Cameron’s reality check on Europe. EPIN [Working] Paper No. 38, 15 April 2014

Ever since Prime Minister David Cameron made his major speech on Europe on 23 January 2013, in which he argued for some kind of new deal between the UK and the EU, the rest of the EU as well as the British public have been wondering what he would actually propose in operational terms. On 15 March 2014, the Prime Minister offered at least an interim reply to these questions in an article in the Daily Telegraph newspaper. This paper extracts from the Daily Telegraph article the main ideas that the Prime Minister advances. In all, 10 propositions are identified, presented in the precise language used, followed by an appraisal. The article has not attracted so much attention, mainly because its content is not particularly sensational, but that is its real importance and quality. It points the way towards resolving what otherwise would mean a huge political crisis for the UK and the EU. The Prime Minister gave the overall impression that he is not now heading towards making an impossibly difficult list of demands. On the contrary, an informed and moderate realism seems to be in the making. The package outlined in this paper could be sold in Brussels. There would then have to be a robust communications campaign to sell it to the British public. This paper is part of a series for a CEPS-EPIN project on “The British Question and the Search for a Fresh European Narrative”, which is pegged to an ambitious ongoing exercise by the British government to review all the competences of the European Union. The intention is that this should provide a basis for informed debate before the referendum on the UK remaining in the EU or not, which is scheduled for 2017.

Too high and too low: The problems with energy prices in the EU. OSW Commentary No. 122, 03.12.2013

On 11 October, the top executives of ten European energy companies, which jointly own about half of the European Union’s electricity generating capacity, warned that “energy security is no longer guaranteed” and once again called for changes to EU energy policy. Due to persistent adverse conditions in the energy market (linked to, for example, the exceptionally low wholesale energy prices) more and more conventional power plants are being closed down. According to sector representatives, this could lead to energy shortages being seen as early as this winter. Meanwhile, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph published in September of this year, the European industry commissioner Antonio Tajani warned – in a rather alarmist tone – of the disastrous consequences the rising energy prices could have on European industry. Amongst the reasons for the high prices of energy, Tajani mentioned the overambitious pace and methods used to increase the share of renewables in the sector. In a similar vein, EU President Herman Van Rompuy has highlighted the need to reduce energy costs as a top priority for EU energy policy1. The price of energy has become one of the central issues in the current EU energy debate. The high consumer price of energy – which has been rising steadily over the past several years – poses a serious challenge to both household and industrial users. Meanwhile, the declining wholesale prices are affecting the cost-effectiveness of energy production and the profits of energy companies. The current difficulties, however, are first and foremost a symptom of much wider problems related to the functioning of both the EU energy market as well as to the EU’s climate and energy policies.

Observation of manganese deposits made during the 1936 transect of C/S Lord Kelvin through the Northern Atlantic Ocean

In May and June 1936 Dr. C. S. Piggot of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, took a series of 11 deep-sea cores in the North Atlantic Ocean between the Newfoundland banks and the banks off the Irish coast. These cores were taken from the Western Union Telegraph Co.'s cable ship Lord Kelvin with the explosive type of sounding device which Dr. Piggot designed. All but two of these cores (Nos. 8 and 11) are more than 2.43 meters (8 feet) long, and all contain ample material for study. Of the two short cores, No. 8 was taken from the top of the Faraday Hills, as that part of the mid-Atlantic ridge is known, where the material is closely packed and more sandy and consequently more resistant; No. 11 came from a locality where the apparatus apparently landed on volcanic rock that may be part of a submarine lava flow.

Memoria anual.

At head of title : Correos y telégrafos del Perú.

Relatorio da Repartição Geral dos Telegraphos apresentado ao Ministro da Industria Viação e Obras Publicas ...

1889-1890 apresentado ao Ministro da Instrucção Publica, Correios e Telegraphos.

The Topolovampo Pacific railway : a commercial and statistical review, showing its local, transcontinental, international and interoceanic features and advantages /

Bound in a vol. with supplied title: [Austin-Topolovampo railroad documents]

Informe - Dirección General de Correos y Telégrafos.

Title varies slightly.

Proyecto de ley sobre administración de los correos y telégrafos del estado.

Mode of access: Internet.

Disposiciones relativas a la organización y reglamentación de los ramos postal y telegráfico /

Mode of access: Internet.

Informe.

Mode of access: Internet.

Informe - Dirección General de Telégrafos.

Some issued as anexos to the Memoria of the Ministerio de Gobierno (published under varying forms of the Ministry's name)

Reglamento general de telégrafos.

Appendices (p. 1-22):--Convención telegráfica con la República Argentina.--Convención telegráfica con la República de Chile.--Ley de agosto de 1912.

Intereses económicos; telégrafos bolivianos,

Mode of access: Internet.

Reglamento general de telégrafos y teléfonos.

Cover title.

Annual report /

Commissioners: 1867-1871, George B. Wright.--1871-1872, Richard D. Harrision.--1872-1874, Orlow L. Wolcott.--1874-1876, John G. Thompson.--1876-1878, Lincoln G. Delano.--1878-1880. William Bell, Jr.--1880-1881, James S. Robinson.--1881-1885, Hylas Sabine.--1885-1887, Henry Apthorp.--1887-1890, William S. Cappeller.--1890-1892, James A. Norton.--1892-1897, William Kirkby.--1897-1901, Raymond S. Kayler.--1901-1906, James C. Morris.