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 ArticleA resolution in sight, or a deeper crisis?
Two recent posts from Victor Katolyk: korrespondent.net The negotiations between Kuchma, Yanukovych, and Yushchenko will be held at 18:00 in the presence of international mediators. Yushchenko refused...
View ArticleAgenda 2020.
New Europe?Late Thursday night, the European Council approved, as widely expected, the Commission’s recommendation to open membership negotiations with Turkey, largely without imposing additional...
View ArticleVenice Commission on Bosnia-Herzegovina
Teekay was looking forward to the Venice Commission’s report on Bosnia-Herzegovina last week. (The Venice Commission, for those of you who don’t lie awake at nights in excited anticipation of its next...
View ArticleThe Adams Family
I’m crossposting something I originally wrote for my own blog because I realized it’s probably of far more interest to Fistful readers than to my own. In March I wrote in Slate about Gerry Adams and...
View ArticleSomething Worries Me About Peter Bofinger
Really I realise I have been remiss in another important sense. I have long assumed that in fact the decision to reduce deficits was taken due to the coming fiscal pressure from ageing. This certainly...
View ArticleEU mandatory data rentention directive(s)
To keep track of the of the legislative process (or not) regarding the controversial EU mandatory data rentention directive(s), Statewatch.org has prepared a heavilly “annotated guide to the issues and...
View ArticleBreaking The Seals
Leafing through the comments on Brussels Gonzo’s last post, I can’t help getting the feeling that this news about Iran’s decision to resume its nuclear programme may well serve to focus our energy...
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...
View ArticleVienna: The End of the Beginning
So the latest round of talks on Kosovo begin in Vienna today. There have already been seven rounds of talks since February. The result: the two sides have utterly failed to reach any agreement on...
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