although the notion that anyone would […]
The lists above are screenshots today from Wiki-Watch. The idea of the comparison comes from a presentation made yesterday by Wolfgang Stock at an event organised by Netzwerk-EBD entitled “Europapolitische Kommunikation im Web 2.0 – Strategie und Praxis für Interessengruppen und Institutionen“. I was also a speaker, and you can […]
In response to this story – that Republic’s “not the royal wedding” party has been prevented from taking place (Guardian story here), I mailed the representatives of Camden Council responsible for these matters earlier today. The e-mail I received back – on behalf of Labour Councillor Sue Vincent – is reproduced […]
Twitter is a great place for sharing links. But there’s no way to really systematise what’s particularly interesting… It’s see it this moment or it’s gone. So I’m trying once again with paper.li to do something about this. My new experiment is called The #DailyEuropean (giving the newspaper a hash-tag […]
Yet more EU politics reflections via Twitter today – I saw this from Janez Potočnik, Environment Commissioner: 'Now is not the time to put the environment in the back seat'. My speech to Greek parliamentary committees today http://tinyurl.com/3gjm5cl — Janez Potočnik (@JanezPotocnik22) April 7, 2011 The link leads through to a […]
I saw this tweet earlier from Brian Duggan who works for EPLP in their London office: http://twitter.com/TheBrianDuggan/status/55944123059941376 I followed the link to the letters page of The Guardian, and this is what I get: Your report on the conviction of John Sweeney should be essential reading for some of my […]
