{"id":1762,"date":"2008-04-16T12:35:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T12:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2008-04-16T12:35:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T12:35:55","slug":"links-for-2008-04-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-16\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-04-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireland.com\/newspaper\/breaking\/2008\/0415\/breaking52.html\">Irish MEP assaulted after Lisbon Treaty meeting<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">It seems tempers are starting to flare in Ireland ahead of their referendum on the treaty. It seems I should look westwards for a change &#8211; especially as I&#8217;ve got a book review to do on the thing for the TLS by the end of the month&#8230;<\/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.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/apr\/16\/italy\">Welcome to Berlusconi&#8217;s Italy<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s set up camps for jobless foreigners. You know, to concentrate them in one place so we can keep tabs on them. What would be a snappy name for such camps for concentration, I wonder?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Italy\">Italy<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/news.asp?newsitemid=67780\">And so the Barroso Commission starts to disband<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Yep &#8211; Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini, former Italian Foreign Minister during Berlusconi&#8217;s last government, looks set to head home as the Commission enters its final 18 months and they all start giving up on the thing.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Italy\">Italy<\/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\/04\/15\/business\/greencol16.php\">An appeal to slow down on biofuel<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">I neither know nor care much about this, but it does strike me as silly to be burning food and encouraging deforestation in an effort to save the environment.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/environment\">environment<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonworth.eu\/oh-the-irony-french-agricultural-minister-wants-to-help-developing-countries\/\">Even pro-EU federalists hate the CAP<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">You know why? Because it&#8217;s the single most God-awful, indefensible part of the European Union, with so few redeeming features as to make it worthy of little beyond wholesale abolition.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/CAP\">CAP<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/featuresarticle\/2008\/4\/2c6fc8db-a136-4a06-ab69-f53f7a4fd015.html\">Russia: The New And Improved Single-Party State<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Unified Russia is more than just a ruling party. It is the single reservoir of the country&#8217;s political, business, and bureaucratic elite.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,,3269697,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf\">More on the official confirmation of Putin&#8217;s new job, yesterday<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Putin, 55, is set to become Russia&#8217;s most powerful prime minister ever, undercutting the presidency three weeks before he hands over&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/2eb34c20-0988-11dd-81bf-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=70662e7c-3027-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html\">Deal to ease EU reliance on Russian gas<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Ah &#8211; now this is a promising first step. Even if it does mean having to rely on Turkmenistan. And even if we don&#8217;t yet have the pipelines to get the gas to us&#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\/energy\">energy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Central_Asia\">Central_Asia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish MEP assaulted after Lisbon Treaty meeting It seems tempers are starting to flare in Ireland ahead of their referendum on the treaty. It seems I should look westwards for a change &#8211; especially as I&#8217;ve got a book review &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-16\/\">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-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","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=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}