Finland Starts Handing Out a Basic Income MIT Technology Review A few unemployed Finns are receiving a monthly check with no strings attached—but it’s unlikely to tell us whether universal basic income is a good idea. Eurozone inflation surges to 1.1% in December BBC News | Europe | World Edition Eurozone inflation surges to 1.1%, … Read more
WikiLeaks: From Collateral Murder to Collateral Recklessness Global Voices Online Image by WikiLeaks Mobile Information Collection Unit via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Linux Took Over the Web. Now, It’s Taking Over the World Wired Top Stories by Klint Finley 25 years after Linus Torvalds unveiled Linux, the free operating system is still finding new uses. The post … Read more
Intelligence, religious affairs set to take huge share of Turkey’s 2016 budget Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MİT) and Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) will see dramatic rises in their shares of the upcoming year’s budget Turkish Nobel laureate blames Erdoğan for bringing country to brink Turkey’s Nobel laureate has warned the country could collapse into sectarian conflict … Read more
243 people disappeared on a ship in the Mediterranean; a new project from Medium aims to find them Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in March 2014 set off a worldwide search for the missing plane. How could a flight carrying 239 people just go missing? The mystery … Read more
Credit: Image by Patrick Witty for TIME. ‘A day-by-day digital documentary’: Covering the refugee crisis on Snapchat and Periscope The BBC, Bild and TIME have been using Snapchat and Periscope to broadcast raw, unedited footage of their travels with refugees during their journey through Europe… read more Informal meeting of EU heads of state … Read more
The verdict: is blogging or tweeting about research papers worth it? Eager to find out what impact blogging and social media could have on the dissemination of her work, Melissa Terras took all of her academic research, including papers that have been available online for years, to the web and found that her audience … Read more
MAIN FOCUS: EU Parliament takes Google to task | 28/11/2014 euro|topics The European Parliament voted on Thursday in a non-binding resolution to separate Internet companies’ search engine business from other commericial activities. This could lead to Google being split up. Some commentators praise the Parliament for countering Google’s abuse of its market dominance. Others call for … Read more
Russian convoy stokes Ukraine fears FT.com – World, Europe A convoy of 280 lorries said to be carrying aid and Russian troops could provoke conflict as it heads towards the Ukrainian border A country called Europe? Ideas on Europe by Jon Danzig The maps below look at Europe in a different way to usual cartography – they … Read more
Soccer Lessons for Europe’s Economy Project Syndicate by Harold James Though a solution to the euro crisis continues to elude European leaders, the foundations of one are not difficult to discern. In fact, Europe’s recent soccer experience – in the EURO 2012 tournament and this year’s World Cup – provides insight into how to revive Europe’s economy … Read more
Whistleblower: NSA secretly continues Merkel surveillance by bugging other German officials An anonymous NSA leaker revealed to the German magazine Bild am Sonntag that the agency has been spying on senior German government figures. The move is apparently a response to Obama prohibiting the agency from spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel (or other world … Read more
News in Turkish here. Why are birds ?angry,? PM Erdoğan asks company CEO Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited the Angry Birds developer Rovio Company in Finland Ruling party deputies also question Erdoğan?s motives behind ?student house? move Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?s vow to crack down on mixed-gender student accommodation A Turkey politics roundup: Regulation on … Read more
Since government’s delusional conservative politics do get domestic and global reactions, it now aims to use the “security” card. However, connections made are hard to hold logically, only the ideologically determined conservatives get them…. Mixed-student apartments home to terrorist and illegal organizations, interior minister says Muammer Güler brought another dimension to the debate on mixed-student housing, … Read more
Turkish gamers head to police after online characters stolen Almost 150 people have complained to police in Turkey on the grounds that their characters Turkish student wins Google science award Turkish high school student Elif Bilgin has been announced as the winner of the Voter?s Choice Award Nokia: Rise and fall of a mobile … Read more
A protester in front of the Greeck parliament during a rally against the new austerity package. Reuters VIDEO: Greek crisis dominates EU summit from BBC News | Europe | World Edition The threat of a Greek debt default undermining the euro is overshadowing the European Union summit in Brussels. What’s the worst case scenario for … Read more
Know your rights as an EU citizen by Grahnlaw Are you moving within the European Union? Are you looking for work in another EU country, or are you setting up shop? Is your employer turning you into an expat? Do you want to spend retirement in another EU member state? Are there family reasons for … Read more