{"id":1749,"date":"2008-04-03T12:36:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2008-04-03T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T12:36:09","slug":"links-for-2008-04-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-03\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-04-03"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/en\/future-eu\/ahern-resignation-raises-eu-treaty-hopes\/article-171315\">Ahern resignation raises EU Treaty hopes<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The cynic in me wonders if there wasn&#8217;t a deal done. Ahern has, after all, been mentioned in connection with the EU presidency. It&#8217;s not like corruption would disqualify him&#8230; Santer Commission, anyone?<\/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:\/\/www.365gay.com\/Newscon08\/04\/040208pol.htm\">Poland Passes EU Charter With Provision To Ignore Gay Guarantees<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Well done, Tony Blair &#8211; the UK&#8217;s opt out on human rights issues so we can lock up terrorists on a whim has set a glorious precedent.<\/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> <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.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,2144,3233498,00.html\">Calls for Tighter Rules for EU Lobbyists Grow Louder<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Critics say the lobbyists have held far too much sway in the drafting of EU laws&#8221; &#8211; of course they have, because the Commission is massively understaffed, despite what anti-EU types claim, and they need all the help they can get<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Euroscepticism\">Euroscepticism<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireland.com\/newspaper\/breaking\/2008\/0402\/breaking70.htm\">Turkey PM seeks full EU membership<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Of course he should &#8211; and should eventually be accepted. Though he&#8217;ll have to do something to boost his country&#8217;s economic and human rights records first&#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\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardcorbett.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/miliband-builds-on-governments.html\">Miliband builds on government&#8217;s increasingly pro-European stance<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;all this suggests that Europe has once again become a major dividing line between the parties, and crucially it is one that works to Labour\u2019s advantage&#8221; &#8211; not so sure, after revolts over a referendum, but still&#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=\"https:\/\/blogs.fco.gov.uk\/roller\/murphy\/entry\/turkey\">The British Minister for Europe on Turkish EU entry<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Yes, he&#8217;s in favour (as am I, eventually). But somehow he fails to make a single positive argument for Turkish membership. Lots of assertion, lots of whimsy, but no actual argument&#8230; Odd.<\/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> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Turkey\">Turkey<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/atlanticreview.org\/archives\/1048-NATO-Bucharest-Summit-Press-Round-Up.html\">NATO Bucharest Summit press roundup<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Very handy quick overview of the major issues that may or may not soon affect both Europe and the world.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/NATO\">NATO<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahern resignation raises EU Treaty hopes The cynic in me wonders if there wasn&#8217;t a deal done. Ahern has, after all, been mentioned in connection with the EU presidency. It&#8217;s not like corruption would disqualify him&#8230; Santer Commission, anyone? (tags: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-03\/\">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-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","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=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}