I’m a big fan of Twitter. As you’ll have seen from the feed alongside, while I wasn’t writing the blog very often, I was still Tweeting. There’s been a lot of introspection about it recently, with blogposts like this one. My gut feeling is that asking if the Commission should Twitter is as daft asContinue reading “The Tweety Song”
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Beast of burden
There was a lot of nonsense in the EP election campaign about the EU being responsible for 80% of UK legislation, which I have already dealt with elsewhere on this blog. Even there, I suggested that if we were getting up into big numbers, it would only be in certain areas, such as business andContinue reading “Beast of burden”
Have you ever been away
Sorry about the extended silence, but it’s my mid-year resolution to write more often (until I go on holiday in 3 weeks time that is…) We start with the story doing the rounds on EU rules reducing your pensions, which started in the FT and then moved to the Express. This reminds me of theContinue reading “Have you ever been away”
Statement of European Commission and Czech Presidency on WHO pandemic alert
Today the WHO raised the pandemic alert for Influenza AH1N1 from phase 5 to phase 6. This reflects the application of the agreed WHO definition of phase 6. It only covers the epidemiological distribution and pattern of spread but not the severity of clinical symptoms. To date, the influenza AH1N1 virus has presented mild toContinue reading “Statement of European Commission and Czech Presidency on WHO pandemic alert”
Lazy
It’s perhaps a little lazy on my part, but here are links to a few interesting articles from the weekend, as we head into election week: The Independent on why next week’s elections should be about Europe and not MPs’ expenses Peter Preston in the Guardian gets all futuristic about a referendum on the LisbonContinue reading “Lazy”