European Convention on Nationality and Explanatory Report (Texts of Council of Europe Treaties)
fivethirtyeight (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
When the Lisbon treaty comes into force on December 1st, the European Union will have achieved two of its key goals of the last decade -- improved coherance and a stronger common foreign policy. Among many other things, the Treaty brings major changes to two top posts in the EU, a permanent President of the European Council (rather than 6 month rotating among the heads of states/governments in the...
The Australian (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
CHOICES for president and foreign affairs raise questions on how the EU operates. THE appointments of Catherine Ashton representative for foreign affairs and security and that of Herman Van Rompuy as President of the European Council are an insult to European democracy.
European Union Law (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Jean Quatremer has done the unthinkable – he has lifted the sacred veil of secret deliberations for the nomination of the first President of the European Council. If his information is credible, then it appears that the President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy, has unilaterally opposed the candidacy of the prime minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker. All [...]
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Rumours abound that the quiet, unassuming Herman Van Rompuy, the first permanent president of the European Council, is not the nonentity that the MSM seem to be suggesting he is. Rather he has form as a proponent of EU taxation and it seems that this source of central EU revenue will come via a combination of CO2 taxation an a form of Tobin tax. Thus a trade body reliant on its members for its income...
IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The EU's Russia policy cannot succeed as long as it continues to rest on faulty analysis and mistaken assumptions. This is the main conclusion of What does Russia think? , a collection of politically revealing essays by intellectuals whose views influence the Kremlin, which the European Council on Foreign Relations has published today. The collection includes essays by Fyodor Lukyanov, Valery Fadeev,...
Bulgarian Elections (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
It’s a question set to cause bitter disputes at pub table quizzes, given the variety of plausible answers. EU Leaders have chosen Herman Van Rompuy as the first permanent president of the European Council. So will he be the boss in Brussels? Well, the new foreign affairs position – handed to the UK’s Catherine Ashton – could [...]
An Angry White Guy in Chicago (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The Man Who Was Thursday Written by Bilal Dardai Based on the novel by G. K. Chesterton Directed by Jessica Hutchinson Presented by New Leaf Theatre Part satire (the story revolves around a group of ordinary British citizens enlisted by Scotland Yard to infiltrate the Central European Council of Anarchists in order to snuff them out), part farce (a balloon chase, bloodless duels, lots of goofy British...
www.thenewfederalist.eu (Free subscription) | yesterday
At the evening of 19 November the heads of state and government of the EU member states met for an informal summit to decide on the post of the European Council President, as well as the High Representative for Foreign Affairs. Everyone was expecting long and difficult negotiations, but for once the 27 member states agreed in a fast and efficient manner. A team of young European journalists was present...
Times Online - William Rees-Mogg (Free subscription) | yesterday
The appointments of Baroness Ashton of Upholland as European High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and that of Herman Van Rompuy as President of the European Council are an insult to European democracy. These are new posts under the Lisbon treaty. The candidates are not strong. This has been done with no due process, in a completely arbitrary way.
Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Unlike Herman Van Rompuy, whose 2½-year term as president of the European Council starts only in January, Lady Ashton will take over half of her new job as soon as the Lisbon reform treaty enters into force on December 1
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the restrictions against which the "colleagues" in Brussels chafe is the need always to go cap-in-hand to the member states for their funding. As long as the purse-strings are held in this way, the member states at least have some control over the wilder ambitions of the project. It comes as no surprise, therefore, to see pieces in The Sunday Telegraph today which point to EU plans...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Erwan Mahe submits: Alternative title: What the devil is he going to do in this mess? Of course, everyone thinks they know since the three officials in question, Mr. Trichet (ECB Chairman), Mr. Almunia (European Commission on Economic Affaires) and Mr. Juncker (President of the European Council of Finance Ministers), have expressed their views on the matter many times in the past few weeks. The eurozone...
Stephen Spillane (Free subscription) | yesterday
So the Telegraph have a story on the fact that the new European Council President, Herman Von Rompuy, wants to bring in a new Euro Tax. This is to “bring transparency” to how the EU operates. This hasn’t gone very smoothly for the new European Council Preisdent, and this really is his own fault! He made [...]
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | yesterday
19 November 2009 10:44 AMHail to the Chief, if you can manage to say itI'll be penned in with the rest of the press corps tonight at the European Council building, waiting for Angela Merkel and the other leaders of the member states to choose the new president of the Council; well, actually just waiting for Merkel to choose. Nobody else matters as much.Meanwhile, here is a list of some of the
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
It was, of course, the IoS wot won it. Our "No, non, nein" campaign against Tony Blair ensured that he was not chosen as the first President of the European Council last week. Well, our campaign, and attitudes towards the Iraq war across Europe, and trade-offs between the broad political blocs in the European Union – and, undoubtedly, the unwillingness of some European leaders to be...
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bharatbook | 11/19/2009
The Global Carbon Market 2009: Trading Thin Air Global climate change and reduction of greenhouse gasses (GHG) are an important concern for many US businesses and throughout the world, and are shaping policies and initiatives. The United States is responsible of 23% of the world’s GHG emissions but as of 2009, there are no federal restrictions and no binding federal carbon trading system. However,
patrickguillard | 06/23/2008
EU leaders unanimous in favour of mitigating effects of high food and oil prices
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