Danish centre-right wins election

Denmark's centre-right ruling coalition wins snap elections, securing a third consecutive term in office.

DOSSIER: A neck-and-neck race in Denmark | 13/11/2007

The Danes elect a new parliament today. According to the latest election forecasts, it's a close race between Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's liberal-conservative coalition and the social democratic electoral alliance led by Helle Thorning-Schmidt. Naser Khader's newly founded New Alliance party has not yet taken sides.

Denmark re-elects Anders Fogh Rasmussen

[Comment] Sarkozy's Mediterranean union plans should worry Brussels

Conservatives' EU truce under threat

The party's truce on Europe is at breaking point after William Hague said a Tory government would not accept a new EU reform treaty that had not been put to a referendum

Bush and a two-speed Europe

Nicolas Sarkozy receives the lion's share of the attention in Washington, while Angela Merkel came and went from Texas with far less fanfare, writes Quentin Peel

A new deal with Russia

The West and Russia should seek a new "grand bargain" to bridge their current differences, according to Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform (CER).

EU set to relax TV advertising rules

Parliament's culture committee has approved new rules that would allow more commercial breaks and US-style product placement in television and other audiovisual broadcasts in the EU, paving the way for their adoption by the end of the year.

Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications

The Commission is set to publish its proposals for a review of the regulatory package on telecommunications on 13 November 2007 - the review will take account of the convergence between telecommunications, information technology and the media, as well as the emergence of the internet.

 

Airline websites 'are misleading'

Over 200 European airline websites are misleading the public, a study by the European Commission finds.

Americans flock to Europe despite weak dollar

 

US Forces May Stay Longer in Europe

by Joerg Wolf

AFP reports:

Two of the four US combat brigades left in Europe were supposed to move to US bases over the next year, but General Bantz Craddock, the commander of US forces in Europe, has recommended postponing the move by about a year. [Secretary of Defense] Gates "is inclined to embrace the concept of leaving two of them there for a time longer than originally anticipated," said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman. Craddock had recommended the slowdown in withdrawing the troops, saying more forces were needed for "security theater engagement," Whitman added. The plan is seen as a "short term solution" to a troop crunch in Europe, but it also indicates the US military is having second thoughts about a two-year-old plan to scale back its presence in Europe.

 

 

Latest Indication of US Economic Troubles: Hip-Hopper Flashes Euro Notes

Xenophobes - dontcha just love ‘em?

by nosemonkey

To be fair, it’s taken the far right Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty European Parliament group - that delightful organisation that combines everyone from convicted fraudsters to French presidential runners-up and the granddaughters of fascist dictators - far longer to disintegrate than I expected. After all, within a few days of the group forming there were [...]

 

Strike Two, Sarkozy

by Boz

The second round of nation-wide strikes have hit France in full force today, causing massive transportation problems:
Early on Wednesday, more than 300km (190 miles) of traffic jams were reported on roads heading into Paris, twice the daily average...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black Sea disaster could have been mitigated by EU maritime safety laws

From the Social Integration Textbook, page 23 and 24

Di works on integrating herself:) 

 

The Galileo project helps us navigate through the EU

by Richard Laming

A report published yesterday by the House of Commons Transport Committee on “Galileo: Recent Developments” has been widely reported because of its criticisms of the project’s cost-effectiveness. (You can find the report here.) The idea is that there should be a European satellite navigation system, offering readings much more accurately than the existing American GPS system, which should also be available to all users and never obstructed for military purposes.