The complexities of EU voting weights A handy dispute with the Economist’s take (tags: EU) The Portugese EU presidency logo Does it have a hidden meaning? (tags: Portugal EU) The EU’s silent majority Yep, they are indeed likely to be … Continue reading →

VoxEU Promising-looking new EU / economics site (tags: EU Web) EU President Blair Dear Christ… Just as I was starting to like Sarkozy, he comes up with this little suggestion again… (tags: France Britain EU) The Turkish Threat to World … Continue reading →

The axis of the disgruntled The growing EU discontent with the way the constitution’s being handled (tags: EU Britain Poland) Poland ratchets up rhetoric over treaty Yet more national interest getting in the way of the wider good… (tags: Poland … Continue reading →

Blair interviewed by Der Spiegel Blair: “How many other areas of politics can you do something that saves literally millions of lives?”, Der Spiegel: “By not starting wars, for example.” – he he he! (tags: Britain Media) The EU and … Continue reading →

Short-sighted relief with a seeming EU pragmatist Part one in Eurozone Watch’s series on Sarkozy and Europe. Looks promising so far. (tags: France EU)

Blair’s legacy: flogging weapons to dictators Nice one, Tony! (tags: Britain) German political blog carnival launched My German doesn’t stretch beyond asking directions, but sounds promising (tags: Germany) “Cette gouvernance politique n’est ni démocratie, ni puissance” The EU’s past high … Continue reading →

Levinas’ Challenge to the Modern European Identity: Part 1 Note to selt: to be read at some point when I have more time. Looks promising (tags: Europe) Levinas’ Challenge to the Modern European Identity: Part 2 And again (tags: Europe) … Continue reading →

Cyber-stalking psycho alert Rachel’s nutter has got nuttier – and gone on the run (tags: Blogs) The unbearable statism of Tories Good stuff on Cameron and education policy (tags: Britain Conservatives) Blair’s final stab at civil liberties A nice overview … Continue reading →

Help charities raise money via a search engine I like this idea. A lot. (tags: Web) Tony Blair and Europe So, what has the most pro-EU British Prime Minister since Heath actually achieved in his ten years in office? (tags: … Continue reading →

Sarkozy backs scaled-down EU treaty Which, after Prodi’s comments the other day, means yet more deadlock (tags: France EU) Iceland to join the EU? Current internal opposition makes it unlikely, but they are at least looking into it again (tags: … Continue reading →

Prodi advocates a multi-speed Europe Yay for Prodi! Now we just need the other 26 member states to agree… (tags: Italy EU) The eurosceptic spin on the Prodi story Not “proposal for pro-EU countries to leave less enthusiastic ones alone”, … Continue reading →

Litvinenko murder suspect named Political fears didn’t put them off, it seems (though it’s neither Berezovsky nor Putin, unsurprisingly) (tags: Russia) Full CPS statement on Litvinenko killing Statement by Sir Ken Macdonald, QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, on charging … Continue reading →

The Mail distorting the truth shocker! 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 (tags: Media Blogs) Montenegro: one year on A year after … Continue reading →

France’s new Foreign Minister A profile of Bernard Kouchner (tags: France) The Stasi on Our Minds Cold War revisionism and the banality of the secret police (tags: Germany History) Another profile of Kouchner Expect a lot of these – he’s … Continue reading →