The BBC – Leaders deadlocked on EU budget: “A deal on the European Union budget looks unlikely after several hours of talks between EU leaders in Brussels failed to bridge differences… “the summit is growing into a bitter feud about … Continue reading →

The tale of Princess Tony and the ugly face man – genius.

Today’s Iranian elections: Cheat Sheet from Foreign Policy, Fair Vote Watch on the US administration’s attitude, and Open Democracy on why, despite the apparent attitude of the US, these elections are so important.

The Guardian – Blair wins budget allies as EU summit puts constitution on ice: “In remarks that will be seized on by Eurosceptics, Mr Juncker insisted that the treaty could not be renegotiated and he suggested that French and Dutch … Continue reading →

Here’s a prime example of why I drifted away from being Eurosceptic. I mean, who’d want to be associated with someone like this? This pompous idiot appears as the main pictoral illustration to this article on Der Spiegel’s English language … Continue reading →

And here’s me thinking that Blair and co were too busy charging off all round the world to pay any attention to that irrelevant little island which pays their wages. Yep – they’ve gone and done it. Not only have … Continue reading →

International Relations and Security Network – Iran prepares for presidential elections – looks like it’s between a pro-Western ex-president pushing for economic reform, a reformist looking for religious, political, economic and social liberalisation and a nationalist conservative former police chief … Continue reading →

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Chicken Yoghurt – Hit me baby one more time: “The government think the public are dickheads.” Our man Justin seems to have got all angry again. He’ll give himself a hernia one of these days, you mark my words…

EUpolitix – New EU budget blueprint unveiled – too much to summarise, but some interesting suggestions.

The Guardian – The rebate explained – tip-top .pdf graphic showing all EU contributions/receipts of the various member states.

European Tribune‘s looking very promising (and apparently it was only launched earlier this week). Their Euro News briefing for today sums up a lot of the stuff you need to know – rather sweetly accompanied with gasps of amazement at … Continue reading →

Doubtless there’ll be proper content later, what with this being EU summit day and all, but for now that bastard over at Chicken Yoghurt has landed me one of those chain blog meme wotsits. So here goes. If you could … Continue reading →