Archive for October, 2009

Recent weeks have been dominated by the uncertainty of the Czech President's signature on the Lisbon Treaty. Even today, after the meeting of the European Council in Brussels, the decision of the Czech Court has not yet been finally announced: nor has the Czech President's signature been given. The outlook for ...
Linked with the debate on energy security which I touched on last week, is the question of how Europe responds to China's increasingly assertive acquisition of scarce resources across the globe. With reserves estimated at $2,270bn (for comparison, that is twice the size of the second-biggest holder - Japan, while ...
Given recent attention in the British press on climate change and energy security, I thought I would return to this theme which I already mentioned in my blog of 26 June. The scene setter for this is the report released last week by Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, which shows ...
In recent weeks, I have been running blogs on documents which should help shape Mr Barroso's five year programme for the new Commission (see references made in my blogs of 24 July and 18 September). There is certainly a profusion of documents providing elements for his EU 2020 vision, but ...
Talking about influencing the political agenda, here is a great opportunity. Among the many items Barroso talked about in his political spiel for re-election (in otherwords, his 41 page document!), he said that the European Commission would develop a European Digital Agenda, but hasn't given any details. Surprising that in ...