{"id":1758,"date":"2008-04-10T12:35:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T12:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2008-04-10T12:35:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T12:35:59","slug":"links-for-2008-04-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-10\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-04-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonworth.eu\/the-most-dynamic-and-competitive-knowledge-based-economy-in-the-world-maybe-not\/\">\u201cThe most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world\u201d &#8211; maybe not<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;the picture for the EU is quite terrible. Bulgaria ranks lowest of the EU 27 &#8211; 68th place, below&#8230; El Salvador, Uruguay, Barbados, Tunisia, Egypt and Costa Rica&#8221; &#8211; what IS Bulgaria doing in the EU?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Bulgaria\">Bulgaria<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.finance.cz\/zpravy\/finance\/160844-rpt-slovak-mps-pass-media-law-set-clash-over-eu-treaty\/\">Could Slovakia screw the Lisbon Treaty&#8217;s chances?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The vote&#8217;s already been delayed once&#8230; The Slovak government needs a 3\/5ths majority (on a quorum, I believe) to pass the treaty &#8211; and the opposition are threatening to abstain en masse. Which would mean no ratification.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Slovakia\">Slovakia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/featuresarticle\/2008\/4\/a741516d-25e9-43c8-9f2c-3f0e6f3fc136.html\">Central Asia: EU Sees &#8216;Huge Scope For Cooperation&#8217;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Interview with EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner on what the EU&#8217;s plans are for the strategically vital &#8211; yet decidedly dodgy &#8211; Central Asian region. Read between the lines, there&#8217;s some interesting clues.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Central_Asia\">Central_Asia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/grahnlaw.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/consolidated-eu-lisbon-treaty-update.html\">Consolidated EU Lisbon Treaty<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Finally &#8211; the official consolidated treaty will be available from 15th April. This post from GrahLaw provides handy links to a bunch of other existing versions in various languages.<\/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>\u201cThe most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world\u201d &#8211; maybe not &#8220;the picture for the EU is quite terrible. Bulgaria ranks lowest of the EU 27 &#8211; 68th place, below&#8230; El Salvador, Uruguay, Barbados, Tunisia, Egypt and Costa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-10\/\">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-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","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=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}