So this is part of the rpg campaign announcement/pitch I sent to my gaming group last week: You are a field agent of the European Internal Action Service (EIAS), a secret organization within the European Union tasked with monitoring and … Continue reading
10 takes on Europe | Presseurop – English Monday, January 17, 2011 2:49 PM “Presseurop invited a selection of ten European authors and analysts, including well-known writers and new voices, to write about their vision of Europe, and their understanding … Continue reading
Merkel has depleted her capital of trust within EU | The Irish Times Posted: 12 Jun 2010 02:47 PM PDT “There are extreme economic imbalances among the countries in the euro zone; this is why, at the time the euro … Continue reading
Julien Frisch: Finding official EU information & documents Posted: 10 Jun 2010 08:08 AM PDT ‘But: There is nothing better than the list of official document registers from EU institutions, agencies and other bodies on the Europa.eu website to start … Continue reading
Brussels and the EU institutions. How it all began. | Kosmopolito Posted: 05 Jun 2010 07:05 AM PDT “So if you thought that the choice of Brussels was somehow based on logical, historic, economic, common sense or whatever other types … Continue reading
Michael Bérubé – From where I sit: Think outside the book | Times Higher Education Posted: 03 Jun 2010 08:21 PM PDT “But no discipline is so overinvested in the book, to the exclusion of all else, as English. Some … Continue reading
The Guardian | Germany signals end of love affair with Europe Posted: 02 Jun 2010 12:10 PM PDT “Although Germany can often look to the Austrians, Finns, or Dutch for support, increasingly Angela Merkel cuts a lonely figure in Europe. … Continue reading
I have been slowly but surely groping my way back towards a scholarship mindset, after being distracted for the last few months by more sundry issues (job-hunting; logistics of moving an academic office across the state, etc) and more novel … Continue reading
Fascinating… maybe they’re worried that Russian petro-dollars were going to swoop in and “save” Iceland instead…bring on the new Cold War! Iceland to be fast-tracked into the EU | World news | The Guardian Iceland will be put on a … Continue reading
European Tribune – Community, Politics & Progress. Michael Lillis once ran the Anglo-Irish section of the Department of Foreign and was a central player in the British Irish peace process. As heavyweight civil servants go, they don’t come much heavier. … Continue reading