Keeping Track of the Crisis
A handy chart in English from Dutch business newspaper NRC Handelsblad. Clickable map covers the EU-27 and includes debt, growth, unemployment, budget deficit and latest credit outlook.
View ArticleSo what is it with Tory MEPs and the Internet?
Those horrible surveillance proposals came up again in the European Parliament, and got shot down again. Even though their co-author Syed Kamall did come out against some forms of mass surveillance, I...
View ArticleWait, where did the astroturf go?
I just noticed that a number of pro-Russian astroturf websites — including some that I used to read regularly — have gone dark. First off, there are the Transnistria pages. The Tiraspol Times used to...
View ArticleA fistful of used betting slips is still better than the same fistful of...
Because at least the losses can’t get any worse. Even so, it’s sad to see that A Fistful of Euros, the racehorse, came in third in the 12.40 at Huntingdon.
View ArticleAmusing
Want to do your bit for reducing the trade imbalances between the European centre and periphery? German Wikipedia’s Cabinet of Curiosities will exterminate all productive activity for a significant...
View ArticleMore on Ireland
Henry Farrell has a post explaining many of the ins and outs of the upcoming (February 25) election in Ireland. Comments are good, too, if sometimes very insidery on Irish media.
View Articleépuration, crowdsourced
I’m not sure what either Ethan Zuckerman or Evgeny Morozov would make of this, but this is quite the revolutionary web crowdsourcing project. Piggipedia is an effort by Egyptian Flickr users to pool...
View ArticleNoted With Interest 3
Welcome (somewhat belatedly) to the European blogosphere to Letters from Europe, informed but not overly serious commentary on Brussels by journalist Craig Willy.
View ArticleA right to be forgotten?
So we’re talking about the “right to be forgotten”. I am profoundly unconvinced about this. For a start, I can’t see how you can have an ethics of responsibility and at the same time a right to be...
View ArticleThe FT could not be more wrong about Brazil and the Internet.
The FT is worried about the Internet, and specifically what the Brazilians are up to with it as a result of the Snowden disclosures. Could Brazil's anger at US spying fracture the web? The FT is...
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