Go to the Content Friday, 19 March 2010
Your search for "Oxford University" produced 48 items.
| 1. Grumpy old men | November 4, 2009 |
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My generation is past its political expiration date. Having reached pensionable age, I qualify to be a grumpy old man. I should be boring my children, and the students at... | |
| 2. Political scientist | October 22, 2009 |
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This scientist may prove a formidable chairwoman of the European Parliament's economic and financial committee. At a conference in Gothenburg last month, Sharon Bowles found... |
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| 3. Financial institutions are out of touch | October 15, 2009 |
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EU states need to exert the influence they have over the IMF. For weeks, there has been a refrain from EU finance ministers that the global economy is recovering. Such talk... |
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| 4. Plan to put a price on carbon | October 1, 2009 |
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Commission wants a minimum tax on carbon but proposal would need backing from Council. The European Commission is pressing ahead with controversial plans for an EU-wide... | |
| 5. Putting the case for lobbying | September 10, 2009 |
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Hostility to lobbying is commonplace and widespread, but it is an integral part of the political landscape. Lobbying has become something of a dirty word. The European... |
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| 6. When is ‘healthy' food really bad for you? | May 14, 2009 |
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The Commission still has a lot on its plate trying to establish which foods can be described as healthy. When is a doughnut a healthy snack and a slice of brown bread bad... | |
| 7. Will the recession make the Earth a greener planet? | March 5, 2009 |
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Carbon prices sharply down since last summer; analysts predict further market contraction. Could the economic slump be good for the planet? As production lines fall silent,... | |
| 8. European 'wise men' chosen | October 16, 2008 |
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EU leaders approve composition of group mandated to ponder the future of Europe.
EU leaders today approved the addition of nine members to a group mandated to reflect... | |
| 9. Clear-eyed, not wall-eyed | April 16, 2008 |
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Stephen Wall, a man with the ear of three UK premiers, by turn attacks and defends British attitudes towards the EU while arguing that the UK can now feel “very... |
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| 10. Animal champion | April 9, 2008 |
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The father of London's would-be mayor and the author of the novel “The Commissioner” looks back at his “most wonderful job” – in the Commission in Brussels. If... |
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| 11. The rebirth of separatism? | February 28, 2008 |
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EU leaders and officials have spent the last few months maintaining that Kosovo is a unique case which in no way sets a precedent for the solution of frozen conflicts... | |
| 12. Finally, a state they can call their own | February 21, 2008 |
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Declaring independence does not mean that Kosovo will become a state overnight. Kosovo's declaration of independence on Sunday (17 February) means that Kosovars now have... | |
| 13. The pretender | January 10, 2008 |
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The fall of communism in Poland produced many astonishing political careers as the regime's former opponents emerged from cramped, book-lined apartments to take their places... | |
| 14. EU directive ‘puts people's lives at risk' | October 11, 2007 |
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Europe is suffocating vital new medicines under a mass of paperwork – putting at risk both patient welfare and the industry's prosperity. That was the alarm sounded last... | |
| 15. Arnie keeps Brussels waiting | October 4, 2007 |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator turned politician, was nominated last month in European Voice's EV50 awards for the campaigner of the year category. In his work as... | |
| 16. Telling the pornographer's tale | February 15, 2007 |
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A famous New Yorker cartoon depicts two people talking at a Manhattan party. “I'm writing a book,” says one. “Neither,” replies the other, “am I.” This mordant... | |
| 17. The Centre Forward | January 25, 2007 |
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When David Miliband made his first political trip to Brussels, no one knew who he was. Appointed by Tony Blair to join a group of grand old men to ponder the future of... | |
| 18. A Marshall Plan for the world's bottom billion | December 21, 2006 |
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Since the 1960s Africa has been diverging from other developing regions at an accelerating rate, a trend which seems certain to generate unmanageable social pressures. That... | |
| 19. Dismal Scientist | September 7, 2006 |
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Professor Damien Neven is a leading academic authority on the economics of competition policy. Cynics will see his arrival on rue Joseph II as the European Commission's new... | |
| 20. The Eurythmic | March 16, 2006 |
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The Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges famously admired the existential qualities of the tango, which he described as "unconcerned and carefree, always looking forward".... | |
