Harry’s Place is running a Do Something for Iraq campaign to promote ‘campaigns, projects and charities that are directly helping Iraqi people’

Juliana, former Queen of the Netherlands, has died aged 94

Recently, Samuel Huntington laid out his reasons for being afraid of Mexican immigrants to the US in an essay in Foreign Policy. You should read it. But even more importantly, make sure to read our AFOE co-editor Scott Martens’ most excellent three part (one, two, three) point by point refutation of Mr Huntington’s effort over at pedantry. While the case study is about the US, there are important lessons to be drawn for European immigration, too - “It’s all Tim Berner-Lee’s fault.”

The emergency meeting of EU interior ministers today has recommended that next week’s heads of government meeting appoint an EU anti-terrorism ‘czar’, but there will not be a centralized ‘European Intelligence Agency’

According to the people who voted in the Bloggy^tm category “best European weblog”, the best one is Textism. The four runner-ups are, in order of appearance on the award’s website - Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent, Open Brackets, Giornale Nuovo, Chocolate & Zucchini. The overall winner is, by the way, BoingBoing, the directory of wonderful things.

My favorite blogger, Kevin “Calpundit” Drum, has gone professional. He now blogs at the Washington Monthly.

Newly released polls from Spain show that the PSOE may have been in the lead before last Thursday. More discussion of this at Harry’s Place

After Madrid, there’ll be a series of emergency EU meetings to discuss greater co-operation over terror

Who did it? - Maria Farrell on the questions raised by Madrid

Another search for Radovan Karadzic has ended in failure