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    19.05.2013

    Candidates for President of the European Council

    The European Council elects its President by a qualified majority for a term of two and a half years, renewable once. This means that Herman Van Rompu...
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    19.05.2013

    Candidates for High Rep for EU Foreign Policy

    The High Rep is appointed by the European Council, acting by qualified majority. However as the person is also a Vice President of the European Commis...
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    15.05.2013

    Best of the rest – candidates for President of the European Commission

    Following my previous posts about likely EPP and PES candidates for President of the European Commission, what about other candidates not from either ...
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    11.05.2013

    EPP candidates for Commission President

    In a previous post I analysed the likely candidates from the centre left PES for Commission President. Here I examine who the centre right EPP might p...
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    27.04.2013

    PES candidates for Commission President

    Every five years Brussels has a bout of political intrigue. It is the time when a new European Parliament is elected, and connected to that, a new tea...
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The danger of over-hyping TTIP (the possible US-EU trade deal)

Yesterday is was David Cameron at the G8 summit, claiming that a US-EU trade deal (known as TTIP) could create 2 million jobs. The European Commission...

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Think tanks working on solutions for EU democracy
June 11 - 6 comments
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CER on national parliaments in EU decision making
June 10 - 6 comments
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Framing Beppe Grillo
June 3 - 1 comment

UKPolitics

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What I would have written for CiF… Being pro-EU in the UK must not just be a proxy for British business in the EU

[I wrote this piece, unsolicited, for Comment is Free of The Guardian today. They did not want it, so I publish it here instead] Last week on these pa...

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Swivel eyed loons, party membership and post democracy
May 19 - 6 comments
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UKIP, the Lernaean Hydra of British politics
April 26 - 8 comments
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An open letter to Gordon Pattison, Regional Director of ...
April 24 - 6 comments

techPolitics

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Base’s 3G network in Brussels is now so slow it’s basically unusable

Working all over the EU as I do is more or less only possible thanks to mobile internet – I have 3G and tethering on my iPhone when in Denmark.....

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8 weeks of DK Ministries on Twitter: taking stock
June 10 - no comments
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What kit do you take for a live-blogging expedition?
May 23 - 4 comments
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Danish Ministries – now all on Twitter (unofficial...
April 17 - 3 comments

Travel etc.

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The future of channel tunnel long distance passenger railway services

A small step forward step in the prospect of long distance high-speed train services using the channel tunnel was taken this week, with Deutsche Bahn ...

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Five types of railway market in Europe
June 13 - 6 comments
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Denmark is where I live. But I think it will never be ho...
May 2 - 14 comments
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Are reservation fees and private railways killing the al...
April 28 - 3 comments
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I'm often on the rails of Europe. See my forthcoming trips on TripIt.

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Original image link: http://bit.ly/17RewQm I’m a tram. Help me. Flagey.Original image link: http://bit.ly/17OMPaQ Corpo från Sverige spelar i Jazz Station, Bryssel. Toppen!Original image link: http://bit.ly/1bHqrO6 Street market between Place St Josse and Ch de Louvain. So much better than normal traffic thundering through here.Original image link: http://bit.ly/13LZDcp Listening to what I’m told is classic 1990s Czech rock in Brussels. David Koller.Original image link: http://bit.ly/153IM48 Those were the days. Plaque at Scotland House, Brussels.Original image link: http://bit.ly/11em5wy That’s what 50+ years of sex, drugs and rock and roll does to you

Around now in previous years

    • Dare to dream again - 2012
    • The complicated balance between listening and leading, and how it applies to politics in Europe - 2011
    • World Cup balls - 2010
    • Th!nk European Commission - 2009
    • Irish No - means less than 27 Commissioners from 2009 - 2008
    • Brussels - content - 2007
    • Compass - direction for the left? - 2006

What I'm writing elsewhere

  • TechPresident | After the Hype, What's Next for the German Pirate Party?
  • A Labour case for the EU | Progress | News and debate from the progressive community
  • LabourList | Could you be one of our 70 candidates? Well, only if you had known…
  • TechPresident | Hacking Some Transparency into the Secretive Corridors of the EU Lobbying System
  • Guardian CiF | Sharon Bowles topping the EU's power list is a lesson for Westminster

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