Copyright 2010 Soeren Kern Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:40:02 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Soeren Kern :: Writings http://kern.pundicity.com soerenkern@hotmail.com (Soeren Kern) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://kern.pundicity.com/7002/european-welfare-state-labor-tensions Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST Europe has been hit by a wave of industrial and social unrest in recent days and weeks, as workers across the continent push back against efforts to cut government spending and drive down wages. The uncoordinated strikes and protests, which have taken... http://kern.pundicity.com/6956/spain-economic-crisis-anglo-saxon-conspiracy Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has ordered Spain's official intelligence agency, the National Intelligence Center (CNI), to investigate whether the "Anglo-Saxon media" (aka English-language press) is conspiring to undermine the... http://kern.pundicity.com/6888/europeans-us-relief-haiti Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST Europeans have been struggling to come up with a unified response to the earthquake in Haiti. Although the European Union now has a president and foreign minister whose job it is to make Europe "speak with one voice" on the global stage, Europeans have... http://kern.pundicity.com/6725/europe-wants-to-divide-jerusalem Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST The European Union on December 8 adopted a resolution that for the first time explicitly calls for Jerusalem to become the future capital of both a Palestinian state and Israel. Backing away only slightly from a more controversial Swedish proposal to... http://kern.pundicity.com/6707/european-carbon-credit-trading-system-fraud Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST The European Union's flagship cap-and-trade carbon credit trading system is plagued by massive fraud and is effectively under the control of organized crime, according to a December 9 statement issued by European police. Europol, an EU-wide criminal... http://kern.pundicity.com/6657/minarets-bayonets-swiss-vote-ban Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST Swiss voters on November 29 overwhelmingly approved a referendum to ban the construction of minarets, the tower-like structures on mosques that are often used to call Muslims to prayer. The surprise outcome of the referendum, which passed with a clear... http://kern.pundicity.com/6626/switzerland-minaret-war Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST Swiss voters go to the polls on November 29 to decide the fate of a referendum to ban the construction of minarets, the tower-like structures on mosques that are often used to call Muslims to prayer. The initiative is being promoted by the conservative... http://kern.pundicity.com/6586/europeans-secretly-choose-eu-president Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST Leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union are meeting in Brussels on November 19 to choose the first-ever European president and European foreign minister. European political elites say these two new jobs are needed so that the notoriously... http://kern.pundicity.com/6575/spain-tries-islamists-over-barcelona-terror-plot Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST Eleven suspected Islamic extremists of South Asian origin have gone on trial in Spain over an alleged plot to stage suicide attacks on the Barcelona subway system. Spanish prosecutors allege that the defendants, nine Pakistanis and two Indians, were... http://kern.pundicity.com/6521/spain-israel-and-the-fight-over-unifil Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has canceled a November 4 and 5 visit to Spain amid a dispute over the command of the European-led United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The visit was called off after reports surfaced that Israeli Prime... http://kern.pundicity.com/6434/eu-lisbon-treaty-transatlantic-relations Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST Now that Ireland and Poland have ratified the Lisbon Treaty, a document designed to fundamentally re-engineer the 27-member European Union, Czech President Vaclav Klaus is the only remaining holdout. If Klaus gives in and signs the document, as he is... http://kern.pundicity.com/6405/europe-reaction-obama-nobel Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST European newspapers have reacted to Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize with a mixture of incredulity and skepticism. Almost without exception, newspapers across the continent (and political spectrum) are saying the award to Obama is premature and... http://kern.pundicity.com/6400/us-health-care-debate-anti-americanism-europe Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST Europeans have dedicated saturation media coverage to the debate over reforming the American health care system. Some of the coverage has provided useful insights into the diverging attitudes between Europeans and Americans on the issue of health care.... http://kern.pundicity.com/6399/zapatero-washington Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's second term in office has not been a happy affair for Spain. Soundly re-elected on a post-modern platform of Socialism, pacifism and feminism just 18 months ago, Zapatero has since stumbled badly in... http://kern.pundicity.com/6363/irish-voters-european-federal-superstate Sun, 4 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST Irish voters have overwhelmingly approved the European Union's controversial Lisbon Treaty, a document that will forever change the dynamics of European (and potentially global) politics. The "yes" vote comes just 18 months after Irish voters gave the...