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Eurosphere roundup: Norwegian PM’s desperate attempt… Tension over Gibraltar…

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Norwegian PM’s ‘passengers’ paid It emerges that some of the people in a video of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg posing as a taxi driver were paid for taking part.   Norway’s Prime Minister Moonlights as Cabbie, Redefines Political Desperation In an effort to get closer to his people and hear out their concerns, Norwegian … Read more

Eurobarometer’s E-Communications Household Survey/ Olivier Roy on ‘Islam in Europe’

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E-Communications Household Survey Europeans are becoming increasingly “digital” according to a European Commission Eurobarometer survey which questioned 27,000 households throughout the EU on their use of internet, telephones and TV. More Europeans are subscribing to broadband internet and digital television in fixed-cost bundled ‘packages’. Increased broadband take-up means even more Europeans are going online with … Read more

"EU institutions on Twitter

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EU institutions on Twitter

from EU Pundit by Andis Kaulins

EU institutions on Twitter

The E.U. as a surveillance society,

from open Democracy News Analysis – by Anthony Barnett

For the first time the EU wide moves towards a surveillance society and a database state set out in all their appalling glory. A major report has recently been published NeoConOpticon. It has its own webpage . The authors, with Ban Hayes of Statewatch in the lead, have put together the military and the domestic aspects of the European Security Research Programme.

Berlusconi is ‘rock star of 2009’

Italy’s PM Silvio Berlusconi has been named ‘rock star of the year’ by his country’s Rolling Stone magazine.

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