Contrary to public belief in Slovakia and Hungary, the members of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia are proud citizens of their country. A survey conducted within the European Values Survey found that 71% of the ethnic Hungarians are ‘proud’ to be citizens of Slovakia. Members of the majority Slovakians are 87% proud of their newish [...]

Here’s a briefing that E3G is providing to MEPs ahead of next week’s Environment Committee votes.
Original post by markjohnston

Fake obituaries appeared on the streets of Belgrade, claiming the EU’s High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy dead. The placards were placed on Kosovo Street and around the Serbian parliament in downtown Belgrade.
The text reads (approximately) ‘Our beloved Javier Solana has died in the 66th year of his sinful life. We [...]

In the wake of the financial meltdown, governments are taking steps to ensure its containment, ultimate recovery and how to prevent a recurrence. Individual countries have lost to globalisation their sovereignty to act alone. They can only recover it collectively by introducing an effective system of multilateral governance, certainly not by economic nationalism
As [...]

13-15 October 2008, Strasbourg, France
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nbsp;www.pkarchive.com   If interested in sound economic explanations he should be your guy. He is an MIT professor and  NYT
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Original post by anamaria

The headlines this morning concentrate primarily on the rough financial times to come.
How is the EU going to respong to all this? Their proposed bail-out is much smaller than
that of the US, which by the way, it DID NOT PASS.
Do you believe that the end of US  supremacy has come?
Original post by anamaria

Christopher Perrien, our key-note speaker at our next Open Day FRINGE event on Web 2.0 and knowledge management (more info in my post below) sent a real interesting link to a blog on knowledge management and community building (”This guy might interest you”), which I would like to share with you all: http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/   P.S. I should mention [...]

Christopher, our speaker at our next Open Day FRINGE event on Web 2.0 and knowledge management (more info in my post below) sent a real interesting link to a blog on knowledge management and community building (”This guy might interest you”), which I would like to share with you all: http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/
P.S. I should mention that […]
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Dear reader (if any): This is my first blog entry ever, so I hope you’ll be patient with me. I know the layout sucks, but I still have to get used to the system. Anyway, I would like to start this blog by inviting you to a workshop in Brussels, which I think should [...]

Remember the date - 29th September 2008 - the day everything changed.
In the UK, Bradford and Bingley has finally been put out of it’s misery. The buy to let bubble has finally burst. It wasn’t necessarily a big bang, but I’d imagine that yesterday the value of every UK residential property dropped by several percent.
Stock [...]

Should a government bail out a sick bank, insurance company, hedge fund or investment company?
This is a tricky question to both ask and answer.
As I write, the Dow has just closed down by over 770 points on news that the US$700 billion bail out package has not approved. This appears to be a disaster to [...]

A quick look at popularity polls in the United States suggests that the current Presidential election race is very close and could possibly ‘go either way’. But can it really? I would suggest that Obama is actually a solid 10 points behind and heading for a significant defeat.
Is the race not actually all over bar [...]

Who Cares About Europe?
is the caption of the Charlemagne column in the last issue of The Economist. Whether voter indifference needs to be managed or feared is a pertinent question. Comparing it with national attitudes towards government is inappropriate. National politicians may have lost the trust of their electorates but the national system [...]

Central Europe had an important Austrian and a rather unimportant Belorussian parliamentary election yesterday. To call the process ‘elections’ in Belarus is somewhat premature: the opposition candidates did not win any seats in the national assembly.
After the Russian invasion to Georgia many predicted that Europe’s last old-fascioned dictator (leaving aside the breakaway Trandnistrian rulers) would [...]

John Mathiason: The Copenhagen Conference will hopefully produce a successor to the Kyoto Protocol; but then the real work begins. Independent organizations will be necessary to tackle adaptation and mitigation requirements, while ensuring, through effective monitoring, that states comply. Self-policing is not an option.
Original post by Atlantic Community

The EP Industry Committee has voted to two major components of the Commission proposals for implementing the EU climate targets for 2020, 20 percent C02 reduction, 20 percent increase in energy efficiency and a share of 20 percent of renewable energy in total energy consumption.
Last week the Committee has pleaded against a 10 percent [...]

Article published in EDRi-gram 6.18
Following a very strong opposing movement, the decree allowing the creation of EDVIGE file has been abandoned by the French Government, but it will be replaced by a modified project called now EDVIRSP.
On 1 July 2008, the French Government had announced a project creating a huge database, EDVIGE (Exploitation documentaire et [...]