{"id":1493,"date":"2007-02-22T12:42:46","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/22\/a-quickie-roundup\/"},"modified":"2007-02-22T15:33:40","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T15:33:40","slug":"a-quickie-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/a-quickie-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"A quickie \/ roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Times&#8217; Anatole Kaletsky&#8217;s normally worth reading, so check out his latest on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/anatole_kaletsky\/article1421434.ece\">Germany and the future of the EU<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m too busy to have had a chance yet, myself. You could probably also do worse than check out DJ Nozem&#8217;s overview of <a href=\"http:\/\/djnozem.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/living-together-working-together.html\">the current state of Dutch politics<\/a> and European Tribune&#8217;s look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurotrib.com\/story\/2007\/2\/21\/112316\/051\">the uncertain situation with the French Presidential Elections<\/a> as Sarkozy starts playing the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/02\/21\/europe\/EU-GEN-France-Sarkozy.php\">the EU&#8217;s mean to us<\/a>&#8221; card. (The EU, mean to FRANCE, of all places? He&#8217;s getting nervous&#8230;) EurozoneWatch is also good on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro-area.org\/blog\/?p=54\">the French presidential candidates&#8217; attitudes towards the EU<\/a> in the campaign so far&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardlucas.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/this-weeks-europeview.html\">Edward Lucas on the two-speed Europe<\/a> is likely worth a gander and all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I&#8217;ve been asked to give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/askblogs\">The Metro&#8217;s British blogging awards<\/a> a plug. So I have &#8211; largely because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/yourmetro\/article.html?in_article_id=36636&#038;in_page_id=54\">they said nice things about me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times&#8217; Anatole Kaletsky&#8217;s normally worth reading, so check out his latest on Germany and the future of the EU &#8211; I&#8217;m too busy to have had a chance yet, myself. You could probably also do worse than check out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/a-quickie-roundup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13,14,15,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-eu","category-france","category-germany","category-nosemonkey-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}