Posted by
Blogactiv Team on 29th November 2011
Guest post by Kaj EMBREN, Sustainable Development export and blogger, Stockholm, Sweden.
In the middle of some of the most turbulent political and economic crises of modern times, UN climate negotiators [...]
Posted by
euromove on 29th November 2011
At the risk of being accused of jumping on the Leveson enquiry bandwagon (to which I would have to plead guilty), the European Movement has had its own skirmish with [...]
Posted by
oxfameu on 29th November 2011
Delivering quality aid is not just about giving the right amount – it’s about giving it in the right way
Today more than 2,000 negotiators including Ban Ki-moon, Hilary Clinton [...]
Posted by
Thomas.Zimmerling on 30th November 2011
Das ging schnell: Nachdem im Juli ein erster Entwurf der Fraktionen für einen neuen Verhaltenskodex für EU-Abgeordnete angefertigt wurde, hat der zuständige Ausschuss des Parlaments ihn nun verabschiedet. Schon am [...]
Posted by
Protesilaos Stavrou on 30th November 2011
The voices calling the ECB to “do something” are increasing. Of course they are ignoring the fact that the European Central Bank is already intervening in the markets, [...]
Posted by
Marek Siwiec MEP on 29th November 2011
As predicted, yesterday’s speech of Minister Sikorski has sparked a storm on the right side of political scene. From being accused of betrayal and violation of the oath, to a [...]
Posted by
Blogactiv Team on 29th November 2011
Guest post by Roeland SCHOLTALBERS, Media & Communication Officer at the international alliance of Catholic development agencies CIDSE.
There is much at stake as the international community gathers in Durban, South [...]
Posted by
Mathew on 29th November 2011
I’m going to try to break the habit of a lifetime this [morning/lunchtime/evening] and actually attend a physical [conference/workshop/seminar/PRpissup] about the EU and social media, something so self-evidently oxymoronic that [...]
Posted by
Protesilaos Stavrou on 29th November 2011
The Republic of Cyprus is facing the increasing threat of coming to the need of a bailout as its economy continues to deteriorate. The malignancies of the Cyprus [...]
Posted by
Mathew on 28th November 2011
A few weeks ago I was asked to give a training on the EU online public space to a group of political science PhDs taking part in the EXACT Marie-Curie [...]
Posted by
Günter K.V. Vetter on 28th November 2011
Noch unter dem Eindruck der gescheiterten Emission zehnjähriger Bundesanleihen, aber ohne Anzeichen der Entmutigung reiste Angela Merkel gestern nach Straßburg, um Nicolas Sarkozy und Mario Monti in ihr Rezept zur [...]
Posted by
Eberhard Rhein on 28th November 2011
The 17th international climate conference (COP 17) that opened November 28 will not produce any worth while results. This is – unfortunately – a foregone conclusion whatever final declaration might [...]
Posted by
ge_europe on 28th November 2011
In the fast evolving multi-polar world concerns have been raised, on both sides of the Atlantic, that the strength of the transatlantic partnership has diminished. The economic crisis has, for [...]
Posted by
Marek Siwiec MEP on 28th November 2011
I wrote many times that in Ukraine takes a strange game in which the stake is the rapprochement with the EU. If anyone thinks that President Komorowski, who is in [...]
Posted by
efficiency1st on 28th November 2011
Editor’s note: The latest fashion in the debate on the energy efficiency directive is to call for energy intensity targets (i.e. the number of units of energy used to create [...]