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- EU ZOO : Folketinget og EU: Her er efterårets mulige stridspunkter September 3, 2010
- Netzpolitik: NPP100: Jeremie Zimmermann über Netzpolitik auf EU-Ebene September 3, 2010
- Bruxelles2: Le président du comité militaire de l’UE en visite à Moscou pour parler sécurité européenne September 2, 2010
- Europasionaria (FR): Les blogueuses politiques en Europe – interviews de cafebabel.com September 2, 2010
- Silvana Koch-Mehrin: Mehr Kommunikation ist gut, mehr Demokratie wäre besser September 2, 2010
Kosmolinks #17
The idea of the referendum as an instrument of the people’s will rests on pre-democratic foundations, says George Schöpflin. I certainly agree!
Interesting idea: Is it possible to introduce a more deliberative approach when holding a referendum? Does “deliberative polling” make citizens more knowledgeable?
Timothy Garton Ash actually favours the “Nice plus” arrangement.
What went wrong for the German Social Democrats? And how can they recover? – Although the article could focus more on the second question it makes a few good points. However, it seems to me that Kurt Beck is the wrong person to deliver “change”… unfortunately the same can be said for a large part of the SPD leadership!
Quite a shocking report: “Unfortunately, one way to assess the political importance of blogging around the world is through the growing number of blogger arrests. Since 2003, 64 citizens unaffiliated with news organizations have been arrested for their blogging activities.”
Hugo Brady proposes the most likely outcome of the “EU crisis” after the ‘No’ in Ireland. And he mentiones one interesting point: “Many voters do not see the continuity between EU treaties and think that old guarantees are over-written by new texts.”