Dear network! International Politics Working Group invites you to take part in our Article Contest –  “Crisis in Europe: What could European youth do to help its society to solve this problem?” Although some time has passed already, the …

This summer I had the opportunity to spend a week’s placement at an NGO, volunteering with street children in Mumbai, India. If you had met me at the start of the summer, I would have told you that I expected this experience to be incredibly emotional, at times even upsetting. [...]

Der Westen soll keine radikalen Maßnahmen (gegen Lukaschenko) ergreifen. (…) Weißrussland ist nicht das einzige Land östlich der EU, in dem es Zweifel über Wahlergebnisse gibt. Trotzdem spricht der Westen mit den Staatschefs dieser Region und macht mit ihnen Geschäfte. Es gibt im Osten ein Land, wo die Miliz eine 82-jährige Regimekritikerin angreift, und es [...]

La Cour européenne des droits de l’Homme vient dans sa décision  du 16 décembre de signifier  que l’interdiction constitutionnelle de l’avortement en Irlande viole les droits des femmes enceintes à recevoir un traitement médical adapté, en cas de risque pour leur vie. C’est un avertissement à l’égard de tous ceux qui tentent, par des interprétations [...]

It might seem strange for me to say this, but lately I’ve been wondering whether the EU institutions are now paying too much attention to social media. Don’t get me wrong, they have a thousand reasons for getting social media right – and also ensuring that they don’t get it wrong by poisoning the well [...]

MATHEW was a tad non-plussed by my last post on the Berlusconi ”Twitter Wall” story. He wonders if there’s really any value in seeking “buzz for the sake of having some buzz.” If you’ve missed this story, you could do much worse than reading Jon’s excellent round-up of events. Now, I agree with Mathew that buzz [...]

European leaders are hoping that just two sentences to be added to the Treaty will be enough to put an end to the on-going crisis that has plagued the Eurozone in 2010. EU Heads of State reached an agreement yesterday in the Justus Lipsius building in …

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ON THE FACE of it, this was a massive Twitter #FAIL. The EU Council’s press team had a couple of flatscreen TVs up in the atrium of the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels (the building where the Council summit was taking place) and invited members of the public to post questions on them using the [...]

EU leaders today agreed to make Montenegro a formal candidate for membership of the EU. At a two-day summit in Brussels that ended today, EU leaders backed a recommendation made by the European Commission last month to grant candidate status to Montenegro. However, no date for the opening of membership talks has been set, a [...]

In September last year I wondered whether 2010 would be the year when someone poisoned the well for the use of social media by the EU (here and here). In the last few weeks I’ve been mentally preparing an update post, as it didn’t really look like it was going to happen. So is the [...]

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El último Consejo Europeo de 2010 ha pretendido dar una imagen al mundo, especialmente a ese gran regente oculto y anónimo que hoy son los mercado, de unidad en la defensa a ultranza de la moneda única, nuestro euro. Las ocurrencias formales para cambiar la percepción que han articulado nuestros jefes de gobierno son la [...]

Es ist mehr ein Warnschuss als ein Hilferuf: Ein Warnschuss in Richtung Brüssel, der deutlich machen soll, dass auch die Mittel der EZB als Retterin in der Not begrenzt sind. Und dass die EZB nicht mehr länger gewillt ist – zumindest nicht so geräuschlos und unauffällig wie bisher -, die Versäumnisse der europäischen Politiker auszubaden… [...]

TGE-Adonis, le lundi 29 novembre 2010 par Elisabeth Caillon Cet article (1) décrit Europeana Libraries, projet qui permettra à The European Library de devenir l’agrégateur de contenu des bibliothèques pour Europeana. Actuellement en cours de négociation finale, le projet devrait…