The Coming Week feature (haha, definitely need that tongue-in-cheek icon…) is suspended for the summer, as the official calendar won’t be published again until la rentrée in September. I know how much you will all miss it…
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Coalition on Europe
It’s amazing what you find if you read everything in your inbox! An e-mail with the coalition’s reponse to comments on its programme has languished in there all day, and I just got round to reading it. Pretty interesting stuff! Of course my main interest was the Europe section and it’s good to see aContinue reading “Coalition on Europe”
Women in UK politics
The Robert Schuman Foundation have recently published some research which compares the level of ministers and members of parliament across the EU and show how many are women. The UK comes in below the EU average on all three indicators that they use: Women ministers – EU average: 25.75% // UK: 17.39% Women in national parliamentContinue reading “Women in UK politics”
Bullfighting – another Euromyth
On the day that Catalonia bans bullfighting, I just thought I would make clear that whatever you might have heard, the EU doesn’t subsidise bullfighting, either directly (which it never did) or indirectly (through subsidies for raising bulls). Farm payments are no longer linked to production, so farmers don’t get money for the bulls theyContinue reading “Bullfighting – another Euromyth”
Links 27 July 2010
No! Stay! Put in the call, and make Cosmetic Uprise keep blogging! As my EU-ambassadorial role in the UK has come to its end, I would like to thank everyone for reading this space and being immensely supportive. The feedback and the positive response I got for this blog made me seriously even consider taking aContinue reading “Links 27 July 2010”
Working in languages
One of the things that attracts most of us to working for the EU is the possibility of using the languages we have studied hard to acquire. In this office we do a lot of work to make people aware of the opportunities that come with speaking languages, not just working for the EU, but inContinue reading “Working in languages”
EU Girl Geeks – UK chapter
I have the immense privilege ( is there is tongue-in-cheek emoticon?!) to be considered as an EUGirlGeek. It’s another example of that particularly female phenomenon of finding strength in joining together – see also the GetSET network for women in Science and Engineering, the network of UK women in the EU institutions or even parentContinue reading “EU Girl Geeks – UK chapter”
Links on 27 July 2010
A return for my occasional series 🙂 Emergency Exit Fail: have you ever felt like this? An article about Holyrood TV could apply to the EP, I reckon. There is something of a paradox, with lots of talk about openness and transparency, but little interest in such channels. Why should that be? Is it inContinue reading “Links on 27 July 2010”
Science+Europe=accuracy fail
I went to a very interesting event about science journalism in the UK last year at the Royal Institution which I blogged about about the time. One of my conclusions was that many of the issues faced by science journalism reflect very closely issues faced on coverage of European issues. Science isn’t covered well byContinue reading “Science+Europe=accuracy fail”
A new era for the London rep
I’ve been away on holiday for a week, so this is old news, and you’ll probably have seen that we have a new head of rep, Jonathan Scheele, who will take office on 1 August. I have known Jonathan since I moved to Brussels in 1995, as we were in the same theatre group, andContinue reading “A new era for the London rep”