{"id":1742,"date":"2008-03-15T12:27:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T12:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2008-03-15T12:27:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T12:27:46","slug":"links-for-2008-03-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/links-for-2008-03-15\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-03-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fistfulofeuros.net\/afoe\/governments-and-parties\/macedonias-government-collapses-too\">Macedonia&#8217;s government collapses<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Oh joy &#8211; we could have another Balkan domino effect on our hands&#8230; Nice one, Kosovo! (Or is that altogether too simplistic? Methinks I need some expert opinion&#8230;)<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Macedonia\">Macedonia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Kosovo\">Kosovo<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/en\/enlargement\/summit-approves-union-mediterranean\/article-170976\">Summit approves &#8216;Union for the Mediterranean&#8217;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Nice overview of the shoddy compromise Merkel finally agreed to allow Sarkozy to get through. Definite shame, this &#8211; a missed opportunity. Boo to Merkel!<\/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\/Africa\">Africa<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/featuresarticle\/2008\/3\/563f1edd-0e5e-4e07-9af7-42acd26dc09e.html\">Duma Treads Warily Over Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transdniester Status<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Yet more Kosovo fallout. Impact? Unknown&#8230; Transdniester could be interesting, though, what with Moldova aiming for EU membership&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Transdniester\">Transdniester<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Georgia\">Georgia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Moldova\">Moldova<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Kosovo\">Kosovo<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurotopics.net\/en\/presseschau\/archiv\/article\/ARTICLE25456-Poland-s-opposition-threatens-to-block-EU-reform-treaty\">Poland&#8217;s opposition threatens to block EU reform treaty<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The government needs the votes of at least 14 PiS members of parliament to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary for parliamentary ratification of the document&#8221; &#8211; interesting&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Poland\">Poland<\/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.cafebabel.com\/en\/article.asp?T=T&#038;Id=14219\">The bizarre situation of the European Parliament in Strasbourg<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Nice overview &#8211; after all that you really have to wonder why the hell they still bother with the two seats charade. Just whack everything in Brussels &#8211; much easier, surely?<\/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\/14\/europe\/turkey.php\">Secularists in Turkey target Erdogan&#8217;s party and seek to close it<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Ah, more Turkish paradoxes! Secularism good &#8211; but nationalism bad and banning freedom of religion bad. But on the other hand, rise of Islamist tendencies also bad. Tricky&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Turkey\">Turkey<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macedonia&#8217;s government collapses Oh joy &#8211; we could have another Balkan domino effect on our hands&#8230; Nice one, Kosovo! (Or is that altogether too simplistic? Methinks I need some expert opinion&#8230;) (tags: Macedonia Kosovo) Summit approves &#8216;Union for the Mediterranean&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/links-for-2008-03-15\/\">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-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","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=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}