From the desk of Elaib Harvey on Fri, 2011-01-07 16:47
Richard Corbett, the former dire, bean-counting Labour MEP hasslated the Hungarian Presidency in the current edition of European Voice.
I was curious to read your special report on the “Hungarian Presidency of the EU” (16 December 2010-5 January 2011). There is, of course, no such thing!
Hungary merely chairs one of the EU institutions, not the EU as a whole. You (and others) may wish to elevate the Council (and its president) above all the others, but I dare say that the presidents of the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament may have other views.
Bureaucraty, Democracy And Their Conflict
From the desk of George Handlery on Fri, 2011-01-07 15:00
Ever since the 18th century, many democrats or progressives have thought that the public-realm aspects of the problems of man and society can be solved by providing good government. Numerous theories and not a few experiments - some of these soared while others crashed- have attempted to find practical responses to the dilemmas posed by their thesis.
Take Your Country Back From Brussels
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Thu, 2011-01-06 15:08
A quote from Ian Buruma in The New Yorker, 10 January 2011:
Throughout Europe, a growing number of people, in some version of the Tea Party mantra, "want their country back" - from "Brussels," or from overeducated technocrats, or from immigrants. The alienation of the Belgians is, in this respect, a typically European story.
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