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Rendering Unto Caesar ala Ganley

February 9th, 2009 · 7 Comments · European Union, Irish Politics

I’m sure Ireland’s best chronicler of the activities of Chairman Ganley will be on to this soon enough. I got two texts early this morning directing me to the Irish Times and one asked why I was not in Roscommon at the weekend – like I’d be the most welcome guest at that table? Libertas […]

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New EU Blogging Portal Launched

January 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · European Union

You may remember that last year I was looking for recommendations for blogs about European Union affairs to read. Yesterday I read via Jon Worth’s blog of the launch of Bloggingportal.eu. It’s a blog syndicator but as opposed to a mere aggregator it has editors which rate posts and summarise them. We don’t think the […]

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Czech EU Presidency Gaffe-o-meter

January 16th, 2009 · Comments Off on Czech EU Presidency Gaffe-o-meter · European Union

Jon Worth needs to be recognised for services to European Union blogging – he like I has been casting an eye towards Prague and the first two weeks of the Czech EU presidency. It’s not been good – but maybe after President Klaus’s visit to Ireland late last year and that dinner with Chairman Ganley […]

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Immigration controls to be introduced for UK-Irish travel.

January 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · European Union, Irish Politics

Image via Wikipedia While we’re busy watching the government nationalise a bank on our behalf you may not notice proposals announced today in London which will see the end of the common travel area. The Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill will see changes in citizenship rules including a requirement to speak English, and require those […]

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European Commission’s glamour model for farm safety

December 3rd, 2008 · 10 Comments · European Union, Uncategorized

The European Commission think that Europe’s Kinder need to know about where they get their milk from and how animals should be minded! So the Directorate General for Health and Consumers got someone to design a computer game for them complete with a scantily clad French female farmhand. Farmland – The Game looks like it […]

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