June 4th is election day for the European Parliament in the UK. EU profiler is a fun way to discover your own position in the political landscape for the 2009 EP elections (although you may not agree with the result it gives you!). For more information about the elections, follow the link from EuroparlUK the… Read More »
James Kantor, International Herald Tribune and New York Times journalist, has won this year’s Reporting Europe prize, awarded jointly by UACES http://www.uaces.org/ and Thomson Reuters A panel of academics and journalists shortlisted six articles and broadcasts, which excelled in stimulating critical debate on European integration. The winning article, on the EU’s Emissions Trading System, was published in the International… Read More »
Do you need cases from other European jurisdictions that apply EU law? Cases on 11 areas of law from national courts in 25 of the EU national jurisdictions are now available from Caselex (via OxLIP+). In addition to the full text in the original language, each case is summarised in English. From the Caselex home… Read More »
Frustrated by Europa? Try using this Google search box http://searcheuropa.eu/ set up by EU4Journalists http://eu4journalists.eu/ You can use it to search over 28 million pages on europa.eu. (Thanks to EDC librarians in Exeter and Valencia for pointing this out)
From Wednesday 17 September, anyone in the world with internet access has been able to watch a regularly changing set of programmes based around the life of the European Parliament. Europarltv www.europarltv.europa.eu offers four channels, each directed at a different audience: Parliament Live carries continuous coverage of live events in the European Parliament, notably debates in… Read More »
The 5th edition of Halsbury’s Laws, has started to arrive, as reported on this blog in May. The transition from the 4th edition to the 5th is likely to take seven years. The complete set will be 102 volumes, numbered straight through from 1–102, and a reorganisation of the content means that the new volumes… Read More »
The Lisbon Treaty was signed on 13 December, and although ratification is still in progress, we already have two copies of the consolidated treaties in the Library. One, the Consolidated Version of the Treaties as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon , published by the Institute of International and European Affairs and edited by Peadar… Read More »
The EU law researchers among you may have noticed that no new COM documents have been loaded into the Preparatory Acts section of EUR-Lex since the end of April. The EUR-Lex helpdesk has explained that there is a problem in the loading chain from the Secretariat General to EUR-Lex. The technical team has been telling… Read More »
First prize, and many congratulations, go to Andrew Lodder, for a completely accurate set of answers. Prizes (Europe Direct memory sticks) also go to: Edward Hewitt, Jennifer Barker, Peter Roberts (a physicist!) Khalida Azhigulove, Ryan Magee, Peter Carver (Academic Visitor to the Faculty) and Maris Kopcke Tinture Several of the “runners up” turned in correct… Read More »
9 May is Europe Day, and a chance to win prizes from the Library with our European quiz Do you know … which EU country is associated with Ouzo? … who painted the Sistine Chapel? … if so, you’re in with a chance! Pick up a Europe Day 2008 quiz sheet from the Law Reserve… Read More »
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