"EU News Sources
DJ Nozem provides the guide:
EU News Sources
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The International Herald Tribune has a decent Europe section, as does the BBC. An added benefit of the BBC site is that you can access the Euroblog from Mark Mardell, the BBC's Europe editor.In terms of slant, you need to keep in mind that the IHT is written by Americans and the BBC is, as it says, British.
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Euronews, the European version of CNN, is a very good channel, but has a very poor online news service. If you receive it, watch it now and again, but don't read the website. If you don't receive it, call your cable company, but don't read the website.
If you want to go beyond the broad outlines and into the day-to-day functioning of the EU, you can use a number of specialised internet sources. There are three broadly similar sources that offer the daily EU news you'd also read on the BBC, plus some extra news. These are the EUObserver, EUBusiness and EUpolitix. In my experience, ...............If you are interested in policy, there is no alternative to EurActiv, which covers the developments in all EU policies in as much detail as you want. .................
The euro as the world’s reserve currency?
by Centre for European Reform
by Simon TilfordBack in the 1970s President Nixon’s treasury secretary, John Connally, famously quipped that “the dollar may be our currency, but it’s your problem”. One of the arguments in favour of establishing the euro was that it would quickly come to rival the dollar’s status as the world’s principle reserve currency and make it hard for the US to abuse its “exorbitant privilege” – devaluing the dollar imposes few costs on the US because its foreign debt is denominated in dollars. Is the wish of those Europeans that want to see the dollar dethroned about to come true? If so, would this be a win-win scenario for the eurozone?
Let them in. But it's still a mess
Italy, Denmark, Switzerland . . . all around us we are having to deal with the consequences of immigration
Miliband: EU must be ready to use military power British foreign secretary will also use Bruges speech to call for zero carbon cars by 2030
Elections send Kosovo talks into 'final stage'
The EU has expressed its disappointment after Kosovo Serbs boycotted parliamentary elections over the weekend, and urged the parties concerned to engage constructively in negotiating the final status of the Serbian province.
EU lowers trade expectations from ex-colonies
European foreign ministers are expected to agree on Tuesday (20 November) to conclude watered-down free trade agreements with countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP), as an end-of-year deadline on existing preferential arrangements threatened to disrupt trade relations.
DOSSIER: Kosovo's future in the ballot box | 16/11/2007
Legislative and council elections are being held on November 17th in Kosovo. This vote is taking place three weeks before the expiration of the time fixed by the international community to try and define the future status of Kosovo. If current negotiations fail, Kosovar authorities have announced that they will proclaim unilateral independence.
DOSSIER: Should Sarkozy fear the strikes ? | 15/11/2007
French public transport workers began a massive strike on November 14th. They are protesting against the government's wish to reform their special early retirement schemes. The European press considers this crisis is an opportunity to introduce a new form of social dialogue in France.
DOSSIER: Is German coalition at risk ? | 14/11/2007
Germany's Social Democrat labour minister and vice-chancellor Franz Müntefering resigned yesterday in a surprise move. He cited personal reasons, but he was under heavy pressure, including within his own party, because he had lost a power struggle against party leader Kurt Beck. Müntefering was considered a cornerstone for the grand coalition. What will become of the coalition between the SPD and the CDU?
Why Belgium matters (no, seriously)
by Joshua Keating
When the murmurs first started that Belgium's political deadlock could lead to a split between the country's French-speaking and Flemish speaking groups, we, like nearly everyone else, treated it as a joke.
Miliband: EU must be ready to use military power British foreign secretary will also use Bruges speech to call for zero carbon cars by 2030
EU Must Improve Military Capabilities, UK Says By: Elitsa Vucheva | EU Observer
UK foreign secretary David Miliband called for a strengthening of the EU's military capacities during his first major speech on EU policy on Thursday (15 November) - an idea that has also been recently raised by France.
This week in Network Europe
- Rights to education and rites of passage, French students take to the streets
- A new poll in France says Belgium’s Walloons are welcome to join them
- Can European foreign ministers rap?
- Germany’s shopkeepers go head to head with the church over Sunday trading
- Dutch troops in fresh danger
- Swedish open security
Berlusconi launches new political party
Italian centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi, under attack from his coalition allies, said he was launching a new party and would dissolve the Forza Italia (Go Italy!) group he founded in the early 1990s
Rhetoric belies France's rethink on virtues of competition
While the French president rails against the 'religion' of the free market, Sarkozy's top-flight economic commission is stressing its benefits
Who are the citizens of Europe?
by Rainer Bauböck
The tension between freedom of movement and national self-determination of citizenship within the EU has the potential to create serious conflicts.Migration record as Britons exit en masse
Britain received more than half a million foreigners in a single year, new figures show, as Britons emigrated in numbers last seen over a century ago.
National Statistics: Migration figures (pdf)
The Capacity of Central and East European Interest Groups to Participate in EU Governance
EU-NEWGOV
The 241-page report of a study examining the impact of EU Eastern enlargements on EU governance structures involving the participation of civil society organisations
The Independent: Revolution in France? France faces another week of chaos - by John Litchfield
DOSSIER: The opposition wins in Kosovo's elections | 19/11/2007
The Democratic Party (PDK) led by the former resistance fighter Hashim Thaçi has won Kosovo's parliamentary elections with an estimated 34 percent of the vote. The voter turnout in the Serb province, with its predominantly Albanian population, was just 45 percent. The Serb minority boycotted the elections. What challenges does the new government face?
Brown, Miliband and the EU
The Big Speach
by rz
I have already blogged about the worst aspects of the speech by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband (endless expansion of the Union). Nosemonkey is also very unhappy with the speech and Colman on European Tribune goes so far as to suggest that one should "leave the skeptics ... behind".
From Madrid to Novosibirsk
by rz
