Now that we know that the UK Government and the EU both believe that the UK’s exit from the EU will require one or two new treaties I have renewed my interest as to whether the European Union Act of 2011 will mandate that these new treaties must be reviewed by Parliament via an Act even if only to say that they don’t require another referendum. …
I re-read Greiner’s Evolution and Revolutions as Organisations grow. He argues that the growth of companies meet crises, the resolution of which change and shape the next stage of development and that companies go through creativity, direction, delegation, co-ordination and collaboration stages. As ever, I fail to see the compulsion and inexorability of each succeeding stage but the causes of potential stagnation and the need to respond by changing the management style and tools are insightful.
I wonder where today’s exemplar corporates are on this curve, or is software different? …
This article on the LSE European Politics blog examines the proposition that the accession of Eastern Europe, post soviet states led to a decision sclerosis in the European Union. One of Dimiter Toshkov’s analytic tools examines the average speed of decisions taken as well as analysing the number of times each country votes “No” and wins. I also like his charting techniques.
The issue of delay reminded me of the time I looked at votes/MEP and the amount of time an MEP might get in Parliament. I was exploring increasing the size of the Parliament …. but doing so at the scale I was considering would have an adverse impact on the time each MEP might get to speak. This implies the need to deploy a parallelism by having more committees and commissions that can meet at the same time. There’s probably a limit to the size of a representative assembly but it isn’t the 400-700 that seems popular in the western democracies, many Union conferences are much larger and meet less frequently.
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The week before last, I attended the BCS legal day and have finally published my notes on this blog. The priority was the coming General Data Protection Regulation. I prefer to write in a style recognising those who have informed me or changed my mind but the notes have been anonymised as I believe that the day was held under Chatham House rules, The running order has been changed to make the story better and to conform to my preferred priority order, of principles, rights, obligations and enforcement. The day consisted of two presentations, entitled “Key Issues”, “the Data Protection Officer” and one on trends in enforcement. …
“A data lake is a storage repository that holds a vast amount of raw data in its native format, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. The data structure and requirements are not defined until the data is needed.”
James Dixon, the founder and CTO of Pentaho, although what makes this wisdom is that it’s been repeated.
… whereas a data warehouse, has structure and a schema! …
I missed this, thank goodness I didn’t get one.
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Are the ICO waking up? It has fined Flybe and Honda. There are two stories here, two large firms wanted to confirm that they had consents and so wrote to their list to ask if the consents remain in place …. they have been fined; the ICO considered this to be an un-consented bulk email. I wonder if it’s possible to perform this check legally. …
BT OpenReach are going to have to drop their prices, those they charge to 3rd parties. Will the benefit of this accrue to BT’s Infinity customers, or those who can’t get Infinity? …
One more though on the GDPR and Pirate Hunting, if we (and the courts) consider the use of a home tcp/ip address as inconclusive proof that the bill holder (or anyone specific) used the device, then the IP address cannot be considered personal data. There might be a personal petard and hoisting nexus occurring here. …
The idiots have sent a letter to Tusk. A sad day for both the UK and the EU. The Daily Mash reports Jünker as saying that she might have used e-mail; most people find it easier.
A more fitting comment was made last week by Esteban Pons, a Spanish Conservative and the EPP’s senior Brexit spokesman who made a speech commemorating the EU’s foundation and included the phrase,
… Leaving Europe is not leaving a market, it is leaving shared dreams. We can have a common market, but if we do not have common dreams, we have nothing. Europe is the peace….
I expect he and I disagree with how a common market should work but the EU has not had a first division champion since Roy Jenkins quit front line politics … another debt we owe New Labour. We are still not arguing that the idea of a united Europe is worthwhile having manifestly failed to raise it in the referendum. Anyway, here’s a clip from Pons speech,
"Europe is not a market, it is the will to live together." @gonzalezpons #eppgroup pic.twitter.com/xS9iXC59hs
— EPP Group (@EPPGroup) March 22, 2017
The other piece of news published today is this piece from the Guardian, which highlights eight aspects of the EU’s negotiating position and priorities, about timing and scheduling of the negotiations, the financial bill, reciprocal citizenship & residency rights, the border with Eire, trade, the court, transition & ratification. …
