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Greek Elections IV: A New Political Landscape
2007-09-19 14:17:00 By Dimitris Tsarouhas A new political landscape has emerged in Greece, with a far-right party in parliament for the first time since democracy’s restoration and the left back to its 1980s levels of electoral support. The mass parties of the centre right and left lost seats and influence. Voter abstention reached record high levels, with turnout ... More About: Elections , Political , Landscape , Greek , Scape
Polish Government blocks Day against Death Penalty
2007-09-19 04:29:00 The regular observer of European politics will have noticed that in many policy areas, the current Polish government often pursues - let us put it that way - a dissimilar approach to the European mainstream. The latest episode of this dissimilar approach was the Polish veto against a European anti death penalty day. The Kaczynski twins, who ... More About: Government , Poland , Death , Death penalty , Penalty
Becoming Economic Citizens
2007-09-18 15:45:00 By Henning Meyer In the general debate about globalisation, it is a widely held assumption that the scope of action of democratic governments is deteriorating due to advancing economic integration. The bringing down of trade barriers, the shift to a more service based economy and innovations in ICTs have led to business operations going further beyond ... More About: Business , Economic , Globalisation , Citizen
Keeping Up With the Putins
2007-09-16 22:50:00 By Chris Dalby Walking through the streets of Moscow, an eerie feeling soon grips the observant spectator. A sentiment of contained anger and subdued power that threatens to burst out after being quelled for too long. The ebb and flow of Russia n influence has been a constant of world politics for centuries with the heights of ... More About: Putin
Titan Rain ? Politics of Deceit
2007-09-14 18:53:00 by Chris Dalby London, Washington D.C., Berlin, in recent months, all three capitals have been subject to massive and concerted hacking attacks from sources in China . While frequent surveillance of other world powers’ computer networks in hopes of garnering information is lamentably now common-place, this can be condoned and explained by the needs of today’s information ... More About: Politics , Titan , Rain , Politic
Greek Elections III: A Defeat for the Political
2007-09-13 17:03:00 By Dimitris Tsarouhas Aristotle said that humans are inherently political. It would be interesting to listen to his view of the political in modern Greece, a few days away from the 2007 general election. He would probably agree that, once again, the “political” has been defeated. What has triumphed is verbalism, empty rhetoric, unfulfilled promises and ... More About: Elections , Political , Greek , Feat , Politic
Greek Elections II: A Greek Tragedy
2007-09-02 20:34:00 By Dimitris Tsarouhas When Prime Minister (PM) Karamanlis called for early elections in mid-August, he could not imagine the scale of the disaster that would unfold a fortnight later. The devastating forest fires have wrecked havoc, mainly in the Peloponnesian peninsula and Attica, leaving scores of people dead along with animals, plantation and destroyed property. It ... More About: Elections , Tragedy , Greek
Greek Elections I: Why Now?
2007-08-22 01:38:00 By Dimitris Tsarouhas It is now official: Greece has entered one of the shortest pre-election periods in recent memory. In the middle of summer, Prime Minister Karamanlis announced that, contrary to his earlier statements, the next general election will take place on 16 September as he seeks a new mandate to proceed with much-needed economic reforms ... More About: Elections , Greek
Advantages of Backwardness ? Lessons for Social Europe from the American La
2007-08-13 01:39:00 By Lowell Turner The Europe an Union has many admirers around the world, including here in the United States, in the neoliberal heartland. Many of us view the idea, if it is not always the reality, of Social Europe as a benchmark for human-centered economic integration in a global economy. We look to our “old ... More About: American , Lessons , The A
Social Europe Facebook Group
2007-08-12 00:53:00 Dear readers, We encourage you to join the newly created Facebook group of Social Europe Journal. The group is intended to bring together social democrats and progressives from around the world ? not just Europe! - to discuss and disseminate fresh thinking and ideas. Politics must become truly global so the build-up of a world-wide network ... More About: Blog , Group
Inequality has run Amok. Do Leaders Care?
2007-08-07 02:59:00 By Steven Hill and Dmitri Iglitzin When pets are poisoned by imported pet food or U.S. attorneys are fired under suspicious circumstances, Congress gears up hearings and vows quick action. A far greater scandal, however, has hardly gained the interest of legislators or the presidential candidates. That is the increasing wealth gap between the rich, the ... More About: Care , Leaders , Lead , Leader , Inequality
On The Marriage of Progress and Realism
2007-08-05 23:49:00 By Anatol Lieven It is widely and almost instinctively assumed that the progressive and realist approaches to foreign policy are by nature opposed. This assumption is both mistaken in itself and a terrible obstacle to the creation of a progressive strategy in opposition to the imperial dreams of the Bush administration and much of the US ... More About: Marriage , Progress , Realism
Lessons from the Australian Labor Party (ALP)
2007-08-01 00:37:00 By Andrew Scott The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has been out of office for 11 years after having previously been in office for 13 years (a period of government under Prime Ministers Hawke and Keating which both foreshadowed, and partly inspired, the approaches since taken by Blair and Brown in Britain). The electoral rejection which ... More About: Sarkozy , Labour
Time to Shape Globalisation
2007-07-23 16:44:00 A new opinion poll published by the Financial Time s yesterday showed the widespread disillusionment with Globalisation . Very interestingly, the most liberal economies ? the US and the UK ? were amongst the least enthusiastic supporters but believe more than others in equality of opportunity in their respective countries. Does this represent a growing gap between ... More About: Shape , Alisa
Putting Africa Back into the Yoke
2007-07-17 21:38:00 By Chris Dalby For the last few decades, the tides of global finance have taken on a distinctly eastern flow. They circled the world’s currents to the Pacific where they settled around Japan, navigated the East China Sea towards Shanghai with tendrils snaking down to lap at the shores of Hong Kong and Singapore and the ... More About: Africa , Back , Putting
The Turkish Elections 2007: A Dilemma
2007-07-14 01:43:00 By Dimitris Tsarouhas In less than two weeks from now, the Turkish people will elect a new Parliament and government. The elections’ outcome is bound to have significant repercussions on a number of fronts, not least Turkey’s EU vocation. On the other hand, predictions about the possible outcome are almost impossible: opinion polls tend to be ... More About: Elections , Dilemma , Emma , Dile
Gordon Brown?s EU Policy
2007-06-26 17:47:00 By Eric Shaw Can we expect a reshaping of British policy towards the European Union under Gordon Brown ? Or should we anticipate more of the same? As is well known, Brown’s objections effectively thwarted British membership of the Euro ? and few in the Labour party would gainsay that he had some powerful arguments. However, as ... More About: Policy , Gordon Brown , British Labour Party
Europeanizing Corporate Taxation to Regain National Tax Policy Autonomy
2007-06-21 00:45:00 By Christian Kellermann, Thomas Rixen & Susanne Uhl As a reaction to the German corporate tax reform, the English and Dutch governments also announced tax reductions. This demonstrates once again that tax competition is a very serious constraint on national tax policies. All over Europe, politicians argue that tax competition compels them to reduce tax rates ... More About: National , Corporate , Policy , Taxation , Globalisation
Europe in The Mail on Sunday ? can this be called journalism?
2007-06-17 02:10:00 In the run-up to the EU meeting at the end of the coming week, the British Eurosceptic media are preparing attacks on the Europe an integration project again. A new article in the Mail on Sunday portrays the possibility that Prime Minister Blair might neglect his country’s interest at this meeting. He would do so by signing ... More About: Media , Journalism , Sarkozy
The Final Tenets of a Dying Faith
2007-06-15 16:15:00 By Christopher Dalby There are many reasons to remember specific dates, whether embedded into the collective minds of rows of schoolchildren (1066), whether forever seared into the memories of grateful generations (1944), or whether representing an act of such principled outcry crushed with the utmost contempt for human life (1989). As the anniversary of the fateful events ... More About: China , Faith , Final , Dying , Globalisation
Thinking Globally
2007-06-12 23:23:00 By Henning Meyer In the Europe an year of equal opportunities the reform of the European social model is at the top of the political agenda. Tax dumping, international competitiveness and the right balance between labour market flexibility and social security are the central points of debate. On a general level however, the discussion about the reform ... More About: Globalisation , Thinking , Ball , Ally
The Role of Social Enterprises
2007-06-12 13:41:00 By Jamie Bartlett The Edge Upstart awards to recognise the achievements of social enterprise were held on 10 May in London. Social enterprises have been called the “the new British success story” and are there are 55,000 of them in the UK, with a turnover of over £50Bn. For most of us, though, excellent events like ... More About: Role , Enter , Rise , Enterprise
Principles make for a EU Budget Balls up
2007-06-11 01:36:00 By Jon Worth - cross posted from Jon Worth’s Euroblog I’ve been reading ‘Britain and Europe: A City minister’s perspective’ by Ed Ball s MP [more details from the CER]. It all strikes me as reasonably standard Brownite fare - realising that Britain has to be part of the EU, but not really enthusing about the European ... More About: Budget , Make , Principles
Top of the Blogs
2007-06-10 21:27:00 By Jamie Bartlett You knew there would be something in here about the G8. As always, attention has to be paid to distinguish the rhetoric from the reality, and that is particularly true with anything about climate change. Many are rightly concerned that we might be seeing something similar here. An interesting blog on ... More About: Blogs , Logs
Political Science 101: The Woes of the US Presidential System
2007-06-08 02:42:00 By Steven Hill The Bush administration seems to be reeling from policy failure to scandal. Key administration officials have resigned, President Bush’s approval ratings are in the high 20s, with support dwindling even among Republicans and high-ranking military officers. Ed Rollins, a Republican strategist who ran Ronald Reagan’s 1984 presidential campaign has said, “The country doesn’t ... More About: Science , System , Political , Presidential , The U
New Social Europe Issue ? Dimensions of the European Social Model
2007-06-08 02:27:00 We are proud to announce the publication of our new Social Europe Journal “Dimensions of the European Social Model ”. This edition brings together some outstanding contributions by renowned authors such as Lowell Turner (Cornell University), Detlev Albers (Bremen University), Henning Meyer (London Metropolitan University), Marina Kargalova (Russian Academy of Sciences), Peter Bofinger (Würzburg University), Anatol ... More About: Globalisation
G8 - Making Globalisation Work
2007-06-05 01:05:00 Nobel Prize laureate (economics) Joseph Stiglitz from Columbia University is one of the most outspoken Globalisation reformers, arguing primarily against the current inequality in the distribution of globalisation benefits. Watch him setting out his globalisation critique and policy proposals at an event about his latest book “Maki ng Globalisation Work ”organised by Google. More About: Lisa , Makin
G8 - What is Globalisation?
2007-06-04 15:26:00 With the next G8 meeting taking place in Germany this week and with violent protests already stealing the headlines from actual policies, we will spend the next days looking at what globalisation actually is and what the problems with it are. As a start, watch the renowned US intellectual Noam Chomsky explain globalisation. More About: Globalisation , Lisa , Alisa
Why a Democratic Party in Italy?
2007-06-04 01:14:00 By Paolo Borioni Why a Democratic Party in Italy ? And by the way, what is actually this merger between the Democratici di Sinistra (DS), D’Alema’s party, belonging to the PES in Strasbourg, about 17% of the popular vote, and La Margherita, Prodi’s party, belonging to ALDE, about 10% of the popular vote? First of all, the more ... More About: Democratic Party
Top of the Blogs
More articles from this author:2007-06-01 23:09:00 By Jamie Bartlett Peter Fleischer has recently been made the Google’s Global Privacy Counsel ? quite an interesting position at the moment. He’s recently written some interesting stuff about privacy. On 31 May he reported some worrying developments in Sweden, where the government has recently introduced a new bill allowing the National Defence Radio ... More About: Blogs , Logs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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