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Why the Euro Might Devolve into Euro1 and Euro2

The euro as presently configured is doomed due to structural imbalances between mercantilist and consumer nations. A "euro1 and euro2" system would allow a face-saving demise to euroland’s single currency. I’ve got a bad feeling about the (...)

4 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Staffjam

International

New Framework for European Geothermal Industry Encourages exploration companies to investigate new resources

I’ve received a copy of a new regulation framework for geothermal energy in Europe. Handed to me by a colleague last week, whose associate led the drafting of the document. Geothermal is still an infant industry. In many countries, governments lack (...)

2 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Staffjam

International

23 Nov. 2009 | | Stephanemot

People

Rachida Dati’s latest front cover

When the former French justice minister and now member of the European parliament, Rachida Dati, makes the headlines in France it’s hard to know whether it’ll be for political reasons or because she’s a - well for want of a better word - (...)

4 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Europe

Ukraine not wanted in EU

Many core members of the EU share a common currency already - the Euro. Millions of citizens from new member Central and Eastern Europe countries are living and working in Western European countries with full access to job markets, accommodation, schools, (...)

8 oct. 2009 | | Foreign Notes

Europe

Why it’s hard to take eurosceptics seriously

There are many, many good arguments to be used against the EU. Scores of them, in fact. In places it’s massively inefficient. In places there are strong indications of what seems like systemic corruption. Some of the policies it has introduced have (...)

5 oct. 2009 | | Nosemonkey

Europe

USSR Reloaded ?

By Svetoslav Apostolov. One man with courage makes a majority. Andrew Jackson In a historic second referendum on a treaty changing the way the European Community functions (the Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty (...)

2 oct. 2009 | | Blogactiv Team

Media

(When) Does EU blogging matter ?

A Twitter conversation between two much-followed EU-oriented bloggers over the weekend caught my eye. I won’t identify them as you need to follow them on Twitter to see their tweets. It started when one asked whether anyone out there “still (...)

1er oct. 2009 | | Blogactiv Team

Europe

A referendum for nothing

On the 12th of June 2008, the Irish people rejected the Lisbon Treaty by a margin of 53.4% to 46.6%. The 2nd of October 2009, it will have to pronounce itself anew on this same text without a single comma having been changed, a text which itself is only a (...)

30 Sep. 2009 | | Dominique Guillemin

Local News

Stockholm shines - even in the rain

Stockholm’s long summer days with warm and pleasant temperatures certainly provided more than a welcome break from the heatwave that hit much of continental Europe this year. There are, of course, those short winter days, where the average (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Business

The future of Utilities - a single EU energy market?

The Capacity Allocation Service Company for the Central West European Electricity market (CASC-CWE) has integrated the five electricity markets of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and The Netherlands into one. Corne Meeuwis, CEO, CASC-CWE believes the (...)

14 Aug. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

Politics

A new challenge for Rachida Dati - mayor of Paris?

Well if the latest report in the national daily, le Parisien, is to be believed, that’s exactly what the former French justice minister and recently-elected European parliamentarian has in mind. Dati apparently wants to be the centre-right Union (...)

20 Jul. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Environment

An iceberg in Paris

Anyone in the French capital on Tuesday might have done something of a double take as they passed along the river Seine. Because not far away from the city’s world-famous landmark, the Eiffel Tower, they would have seen an iceberg. It was, of (...)

8 Jul. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Europe

Sarkozy’s European dilemma

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is in a bit of a quandary at the moment as to what to do with the employment minister, Brice Hortefeux. The problem arises from the ruling Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (Union for a Popular Movement, UMP) (...)

9 Jun. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Business

European Executives spend an extra 11 hours a month online

A study run by online business networking service www.MeettheBoss.com shows that their European executives are spending an extra 11 hours a month online sharing their professional experiences and learning from their peers. MeettheBoss surveyed 15,000 of (...)

9 Jun. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

Business

Europe’s Utility Leaders Gather to Discuss Alternative Energy at Next Generation Utilities Summit

João Torres, President of EDP - Distribuição - Energia, S.A., has confirmed attendance as the keynote speaker at the Next Generation Utilities Summit, the most important annual meeting of Utility executives in Europe. The summit, which will be held from (...)

29 May. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

Politics

Bernard Kouchner a French Socialist in UMP clothing?

Ah politics is often the home of the fickle it would appear. And nowhere more so than in France, where the protagonists switch sides and allegiances almost "on a whim" it would seem - or should that read "where they perceive potential for (...)

14 May. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

International

Obama the Visionary : End Nukes, admit Turkey to EU

Barack Obama continues to shake up the world with his new ideas, demonstrating himself again among the more creative and bold leaders the world has seen in the past half-century. In Prague on Sunday, he called for the US to lead a drive to abolish nuclear (...)

6 avr. 2009 | | Juan Cole

Europe

Why EU superstate conspiracy theories are nonsense

My jokey post on the “danger” of EU founding father Jean Monnet prompted a response from the usually well-intentioned and often thought-provoking eurosceptic Ken of EU Realist (on whom I don’t mean to pick, but he’s provided me (...)

27 mar. 2009 | | Nosemonkey

Business

WTO worries about the increase of protectionism

The World Trade Organization published its second report on its members’ economic policies. According to the institution, the bailouts adopted by some of its members favour domestic products at importations’ expense. Aid to national (...)

27 Mar. 2009 | | NYFP

Business

20 billion euros to save Romania

Romania is the third country of the European Union to ask for the IMF help and to receive it. But the Washington-based institution is not the only one which will participate to this bailout : the world Bank and the European Union will also bring their (...)

26 Mar. 2009 | | NYFP

Politics

European elections : UK voting intentions

From the invaluable UK Polling Report, we have the first UK voting intention figures for the 2009 European elections, released in today’s Sunday Telegraph. The results, plus changes from the 2004 EU elections, are as follows : Conservatives 35% (...)

12 jan. 2009 | | Nosemonkey

Comment

Euro elections 09 : “Bring it on” ?

Really ? Are you really sure, when talking about anti-EU mobilisation for next year’s elections, that you want to borrow the words of President Bush, speaking about Iraqi militants attacking US troops way back in 2003 ? You don’t think that (...)

11 déc. 2008 | | Nosemonkey

Comment

The failures of EU democracy

So, will the European Citizens’ Consultation forum, launched yesterday in a variety of EU languages, actually prove a success ? Based on past attempts, I don’t hold out much hope - these things are usually either ignored (remember Timothy (...)

8 déc. 2008 | | Nosemonkey

Comment

Barroso : Shut the hell up

If there’s one thing absolutely guaranteed to put back the European Union cause in the UK, it’s having some unelected Brussels bureaucrat mouth off about how the country is “closer than ever before” to joining the single currency. (...)

1er déc. 2008 | | Nosemonkey

Europe

European Jobs for Europeans at Job Days 2008

Job Days 2008 is a two-week annual event organised by the European Union throughout the community to help job seekers meet employers, get advice on how to apply for jobs and maybe even find a job. This is all part of the Mobility initiative to promote (...)

29 Sep. 2008 | | lawlang

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