{"id":1734,"date":"2008-03-08T12:24:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T12:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2008-03-08T12:24:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T12:24:45","slug":"links-for-2008-03-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/links-for-2008-03-08\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-03-08"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.septicisle.info\/2008\/03\/long-winded-post-on-all-things-eu-and.html\">Tip-top post on the UK, EU and referenda<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The whole argument about a referendum on the European Union&#8217;s Lisbon treaty has been a sham, documented by ignorance and deception on all sides&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/UK\">UK<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gulfstreamblues.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/new-europe-strategy-for-labour.html\">A New Europe Strategy for Labour?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">It&#8217;s about bloody time if so&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/UK\">UK<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.social-europe.eu\/2008\/03\/07\/the-building-blocks-of-europe\/\">The Building Blocks of Europe?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">More top-notch post-referendum vote analysis, well worth a read<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/UK\">UK<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cep.rhul.ac.uk\/cep-blog\/2008\/3\/6\/italian-electoral-system-1.html\">Italian elections 101<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;This is the first of a series of posts on the elections that will be held in Italy on the 13-14th April&#8221; &#8211; and a very handy introduction\/reminder it is too.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Italy\">Italy<\/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.economist.com\/blogs\/certainideasofeurope\/2008\/03\/european_fantasies_about_medve.cfm\">European fantasies about Medvedev<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;is there anything that Vladimir Putin could have done, when it came to rigging this election, that would have prevented some EU governments from applauding?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/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.ft.com\/cms\/s\/17262be2-ebd1-11dc-9493-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=70662e7c-3027-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html\">Euro hits record high<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Jean-Claude Trichet, ECB president, signalled he could do nothing about the euro\u2019s rise after the central bank\u2019s governing council left its main interest rate unchanged at 4 per cent, where it has stood since last June&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <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.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,,3178031,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf\">Merkel to Assess Prospects for Policy Shift on Moscow<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Erm&#8230; Doesn&#8217;t she get that Medvedev&#8217;s either just a stooge or a clone of Putin? Why change?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Germany\">Germany<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rss.feedsportal.com\/c\/266\/f\/3502\/s\/b4da32\/story01.htm\">Spanish election campaign halted after ETA murder<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">I thought ETA had declared a ceasefire? Damnit &#8211; I really am out of touch about Spanish politics these days. (Not that I was ever overly in touch, but still&#8230;)<\/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.independent.co.uk\/news\/europe\/sarkozy-stays-out-of-sight-on-eve-of-polls-793154.html\"> Sarkozy stays out of sight on eve of polls<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;President Nicolas Sarkozy is in hiding. As the first, great electoral test of his presidency looms tomorrow and next weekend, the all-action &#8220;omnipresident&#8221; has become unusually elusive&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/France\">France<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Elections\">Elections<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip-top post on the UK, EU and referenda &#8220;The whole argument about a referendum on the European Union&#8217;s Lisbon treaty has been a sham, documented by ignorance and deception on all sides&#8221; (tags: UK EU) A New Europe Strategy for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/links-for-2008-03-08\/\">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-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","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=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}