Turkey recommended for EU accession talks
The European Commission has recommended that accession talks for Turkey should begin, but hasn’t laid out any dates for the process: Commission officials are reporting on the progress Turkey has...
View ArticleIn Other Important News.
To those of you, gentle readers, who have only recently discovered afoe, it may be interesting to find out that we’re not usually an – almost – single issue blog. Quite to the contrary. However, one...
View ArticleTurkey and the EU: Poles apart?
Like most numbers of the Spectator, the festive, XL-sized holiday edition is marred by the presence of Mark Steyn. But don’t let that put you off, there’s some good stuff there as well. And one of the...
View ArticleControversy Over Kosovo Refugees In Germany
This is an updated version of an earlier post. I first retain the post as it was, then I have added some reflections in the light of comments received. The Independent is running the following story:...
View ArticleTroubled Waters And No Bridge
Global Voices has a story (Hat Tip Financial Times and Simon World) about how China dissident Shi Tao has more than a little cause to be angry with Yahoo. Reporters Sans Frontiers, on analysing the...
View ArticleKosovo, Kosovo, Kosovo…
Just ran across this article at Radio Free Europe. Short version: Russia has decided that independence for Kosovo is probably inevitable, and has decided to milk it for maximum benefit to Russia....
View ArticleThe liberalism of fools?
I cannot recommend highly enough Ken Macleod’s post (found via Crooked Timber) on how the “socialism of fools” – Engels’ description of anti-semitism – was accompanied by a sort of “liberalism of...
View ArticleEU Energy Policy II
Well the new EU energy plan has been released (and here, and you can also find the actual Commission statement here). The final product is pretty much as the leaks suggested. As was indicated...
View ArticleThe Roma goes to court
Gypsies Gain a Legal Tool in Rights Fight But now, some leaders of the Gypsies, or Roma, are looking to a new model to try to achieve equality: the civil rights struggle of black Americans. More and...
View ArticleThe HRC is dead, long live the HRC?
The UN has elected a brand new Human Rights Council to replace the discredited Human Rights Commission. Why was the old HRC discredited? Well, basically and officially, because several of its members...
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