{"id":1736,"date":"2008-03-10T12:35:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T12:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2008-03-10T12:35:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T12:35:14","slug":"links-for-2008-03-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/links-for-2008-03-10\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-03-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geteuropa.com\/\">Get Europa<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Still not as good as the likes of TheyWorkForYou and ThePublicWhip, but this Google-powered search engine is a welcome new tool to hunt down EU info nonetheless<\/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.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/mar\/10\/eu.foreignpolicy?\">A second term as Commissioner for Mandelson?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Christ alive. Still, there are worse options, I suppose&#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\/UK\">UK<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/10\/world\/europe\/10spain.html\">Socialists Re-elected in Spain<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Good quotes: &#8220;Zapatero has given us more rights than any leader to the people of Spain: the old, the young, gays, men, women&#8230; I grew up under Franco with no rights. I grew up having to sing Franco\u2019s anthem so that his Fascist supporters would throw me<\/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.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/09\/europe\/france.php\">Sarkozy dealt setback in French local elections<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Hmmm&#8230; Sarkozy losing support, Merkel&#8217;s coalition collapsing, Prodi on the way out, Brown unpopular &#8211; will Zapatero&#8217;s new mandate push him to look to lead the EU? Could be fun&#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\/Elections\">Elections<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/featuresarticle\/2008\/3\/b71bc72b-5032-4546-a15a-2aa288129843.html\">Belarus Demands U.S. Ambassador Leave Minsk<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Hmmm&#8230; Belarus often acts on the suggestion of Moscow. Is this a bit of post-election dick-waving, or just Europe&#8217;s last dictatorship doing its usual thing?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Belarus\">Belarus<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/US\">US<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/450c92c0-ee2f-11dc-a5c1-0000779fd2ac.html\">Turkey\u2019s GDP revised up a third<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">By my reckoning that should put the Turkish economy as the seventh largest in the EU, were it to be a member. Hmmm&#8230; (Still trailing even Romania by GDP per capita, though&#8230;)<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Turkey\">Turkey<\/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.lastampa.it\/_web\/cmstp\/tmplrubriche\/giornalisti\/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=98&#038;ID_articolo=139&#038;ID_sezione=437&#038;sezione=in%20english\">Why the EU and China need Russia<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Very nice indeed &#8211; well worth a gander.<\/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> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/China\">China<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastampa.it\/_web\/cmstp\/tmplrubriche\/giornalisti\/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=98&#038;ID_articolo=140&#038;ID_sezione=437&#038;sezione=in%20english\">Why the EU and China need Russia, part 2<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Tip-top &#8211; and can be read independently of the first part.<\/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> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/China\">China<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get Europa Still not as good as the likes of TheyWorkForYou and ThePublicWhip, but this Google-powered search engine is a welcome new tool to hunt down EU info nonetheless (tags: EU) A second term as Commissioner for Mandelson? 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