Revolution in Iran seems to happen only in western dreams and media. Protests took place only in Tehran and a few large cities and are now nearly disappeared. Smaller towns and rural areas have been very quiet whole the time after elections. The opposition may not yet have been defeated, but the problems...

Image via Wikipedia Today the Irish Government publishes the Twenty Ninth Amendment to the Constitution Bill 2009 to set up the conditions for the second Lisbon Treaty Referendum. This means that today the Referendum Commission will be set up. The Referendum Commission is responsible for: Explaining...

So the applications for the second round of Th!nk is open and this blog is being kept open too. The question is do we keep posting here? I think this blog could be an important fixture in the Euro-blogosphere if we keep it going. In the Euro-bloggersphere there is a distinct lack of group blogs and blogs...

I am not one to dance on other people’s graves, but the collapse of Libertas post the European Elections has been truly spectacular. Libertas on brink of extinction after poll disaster costs €40m - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie LIBERTAS has sunk into oblivion after forking out...

In my previous article “Iran-Twitter-Revolution”    I had some doubts that revolution is coming soon concluding however that something historic is afoot in Iran today. I order to understand events in today’s Iran I think they should be put in wider context of Iran’s history and ruling system. ...

Preparing this rant about the widening milkyway between Eurozone economic growth and Euro production in the ECB and its printing presses spread evenly amongst Euro members proves one more time that the absoluteness of financial math and official figures are 2 pairs of shoes. Calculating GDP growth in...

EU participation an ongoing evolution - Letters, Opinion - Independent.ie Thursday June 25 2009 About the only remaining argument against the Lisbon Treaty the ‘No’ campaigners have left is that they dislike being asked to vote on the same treaty twice. But we have also voted in referendums...

If your small-time loan you need for your kid’s bracelets is denied by your bank’s customer representative, you have every right to go berserk. The European Central Bank (ECB) came up with one of their ominous “innovations” on Wednesday that essentially is nothing else than a...

Jon Worth is a long time blogger and commentator on European politics I respect greatly. I have interviewed him briefly, here.  All the more surprising to me therefore, that we seem to have differed greatly in our approach to the Common Agricultural policy and its reform.   I see the Common...

Cross-posted from the European Tribune. A conference to mark the end of the Th!nkaboutit blogging competition was held in Rotterdam on the 15th. June, and even merited a story in the Financial Times. Joe Litobarski, Nanne Zwagermann, Andreas Mullerleile, Daniel Antal, Jon Worth, and Julien Frisch led...