And it is a major problem:  Hungary’s new media law. Bloggingportal.eu launched a European Blog Action against Censorship in Hungary and also provides a good round-up of reactions and some background documents (just go through the comment thread!) I don’t want to repeat the points that were made elsewhere. It is never a good idea [...]

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The Economist has quite a good commentary about EU enlargement and the limited influence of the EU once a country has joined the club: A common feature in all these tales is the limited leverage of Brussels. It is often said that the EU‘s enlargement policy has been the most potent tool yet devised to [...]

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Remixing the Balkans

by Tanchi in misc

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very pleased to introduce a new (hopefully regular) contributor to this blog: Tanchi This is the first round of enlargement (to use some EU speak) for the Kosmopolit blog. So stay tuned and witness some more accessions in the near future. But now let’s welcome Tanchi with her first post [...]

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