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Author Archives: Nick Barlow
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The emergency meeting of EU interior ministers today has recommended that next week’s heads of government meeting appoint an EU anti-terrorism ‘czar’, but there will not be a centralized ‘European Intelligence Agency’
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Newly released polls from Spain show that the PSOE may have been in the lead before last Thursday. More discussion of this at Harry’s Place
How Spain voted
Both Chris Brooke and Matthew Turner have raised the suggestion that the Socialist victory in Spain may not have been caused by an actual swing in the electorate from the Popular Party (PP) to the Socialists (PSOE) after Thursday, but rather by the attacks in Madrid inspiring more people to go out and vote. With the majority of these new voters trending towards the left and the PSOE, the argument goes, this meant that they can attribute their victory to these new voters, rather than voters who switched from the PP to the PSOE.
Curious about whether or not this is true, I took a look at the actual election results and there is evidence there to support this view. However, any conclusions from this evidence are necessarily tentative and speculative, as the evidence could be interpreted many ways.
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After Madrid, there’ll be a series of emergency EU meetings to discuss greater co-operation over terror
Great minds etc
Steve Bell’s If… cartoon in the Guardian today (and presumably for the rest of the week) is a little tale called For A Fistful Of Euros. However, it’s about the arguments over policy towards the Euro between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, rather than an expose of us.
While the Guardian does make Bell’s editorial cartoons available over the web, If… doesn’t seem to be available. If anyone does know where it may be available online, then please let us know!
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Who did it? – Maria Farrell on the questions raised by Madrid
Elections
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Another search for Radovan Karadzic has ended in failure
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‘A dynamic democratic Europe’ – a recent speech by British Foreign Office Minister, Mike O’Brien