Posted in European Union on December 24 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I get many Season’s greetings mails, here from the EU Commission’s AV Services:
We would rather wish you a Merry Christmas. I don’t know where the Season’s Greetings originates from but I don’t care much about pagan customs. Political correctness is pathetic, don’t you think? Mind what an End-of-Year-Wing-Figure told the rural population: Don’t be afraid…
I [...]
Posted in European Union on December 24 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Daniel Hannan presents “Ten reasons to leave the EU” which are debunked by the author Jon Worth
10. Oh, and we’d be a democracy again.
So what are we now? Is Hannan questioning his own democratic legitimacy? The EU is, far and away, the most democratic of all the international structures we belong to. It has its [...]
Posted in European Union, Future of the Web on December 21 2009 | 1 Comment »
Commissioner Wallström does not provide an amended Commission proposal for the Cashman report, although the Lisbon treaty makes the older Commission proposal for a EC/1049/2001 reform obsolete. She makes some encouraging points on the criticial reform aspects:
Margot Wallström, Vice-President of the Commission. − Mr President, honourable Members, if I may first turn to Mr Cashman. [...]
Posted in European Union on December 18 2009 | 2 Comments »
The latest English version of Single Market News issue 56 is now available at.
Regardless what is written in there, expect it to reflect an outdated state of debate. As I argued before now Single Market will become the lame duck department of the Commission working on evergreen issues like manufacturing an agreement on the community [...]
Posted in European Union, Future of the Web on December 18 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Forbes.com with the story about a Forbes 400 Billionaire who lost a whole lot of his possessions recently.
We’ve been talking to a country near the Mediterranean about developing something. I’d like to build another Cotai Strip, another Las Vegas in Europe. There are plenty of opportunities out there.
Ironically some persons from the Mediterranean are keen [...]
Posted in European Union on December 18 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1. Commission President – José Manuel Durao Barroso (Portugal)
HoC: Johannes Laitenberger, Germany (past: Commmission spokesperson)
2. High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security – Catherine Ashton (UK)
HoC: James Morrison, UK (former HoC of Commissioner Ashton)
3. Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht (Belgium)
HoC: Marc Vanheukelen, Belgium (former HoC of Commissioner De Gucht)
4. International Cooperation and Development Commissioner Rumiana [...]
Posted in European Union on December 18 2009 | 1 Comment »
Interesting read, the mission letters for the new Commissioners. For instance Internal Market, here a community patent in the Alicante spirit becomes a core task. In other words, Internal Market is now saturated:
You will be the Commissioner with responsibility for Internal Market and Services. As in the past, changing circumstances may also mean that I [...]
Posted in European Union, tagged daten, vds on December 16 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Harald Welte berichtet von der Anhörung in Karlsruhe zur Datenbevorratung.
Posted in European Union, tagged TFUE on December 10 2009 | 1 Comment »
What is TFUE? TFUE or TFEU stands for the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, so the new Lisbon regime. UE is French for European Union.
You can order the Lisbon treaty from the EU bookshop or download. But the better approach is to take a consolidated version.
Consolidated version of the Treaty on European [...]
Posted in European Union, tagged eu on December 8 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Luc Devigne von der Generaldirektion Handel der Europäischen Kommission wird von AUMA der Hinweis zugeschrieben, dass 80 % der nachgemachten Produkte auf dem Weltmarkt nach einer Studie der EU-Kommission aus China stammen.
Herr Luc Devigne, Leiter des Bereichs geistiges Eigentum bei der Generaldirektion
Handel, sprach über die grenzübergreifende Durchsetzung von Rechten am geistigen Eigentum auf Messen. Ergebnis [...]
