Here is a presentation by  Linkfluence about the European political web as known as ‘Eurosphere’. Check here for some more details about the project. I think it is quite interesting and innovative and can potentially be used to track political issues across Europe. Map & Analysis of the European political web Here is a presentation [...]

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Yes, this is really the official title of the position that will be created once the  Lisbon treaty is in force. Why not “EU Foreign minister” you may ask – well, the British delegation successfully managed to lobby against the title of “EU Foreign Minister” in the negotiations (supported by quite a few others). Strange, [...]

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The EU is preparing to celebrate its 50th birthday which also means a lot of research papers… One of the first pamphlets comes from the rather good European Policy Centre, a Brussels think tank. CHALLENGE EUROPE Europe@50: back to the future tries to answer questions such as ‘Was the European Convention’s work in vain?’ ‘Would [...]

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Tower of Babel

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

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Every now and then a little language war breaks out in the EU institutions. Spain lobbies for Spanish to become one of the official working languages (at the moment: English, French and German) because it is one of most spoken languages worldwide. Germany (sometimes together with Austria) claims that German became more popular after the [...]

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