{"id":1580,"date":"2007-05-31T07:23:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T07:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/31\/links-for-2007-05-31\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T07:23:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T07:23:50","slug":"links-for-2007-05-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/links-for-2007-05-31\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2007-05-31"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/05\/30\/africa\/30libya.php\">Blair&#8217;s legacy: flogging weapons to dictators<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Nice one, Tony!<\/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.onezblog.de\/item\/2007\/05\/ankuendigung-des-ersten-politischen-blog-karnevals\">German political blog carnival launched<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">My German doesn&#8217;t stretch beyond asking directions, but sounds promising<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Germany\">Germany<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taurillon.org\/Quo-Vadis-Europa\">&#8220;Cette gouvernance politique n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122est ni d\u00c3\u00a9mocratie, ni puissance&#8221;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The EU&#8217;s past high ideals and current failings, from a French federalist perspective. Interesting stuff.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <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\/features\/setimes\/articles\/2007\/05\/28\/reportage-01\">The Bulgarian right bands together<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">After recent European election setbacks, it&#8217;s intriguing to see how the Eastern European right mostly seems already to have thrown away its strong post-communist position &#8211; or is that a vast generalisation?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Bulgaria\">Bulgaria<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2007\/06\/04\/070604fa_fact_grass\">G\u00c3\u00bcnter Grass on his time in the SS<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Refreshingly honest: &#8220;What I did cannot be put down to youthful folly. No pressure from above.&#8221;<\/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.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/0,1518,485725,00.html\">Muslim Politician Is Messenger of Change<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A profile of Naser Khader, the Danish Muslim MP trying to find the centre ground<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Denmark\">Denmark<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2ea1f582-0ec6-11dc-b444-000b5df10621,_i_rssPage=7c485a38-2f7a-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8.html\">Sarkozy gains Spanish EU backing<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The &#8220;mini treaty&#8221; idea is gaining ground &#8211; but which version will it be?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/France\">France<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Spain\">Spain<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/6706615.stm\">Ukraine misses election deadline<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Looks like no early polls after all, then&#8230; The crisis continues. Again.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/0,1518,485720,00.html\">So much for the swamp of Polish workers<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Germany&#8217;s Pole shortage is threatening agriculture<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Germany\">Germany<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Poland\">Poland<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/6703631.stm\">Portugal hit by general strike<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Tim Worstall not affected, breaks pickets to blog<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Portugal\">Portugal<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldware.wordpress.com\/\">World War E<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Promising-looking new blog on cyberwarfare, following the recent Estonia \/ Russia spat<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Blogs\">Blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Estonia\">Estonia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/certainideasofeurope\/2007\/05\/all_the_data_you_could_want.cfm\">All the data you could want<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The Economist&#8217;s initial look at the European Commission&#8217;s latest in-depth provisional report on EU social and economic cohesion (on which more, possibly, from me later, if I get a chance)<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/noguidinglight.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/top-100-finnish-films-of-all-time.html\">The top 100 Finnish films of all time<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Yep, really. 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(tags: Britain) German political blog carnival launched My German doesn&#8217;t stretch beyond asking directions, but sounds promising (tags: Germany) &#8220;Cette gouvernance politique n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122est ni d\u00c3\u00a9mocratie, ni puissance&#8221; The EU&#8217;s past high &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/links-for-2007-05-31\/\">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-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","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=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}