{"id":1812,"date":"2008-07-31T07:57:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T07:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2008-07-31T08:00:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T08:00:22","slug":"eu-news-and-views-31st-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/eu-news-and-views-31st-july\/","title":{"rendered":"EU news and views, 31st July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Busy and knackered, sorry&#8230; Should have something for you tomorrow. In the meantime, don&#8217;t forget the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netvibes.com\/nosemonkey\">Nosemonkey Netvibes Universe<\/a> &#8211; all kinds of European bloggy goodness, with a number of new additions over the last week or so.<\/p>\n<p>And in case that doesn&#8217;t keep you going, some highlights from blogs and the press from the last couple of days, worthy of more attention\/discussion:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deutsche Welle<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,,3521258,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf\">Making the Case for a Multi-Speed Europe<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Deutsche Welle<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,,3525834,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf\">EU Should Become Union of European Regions, Expert Says<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Coulisses de Bruxelles<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bruxelles.blogs.liberation.fr\/coulisses\/2008\/07\/commission-barr.html\">Commission: Barroso for ever?<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Julien Frisch<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/julienfrisch.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/will-uro-become-leading-global-currency.html\">Will the Euro become the leading global currency?<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Financial Times<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/f5c1889c-5e3b-11dd-b354-000077b07658.html\">Reforms that would help euro punch its weight<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Certain Ideas of Europe<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/certainideasofeurope\/2008\/07\/do_so_many_belgians_want_to_be.cfm\">Why do some Belgians want to become French?<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Ironies Too<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ironiestoo.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/belgium-split-threatens-europe-not-just.html\">Belgium split threatens Europe not just the EU and the Lisbon Treaty!<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>EU Observer<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/9\/26562\">Business favours Blair as EU president<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Open Europe Blog<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/openeuropeblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/why-did-doha-talks-collapse.html\">Why did the Doha talks collapse?<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Centre for European Reform Blog<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/centreforeuropeanreform.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/should-europeans-care-about-doha.html\">Should Europeans care about Doha?<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>International Herald Tribune<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/29\/europe\/italy.php\">Berlusconi sends troops to back police<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>EurActiv<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/en\/justice\/roma-mep-defends-italy-fingerprinting-measures\/article-174609\">Roma MEP defends Italy\u2019s fingerprinting measures<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Spiegel Online<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/0,1518,568717,00.html\">France and Other States Experiment with Direct Democracy<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Publius<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/publiusleuropeen.typepad.com\/publius\/2008\/07\/rforme-constitu.html\">R\u00e9forme constitutionnelle et Europe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy and knackered, sorry&#8230; Should have something for you tomorrow. In the meantime, don&#8217;t forget the Nosemonkey Netvibes Universe &#8211; all kinds of European bloggy goodness, with a number of new additions over the last week or so. And in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/eu-news-and-views-31st-july\/\">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-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linklog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","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=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}