{"id":1739,"date":"2008-03-12T12:28:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T12:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2008-03-12T12:28:52","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T12:28:52","slug":"links-for-2008-03-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/links-for-2008-03-12\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-03-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/centreforeuropeanreform.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/czechs-in-eu-in-middle-of-class.html\">The Czechs in the EU<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Worth a read, if only for this: &#8220;despite their natural sympathy for the UK, many Czechs complain of being ignored by the British&#8221; &#8211; if we made an effort, a UK EU vision could happen<\/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> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Czech_Republic\">Czech_Republic<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardcorbett.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/myth-about-not-respecting-irish.html\">Myth about not respecting Irish referendum result<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A very reasonable explanation. But if the amendment was designed for propaganda, why give them what they wanted, exactly?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Ireland\">Ireland<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tamponteabag.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/test-your-britishness.html\">Test your Britishness<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The best response I&#8217;ve seen to the latest offshoot of Gordon Brown&#8217;s ill-considered (and repeatedly failed) obsession with generating a new kind of populist nationalism for the UK<\/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.siberianlight.net\/2008\/03\/12\/putin-theater-critic\/\">Putin turns theater critic<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Very nice final quote for all EU-based Russia-watchers&#8230; I love Putin &#8211; great value for money.<\/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.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/03\/12\/news\/UN-Serbia-Kosovo.php\">Serbia and Russia demand UN halt transfer of authority in Kosovo to European Union<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;It is not that the EU is unwelcome in our southern province&#8230; But there has to be a clear legal mandate for any such commitment \u2014 and this can only be achieved by getting the approval of the Security Council.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Serbia\">Serbia<\/a> <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\/UN\">UN<\/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.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/c2d787b0-efd7-11dc-8a17-0000779fd2ac.html\">US visa row threatens to expose EU disunity<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Now this is interesting &#8211; the potential ramifications here are massive&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Civil_Liberties\">Civil_Liberties<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,540775-2,00.html\">What Can Europe Expect from the Next White House?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Sounds like a promising article, right? But this is worth reading only as an example of gloriously biased, partisan writing with precisely no analytical merit. Am I wrong to expect better from Der Spiegel?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9E00E4DF1F39F932A15757C0A960958260\">Three to watch: Populists of the hard right<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">I was looking for a profile of Berlusconi&#8217;s heir apparent, Gianfranco Fini (Italian election campaign&#8217;s kicking off), and this is ideal. Also Dutchman Filip Dewinter and Austrian Jorg Haider<\/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> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Netherlands\">Netherlands<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Austria\">Austria<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/6fc2ae0c-ef86-11dc-8a17-0000779fd2ac.html\">Let the Russians sort out Russia<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Great analysis of the nature of Russian democracy by the last British Ambassador to the Soviet Union (and first British Ambassador to the Russian Federation). Tip-top.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/en\/pa\/parliament-vote-boosts-fight-maladministration\/article-170891?Ref=RSS\">Now this is more like it<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A step in the direction of transparency at last. But why so little reporting on this after the (ongoing) MEP expenses scandal? The vote was two days ago &#8211; another example of dire EU communications&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Czechs in the EU Worth a read, if only for this: &#8220;despite their natural sympathy for the UK, many Czechs complain of being ignored by the British&#8221; &#8211; if we made an effort, a UK EU vision could happen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/links-for-2008-03-12\/\">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-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","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=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}