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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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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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Candidates for High Rep for EU Foreign Policy
May 19 - 2 comments
others-cover
Best of the rest – candidates for President of the...
May 15 - 7 comments
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EPP candidates for Commission President
May 11 - 15 comments

UKPolitics

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Swivel eyed loons, party membership and post democracy

So Tory Andrew Feldman may or may not have said that some of the party’s members are “swivel-eyed loons”. I am not especially bother...

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UKIP, the Lernaean Hydra of British politics
April 26 - 7 comments
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An open letter to Gordon Pattison, Regional Director of ...
April 24 - 6 comments
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Online networking: we can shine the light on their malev...
April 14 - 1 comment

techPolitics

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Danish Ministries – now all on Twitter (unofficially)

As I have previously lamented, Danish politics has been slow to take to social media, especially Twitter. So today I present my next step to do someth...

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Avanti Europe – a European version of change.org o...
March 30 - 3 comments
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Sina Weibo: this is what arbitrary censorship feels like...
March 21 - 1 comment
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Persistence, EU law, and friendly Apple Store staff to g...
March 20 - 4 comments

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Denmark is where I live. But I think it will never be home.

It was a normal enough Copenhagen situation; that’s what makes it frustrating. I was introduced to some friends of my partner’s in Copenha...

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Are reservation fees and private railways killing the al...
April 28 - 3 comments
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The Lille Loophole – stop London checks on all exc...
April 23 - 17 comments
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A little Brussels-London security paranoia case study &#...
April 16 - 9 comments
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Around now in previous years

    • A quick roundup of interesting stuff about the Eurozone / Greece - 2012
    • How MEPs should organise their web comms and social networking - 2011
    • Was 2010 the internet election? | Progress - 2010
    • Painful Montréal Marathon, 1:50 - 2009
    • David Miliband as EU Foreign Minister (or not?) - 2008
    • Exciting changes - freelance work beckons - 2007
    • Sack the minister, ignore the review: Blair's nuclear plans - 2006

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  • 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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