There’s been a lot happening and I have not been watching. Here’s my notes as I look to catch up. …
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The EU & Immigration
The Council decided at an emergency meeting, to spend more money on its border enforcement. The likely consequence of this is more deaths at sea of refugees.
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The economics of the ERDF
In considering the recommendations of the CoFoE on digitsation, I came to consider how economies innovate and how competitive the EU is in the technology industries. The key programme may be the EU Regional Development Fund. See also their factsheet. This of course has relevance due to the announcement of the UK’s levelling up grants…
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Supercomputers
It’s been a while since I looked at this. Here are my notes …
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On CoFoE
Over the last 18 months I have working with CTOE, their focus has been on using the Conference on the Future of Europe to further democratic reform of the EU. CTOE has been influenced and supports the work of direct democracy campaigners. I made this page at the end of 2022 to expose some of…
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How to make an EU citizens’ assembly
On making a Citizen’s assembly happen within the European Union
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About Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula von der Leyen, became the 1st woman President of the EU’s college of commissioners on 1st Dec 2019. Her appointment was controversial because she was not one of the spitzencanditaten. The record of her commission is documented on wikipedia. I became interested in this when trying to understand how and why the CoFoE was…
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Data Protection Act 2022
The government issued a consultation on the Data Protection law; it was commonly felt that they were attempting to allow itself to monetise the personal data of citizens, especially through the NHS data files. Whether after their response, it is felt to be so threatening is another matter. Here are my notes …
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The EU and defence policy
I have a couple of notes on defence policy on this wiki. All recent white papers have emphasised that the defence capability we build is onky capable of success if working with allies. The primary military alliance is of course NATO, which has over the last 30 years concerned itself with “out of theatre” operations….
Read moreThe EU’s sclerosis, fault or feature?
Is the EU sclerotic by initial design?
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EUMANS in Warsaw.
EUMANS held a conference to co-incide with the COFOE plenary 4. Some of the CTOE members spoke at the conference. Here are my notes and links.
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Unemployment and Income in Europe
I was looking at some economics of the EU and decided to plot income and unemployment, I was hoping to see how much geography made a difference. Here are my notes …
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COFOE, Panel 2 recommendations
I am tracking the CoFoE and the Citizens Panel 2 on Democracy and the Rule of Law has just reported, making 39 recommendations. Why are names of EU bodies always so long? Here are my notes on these recommendations. …
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UK employee protection and the EU/ILO
The Guardian published a piece talking about how the gravity of the EU aquis and its coming regulation on employment rights in the gig economy will impact UK employers. Maybe/maybe not! The article also reminds us of Johnson’s election promises,
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The EU’s data strategy
Just come off an IAPP webinar called, “The EU’s Strategy for Data: What the DSA, DMA, DGA mean for privacy”. These stand for Digital Services/Market/Governance Acts. I wonder if this the EU’s equivalence of the UK’s Data: A new direction. Much of the seminar, or the bit I stayed for was does this conflict with…
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