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2010-02-03T20:52:00.003+01:00

I have started my own translation agency. We provide technical translation, editing, proofreading, subtitling, localisation, you name it.

2003-06-10T12:12:00.000+02:00

Europundit.com is live. I HAVE ESCAPED BLOGGER HELL. HOORAY! Go here, adjust your bookmarks etc.

2003-06-09T07:11:00.000+02:00

I will soon move over to www.europundit.com, and use MT!!!!!!!!! And it's all thanks to the great Dean Esmay!!!!!!!

2003-06-08T06:44:00.000+02:00

Lately, I have had more incoming permalinks than I have visits per day. How weird is that? I guess you could spin it like I'm a blogger's blogger. Eh.

2003-06-06T23:47:00.000+02:00

Today's National Day. We have a very laidback attitude to it, the very opposite of Yank style flag-waving. It's not even a holiday. People have talked about making it a holiday for a hundred years, but we've never got around to it. Now the Riksdag has decided to make it one in 2005, but they couldn't decide which other holiday it should replace, so the silliness continues. Some Swedes like to

2003-06-06T05:47:00.000+02:00

This article about the Czech runup to the referendum makes several interesting observations.

2003-06-06T00:48:00.000+02:00

I've added a bunch of weblogs, and a new category. I need better names for my categories.

2003-06-04T06:16:00.000+02:00

This guy had a great idea: "I've got Site Meter to register how many people visit.Also www.downes.ca. The massive discrepancy between the two is astonishing.Sitemeter reports 6 a day and downes 400! PLEASE do me a big favour. If you read this, please just add your name or number to the comments form then I know what is working." The discrepancy between Sitemeter and WebStat isn't as massive,

2003-06-03T23:38:00.001+02:00

Look what I found: http://www.bonde.com/ Danish eurosceptic and convention delegate JensPeter Bonde has a site with news and analysis on the Convention from a eurosceptic perspective. This is a great compliment to the other news sources. It's stridently partisan of course, but not to the point where it's useless.

2003-06-03T23:38:00.000+02:00

Damn. "According to a YouGov poll in the Mail on Sunday, 51% of Britons said withdrawal from the EU was preferable to the "surrender" of further powers to Brussels. That was against 29% who said Britain should accept a loss of power in order to stay in the union. " One shouldn't make too much of this of course. If the phrasing hads been a little different, if it had been made a week earlier

2003-06-02T06:37:00.000+02:00

Added Katryn Cramer. Reciprocity. Sees like a nice, well-written blog.

2003-06-02T06:35:00.000+02:00

Until yesterday, there were reasons to wonder if the convention would be able to come to an agreeent about the institutional disagreements, after the draft bypassing them. But now it appears an agreement has been reached and will be announced today. It seems clear Giscard D'Estaing and the big countries will basically get what they want, a Council president, but what copensation the smaller

2003-06-02T06:28:00.000+02:00

There has been a lot of talk about the rift that the Iraq war has caused in Europe, and also about enlargement, what the long-term consequences will be, with a some people, especially Americans saying there's a risk of crisis, and that the Union will be divided and dysfunctional etc. There's one in my estimate strong indication that they're wrong: Look at the Convention. Divisions have not at all

2003-06-01T21:04:00.000+02:00

"The problem, up to now, has been the absence of genocide."

2003-06-01T15:45:00.000+02:00

Via the Sceptic, a New Yorker article about Congo I've managed to miss. Added the Sceptic to my blogroll. Yes, because of reciprocation, bt this one ight be a keeper, or at least a blog I will continue read. Go read it; it's a real good blog.

2003-06-01T03:23:00.000+02:00

Bloggers on the draft: Did I ever link to Chris Bertram's latest post? Good stuff. Here he argues that judicial activism is bad. I agree, will maybe expand on that. Here he links to conflicting takes on the constitution. Lots of rightwing EU opponents have written comments that aren't worth responding to. They think EU is now a 'superstate', tone is raving and also quite unpleasant. These

2003-05-30T18:24:00.000+02:00

Via Ibidem, who I have added to the blogroll, a behind-the scenes article article about the group of Eight letter and all that, from FT, but via NYT, so you can read it tomorrow too.

2003-05-30T02:30:00.000+02:00

I'm gonna get my own domain and switch to MT and all of that, but I have no idea what hosts are any good or how much bandwidth I need. Anyone have any advice? I was thinking Hosting Matters, and then they went down... But that's not usual right? I don't know anything.

2003-05-30T02:27:00.000+02:00

Added Diplomatica and EuroSavant to the blogroll. I now have RSS feed via BlogMatrix. Link policy I haven't had a need for one until now, but maybe I'm getting popular (wishful thinking) so... I will blogroll anyone who blogrolls to me for two-three weeks and then evaluate if it's of any interest to me and my readers. Your blog should be both well-written and dealing with the right topics (

2003-05-30T00:38:00.000+02:00

Amygdala blogs about Congo: "INSIGNIFICANT UN MOVE ON CONGO reported. The force of about 1,200 troops, whose mandate runs until Sept. 1, will be led by the French and will include a substantial contingent of South African troops. Matthew Yglesias, who perhaps has not made much study of military matters, otherwise inexplicably calls this "good news," seeming not to recognize that it means

2003-05-29T23:56:00.000+02:00

Fantagraphics Books, arguably the world's premier publisher of comics and graphic novels must raise $80,000 in the next month or face a possible bankruptcy. They have therefore called on comics lovers to buy stuff from them, preferable from their website. I don't know if any of y'all are coics lovers, but they publish some of the greatest artists working in any artform. Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware,

2003-05-29T14:19:00.000+02:00

You should be reading Henry Farrell's thoughts on the draft. More authorative than the news paper reports. A must read if you're interested in these things. This BBC piece on the draft is one of the better ones. Especially since it goes into specifics more than most. (Via Chris Bertram.)

2003-05-28T03:35:00.000+02:00

First thoughts on the draft: Giscard had to retreat, and thank god for that. So, they just ignored the major issues, the institutional issues. One wonders, if they haven't been able to agree at this fairly late date, will they ever? Will there be two versions or perhaps no version, in the sense that they'll bypass the contentious issues, ie most of it? Were in fact the asumptions that the

2003-05-28T02:46:00.000+02:00

Henry Farrell thinks I'm wrong. I think he's misunderstood me somewhat, I didn't say there would be no change, I spoke specifically about positive rights. I do think there's a chance, likelihood even, of a change in the short term in the area of striking down laws and such: negative rights. Or perhaps there will be a fair amount of forcing governments to provide this or that service, meaning

2003-05-27T22:19:00.000+02:00

Chris Bertram says: "I don't know why the likelihood is small, especially if NGOs decide to pursue issues aggressively - which they probably will." First I should emphasize that I'm just another moron with a website, and not really an expert. Maybe I'm totally off base. Nevertheless: The court will be restricted by their own sense of jurisprudence, which of course will be influenced by the

2003-05-27T19:14:00.000+02:00

I'm very unhappy, because my computer ate a whole bunch of half-finished stuff I was going to post.

2003-05-27T03:41:00.000+02:00

I was gonna change the template, and it's a months old version of it. This really takes the prize.

2003-05-26T18:55:00.000+02:00

Another has been reached in the drafting of the constitution. It should be emphasised that a the drafting process is not over, someething a casual reading of a lot of the articles might lead you to believe. Euractiv explains: "The Convention Praesidium presented the first complete draft of Part One of the EU Constitution on 26 May. The draft will be discussed for the first time by the 105

2003-05-25T00:12:00.000+02:00

The Eurovision is certainly pan-European news. I won't try to explain it to non-euro readers but Kieran Healy makes a valiant attempt. It really has to be seen to be believed though. I normally don't, I'd planned to watch this year though, because of TATU (though I share Kieran's disapproval to some extent) but have missed everything up to the last songs. Man, how I regret that now. From the

2003-05-24T14:03:00.000+02:00

Vote the Note.

2003-05-23T19:11:00.000+02:00

Read this: Battle for Bunia takes a terrible toll Harrowing, from a reporter on the spot. Ituri's Greek Cypriot Community Finally Flees Who'da guessed?

2003-05-23T18:31:00.000+02:00

Forgetful of its previous mistakes in nation building and distracted by Iraq, the international community risks failing Congo with potentially disastrous results, writes Simon Tisdall "France - which was briefly and some would say disastrously involved in Rwanda in 1994 - is believed to be the country most likely to step in. In the House of Commons this week, Tony Blair supported the idea of

2003-05-23T15:47:00.000+02:00

"PREFERENTIAL trade access the European Union (EU) has accorded dozens of African countries may have done more harm than good. This is the theme of an essay by the head of the SA Institute of International Affairs Greg Mills and by De Beers director Jonathan Oppenheimer, published this week in a collection of pieces on Africa by a UK-based think tank, the Foreign Policy Centre."

2003-05-23T15:45:00.000+02:00

The problem magically disappeared. Life is strange.

2003-05-22T23:52:00.000+02:00

I've got soe pretty bad personal news today. I don't know how uch energy I'll have for blogging. Too bad, case I really have a lot ton say. I was lining up for soe long substantive posts. Almost finished that "what I think about the EU" thing I promised, but now I can't be bothered. Later.... I've had serious problems with Blogger lately, but that'll have to wait too. I don't think I'll stick

2003-05-22T23:41:00.000+02:00

Henry Farrell blogged two days ago about Israel becoming an EU member, an idea some Israeli politicians sometimes like to flout. The Head Heeb wrote about this back in December. He explains the political context and discusses the ramifications and the arguments for and against; from the Israeli perspective, where he does a good job, and the European perspective, where I think both he and Henry

2003-05-22T10:44:00.000+02:00

Not to discount the three-four people who's still here. Much love!

2003-05-22T10:42:00.000+02:00

All my readers has somehow disappeared. That is very depressing, especially since I think Europunditry has never been as good as it is right now. I mean, I can honestly recommend people to read it. For the first time since I started blogging I'm only partially dissatisfied with the blog, and all my readers abandon me? Life sucks.

2003-05-21T20:47:00.000+02:00

Just as I was lamenting the lack of reporting, lots of reports were being filed. But it still gets a lot less attention than what is reasonable. The reports play down rather than play up the genocide angle for whatever reason. Even good ol' EUobserver has the story: EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, presented Mr Annan's request to defence ministers from the member states. After

2003-05-19T17:17:00.000+02:00

Here's an extremely important, extremely underreported, and extremely frightening story: Ethnic clashes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have observers warning of a possible genocide in a nation that has already seen the worst of Africa's bloody wars. According to DRC's L'Avenir, a U.N. official in the region declared that without decisive action, the area could be headed toward a blood

2003-05-19T13:53:00.000+02:00

Brought back "new and improved" permalinks. I've resigned myself to republishing all the time. This'll probably hasten a switch to MT though.

2003-05-18T19:41:00.000+02:00

The federalists enthusis for a referendum might be because it's linked in their mind to the idea

2003-05-18T18:54:00.000+02:00

Not sure what I think abot this whole combined referendum idea..... I'm kinda fond of representantive democracy, and dislike the idea that referends are somehow more democratic, and think they should be used very judiciously, on the other hand if it's a question of relinquishing more than a small amount of sovereignty - we don't know that for sure yet - and the political party structure can't

2003-05-17T22:12:00.000+02:00

Meanwhile, Slovakians says yes... and turnout seems to've narrowly passed the threshold - hopefully.

2003-05-17T21:25:00.000+02:00

Hmmm... on second thought I don't wholly agree with Brad on democracy thing, but he has a point. No energy to elaborate. The promised "substantive" post, basically me outlining my position on the EU and the democratic deficit will have to wait til Monday, cause noone's online til then anyway.

2003-05-16T20:15:00.000+02:00

Long sbstantive post on the way. Eventually... sigh.

2003-05-16T04:09:00.000+02:00

June Carter Cash dies at 73. How rotten life is. Johnny Cash has been dying for like two years, he can't hae much time left, and he still has to live through this. And think of the children. It's so unfair... She was one of the greats in her own right, in no way just Johnny's wife or one of the sisters. Such a loss... Well, she had very enviable life in many ways, at least. Her work will

2003-05-16T03:51:00.000+02:00

Only two weeks until the work on constitution will be finished, and few things are settled or certain to pass. History in the making, very draatic etc... I regret abandoning EU news for the last weeks, I plan to very much change my ways, however. More later.

2003-05-15T06:26:00.000+02:00

I managed to miss my one onth anniversary on the ninth. Boohoo. Another milestone will soon be reached, though. One visitor away from 500 (accoding to SiteMeter). Hooray! Update: 500. Hip Hip - Hooray! Hip Hip - Hooray! Hip Hip - Hooray! Hip Hip - Hooray!

2003-05-15T03:24:00.000+02:00

"After all, throughout all of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the only choices history offers on its menu are chaos, dictatorship, and multi-party representative democracy. Try to undermine the third, and you have implicitly voted for either the first or second. Democracy is not to be found in the streets. What we find in the streets are vanguard parties, the dictatorships they bring,

2003-05-15T02:48:00.000+02:00

I'm getting dissed!

2003-05-15T02:32:00.000+02:00

The EUobserver poll idiocy reminded me of something I thought of before. Romano Prodi has said a direct election of the Commission president would be a bad idea, with basically the same reasons as EUobserver (but less offensively put.) And, obviously that more power to the institutions isn't the answer. If so, how can it be tolerable that more and more decisions are getting made on the EU level?

2003-05-13T06:41:00.000+02:00

Blogger doesn't really have permalinks. I can't be bothered to republish all the time, so I've decided to remove the links, so as to not fool anyone - my Alexandrian solution.

2003-05-13T06:26:00.000+02:00

I missed this sentence in Scott Grammel's old school post: "Parents do, on the whole, press their children to do well in school, and I don't think school enrolment will change if school ceases to be mandatory." Eh, some of my criticism was a little off then, but not most of it. Note also, as I said I think enrollment would change. Regarding his alternative plan, I don't know why he labels it "

2003-05-13T06:12:00.000+02:00

Since it seemed to work for every else, I brought back the comments. And it's working! (Fingers crossed.) Enetation, all is forgiven! (It's free after all.)

2003-05-13T05:50:00.000+02:00

Lithuania voted yes to accession yesterday. Yay!

2003-05-12T11:49:00.000+02:00

EUObserver draws far-reaching and absurd conclusions from a meaningless poll: "An interesting experiment from a French opinion research agency, published by Le Figaro, has shown that EU voters would be likely to vote for a candidate from their own country in any future vote for an EU President. This makes it difficult to envisage a fair or meaningful pan-European vote on the Constitution. [...]

2003-05-12T07:43:00.000+02:00

I plan to start link comment to EU news again, and finish writing something semi-substantive. More later. The lack of attention to the European Union in the blogosphere as well as everywhere else is as I've said any times depressing, and a huge problem for European democracy. (well, the blogosphere part is only a tiny part of the problem of course, but you know what I mean.

2003-05-12T06:38:00.000+02:00

Here's one of the abandoned unfinished posts I talked about two weeks ago: Libertarian blogger Scott Martens have a radical suggestion: Make all education voluntary. An intriguing, and thoughtprovoking idea, but in my opinion severely misguided. Problems with his argument: First of all, he seems to assume parents would care what the kid wanted, a very odd assumption. If this was implemented in

2003-05-11T07:42:00.000+02:00

Here's a terrific, knowledgeable blog by professor Juan Cole with analysis of devolopents in mostly Iraq and other Muslim countries. Called Informed Comment, not humbly but very aptly named.

2003-05-11T01:01:00.000+02:00

Matthew Yglesias, like me, is not a vegan. You say "the only question is do you support cruelty toward animals or not?" The point of what I'm trying to say is that this is not the only question. I, for example, strongly oppose cruelty toward humans. Nevertheless, I would not favor launching a full-scale nuclear war to wipe out the entire human race, even though this would drastically decrease

2003-05-10T06:58:00.000+02:00

We're all about underreported news here at Europunditry, and here's some news that may turn out to be a historical turning point, and this is the first time I've heard of it (maybe it's all over the news and I've simply missed it?) Scientists in Pennsylvania yesterday said they had turned ordinary mouse embryo cells into egg cells in laboratory dishes -- an advance that opens the door to

2003-05-10T00:47:00.000+02:00

New Yorker review of "How Democratic Is the American Constitution?" by Robert A. Dahl

2003-05-09T01:45:00.000+02:00

Salam Pax has returned.

2003-05-09T01:17:00.000+02:00

Via David Stevenson, a must read from NYT Magazine on nuclear proliferation.

2003-05-09T00:33:00.000+02:00

It struck me Eurocentric has rather negative connotations, so I changed the name again.

2003-05-08T23:50:00.000+02:00

By the way, whatever happened to Maria???

2003-05-08T23:38:00.000+02:00

Henry also writes about Christain fndamentalists thinking the EU is >>the "beast-kingdom" from which Antichrist will emerge in Final Days.<< and Berlusconi's legal troubles (Corruption charges, of course.) >>It's going to be equally interesting to see how the European Union responds. /----/ However, there aren't any very good ways for other member states to deal with this sort of problem; while

2003-05-08T22:42:00.000+02:00

I commented earlier how similar my literary tastes were to Henry Farrell's. Now he's heaping well-deserved praise on Little, Big and said it might be the greatest fantasy novel, which got e thinking. It's not really the best way to show your preferences or building a canon or whatever since 1) so comparatively little of the greatest fantasy is in novel form, but 2) the preference of fantasy

2003-05-07T08:44:00.000+02:00

Real blogging (including posts actually dealing with the EU) will resume in the weekend, if not earlier.

2003-05-07T02:16:00.000+02:00

Maria and Henry Farrell have switched to Movable Type and changed their adress in the process. As I said in the coments here, it's it's good to know some people have managed to get away from Blogger hell, maybe I can too some day. Let me take this opportunity to say that their blog is very good, a daily read in fact, and you should read it too.

2003-05-07T00:05:00.000+02:00

Heh. I feel better now. The description change has gone through, even.

2003-05-05T03:53:00.000+02:00

I can't change the wack ass blog description or any other of the settings. Do you have any idea how much that pisses me off? Another thing: An big league blogger that I won't name, when rejecting an entry that I sent, told me my pertmalinks weren't working. DUH, that because Blogger DON'T HAVE fucking permalinks, they only PRETEND to have them, to MOCK US. (don't get me wrong, I can't believe

2003-05-05T03:26:00.000+02:00

Head Heeb posts (today, no permalinks on blogger sites) on the elections in Nigeria. >>The election will solidify what many analysts are already calling Nigeria's "one-party creep." Some Nigerians are worried that the country might be headed the way of Mubarak's Egypt, but I think the more likely model is Malaysia. Like Nigeria, Malaysia is a federal state in which the ruling party is a

2003-05-04T06:44:00.000+02:00

I'll keep blogging at half-speed for some days. Those longish half-finished posts won't get finished in a while. Sorry. I'm a fairly productive blogger anyway. I gess I decided choosing quality over quantity, to some extent.

2003-05-04T03:27:00.000+02:00

Here's a good review of the Lord of the Rings movie (except missing that LOTR was (among other things) a refutation of Wagner's Ring: http://wsws.org/articles/2002/mar2002/lor1-m21.shtml

2003-05-04T00:18:00.000+02:00

Congratulations to weblogger Ian Coleman, who just won election to the Cambridge City Coucil. He was the second first person to put me on his blogroll, and I haven't repaid him the favor until now. (Made me add new categories, which was a good thing anyway.) He's a liberal too, so he's fighting the good fight!

2003-05-03T23:19:00.000+02:00

What the fuck? EU to cut ties with Hamas We had ties to Hamas?? >>...European Union special envoy to the Middle East Miguel Moratinos... "Hamas has been identified as a terror group by the European Union but there is a dialogue with its political arm, which is backed by Syria, Iran and part of the Palestinian Authority."<< Oh that doesn't sound that bad... >>"Hamas faces a clear choice between

2003-05-03T05:39:00.000+02:00

Various Volokh and Farrell people have been blogging about imaginary maps. Maybe they or someone will find this map of the Dying Earth a treat. I know I did. It's funny - those books are maybe my favorite piece of literature. (I think of them as a whole) and it wasn't that long ago since I last read them (gosh, it's been two years already) and I still could't connect most the places to scenes in

2003-05-03T00:02:00.000+02:00

So busy..... but I have a LOT of half-finished longish posts. Might post the late at night tonight, or tomorrow. Indulge me. Update: Heh, it's already tomorrow.

2003-05-01T00:44:00.000+02:00

Here's a really great blog concentrating on international politics: Casus Belli. Go read it. I found it through BlogStreet's "Neighbourhood" listing for my blog. BlogStreet is easily the best of its kind.

2003-04-30T16:12:00.000+02:00

This line in a comment on CalPundit's blog sparked some thoughts: "Measured by military and economic power, France's leverage is artificially increased by their SC veto, but so is Britain's." And so is the United States. Or actuallly, it's not just the veto but rather UNSC membership, and UN membership generally. The UN is a huge amplifier of American power. Isn't it obvious that if the US quit

2003-04-30T15:40:00.000+02:00

Changed the name of the blog to reflect the new direction (what direction that is, I don't quite know yet.)

2003-04-30T02:51:00.000+02:00

The US has signed a cease fire with the People's Mujahadeen. This is pretty disconcerting because it cold mean the administration is thinking of invading Iran. The People's Mujahedeen, aka MEK, was one of the groups who opposed the Shah. As part of their struggle they killed several Americans in the seventies. They took part in the '79 revolution, and supported the takeover of the American

2003-04-29T20:41:00.000+02:00

An archeological sensation. Perhaps providing consolation after the loss of thousands of irreplaceable objects from ancient Mesopotamia in the recent looting. Thank Providence, noone dropped a bomb on it.

2003-04-29T20:21:00.000+02:00

This article by Matt Welch on Vaclav Havel is great. Read it.

2003-04-29T17:28:00.000+02:00

Another thing I'm not sure of is how much I'll do 'primers' on the EU, 'what does CAP mean', etc? I'm thinking of going in that direction, but it depends on what audience I have. Do you already know those things? Do you even exist? I need input!

2003-04-28T21:08:00.000+02:00

Got rid of the comment system since it's not working. Will switch to something better soon.

2003-04-28T21:01:00.000+02:00

I don't quite which direction to go with this blog.... I want to write more commentary, my own thinking. I do have some thoughts on what effects enlargement will have, plans to coment Democracy in Europe by Larry Siebentrop. Never get around to it. My ambition has been to post on most if not all major news stories. It's a lot of work, not always very stimulating and I'm getting behind. But I

2003-04-28T01:48:00.000+02:00

Clicked on the link, and found myself in heaven.

2003-04-27T21:29:00.000+02:00

Usch.

2003-04-26T02:13:00.000+02:00

On a completely diffferent note, it's amazing how similar Henry's literary tastes and mine are it seems, both fiction and non-fiction.

2003-04-26T02:09:00.000+02:00

Henry Farrell says: Brad de Long gives extensive quotes from an article by Martin Feldstein in the FT, telling Britain to stay out of the euro. Feldstein accurately identifies himself as a long time skeptic of European economic and monetary union. He's less forthcoming about the precise nature of his skepticism, which goes (or at the very least used to go) far beyond the standard Optimal

2003-04-25T19:38:00.000+02:00

Bonobo Land is a really great blog, go read it.

2003-04-25T16:48:00.000+02:00

Via Brad DeLong, via Edward Hugh, Marty Feldstein in FT on the euro: As Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, considers whether adopting the euro would be in Britain's interest, he should look carefully at the experience of Germany. Membership in the monetary union has weakened the German economy and is preventing it from escaping its current slump. Although Germany also suffers from a

2003-04-25T15:27:00.000+02:00

Found the think tank piece!

2003-04-24T00:24:00.000+02:00

Via Neil Gaiman, a Guardian article on how British school textbooks have been rewritten to deemphasize conflicts and stress positive asapects of every nation's history, giving them a pro-unification slant. 'There is a general consensus that we need to teach children that Europe evolved naturally through the organic coming-together of a group of sympathetic nations rather than through a series of

2003-04-23T00:48:00.000+02:00

What I've been reading recently: Oliver, Roland: The African experience (1994ish) Truly a pleasure to read, and the concept of covering the entire history of Africa through standalone essays is brilliant. As for the history, he seriously underplays the damage colonialism caused. Discounts damage/influence of slavery too, but there I don't have an independent opinion, but I think his views are in

2003-04-22T23:13:00.000+02:00

Some things come to mind re this comittee business: This nicely demonstrates how the the lack of attention paid to the EU is A Very Bad Thing. Why wasn't this an issue years ago? And it still wouldn't if this Swedish scientist (not a journalist!) hadn't made it an isssue. And wouldn't it be great if the euhacks we have would be more critical and questioning? (Note that I'm not asking for a more

2003-04-22T22:44:00.000+02:00

Kinnock's response to the report on Council comittees I wrote about on April 13: attacking the council for being even worse. After two terms in office in the European Commission - before as Transport Commissioner and presently as Vice President - Neil Kinnock has finally spoken out against the working methods of Council committees. In an interview published by the Austrian daily Der Standard,