{"id":1570,"date":"2007-05-20T07:20:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T07:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/20\/links-for-2007-05-20\/"},"modified":"2007-05-20T07:20:29","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T07:20:29","slug":"links-for-2007-05-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/links-for-2007-05-20\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2007-05-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/05\/18\/news\/kouchner.php\">France&#8217;s new Foreign Minister<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A profile of Bernard Kouchner<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/France\">France<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/20210\">The Stasi on Our Minds<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Cold War revisionism and the banality of the secret police<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Germany\">Germany<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/History\">History<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/18745901\/site\/newsweek\">Another profile of Kouchner<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Expect a lot of these &#8211; he&#8217;s a fascinating chap, and will be very hard to predict. European politics has got a lot more interesting&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/France\">France<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/05\/19\/nblair19.xml\">Blair and the World Bank<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The vague speculation of a few days ago seems to be spreading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Labour\">Labour<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Britain\">Britain<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/05\/19\/nfoi19.xml\">UK MPs now &#8216;above the law&#8217;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The freedom of information opt-out has passed its third reading with little interest<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Britain\">Britain<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/ffbf1c38-055e-11dc-b151-000b5df10621,_i_rssPage=7c485a38-2f7a-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8.html\">Romanian referendum<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Today&#8217;s the vote on the future of the president: the result could cause all kinds of trouble EU-wide<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Romania\">Romania<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.setimes.com\/cocoon\/setimes\/xhtml\/en_GB\/newsbriefs\/setimes\/newsbriefs\/2007\/05\/18\/nb-01\">Kosovo and the Kremlin<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Looks like Russia wants to destabilise the Balkans&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Kosovo\">Kosovo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Serbia\">Serbia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/19\/world\/europe\/19kouchner.html?ex=1337227200&#038;en=9d13eacaaf2687ab&#038;ei=5088\">Yet another Kouchner profile<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">French politics is fun at the moment &#8211; FACT<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/France\">France<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/europe\/article2559989.ece\">Sarkozy&#8217;s new cabinet<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">He really is doing a hell of a lot better than I expected. I&#8217;m coming to like Sarko&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/France\">France<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/certainideasofeurope\/2007\/05\/how_not_to_promote_democracy.cfm\">How not to promote democracy<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The EU&#8217;s failures in Uzbekistan<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Central_Asia\">Central_Asia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/openeuropeblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/socialists-to-represent-france-in.html\">Kouchner and the EU<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The past attitude of France&#8217;s new Foreign Minister towards the EU<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/France\">France<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edwardlucas.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/httpwww.html\">Moldova diary 5<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The final part of Edward Lucas&#8217; tip-top series<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Moldova\">Moldova<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Transdniester\">Transdniester<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/englandexpects.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/theres-politics-and-then-theres-belgian.html\">Belgian politics is brilliant!<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Can&#8217;t imagine Gordon Brown taking this approach to get support. Actually, yes I can&#8230; Eeeeewww&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Belgium\">Belgium<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9207927\">Romania&#8217;s political future<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">What comes after today&#8217;s referendum?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Romania\">Romania<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fbc.binghamton.edu\/209en.htm\">The end of Gaullism?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Will Sarkozy&#8217;s election really mean a shift in French foreign policy?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/France\">France<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;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 &#8211; he&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/links-for-2007-05-20\/\">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":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","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=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}