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19.05.2013Candidates 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... -
19.05.2013Candidates 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... -
15.05.2013Best 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 ... -
11.05.2013EPP 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... -
27.04.2013PES 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...
EUPolitics
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...
UKPolitics
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...
techPolitics
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.....
Travel etc.
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 ...
