There has been a lot of talk about the UK’s role in the EU lately. First the backbenchers’ rebellion in the House of Commons, then Cameron’s attempts to define EU policy (aiming at a “repatriation of powers”) and now a Labour debate on how to deal with Europe.  Moreover, EU member states are increasingly critical [...]

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Hot summer holidays

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The Blog with the European perspective

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Askthepresident.eu is the latest attempt of the EU institutions to somehow reach out to the citizens using some fancy online tools. First impression is ok – nothing revolutionary, a normal PR instrument if you ask me. It looks pretty basic – probably they are not sure whether it will actually work. The idea is the [...]

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Eurocrats

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Hilarious! via The Belgium Free Press: EU Hot Air A man in a hot air balloon over the Belgian countryside realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. Descending a bit more he shouted, “Excuse me, can you help? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago but [...]

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Anglo-EU Translation Guide

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A quick public service announcement: We are going to Hay Festival / How the light gets in which will take place in the beautiful village of Y Gelli Gandryll (also known as Hay-on-Wye)! No – we are not going speak at one of the events as we are not famous enough and, to be honest, [...]

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Exklusiv zu Gast auf Kosmopolito: Unregelmäßige politische Karikaturen vom Blöd-Ei Exklusiv zu Gast auf Kosmopolito: Unregelmäßige politische Karikaturen vom Blöd-Ei

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Everything you need to know about diplomacy. I just found a hilarious one pager on “Terms used in multilateral negotiations and what they usually mean” – In fact I found it in my cupboard in a file that is 5-6 years old. After some googeling I found a very similar version in a 2009 book [...]

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Sorry, time for a selfish plug. A post best characterised as a self-congratulatory ego trip which is so typical for the blogosphere -  well, at least some would say that. In case you have not seen it, a couple of days ago my post on German UN diplomacy on Libya was featured here. Actually a [...]

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Why did Germany abstain at the United Nations? Germany was the only NATO/EU member to abstain together Russia, China, Brasil, India. Result: no common EU foreign policy (Ashton being absent from the wider debate anyway) despite the good opportunity for an interesting ESDP mission. The US seems to support the resolution but does not want [...]

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