{"id":1748,"date":"2008-04-02T12:35:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T12:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2008-04-02T12:35:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T12:35:50","slug":"links-for-2008-04-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-02\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-04-02"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/891ae49e-004a-11dd-825a-000077b07658,dwp_uuid=70662e7c-3027-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html\">Heads up: Miliband foreign policy speech today<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Going to have a fair amount about the EU apparently. Doubt it&#8217;s anything major, but after Sarko&#8217;s visit, who knows?<\/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.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/31\/europe\/kosovo.php\">Serbia to hold elections in Kosovo<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Well, they sort of had to really, didn&#8217;t they? How much restraint will Kosovo&#8217;s new government be able to show to this direct challenge to their sovereignty, though?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Kosovo\">Kosovo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Serbia\">Serbia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/9\/25896\">Berlin against future EU funds increases<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;As the biggest contributor to the bloc&#8217;s coffers, Berlin argues that farm funds in particular should be strongly cut back in future&#8221; &#8211; oooh! Another potential British ally for CAP reform?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Germany\">Germany<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/englandexpects.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/growth-of-bureacratic-despotism.html\">The growth of bureacratic despotism<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Interesting &#8211; and potentially concerning &#8211; moves are under way to reform the rights and powers of MEPs, by the looks of things&#8230; Need more info.<\/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:\/\/fistfulofeuros.net\/afoe\/governments-and-parties\/will-the-irish-tail-wag-the-lisbon-dog\">Will the Irish tail wag the Lisbon dog?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Nice overview of how Ireland could well scupper the Lisbon Treaty &#8211; not for its contents, but thanks to unrelated domestic concerns. Ah, referenda &#8211; aren&#8217;t they great?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Ireland\">Ireland<\/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.robert-schuman.eu\/question_europe.php?num=qe-94\">Franco-British friendly entente : what is at stake for Europe?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Interesting article (in French), largely arguing that the EU&#8217;s not going to succeed until France and Britain start to work together. Sounds fair to me.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/France\">France<\/a> <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:\/\/gulfstreamblues.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/could-bucharest-nato-summit-give-birth.html\">Could the Bucharest NATO Summit give birth to an EU army?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Well worth a read &#8211; nice overview of what may be going on this week. I&#8217;d say radical change is unlikely. It is, however, arguably long overdue.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/NATO\">NATO<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up: Miliband foreign policy speech today Going to have a fair amount about the EU apparently. Doubt it&#8217;s anything major, but after Sarko&#8217;s visit, who knows? (tags: Britain EU) Serbia to hold elections in Kosovo Well, they sort of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-02\/\">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-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","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=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}