{"id":1722,"date":"2008-02-27T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2008-02-27T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T12:29:09","slug":"links-for-2008-02-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/links-for-2008-02-27\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-02-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/7264903.stm\">An Islamic Reformation?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Yup &#8211; that bridge between Europe and the Middle East seems to be doing what advocates of Turkish EU entry haven&#8217;t dared hoped in even their most optimistic moments. Possibly&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Turkey\">Turkey<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/englandexpects.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/contributions-to-european-political.html\">EU-wide political funding<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Set at 5 million euros (about 3.7 million pounds)? Hardly worth the trouble, is it? Both Labour and the Tories EACH spent over 17 million in the last UK election&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Elections\">Elections<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/fistfulofeuros\/bBvg\/~3\/241271975\/armenias-dubious-election\">Armenia&#8217;s dubious election<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">What does it mean?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Caucasus\">Caucasus<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Elections\">Elections<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/02\/26\/europe\/EU-GEN-EU-Parliament-Audit.php\">European Parliament audit alleging funds abuse to remain confidential<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Come on, EP &#8211; get your sodding act together. TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY, people&#8230;<\/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.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/9be5dba0-e453-11dc-a495-0000779fd2ac.html\"> Germans lift growth hopes for eurozone<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">So wait, the banding together of several economies makes them more likely to withstand pressures from outside? Who&#8217;d have thought it?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Germany\">Germany<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/economics\">economics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/europe\/zapatero-hangs-on-to-narrow-lead-787927.html\">Zapatero hangs on to narrow lead<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The Spanish election campaign is gearing up, and last night saw a televised debate between the rivals. It could still go either way &#8211; and have big ramifications<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Spain\">Spain<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Elections\">Elections<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/0,1518,537914,00.html\">Have Sarkozy and Merkel fallen out?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;As France prepares to assume the EU presidency in July, Berlin and Paris are at odds over a number of EU polices&#8221; &#8211; intriguing&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/France\">France<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Germany\">Germany<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Islamic Reformation? Yup &#8211; that bridge between Europe and the Middle East seems to be doing what advocates of Turkish EU entry haven&#8217;t dared hoped in even their most optimistic moments. Possibly&#8230; (tags: Turkey) EU-wide political funding Set at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/links-for-2008-02-27\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","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=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}