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The Sneaky Way to the White House
2008-01-30 15:30:00 By Chris Dalby Can one have too much of a good thing? Amidst renewed public and media frenzy over the ongoing American primary season, could it be possible for one to burn-out as the DNC and GOP races realistically narrow to two-man fields? Not if an unexpected turn of events takes place. With Hillary Clinton and Barack ... More About: House , White House , White , The White House , Sneaky
Europe?s Leaders on the Credit Crunch Crisis and the Global Economy
2008-01-30 01:33:00 Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel, Nicholas Sarkozy , José Manuel Barroso and also the troubled Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi met in London yesterday to discuss their reaction to the credit crunch crisis and the state of the global economy. Watch their press conference below. Once again, it seems that no measures with bite were agreed ... More About: Europe , Economy , Credit , Global
Phoenix from the Ashes: The I-Pod Revolution?s Resurrection of Democracy
2008-01-29 15:00:00 By Crispin Williams Apathy towards politics is growing. Low voter turnouts are becoming a trend in the democracies of Europe and America with voting figures slowly dwindling away. Only when voters are presented with extremes of one kind or another is this trend bucked, such as polarised choices for the future, as happened between Royal ... More About: Internet , Phoenix , Ashes , Democracy , Revolution
Young European Journalist Award
2008-01-29 06:15:00 We have been asked to advertise the following competition for young journalists. This looks very interesting indeed: Young journalists from all over Europe are invited to participate in a pan-European competition on EU-enlargement issues. The European Commission's Directorate-General for Enlargement launched this competition together with European Youth Press to encourage young journalists to reflect and express ... More About: Award , Journalist
Greek-Turkish Relations: A New Era?
2008-01-28 18:26:00 By Dimitris Tsarouhas Whatever happens in his remaining term in office, Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis has secured a place in history. The first PM to pay an official state visit to Turkey in 49 years, Karamanlis's trip confirmed that the old archrivals have moved a long way from the bitter animosity of the recent ... More About: Greece , International Relations , Relations
The Globalised are fighting back against the Globalisers
2008-01-24 16:00:00 By Christopher McGuiness It's been less than two decades since Samuel Huntington proudly proclaimed that a "third wave" of democracy was sweeping through much of the old Second and Third Worlds, bringing about major economic and political reforms. Many observers saw this as unbelievable progress for developing countries, lavishing praise upon the economists and government officials ... More About: Fighting , Back , Globalisation
Where did all the Alternatives go? Europe?s unanswered solutions to Climate
2008-01-23 07:21:00 By Crispin Williams An interesting piece by Roger Harriban, the BBC's environment analyst (January 19, which you can see here) tells of anger from environmental groups over a leaked EU draft document from the Europe an Commission asking its member states to cut greenhouse gases by 20 per cent by the end of the next decade. ... More About: Climate , Alternatives , Solutions , Alterna
The Reform Treaty: Its Impact on the EU Institutions
2008-01-19 01:05:00 By Brendan Donnelly Introductory Comment Many institutional provisions of the Reform Treaty are framed, perhaps deliberately, in general, permissive or tentative terms. The real impact of these provisions will therefore only emerge in the course of their implementation. This implementation will be influenced by the personalities involved in the workings of the new structures and ... More About: Britain , International Relations , Institutions , Reform Treaty
Authors on their Books?
2008-01-18 08:17:00 Click below to watch our new DailyPolitics TV programme "Authors on their Books …". The programme includes speeches by Stephen Haseler on "Sidekick. British Global Strategy from Churchill to Blair", Paul Krugman on "The Conscious of a Liberal", Joseph Stiglitz on "Making Globalisation Work", Al Gore on "The Assault on Reason" and George Soros on "The Age ... More About: Blog
Issues in European Politics
2008-01-15 14:30:00 You might be interested in two recent papers by the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Just click the links below to open the pdf files: “On the Path to an Integrated EU Foreign Policy on Energy and Climate” by the FES Working Group on Europe “A Comparative Perspective on the Development of Poverty and Exclusion in European Societies” ... More About: Politics , Issues , Rope
The EU Reform Treaty: Small Step or Giant Leap?
2008-01-14 14:30:00 By Brendan Donnelly A striking feature of discussion about the European Reform Treaty agreed by the European Council in Lisbon has been the ability of commentators, confronted with exactly the same text, to disagree radically over the document’s significance. For some, it is a mildly disappointing document, lacking in focus and ambition; for others it is a springboard for exciting and far-reaching future developments; for yet others, particularly in the United Kingdom, it is a gigantic step towards the European superstate. To some extent, these different assessments are matters of conscious political positioning. Those eager for further institutional reform in the Union do not wish to accept Mr. Brown’s conclusion that no further institutional changes can be entertained for at least ten years. The Treaty’s godfathers, such as Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Sarkozy, are naturally bent on stressing its wide-ranging significance. Those eager in the United Kingdom to provoke a ... More About: Small , Giant , Step , Leap
The Polish Voter on the BBC Politics Show
2008-01-13 19:13:00 I am a regular viewer of the BBC's political shows and normally find them interesting and well informed. The report on the "Polish Voter" on today's Politics Show however was the worst piece of political journalism I have seen in a long time. Apart from the fact that there are many non-Polish EU voters in ...
The Polish Voter ? The UK?s hidden Electorate
2008-01-13 13:20:00 By Henning Meyer Picture by Jon Worth My friend David Schoibl, with whom I also work in the executive of Labour Movement for Europe in London and the South East, has presented LME’s case for engaging non-British EU citizens in elections to today’s BBC Politics Show. You can have a look at his arguments in the post ... More About: Elections , Hidden , Polish
Why Engaging EU Voters is Important
2008-01-13 13:00:00 By David Schoibl Photo by vx_lentz Engaging EU voters, especially in London , is important because: It engages a large, so far passive section of London’s population in choosing how London is run. People who work in London, pay taxes in London, commute in London, raise families in London, should be made aware of their right to have a say ... More About: Elections , Voters
The EU Reform Treaty: Small Step or Giant Leap?
2008-01-12 17:49:00 By Brendan Donnelly A striking feature of discussion about the European Reform Treaty agreed by the European Council in Lisbon has been the ability of commentators, confronted with exactly the same text, to disagree radically over the document’s significance. For some, it is a mildly disappointing document, lacking in focus and ambition; for others it is ... More About: Small , Giant , Step , Leap
Is there too much Coverage on the US Presidential Election in Europe?
2008-01-12 04:42:00 The US caucuses and primaries are making the political headlines in Europe as well as in the United States. Also many European blogs ? including this one ? report and comment in great detail on the American election process. But viewers of the BBC have now complained that the coverage is excessive and too many resources ... More About: Elections , Presidential , Presidential Election 2008 , Obama
A Left-Wing Godesberg ? the German SPD?s new Hamburg Programme
2008-01-11 01:02:00 By Detlev Albers The event deserves Europe’s attention: the German Social Democrats adopted a new party programme at their party conference at the end of October 2007. After Berlin (1989) and Godesberg (1959), this is the third post-war party programme. If one wants to cover the whole party history, the Weimar Republic party programmes Heidelberg (1925) ... More About: Left , Wing , Hamburg , Social Democracy
Reactions to the New Hampshire Primaries - Watch the speeches by Clinton, O
2008-01-09 17:42:00 Watch the reactions of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards to the outcome of the Democratic primary in New Hampshire on our live TV channel below. More About: Watch , Presidential Election 2008
Live Blogging on the New Hampshire Primaries
2008-01-08 23:47:00 Update 00.30 GMT (Henning) Very few commentators doubt that the democratic winner of the night will be Barack Obama again. The question is the magnitude with which the Obama tidal wave hits New Hampshire and where this leaves him and his fellow Democratic democrats. Results are minutes away. In case anybody out there wants to debate ... More About: Blogging , Cain , Presidential Election 2008 , Live
Will Hillary Clinton fall?
2008-01-08 05:12:00 Photo by Stijn Vogles Today is the day of the New Hampshire primaries, which is only the second contest for the US Democratic Party. And Hillary Clinton is already leading an anxious fight for political survival. Her recent emotional outbreak on TV - calculated or not - has underlined her feeling of helplessness to prevent what ... More About: Presidential Election 2008
The Horrific unspoken Truth: Europe?s Struggle against Child Sex Abuse
2008-01-08 00:41:00 By Crispin Williams It is sad that with a new year blossoming and all the hope and promise of progress it brings, one of humanity’s most awful flaws continues to dog Europe into 2008 ? the sexual abuse of children. Although this remains a global problem, Europe has recently seen a spate of these harrowing incidents ... More About: Truth , Abuse , Child , Rope
The Challenge of Supercapitalism
2008-01-07 01:10:00 By Robert B. Reich Capitalism and democracy were supposed to be the twin ideological pillars capable of bringing unprecedented prosperity and freedom to the world. Conventional wisdom holds that where either capitalism or democracy flourishes, the other must soon follow. Yet today, the two are diverging. By almost any measure, global capitalism is triumphant. Most nations ... More About: Challenge , Robert Reich , Halle
Roland Koch and the Return of Right-Wing Populism
2008-01-06 05:29:00 Not just the US, but also some German states are preparing for elections. And the current conservative minister president of Hesse, Roland Koch, is leading a particularly nasty campaign. Reacting to some recent acts of violence committed by foreign youths, he is targeting the authoritarian reflexes of the population by calling for the tightening of ... More About: Elections , Right Wing , Return , Wing , The Return
Russia?s Ambitions and Prospects in World Politics
2008-01-05 03:45:00 Photo by Antonis Shen Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky, Professorial Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute London and also known as the biographer of John Maynard Keynes, has published a new Policy Paper addressing the vital issue of Russia ’s future position in world politics. Lord Skidelsky concludes: “The attempt to impose ‘liberal empire’ or ’sovereign democracy’ on ... More About: Politics , World , World Politics , International Relations
Barack Obama?s Speech after the Iowa Caucus
2008-01-04 21:47:00 Watch what Barack Obama had to say after his victory in Iowa … More About: Iowa Caucus
The Iowa Caucuses ? What are the Results and what do they mean?
2008-01-04 03:34:00 Update 4.30 GMT How can these results be interpreted? Apart from the big disappointments for Romney and Clinton, the way Obama has won was the revelation of the Iowa caucus. Huckabee appealed to a narrow religious constituency. Obama achieved a huge victory showing a very broad appeal in a state where more than 97% of voters ... More About: Results , Caucuses , Iowa caucuses
Time for a New American Soft Power
2008-01-02 19:05:00 By Dexter Thillien In a recent special edition of Newsweek dealing with America’s future role in the world, a few contributors argued for the need of the USA to renew its soft power and the power of its ideas, especially in the Middle East; and to prove their point, they took the examples of the role ... More About: Power , Time , American , Soft
Happy New Year 2008!
2008-01-01 23:04:00 We wish all our readers a successful and healthy New Year 2008 . The Social Europe Team More About: Happy , Happy New Year
Death of a Heroine, not a Martyr
2007-12-28 14:54:00 By Chris Dalby The world is a poorer place this day with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto . Although controversy surrounded her and with the veil of corruption never quite dispelled, Ms. Bhutto was still a highly positive face to place on such a troubled country as Pakistan . Kamila Shamsie writes eloquently in the Guardian that “despite the ... More About: Death , Martyr
Remembering Benazir Bhutto
More articles from this author:2007-12-28 00:50:00 Pakistan is destabilised and shaken after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Remember what she stood for. The Fora.tv video below was recorded at the Council on Foreign Relations last August and shows Benazir Bhutto discussing terrorism, foreign aid, democratic reforms, and the military situation in Pakistan. More About: Terrorism , Pakistan , Remembering 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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