Archive for the ‘EU Foreign Policy’ Category
BEREC, climate change, copenhagen summit, Spanish EU Presidency
In EU Foreign Policy, EU summits/meetings, European Economy, State of Europe on December 19, 2009 at 19:51
Nothing much concluded, it seems…
from BBC News | Europe | World Edition
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says a US-backed climate deal is a good beginning, but critics dismiss it as a failure.
from MediaShift
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK — This past Saturday, on a crisp afternoon in Copenhagen, Jacob Wheeler and Rick Fuentes, two amateur journalists with the non-profit media start-up the UpTake, walked alongside a mostly peacefully stream of demonstrators. Roughly half of the total police force in Denmark followed in step. Conspicuous among the crowd were the hundreds of ad hoc reporters with serious-looking digital SLRs slung around their necks.
from Social Europe Journal by Henning Meyer
In the early hours of this morning the news of the failure of the Copenhagen summit on climate change hit the news wires. I won’t repeat the individual disappointments as the papers will be full of it today. But I would like to comment on the political implications of this disaster. It shows that there is no effective global politics, only global problems. Read the rest of this entry »
climate change, copenhagen summit, EU 2020 strategy, euroblogging, greece, Lisbon Treaty/Constitution
In EU Foreign Policy, EU summits/meetings, State of Europe on December 18, 2009 at 12:14
Yesterday’s decision by the UN to ban a large number of NGO delegates from the main summit venue for the Copenhagen climate change talks was, to say the least, unpopular on the ground.
Copenhagen climate talks: Main issues and state of play
from EurActiv.com
About 120 world leaders and 193 countries are meeting in Copenhagen to agree a new global climate deal, the basis for a full climate treaty next year.
Photos from Copenhagen protests
from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow:Treehugger photographer Matt McDermott happened to be in the right place when the massive climate demonstrations in Copenhagen broke out, and the site has a great gallery of shots of the action.
An appeal against a decision by Swiss voters to ban minarets is submitted to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
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berlusconi, climate change, copenhagen summit, denmark, euroblogging, greece, italy, minaret referendum, Spanish EU Presidency, swedish presidency, switzerland
In EU Foreign Policy, EU summits/meetings, European Economy, Islam in Europe, State of Europe on December 16, 2009 at 16:07
more from the EU agenda…Our neighbor, Greece is having real economic problems, aftermath of Berlusconi attack and more…
from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
Zoran sez, “Earlier this week (12th Dec), a massive, peaceful protest of 100,000 people — the largest demonstration for climate justice in world history — was met with a heavy-handed response by the Danish police. Thousands of riot police swarmed the march route, blocked off streets surrounding large groups of protestors, and arrested almost 1,000 people. Arrestees were cuffed and forced to sit in rows for hours, as the temperatures dipped below freezing; numerous people urinated on themselves after being denied use of toilets.”
Dispatch from Copenhagen: Demands for Climate Justice
climate change, copenhagen summit, estonia, EU commission, euroblogging, france, greece, israel, Lisbon Treaty/Constitution, sarkozy, serbia, Spanish EU Presidency, sweden
In EU Foreign Policy, EU summits/meetings, European Economy, European Parliament, Islam in Europe, State of Europe on December 13, 2009 at 01:02
Arrested demonstrators sit on the ground as they are surrounded by police during a rally outside the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen December 12, 2009. REUTERS/Christian Charisius
from BBC News | Europe | World Edition
barroso, climate change, copenhagen summit, euroblogging, european commission, france, immigration, Lisbon Treaty/Constitution, sarkozy
In EU Foreign Policy, EU summits/meetings, European Economy, European Parliament, State of Europe on December 7, 2009 at 08:37
from Osocio Weblog by Marc
Next monday, dec 7, the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference finally start in Copenhagen. All visitors who came by aeroplane (…) will see these billboards at the Copenhagen Airport. They campaign from Greenpeace shows our world leaders in 2020.
The leaders: Sarkozy (FR), Merkel (Ger), Obama (USA), Tusk (PO), Lula (Br), Zapatero (Es), Brown (UK) and Harper (Can). See them all after the break.
from FT.com – World, Europe
As the eyes of the world focus on Copenhagen, there is reputational danger in attaching the Danish capital’s name to a conference that could end in failure
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barroso, climate change, Enlargement, EU Stockholm Programme, euroblogging, Eurozone, germany, greece, Lisbon Treaty/Constitution, sarkozy, scotland, social democracy
In EU Foreign Policy, EU summits/meetings, European Economy, European Parliament, State of Europe on December 1, 2009 at 18:41
and more from the European agenda…
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barroso, climate change, copenhagen summit, czech, EU commission, EU Council, eu president, greece, macedonia, russia, the union for the mediterranean, ukraine
In EU Foreign Policy, EU summits/meetings, European Economy, State of Europe on November 27, 2009 at 21:40
from FP Passport by Joshua Keating
Some environmental groups are planning disruptive protests for the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen, taking cues from the anti-globalization movement:
“We feel that right now in Copenhagen there is a real opportunity for things to come together a little bit like they did 10 years ago at the World Trade Organization protest in Seattle,” Müller told SPIEGEL ONLINE…. Read the rest of this entry »
Baroness Ashton, eu president, Herman Van Rompuy
In EU Foreign Policy, EU summits/meetings, State of Europe, Turkey in Europe, Turkish foreign policy on November 20, 2009 at 22:16
Not particularly good for Turkey’s EU fantasies. Mr. Van Rompuy is known to be against Turkey’s membership.. I still work on a roundup from the Turkish press. let’s what Turks think… However, nearly all presidential candidates were against Turkey, so this is not the most surprising situation.
Having two low profile political figures for the EU’s top positions maybe a strategy to downgrade the importance of these positions. Nation states are still very important in EU-wide policy making and this leaves EU still relying on nation state fantasies…
And because these are low profile political personalities, the fate of Turkey’s membership maynot too affected, which is already negatively affected… And of course, I continue to lose my respect towards EU decision making processes. You keep continue to negotiate Turkey for membership and you have a president who is against that membership. Turks seems to care less and less ….
from Bloggingportal.eu – Today’s posts
The sun is shining in Brussels and the sky has an unseasonably blue, cloudless, late-November-in-Rome quality as European Union leaders make their way here for the summit of summits – the event where they will choose the EU’s first full-tim…
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barroso, BNP, Britain, Enlargement, eu president, euroblogging, germany, Lisbon Treaty/Constitution, miliband, tony blair
In EU Foreign Policy, EU summits/meetings, European Economy on November 16, 2009 at 10:18
from EurActiv.com
The European Union’s heads of state and government will name a president and foreign policy chief over dinner on 19 November, but diplomats say agreement on the appointments has still not been reached.
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david cameron, eu president, finland, france, klaus, Lisbon Treaty/Constitution, merkel, norway, tony blair, uk
In EU Foreign Policy, EU summits/meetings, European Economy, State of Europe on November 4, 2009 at 10:38
A roundup as usual… last updated: 14:30 (4 Nov)
from EurActiv.com
Confirming that EU leaders appear to read the job description of the first-ever permanent Council president as more of a ‘chairman’ than a ‘leader’, agencies reported today (2 November) that the mild-mannered Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, is the “most consensual” figure for the top job.
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