Four years after its accession to the EU, Romania is facing its first big test: the accession to the Schengen zone. Part of the accession treaty, but conditioned by the fulfilment of clear technical criteria regarding border management and security, the accession of Romania and Bulgaria was scheduled to take place in March 2011. But, [...]
Today the European Commission released the monitoring reports on Romania and Bulgaria, foreseen by the “cooperation and verification mechanism”. On the whole, not many surprises: the rough tone that was expected, telling off the two countries for the very small (if existing) progress regarding judicial reform and fight against corruption. This time, Bulgaria is more [...]
A short reminder for the European Commission that will issue the progress report for Romania next week, dealing with the progress made in judicial reform and the fight against corruption … safeguard clauses, anyone? (check here for the so called Cooperation and Verification Mechanism) Click here to watch the video. (Hat tip to The Short [...]
Here we go again! A (small) selection of interesting links I collected during the last few weeks: Two articles that remind us of the last couple of years in US politics: Think Progress » The legacy of Bush’s presidency & Iraq: The War Card – The Center for Public Integrity Here is an interesting article [...]
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kosmopolit @ twitter- kosmopolit: @Lionelsola that is also misleading as the post is not about FT's opinion - but a summary of a eurobarometer poll cc @spignal @ringrda February 2, 2012
- kosmopolit: [being a EU Commissioner]"is about as high as an official can climb in the eurocracy."-> misleading opening by @spignal http://t.co/vy5omNuv February 2, 2012
- kosmopolit: @wettach Oh - Interessant, mit oder ohne US? Irgendwelche Erfahrungen mit Zeitungsabos? February 2, 2012
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- kosmopolit: @wettach Idee des Artikels war doch eher zu zeigen dass die AGBs suboptimal fur Endnutzer sind. Stimmt, Problem ist DRM im ebook Markt... February 2, 2012
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