From today’s EU Politix morning briefing: “[Justice and Security Commissioner Franco] Frattini proposes a decision for the council of EU governments on the exchange of data held on Europe�s Visa Information System. “National police forces, Europol and other ‘authorities of … Continue reading →

A quick HTML/CSS/Blogger question: I recently fiddled with this site’s template – shifting the archives around a bit, altering the title text etc. As far as I understood it, if I alter the template, that should affect every page on … Continue reading →

Tony Blair will end up a “serious loser” if he doesn’t sort out the EU budget according to his old buddy Peter Mandelson, who it would appear is a reader of this blog… To be fair to Mandelson (which is … Continue reading →

Hero of the day – good work!

Ha ha ha! More EU budget negotiation nonsense from the government: “”We are in no way underestimating the difficulties of doing a deal, but equally nobody should underestimate our determination to try to see if a deal is possible” Translated, … Continue reading →

Bloody hell – I told you European Tribune keeps getting better. This “week in preview” idea’s not only got legs, but has also been insanely well put together. Grrr. Envious now – wish I’d thought of it. (Then again, looks … Continue reading →

I’m pro-EU, in spite of all its faults, for the reasons outlined in a post back in April. The way to do it with a clear conscience, just so you know, is to basically turn a blind eye to the … Continue reading →

Another one of those “you’re searching for WHAT now?” moments… Thank the sweet Lord I’m only third this time…

Britblog Roundup #40. *insert usual cliched praise here*

For those that care, I’ve just spent a couple of hours updating the archives. Good God, that was tedious. Why can’t Blogger introduce a topic archive thing so I no longer have to do it manually, eh? The lazy bastards. … Continue reading →

A handy, 1000-word introduction to Dutch politics, courtesy of the increasingly good European Tribune. With the various bits of insanity in the Netherlands over the last couple of years or so (with the murders of right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn and … Continue reading →

The Times on blogging, by someone familiar, and yet ANOTHER piece on the bloody things in the Guardian, while in the print edition of the latter (can’t seem to find it online) it looks like I get a quote after … Continue reading →

Reporters Sans Fronti�res in an Alannis Morissette moment. Yep, the Joint Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought winners Reporters Without Borders‘ secretary general, on his way to the UN summit on the future of the internet in Tunisia, was stopped … Continue reading →

Well, well, well – look who’s back… A new, personal jaunt into blogging by the man behind the now defunct Observer blog.