The legal processes surrounding the attempt by Belgrade to get former BH Presidency member Ejup Ganic extradited from London to Serbia to face war crimes charges rumble on. The latest hearing has ended. According to the Sarajevo media, judgement is expected on 27 July. Needless to say, media reports of […]
Democratist is someone who follows the goings-on across the former Soviet Union in some depth. Here he takes up William Hague’s recent speech on UK foreign policy, and makes an interesting point about how the UK invests in foreign policy outcomes in that complicated region: OSCE election observation is about the best […]
The second and final round of Poland’s Presidential elections takes place today. Bronislaw Komorowski (Citizens Platform) is hoping not to get pipp’d at the post by Jaroslaw Kaczynski (Law and Justice), twin brother of President Lech Kaczynski who died in the Smolensk disaster. Which of them is the more ‘right-wing’? […]
Remember Richard Murphy? The man who wants more tax, closely followed by lots more tax? Watching him and Tim Worstall slug it out is one of the UK’s best blog battles. Anyway, Richard is taking up the government’s willingness to let the public suggest stupid laws for abolition. He suggests getting […]
Belgium emits the usual confidence that the UK even under the Conservatives will be absorbed into EU processes … nicely: Belgian negotiators are convinced that Mr Cameron’s hard line opposition to giving more sovereignty up to the EU, a pledge written into his coalition government’s agreement, will be sacrificed in […]
We all agree that government spending in many Western countries is too high – stupidly high. We are cranking up debts to pay for current consumption at a rate which suggests to the markets that we have lost our minds. The markets look to charge us higher interest rates, as […]
Brian Micklethwait asks a pertinent and subversive question. If we know which Euro currency notes are issued by which country, why not start insisting to be paid only in notes issued by countries which are unlikely to default? … supposing lots of people do know this, or get to know […]
Will the EU exist in its current form in a million years’ time? No! In 100,000 years’ time? No! In 1000 years’ time? No, but there may be traces of its current form. In 100 years’ time? Maybe, but much changed. In a mere 10 years’ time? Probably, but perhaps […]
Blogging will be light in the coming week (as it has been for the past couple of days) as I am travelling to Geneva/London/Warsaw and then after a weekend on to Brussels. Today I returned from Strasbourg, the beautiful city which hosts the outlandishly glassy-eyed European Parliament and the rather more sensibly […]
Could nimble French banks be getting bailed out in effect at Germany’s expense, by playing the way the French-led European Central Bank helps Greece? That would be perfide indeed, and at a very high level of betrayal. Surely not.
