With respect to the Italian elections, there’s still only one thing certain - it’s going to be a long night, and, possibly, not the last one. There have apparently been, if my rudimentary understanding of Italian news broadcaster Rai News 24 is correct, unjustified delays in data processing. Thus, given the closeness of the race [...]
European Tribune - How not to govern
But what is certain is that these decisions make a mockery of our institutions. It undermines the rule of law (”ignore the laws we pass”), it shows that thos government is such a lameduck that legitimacy for negotiations must come from the outside (the UMPparty), it turns the prime [...]
More from ET: Jerome on French politicians reactions to the student demonstrations.
They have whole lot more chaff than fistful, but the wheat can be quite tasty and nutritious.
I wish I saw this great recap of the Prodi-Berlusoni debate earlier by European Tribune diarist ‘de Gondi’. But I found something better. This comment he made to the post deserves a larger audience.
I rarely meet someone who openly admits he/she sympathizes for Forza Italia. (For AN, yes.) Conversation doesn’t go too far because it [...]
A belated link, you could say. I somehow missed this article in The New York Review of Books when it was published in january. Better read it right away, before it dissapears behind the subscrption wall.
It’s by Timothy Garton Ash; he’s usually good when writing about central europe.
There is some friction between Belgium and Turkey.
First there was the case of Fehriye Erdal, a far-left militant that was convicted last Thursday in Belgium for being a member of a criminal organisation (Turkish group DHKP-C or Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front). Trouble is, when Belgian authorities proceeded to arrest her she had disappeared. A big [...]
Reactions from Lib Dem bloggers: 1,2,3,4.
Also, fistful member Matt (not a lib dem) points out taht ‘It wasn’t a particularly good result for YouGov, who have been Britain’s most accurate pollster in many elections, and particularly in hard-to-guess ones such as leadership elections, ie the Tories’.
As Spanish commenter Pepe would probably say, ‘hot labour’ is moving into Spain at a nifty clip: 2% of the total population per annum. In 2004 the number increased by 700,000. Last year, although we don’t have the numbers yet there was probably the same number or more. Here is a story from El [...]
Consultants KPMG and French employers’ group Medef have just published a survey on attitudes to globalisation and outsourcing. Interestingly a higher percentage of employers than previously said they saw no benefit in moving jobs to countries with cheaper labour markets (56% compared with 29% last year), while 74 per cent said broader foreign investment [...]
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