{"id":1741,"date":"2008-03-14T12:25:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T12:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2008-03-14T12:25:58","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T12:25:58","slug":"links-for-2008-03-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/links-for-2008-03-14\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-03-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/72be76aa-f133-11dc-a91a-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=70662e7c-3027-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html\">European leaders need a president, not a nonentity<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The names being whispered in Brussels are those of politicians that even most Europeans have never heard of&#8221; &#8211; good 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.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/12\/europe\/union.php\">&#8220;Mediterranean Union&#8221; plans agreed<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">And they&#8217;re, well, a bit of a shoddy compromise, from what I can tell&#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\/France\">France<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Germany\">Germany<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/e742cfee-f04d-11dc-ba7c-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=70662e7c-3027-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html\">Med Union blueprint avoids key questions<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A bit more analysis. Shame &#8211; they seem to have rushed this whole idea, when it could have been an ideal chance to do something really impressive.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/France\">France<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Germany\">Germany<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/0,1518,541281,00.html\">Aland Islands Threaten to Reject Lisbon Treaty<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Hilarious! Yet more Kosovo fall-out, perhaps? The Aland Islands were on my handy list of wannabe European nations, after all&#8230; Heh!<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Finland\">Finland<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/mar\/14\/eu.mandelson\">Brown dampens Mandelson hopes of second term at EU<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">I would cheer, but that means Patricia Hewitt&#8217;s the frontrunner&#8230; Why can&#8217;t we send someone decent? Oh, yeah&#8230; They haven&#8217;t GOT anyone decent&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Britain\">Britain<\/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.themoscowtimes.com\/stories\/2008\/03\/14\/002.html\">How the Russian state got a grip on energy<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Nice overview of how we&#8217;ve ended up with Russia as some kind of energy-based plutocracy &#8211; well worth a read<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European leaders need a president, not a nonentity &#8220;The names being whispered in Brussels are those of politicians that even most Europeans have never heard of&#8221; &#8211; good stuff (tags: EU) &#8220;Mediterranean Union&#8221; plans agreed And they&#8217;re, well, a bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/links-for-2008-03-14\/\">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-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","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=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}