Tim Worstall on the Mail’s ridiculous, potentially career-ending attack on tip-top blogger Owen Barder: misrepresentation and out-of-context quotes to shame a 6th form polemicist

A year after independence, Montenegro’s ethnic tensions are on the rise

A case study of a cross-border business startup

Polish Education Minister Roman Giertych’s enlightened view of gay rights protestors

Police officers accused of rape and theft, and now the Justice Minister’s resigned to boot

How Brown, Sarkozy and Merkel could change the EU’s course

More speculation on what Brown, Sarkozy and Merkel could bring to the EU

All is not necessarily as it seems…

Looks highly useful for EU politics and international relations geeks (via the EU Law blog)

Sign the thing, and try to stop our elective representatives from opting out of being held to account

Unlike the UK, where the media controls politics, it looks like Sarkozy’s got almost Berlusconi-level power over the press in France…

Note to heads of state: calling a reporter a “stinking gypsy” is not likely to go down well with the press

Not all is as rosy as it may appear…

Missed this earlier…

Where do the new guys stand? (In French)

That French governmental blogroll – everyone from Prime Minister Fillon down