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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
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
Forever a Sidekick? ? The Future of the Special Relationship II
2007-05-31 19:24:00 Additionally to the article posted yesterday, click the picture below if you want to watch the whole speech of Stephen Haseler at the book launch of “Sidekick” at Chatham House in London. More About: Relationship , Future , The Future , Special , Forever
Forever a Sidekick? ? The Future of the Special Relationship
2007-05-30 18:06:00 By Stephen Haseler As Tony Blair’s era comes to an end an insistent question remains: Why exactly did Britain go to war in Iraq? And why did a Labour Prime Minister support every twist and turn of the foreign policy of a conservative American President - whilst receiving hardly anything in return? And there is now ... More About: Relationship , Future , The Future , Special , Forever
No Rights for Homosexuals in Russia
2007-05-28 01:47:00 From the homepage of the German Green MP Volker Beck: “As announced, the Moscow city authorities have this year again banned the Gay Pride Parade scheduled for this Sunday. Despite this, Volker Beck will be in Moscow from 26 to 29 May to participate in a gay pride conference and hold political talks at the Duma. ... More About: Rights , Russia , Sexual
A Reinforcement of our Identity and our Values
2007-05-27 13:00:00 By José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Since its foundation in 1957, the European Union has become accomplished both in years and in many projects. In all this time, it has expanded its borders, been confronted with new challenges, resolved its differences peacefully, adopted a single monetary system which is still circulating in 13 countries, and, above all, ... More About: Spain , Cement , Values , Value , Identity
British Labour Party Democracy
2007-05-24 18:54:00 As the Guardian newspaper reported today, Labour MPs will have multiple votes in the upcoming Deputy Leadership election: ?All 355 Labour members of parliament will receive a ballot paper in their capacity as MP and as a member of the Labour party. Belonging to an affiliated trade union - as the majority of Labour MPs do ... More About: Party , British , Democracy , Labour Party
The Bear Awakens ? Does a New Cold War loom?
2007-05-23 01:32:00 By Christopher Dalby As divided as opinions may be about Angela Merkel at home, she has garnered praise for her skillful stint as EU President. With the end of her six-month term looming, Merkel’s crowning achievement was to oversee a thawing of EU-Russia relations at a summit in the Russian city of Samara. This was counting without ... More About: Cold War , Cold , Putin , Awake
The Future of Transatlantic Relations
2007-05-21 02:58:00 Cartoon by Pat Bagley The international media attention is currently focussed on the question of whether the future Prime Minister Gordon Brown will change the British Iraq policy or not. This is an important issue that deserves thorough debate. But it is equally important to widen the scope of attention and discuss the political challenge that ... More About: Bush , Europe , Future , The Future
Ethnic Profiling ? Racism or effective Counter-Terrorism?
2007-05-20 13:53:00 By Katerina Hadjimatheou In August 2006 a high-level EU anti-terrorism meeting that took place in London exposed an increasing interest among European politicians in “ethnic profiling” at airports. Ethnic profiling is action taken by crime-fighting authorities that relies on the actual or perceived race, religion or national origin, and not solely the behaviour of an ... More About: Terrorism , Racism , Count , Error
What Foreign Policy under Gordon Brown?
2007-05-17 20:49:00 Discussion Thread Now that it is clear that Gordon Brown has successfully avoided any competition for the Labour Party leadership, he will become the next UK Prime Minister at the end of June. Political Britain has long prepared for the debate about the legacy of Tony Blair, but a debate about the politics of the new ... More About: Policy , Foreign Policy , Foreign , Gordon Brown
Top of the Blogs
2007-05-17 01:54:00 From now on, we will regularly publish our take on the world of political blogs under the label “Top of the Blogs ”. We want to bring together some of the blogosphere’s and news website’s most interesting discussions and we will also use this space for humorous stories from the world of politics as well as ... More About: Logs
The State of the Union
2007-05-15 02:29:00 A few weeks ago Jacques Delors gave this very interesting interview to Euronews. What will the direction of Europe be now that we have the French elections behind us? More About: Union , State , Stat , The U , The State
Social Models in Europe
More articles from this author:2007-05-13 19:34:00 By Stefan Collignon Must Europe an countries converge to one single model? The question seems to be at the core of the legitimacy of the European integration project. Social models in Europe are highly diversified. Each country has developed its own long history of mechanisms for providing social protection to less privileged groups and classes. Nevertheless three basic ... More About: Models , Rope 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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