So Juncker is now certain. 26-2 in the Council, 422 of 751 in the European Parliament. I have analysed the High Rep and President of the European Council positions at the LSE EUROPP blog here. But who has been nominated
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Tag: Radek Sikorski
Time for some policy-based evidence-making – how the Jacques Delors Institut Berlin ought to work
Back in my days as a civil servant one phrase dominated UK government-speak: evidence-based policy-making. The essential idea was to gather adequate evidence about a problem, and how various solutions could work, and determine a policy choice based on that.
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Crimea Crisis Response Generator – can you make Vladimir listen?
So the Ukraine crisis has taken a turn for the worst over the last couple of days. What – if anything – can the EU do to make Putin listen? See if you can do better than Ashton, Sikorski and
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Candidates for High Rep for EU Foreign Policy
The High Rep is appointed by the European Council, acting by qualified majority. However as the person is also a Vice President of the European Commission, their nomination has to also be approved in the same way as the rest
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The strange case of Radek Sikorski in Oxford
The Foreign Minister of the EU’s 6th largest country (Radek Sikorski, Poland) arrives in the UK and gives a speech on 21st September lambasting Britain’s policy towards the European Union and the reaction is… almost non-existent. Isn’t that a bit odd? Let
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Thoroughly non-plussed by politics
Today has been a normal sort of day for me online, in that I’ve stumbled across a couple of really fascinating things, stuff that’s brilliant. Today it was the Lytro camera, and an examination of the design work of Dieter Rams.
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