Aug 15 2008
This week Wijnand Duyvendak resigned as member of the Dutch Parliament. The reason was an upcoming publication of his book in which Wijnand revealed his past as environmental activist. He admitted to have been involved with the burglary of the Ministry of Economic affairs in which documents were removed about the plans to build new [...]
Jun 04 2008
The Dutch government decided to ratify the Lisbon treaty. Last time the Dutch population said No against the “new European constitution” in a referendum. This time the government and parliament decided not to ask the Dutch people and stuff it down our throat.
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May 29 2008
Peter Gauweiler, member of the German Bundestag has asked the German Bundesverfassungsgericht (the highest legal council in Germany) to review the Lisbon treaty and decide whether it is legal yes or no. Peter Gauweiler thinks the treaty is not in line with German democratic principles. Experts think he has a good chance on success.
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Apr 25 2008
This sounds like good news.
Is China getting the message?
China says it will meet Dalai Lama’s representative - International Herald Tribune
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Apr 24 2008
Finally, the BBC news reports that Mugabe rival was the ‘clear victor’ of the ellections. Something we allready knew.
Apr 07 2008
Today the Olympic flame was shown in Paris. The flame was extinguished three times before it was rushed to the relay’s endpoint [link to BBC article].
I don’t think it will change the method of economic imperialism used by the Chinese government. Maybe it will make them more careful but it won’t change them.
Mar 15 2008
What is happening in Tibet right now reminds me of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. If we are now carefull this will be just another example of China’s imperialisme and how it steps on human rights.
Dec 05 2007
It looks like to UK is introducing Dutch (Verdonk) like measures.
BBC NEWS | Politics | UK bans non-EU unskilled workers
Dec 04 2007
Business Weekly.
The EU’s antitrust chief Neelie Kroes warned banks on Monday that a new payment system should not be allowed to cut down choice or increase costs for customers.
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Kroes suggested that national card payment schemes should be encouraged to join the SEPA scheme because that would introduce and increase competition to the benefit of merchants [...]
Oct 03 2007
The WRR (Scientific Council for Government Policy) recently presented the result of a study about the Dutch Identity. The report, entitled “Identification with the Netherlands”, was presented to the public by princess Maxima, the wife of the Dutch crown prince. Central point in her speech was the conclusion that “the typical Dutch identity” does not [...]
Aug 29 2007
Jan Pronk is going for the leadership of the PvdA.
Some time ago the complete management of the political party PvdA resigned. This was as a result of the assessment of the loss at the elections of 2007.
Now some ‘young’ members of the PvdA have asked Jan Pronk to go for the leadership of the party. [...]
Jul 24 2007
From the website Open Europe:
“The analysis finds that only 10 out of 250 proposals in the new treaty are different from the proposals in the original EU Constitution. In other words, 96% of the text is the same as the rejected Constitution.” [link]
From the Former President of Germany Roman Herzog about the European Union and [...]