What if there was software with the elegance and extensibility of WordPress but all the features you’ve come to expect from social networks like Facebook? Now there is: check out BuddyPress.
BuddyPress is an official sister project of WordPress. The idea behind it was to see what would happen to the web if it was as [...]

The first National Human Rights Action Plan of China has just been published for the period 2009-2010. What are the motivations behind publication? Is this a genuine attempt to improve human rights in China or just intended to show that officials take human rights seriously? Is it an effort to ward off [...]

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Internet access is not conditional
Everyone who owns a website has an interest in defending the free use of Internet… so has everyone who uses Google or Skype… everyone who expresses their opinions freely, does research of any kind, whether for personal health problems or academic study … everyone who shops online…who dates [...]

A Hungarian party would send sixty representatives to the European Parliament in sixty months
YOU can be an EU representative if you want to – according to the campaign rhetoric of a lesser Hungarian party: “you” meaning anyone who joins them. They will select  who goes by drawing lots. If the party [...]

A l’heure où les partis français jurent, la main sur le cœur, que les futurs députés européens seront «élus pour siéger», voici le rappel des Français qui ont quitté à Strasbourg en cours de mandat, entre 2004 et 2009.
Il y a ceux qui sont partis (vraiment) très peu de temps après avoir été élus:
- Chantal [...]

Interrogé par Emile Josselin et David Carzon de 20 Minutes, Xavier Bertrand avance les énormités les unes après les autres. Une réponse sur la riposte graduée:
[un député européen] c’est aussi quelqu’un qui vote des textes allant à l’encontre d’une loi française, comme c’est le cas sur la loi Création et Internet…
C’est une stratégie politique de [...]

I’m just back from an extended trip to Sweden where I was invited to present at Swedish Medtech’s AGM (it was my first trip to Sweden so I tagged on a few days leave). Great event and a great country; if you haven’t visited yet, you have to go!
I have always found Swedish people [...]

Ca m’avait échappé mais, Captain Europa avait laissé un commentaire sur ce blog.  Ce qui est rigolo c’est que l’IP du commentaire est la même que celle laissée par les commentaires de L pour Libertas sur d’autres blogs et sites. Comme je l’avais démontré, Captain Europa est un site sous-traité par l’Enchanteur pour la campagne [...]

Amidst all the concern about the effects of the global economic and financial crisis, there has been much analysis about its consequences for the markets, employment, the future nature of capitalism, migration, and the prospects for a green economy. There has been significantly less talk about the setbacks this global financial crisis may have on [...]

The European Union’s top health official today urged Europeans to postpone any nonessential travel to the U.S. and Mexico. With more than 1,600 cases and 103 deaths in Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak, and with confirmed cases in the U.S. doubling to 40, the World Health Organization worries of pandemic potential while [...]

Spurred by the ruling of the Environmental Protection Agency declaring C02 emissions a risk for human health and welfare, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has begun work on what might become one of the most ambitious pieces of legislation passed by Congress.
Its basic contours would resemble EU legislation, in particular a cap and trade [...]

Sweden is one of the innovation leaders in Europe and scores persistently high on relevant benchmarks such as the European Innovation Scoreboard. It is also a place that attracts talent form around the world and embraces diversity in all its forms. And Sweden, as we found out, at our recent briefing on the Swedish Presidency [...]

Voici la vidéo du débat d’hier soir. On s’est bien marré. Je vais revenir sur cette soirée très bientôt.

Captain Europa, le troll de Libertas, vient de mettre un nouveau post:
Faut-il en rire ou en pleurer? En pleine crise économiqe mondiale et sans précédent, voici les deux dernières mesures votées par les députés européens :
- les eurodéputés ont adopté vendredi à Strasbourg une résolution encourageant des candidatures féminines à la prochaine élection présidentielle en Afghanistan.
- [...]