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Comment on Report on the Report: How did Waggener Edstrom get it so Wrong? by Online EU affairs communication: where are you, creative people | Andras Baneth

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:55:13 +0000

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Comment on Euroblog Round-up: Death of the Pseudonyms by Nick

Nick — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:45:15 +0000

Their insights will be sorely missed. Bagehot is keeping up with british politics but it’s not the same.

Comment on Euroblog Round-up: Death of the Pseudonyms by Steve

Steve — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:03:27 +0000

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Comment on The Best of Richard North by Mathew Lowry’s Tagsmanian Devil » Blog Archive » What the Filter Bubble means for the Brussels Bubble

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:48:08 +0000

[...] Two years later, he was riffing off a murderous rampage by a British nutcase called Derrick Bird, who killed 12 people in a shooting spree. Two days after the event, North can be found online, using this terrible tragedy as a spur to suggest that slaughtering officials was justified, and posting links to bomb-making equipment. [...]

Comment on Are Brits Ignorant of the EU’s True and Evil Powers? by Taylor

Taylor — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:17:36 +0000

I’m not sure any of this is news really.

The EU was established mostly for trading purposes and intercountry trading among its members more than anything else.

Good luck with the rest of it, getting all the participants to agree to anything or give up anything they hold dear.

Comment on Greece is the Most Corrupt Country in the EU by harjit vining

harjit vining — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:48:05 +0000

may be you are right that Greece is most corrupt country in EU because we see here in daily life that people in public sector do not do anything without golden key.

Comment on Are Brits Ignorant of the EU’s True and Evil Powers? by Eurogoblin

Eurogoblin — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:39:24 +0000

Oh, and you called me a liar. And a foot.

Comment on Are Brits Ignorant of the EU’s True and Evil Powers? by Eurogoblin

Eurogoblin — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:36:43 +0000

Whoa there, Ryan. Before you call someone a coward and a fool, you have to be absolutely sure you know what they’re saying. You’re interpretation of my post is false, so perhaps you were a bit hasty?

My argument is not that the EU is powerless. Instead, following Andrew Moravcsik, I’m saying voter priorities and areas of EU competency don’t have a great deal of overlap. This is especially so in the UK where there are a great many opt-outs and opt-ins to EU legislation. It’s not a particularly novel argument – Moravcsik made it first. However, I looked at the latest polls of voter priorities and compared them to EU competencies in those areas to test the hypothesis. Broadly speaking, I found Moravcsik’s argument to be true.

Comment on Are Brits Ignorant of the EU’s True and Evil Powers? by Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:28:03 +0000

Your argument is that the EU has very little power and influence which is completely wrong. Say it was right though, then why would you be so passionate about something that is so pathetically unimportant and powerless? It’s one thing not being bothered by it but I find it strange how you are fixated on the idea of proving to everyone how pointless it’s existence is. If you have access to this knowledge then surly it would only be rational to be against it considering we pay it £48,000,000 a day and an estimated £130,000,000,000 a year if all lost trade etc. is accounted for (although the government has continuously refused to publish the official figure). And also, he wasn’t saying that the British care about it so showing polls about how they don’t only makes you look like a foot, he was saying that not enough care about it because they don’t realise how important personal liberty and democracy are or what it is like to live without them. Please don’t lie, it is cowardly.