I thought I’d experiement with putting information here about which Commissioners are coming to town, events organised by us and so on. It’ll usually be updated on a Friday or a Monday, when the Calendar comes out. It will be unashamedly UK-centric, and bringing together publicly available information. Please let me know if you find itContinue reading “Coming week to 19 March”
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Wonderful World
We had a briefing today in the office with members of the Foreign Press Association which brings together the non-UK media based in London. It goes quite well with today’s Charlemagne blog-post about journalists in Brussels (see also today’s links). The reason we organised the briefing was a feeling, borne out by discussions with theContinue reading “Wonderful World”
Links 16 March 2010
Neelie Kroes encourages you to contribute to two public consultations Two important consultations are now live. First, we are asking citizens and businesses and other interested parties consultation on how can we guarantee access to communications services in the digital era. The key question is: are our rules appropriate for the digital age? Should theyContinue reading “Links 16 March 2010”
Links 09-03-2010
Charlie Beckett on which media will matter in the 2010 General Election But here’s the headline news for election 2010: Mainstream Media is Back. As a political sciences graduate, with a terrorism studies postgrad student in the house, I found Dave Wearing’s article on political sciences quite interesting. Should it even have the word scienceContinue reading “Links 09-03-2010”
One Way Ticket?
There’s been a bit of grumbling about the putative ticketing policy for the 2010 [doh! that should of course be 2012] Olympics, with claims that tickets can’t be reserved for Londoners because of the EU’s competition policy. It’s kind of ironic, for several reasons. 1) The full ticketing policy hasn’t even been announced yet. 2)Continue reading “One Way Ticket?”
Links 4 March 2010
Thought provoking article from Adrian Hamilton in the Independent on the whole Greece/Eurozone/UK thing Some useful information on saving energy from the Guardian Some b-roll of Commissioner Ashton in Haiti. Council TV Newsroom is looking pretty good! And as it was getting tweeted about earlier, here’s a link to our new(ish) site which is regularlyContinue reading “Links 4 March 2010”
Every Day I Write the Book
It’s World Book Day today. I’m sure you knew that. We’re having a book swap in our office – people have brought in books they are happy to give away, others can take what they want, and anything left over goes to a charity shop. At home we’re in the middle of having new bookContinue reading “Every Day I Write the Book”
Links 03-03-2010
A not oft-heard argument that the European Commission is more democratic than the British Cabinet Ilana Bet-El in the Guardian on why Member States only have themselves to blame if they don’t think Ashton is doing well. Michael Crick reminds me why Michael Foot’s death is a big deal And because we want the bestContinue reading “Links 03-03-2010”
Links 02-Mar-10
I’m going to blatantly filch an idea from the fabulous currybetdotnet and link to items I’ve found elsewhere on the net that I like, or think might be interesting for anyone that pops by. Needless to say, I don’t endorse any content, and my linking to them here certainly doesn’t imply that they reflect priorities,Continue reading “Links 02-Mar-10”