Friday 19 September 2008

Bogs : 19th September (en, fr)

Georgia: next? Douglas Muir, A Fistful of Euros
The view from Montenegro . Helen, EUReferendum (en)
The mother of all failures. Richard, EUReferendum (en)
Chill out Denis. Open Europe Blog (en)
Belgique: quel bel avenir! Jean Quatremer, Les Coulisses de Bruxelles (en)
Making the most of collaboration. en.europa-eu-audience (en, fr)
The 'Russian ambassador' wades back into German politics. Certain Ideas of Europe (en)

" ... The new list includes, acording to Spiegel.de, the Iranian resistance groups PMOI, for which there are no official proves of actually being a terrorist organisation.But luckily for all humans affected by the list, it were the ministers for agriculture who decided on the future of their lives..."

Climate vandalism. Richard, EUReferendum (en)
" Writing about anything other than the financial crisis today seems akin to the house journalist on the Titanic penning an article on flower arranging – two hours after the ship hit the iceberg. The tale is told, though, of passengers on the deck some hours after the impact enjoying snowball fights, heedless of the danger they were in ... "

Crise financière:Barroso monte au front. Jean Quatremer, Les Coulisses de Bruxelles (en)
" ... Moi qui n’ai jamais dissimulé mon scepticisme sur le personnage, je dois m’incliner. Alors que la crise financière mondiale fait rage, l’exécutif européen vient de montrer sa capacité de réaction et sa proximité avec les citoyens en proposant aujourd’hui une réglementation… visant à réduire les souffrances des animaux dans les abattoirs de l’Union européenne ..."

Le "socialisme financier" est-il l'avenir du marché? Jean Quatremer, Les Coulisses de Bruxelles (en)
" ...Bref, l’intervention des pouvoirs publics américains n’est nullement en contradiction avec le grand méchant libéralisme, bien au contraire. Il s’agit de l’aider à faire face à cette crise et de le purger. L’Union, confrontée à une même tempête, agirait de la même façon (on l’a vu avec la banque britannique Northern Rock, nationalisée début 2008 sans que la Commission y trouve à redire) ..."

Do You Wanna Be In My Gang? Eursoc4, Eursoc (en)
"... Anne Widdecombe is one of the few Conservative MPs who gives a damn about Britain's decline. She's also one of those even more exotic political creatures: An MP with ideas on how to go about reversing the decline ..."

Henry Paulson - Saviour of the world? IronyToo (en) 19th September
" ... No such daring plan in the UK with its incompetent and mortally wounded government and advisers such as the dreadful three on Channel 4 News last evening a former SEC head, the EUmazed editor of the FT and The Times economics columnist Anatatole Something (full of crap), all crowned by completely moronic statements ...
... No indeed Britain's problem is far, far deeper the burst bubble resulting from incredible greed, buy to let to massed families of immigrants in conditions which would not even have been tolerated for the urban sprawls thrown up during the industrial revolution ..."

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