Did a Pin search on the term "journalism" and concluded there was an opening for a thread with the above title.
Politico EU launched in April.
http://www.politico.eu/
Like the US edition they are offering an expanding list of daily policy tipsheets you can sign up for depending on your area of interest. US edition currently has 22 daily tipsheets. EU just has 4, but they'll likely get to 22 or more.
https://www.politico.eu/registration/
Other US publications do similar, but I'm not aware of other EU pubs who do. I find them useful as an additional and timely source of info, but its important to keep them in context. They are an addition to, rather than a substitute for. The tone is more casual/conversational and because they focus only on politics and policy 24/7 they have a tendency to hype unnecessarily. Once you allow for that......
The primary tipsheet is "Playbook " a pure politics dive.
Here's the initial one that ran April 21.
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By Ryan Heath @PoliticoRyan
SIGN UP HERE: If you’ve received this by an email forward, get the Playbook every day by signing up here: bit.ly/1OznjHr
JUNCKER EXCLUSIVE 1 – “THERE WILL BE NO DEFAULT” IN GREECE: European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker warned Monday that Greek intransigence is “unacceptable” and risks economic catastrophe. “I am excluding at 100 percent this Grexit” bit.ly/1bedG44
WELCOME TO THE SHOW – WHAT IS PLAYBOOK? Essential news you can use, delivered to you every weekday morning at 7 a.m. Reporting with brevity and levity, not only for the Brussels bubble but for anyone with a stake in the work of the EU.
JUNCKER EXCLUSIVE 2 – TTIP IS “FAR GONE” and “We have to take it back.” Yet the President rules out a heavily coordinated messaging campaign, saying “you cannot convince people by spreading around propaganda arguments.” bit.ly/1bedG44
JUNCKER EXCLUSIVE 3 - WORKING THROUGH CRIPPLING PAIN: “I have kidney stones and that’s very painful, so I’m not really in form. I intended to cancel our interview because it was so painful this morning. Now I’m on strong medicines ... I am drugged." bit.ly/1OzZMWG
CONNECTING THE DOTS: That’s what Playbook is all about. With you, for you. EU power plays have patterns – I’m here to decode them. EU debates are more like national debates than most media admit. So come back here for politics and people, not merely policy and process. Look at today’s three big issues: the Med Crisis, Greece and TTIP. All three are stories of goodwill thwarted by ineffectiveness or incompetence; all are a game of ‘chicken’ where one party dares the other to blink instead of seeking clever compromise.
WHO AM I? I’m Australian in search of a Belgian passport, with 16 years' experience in journalism, plus politics and civil service advisory roles. I’ve been called a rat-bag socialist and a radical free-marketeer, more here:
http://linkd.in/1bgIEZY
I left a part-time role at Edelman (GE, the sponsor of today’s column, is a client of Edelman), to work full-time as the senior EU correspondent for POLITICO. I intend to make Europe more transparent and I'll always be transparent about myself.
HILLARY CLINTON SLAMS ISDS: As transatlantic talks resume in New York, Playbook wonders why no one noticed the US Presidential frontrunner has taken another left-wing stand. On Page 509 and 510 of her recent book “Hard Choices” Clinton writes: “We should be focused on … harmonizing regulation with the EU. And we should avoid some of the provisions sought by business interests, including our own, like giving them or their investors the power to sue foreign governments.” Clearly no one has read all the way to p.509. Until now 
DRIVING THE DAY >> HIGH SEAS, HIGH DRAMA: Everyone expected terrible tragedy to be followed by more talk and no action; Federica Mogherini and her aides left for Luxembourg not knowing who would show up, as boats kept rolling in (two distress signals, one capsize)
http://bit.ly/1DE168b
. In the end, a jumbo meeting of 41 Foreign and Interior Ministers assembled and was shocked into minimal action. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat of Malta observed “What happened on Sunday was a game changer.”
TEN-POINT ACTION PLAN AGREED BY MINISTERS: europa.eu/!KV34kT Handy pic list here h/t Dana Manescu pic.twitter.com/w1c1KCOCyS. New York Times provides excellent graphics about why action is needed nyti.ms/1FarkBo
WORST CASE SCENARIO AVERTED: Matteo Renzi woke up to the front page of La Repubblica labeling the crisis an “Apocalypse,” and Liberation renaming the Med Sea, the ‘Dead Sea.’ Ten hours later, ministers started their afternoon talks not even sure if Donald Tusk would call a summit of EU leaders, which he eventually did (for Thursday).
MOGHERINI VICTORY – RESOURCES TO DOUBLE: “We finally have a new European level of awareness that this is a European issue not a single member state,” announced the relieved High Representative. More on that and refugee resettlement plans here: bit.ly/1OzSXo7
TUSK RE-SHAPES THE PRESIDENCY: The core task of the European Council President is to broker compromise. Donald Tusk lived up to his reputation as a convention-breaker yesterday and has helped re-shape the Presidency in the process. How? By insisting EU countries immediately make contributions to the beefed up Triton operation and convening a summit of leaders Thursday. bit.ly/1O8KfT4
HISTORY REPEATED? The FT’s Peter Spiegel reminds us that yesterday’s 10 point plan looks quite similar to 2013’s 5 point plan. bit.ly/1E2XAp8
SHOW US THE MONEY: Not all the extra resources will come from loaned planes and ships. As Commission insists an overall long-term migration strategy will be ready mid-May, we ask where will the money come from? Those who hold the Commission purse strings say a €64m home affairs “margins” budget is the likely source. There’s a €211m budget line in the ‘Global Europe’ section of the budget if more creative minds wanted to tap it. bit.ly/1DFDkZr
WHERE'S MERKEL? "We owe it to ourselves to do more," Merkel said, reports Reuters reut.rs/1HOjr5n. A well-placed German source explains the reluctance to go further: “Merkel is very calculating on this. She has nothing to win domestically. If Europe accuses her of inaction, she doesn’t care: the bigger fight for her is on Greece.”
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GREXIT: SIDES NOW WORKING TOGETHER BUT NO REAL PROGRESS ahead of Friday's Eurogroup meeting, agree IMF and Commission sources. As Greek government compulsorily pools cash reserves of public entities at central bank "things have been not nearly fast enough,” says one on deep background. on.wsj.com/1HOgLER
GREECE: WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE WEEK AHEAD: 1) SIGNS of a path to agreement – but not before the Eurogroup finance ministers meet in Riga on Friday 2) EVIDENCE of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble’s growing hawkishness on Greece – he’s sick of Varoufakis and no longer hiding it 3) EXAMPLES of Finance Minister Varoufakis being moved out of the game by PM Alex Tsipras 4) MORE players like Austria’s central banker downplaying the impact of a Grexit. He said yesterday that he doesn’t “see a contagion in the financial and economic sense," reports Reuters reut.rs/1J3wly3
D(FAULT)-DAY COULD BE 11 MAY: when we find out if Economics Commissioner Pierre Moscovici is right when he says "I have no plan B.” While the Greeks are desperate for cash to pay €200 million owed to the IMF May 1, and a deal this week would have been preferable, the real problem is a €760 million payment on May 12. If no service level agreement is in place by then, expect fireworks
WE HEAR: The Greek finance minister's books are a smash hit at the European Council’s internal library. If only Greek bonds were that popular.
WHAT'S DRIVING DETERMINATION TO KEEP GREECE IN CHECK? Podemos, Spain’s radical insurgent party. Many want Greece cut loose. But if it helped Podemos take control of the world’s 12th largest economy, austerity policies would be shipwrecked.
WHAT'S STOPPING EURO GOVTS FROM CUTTING GREECE LOOSE? Russia. Alex Tsipras knows it and plays it.
GET IN THE LOOP — POLITICO'S FIRST EUROPE PODCAST: bit.ly/1G1FDV8
US 2016: JEB BUSH TO TOUR EUROPE, story by POLITICO Playbook’s Mike Allen. Germany, Poland and Estonia on the early June itinerary bit.ly/1Ha2O53
60-SECOND BREAKFAST WRAPS FOR YOU: Playbook will be packing a Presidential punch. We’re going to have regular insights from the DC father of Playbook, Mike Allen, from on and around the Presidential trail.
TTIP TALKS SLOW: European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström is claiming new momentum for TTIP, but the evidence doesn’t agree. Talks began yesterday in New York, but the biggest part of the economy (services) is off the table, and the most controversial element of the deal (ISDS) is shelved until at least September. bit.ly/1P7eKFZ
PLAYBOOK’S VIEW: If Angela Merkel keeps leaving it to Sigmar Gabriel to defend TTIP in the face of nationwide protests, other leaders won’t go out on a limb either. Malmstrom needs heavyweight leaders to speak up to win the momentum she seeks.
EXPERTS AGREE: Former Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht “burnt the ground so badly it is hard for anything to flower now,” in terms of dialogue with sometimes hysterical civil society organisations at war with TTIP negotiators. So says one expert who knows both European and global trade negotiations from the inside. “Malmstrom can’t do this alone. There should be 29 voices explaining this in their national language with their national nuance. The member states need to battle for this. Governments have a responsibility to go and explain.”
SCOOP: READ POLITICO’S ZOYA SHEFTALOVICH’S STORY AND THE FULL DRAFT EU DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET PLAN Story here: bit.ly/1D9dESy Leaked plan here: bit.ly/1QbTujP
SCOOP: THE LEAKED EVIDENCE BASE OF COMMISSION DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET PLAN: In 2013 the Commission was heavily criticized by its own Impact Assessment board and stakeholders for weak evidence in support of the now ditched “Connected Continent” plan. I would know – it was me they complained to as the Commission’s Digital Spokesperson. I’m all for learning from mistakes, so let’s help the Commission lift its game this time. Read the evidence supporting it for yourself, and help fill the gaps: bit.ly/1IzfFei
TRACKED CHANGES BONANZA: We were laughing at the candor, maybe you will too … Send your comments to:
rheath@politico.eu
. If yours are interesting you could see them in print here tomorrow. Here are some clues to get you started …
POLICY-BASED EVIDENCE MAKING: 1) Why, on page 28, are officials looking to find evidence AFTER the policy is “announced,” rather than the other way around? 2) p.53 sees the proposed deletions of unfavourable evidence about the interminable nature of Commission tech antitrust cases 3) p.55 Officials would love to take a “top-down” (read: regulatory) approach to standardization but don’t seem ready to admit it. OOPS! Shame they left the tracked changes in.
TAKEAWAY — MARTIN SELMAYR TELECOMS WIN: President Juncker’s Chief of Staff lost a key battle in 2013, when his effort to shoot down telecoms reforms was outvoted 26-2 by Commissioners. Today’s takeaway is that he won in the end. The new College is set to fold on the “Connected Continent” negotiations, save for some roaming and net neutrality reforms. Instead it will propose a bigger telecoms reform “maybe maybe before the end of the year,” Gunther Oettinger tells Politico.
OETTINGER INTERVIEW: includes confirmation of copyright proposals in October. bit.ly/1OzWgLW
BELGIAN DEPUTY PM TAKES DIGITAL SWIPE AT ALLIES: Alexander de Croo pulled no punches yesterday at the launch of a new Digital Belgium strategy, freedom must survive tech he said: “We’ve always done surveillance if someone is a suspect. But to do mass surveillance is saying the whole population is a suspect.” Ouch.
PARLIAMENT COMMITTEES BACK JUNCKER PLAN: The European Parliament budget and economics committees offered back to the Regulation establishing the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI)
BRUSSELS VS GAZPROM: On Wednesday, the European Commission is expected to name its next superpower antitrust target: Gazprom. bit.ly/1F9eDH3 We hear the charges will take a softly softly approach in an effort to quell Russian bears
FINLAND ELECTION FINAL RESULTS: Stubb out, Nokia exec in as PM-elect bit.ly/1G9pGyF.
GREEK AFTERSHOCKS: Finns Party says Finnish “policy on Greece will change.” Commission sources say the Greeks will be happy with that – the Finns are as against the Euro-consensus as they are. Will Timo Soini become the Varoufakis of the North?
SECOND LOOK: Finland's economy is growing slower than Greece. 4th consecutive year of recession. Outgoing PM Stubb warns of lost decade: bit.ly/1bd3vga
CONFUSED ABOUT THE EU? The EU embassy in Washington has come up with this handy reference bit.ly/1aM2xac
WHAT BRITAIN IS READING: STURGEON ANGLES TO BE MINORITY GOVERNMENT PUPPET-MASTER in exclusive interview with the Guardian bit.ly/1Eln3MM
WHAT RUSSIA IS READING - SWIMMING UPSTREAM: Waving away criticism from Norway over an unauthorized visit to the Svalbard archipelago, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told Rossiyskaya Gazeta: “Even salmon understands the folly of Norway participating in sanctions”. My thoughts exactly.
http://bit.ly/1Dvrtdd
LEARN MORE ABOUT @POLITICOEurope – “one of the most interesting journalistic experiments in many years” according to Wolfgang Blau, director of digital strategy for The Guardian on.fb.me/1aUUsQN
VACANT: If this video doesn’t put you off, the EU Court of Auditors, guardian of citizens’ financial interests is taking job applications until 28 April. bit.ly/1DF3OdB
KURDS ELIMINATED BY “PRINTING ERROR” We’re sceptical Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s claim that Kurdish Turks are missing from 350 page manifesto of the the ruling AKP party because of a “printing error” bit.ly/1be7gSC
GRAND-DAUGHTER 2.0: Plenty of people around Brussels wanted to scream each time ex-Commissioner Neelie Kroes wheeled out her story about her Skyping grand-daughter. The four-year old couldn’t believe it was possible to still be alive at 72 (as Kroes was). New VP Kristalina Gerogieva has upgraded the storyline, telling Playbook: “I had a very interesting experience with my grand-daughter. I said to her that when I was her age there was no TV and no computers. Then she turns to me and says ‘so you only had iPads?’”
TRADING PLACES: Andrew Cecil has left his post as head of European Public Policy at Amazon (before that Yahoo) and is joining Burson-Marstellar, to lead their Europe, Middle East and Africa public affairs practice. bit.ly/1yKp5nc
NEXT TIME MATT! POLITICO Executive Editor Matt Kaminski was robbed at the Pulitzer Prize awards overnight. So we decided to launch an awesome new publication in his honor instead.
SAY WHAT? The Brussels Group is meeting in Paris about Greece. Yes indeed. bit.ly/1HawXBl
START THE PRESS! Amnesty International is rushing forward publication of a research brief: Europe’s sinking shame: The failure to save refugees and migrants at sea,” It will be available 13h, 22 April. Embargoed copies available from
mpatterson@amnesty.eu
GOOD DEED OF THE DAY: As tragedy grabs the headlines, take a moment to appreciate IKEA for raising 10.8 million euros so far in 2015 for the world’s growing number of refugees in it’s “Brighter Lives” campaign bit.ly/1O98Sir
WHO’S IN BRUSSELS: Frans Timmerman’s buddy, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, is en route to Brussels as part of a continental security tour.
WHAT’S ON IN BRUSSELS: 1) THE FREE-MARKET ROADSHOW. That’s literally the name. Today from 14h,
http://freemarket-rs.com/tour/brussels/
2) SOMETHING FISHY: The world’s largest seafood fair is in Brussels from Tuesday until Thursday. 3) CATALAN WEEK: Named after St George a week full of cultural activities is planned.
WARNING – TRAFFIC HELL TOMORROW: a general strike planned in Belgium on Wednesday, April 22 and this will coincide with a fleet of motorcades from joint Meeting of the African Union and European Commission Colleges. The strike will hit all public services across the country: public transport, railway traffic, postal services, education, etc.
COFFEE TIP: Great coffee is nearly impossible to come by in Brussels’ EU quarter. Send me your favourites to
rheath@politico.eu
. In the meantime, try “Or” at 13 Place Jourdan
BIRTHDAYS: Queen Elizabeth II is 89 today and Greek liberal party founder (and former German MEP) Jorgo Chatzimarkakis is 49.
THANKS: This Playbook could not have been produced without the help of Hans Joachim von der Burchard, Craig Winneker, Jeanette Minns, Zoya Sheftalovich, Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei, Tunku Varadarajan and Florian Eder.
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And the most recent one May 15.
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By Ryan Heath | @PoliticoRyan | send tips to
rheath@politico.eu
PUT A STOCK IN IT: Playbook picked "taking stock" as the phrase of the week Tuesday; now Zeke Turner gives you the full rundown on the empty phrase European leaders use to fill the space around their efforts to sort out the Greek economy.
http://politi.co/1cXlokD
DRAGHI AND LAGARDE MEET TO DISCUSS GREECE: "The debate over what to do about Greece is accelerating:" Bloomberg's neat summary:
http://bloom.bg/1QMhKs6
Also, the FT's Peter Spiegel claims evidence the Greek government is hoarding cash:
http://bit.ly/1QMi4ap
VAROUFAKIS CALLS FOR €27 BILLION IN POST-AUGUST PAYMENTS TO BE TREATED FLEXIBLY: But he says the European Central Bank's Mario Draghi won't consider such an option because contradicting the German Bundesbank so directly fills his "soul with fear."
http://reut.rs/1HfEQmA
VAROUFAKIS & GREECE NON-PAYMENT TWITTER SPAT: The Greek finance minister, speaking in fluent acronym, accused journalists of deliberately misrepresenting him. (See his remarks in Greek here:
http://bit.ly/1FgfPrW
h/t Peter Spiegel for the video link.) He threw out the accusation via Twitter: "I spoke of a possible ESM-mediated repayment of ECB's SMP GGBs and some journos report I announced....nonpayment. Astonishing propaganda!" Playbook was at the beach when all this happened and fully sympathizes with any person — journalist or otherwise — confused by such statements.
DECODER: The ECB is the European Central Bank. The SMP is the Securities Markets Programme. A GGB is a Greek Government Bond (how the Greek government borrows from investors). ESM is the European Stability Mechanism (an EU fund for bailing out struggling economies). And the question is whether to launder the Greek bonds through the ECB so that they can be repaid later: a thought the German authorities hate.
GREECE'S SPLIT PERSONALITY PROBLEM: Perceptive article published in the New York Times, by Jochen Bittner, who argues there are two Greeces: one official, one unofficial. One works, one doesn't.
http://nyti.ms/1RJHQxl
**A message from GE: Powering your flying experience. Learn more at
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THE INSIDE READ ON OBAMA'S TRADE NAME-AND-SHAME:
http://politi.co/1Fg8DvN
HOLLANDE'S SCOOTER SHIFTS INTO NEUTRAL: POLITICO's Nicholas Vinocur looks at how France's economic reforms are stalled as the presidential campaign picks up speed.
http://politi.co/1FhGswy
WHAT THE LOBBYING DISCLOSURES MEAN: Five things you need to know about the EU's Transparency Register, from POLITICO's Quentin Ariès.
http://politi.co/1IBIRVn
WE HEAR — AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: could be bumped up the EU's trade priority list when updates are announced later in the year, heading towards eventual Free Trade Agreement negotiations. The buzz is that Canberra's diplomatic community is pleased and supportive. New Zealand diplomatic sources say the country has long aimed at modeling itself as the 29th EU member state — so this will be music to Kiwi ears, too.
MARTIN SCHULZ WINS CHARLEMAGNE PRIZE: Congratulations are in order for the European Parliament president, who accepted the award in Aachen. The press release from S&D group leader Gianni Pittella should also win a prize — for most unbridled enthusiasm. The missive, issued while most of Europe holidayed, included such gems as "This is a great day for Europe!" and “It is also a testament to the crucial function that the Parliament has managed to secure for itself despite the profound democratic crisis that we have gone through." It's worth noting that the prize almost always goes to a head of a state or government, or leader of an EU institution. Jean-Claude Juncker (2006) and Donald Tusk (2010) have already won it. In fact, the only time in the last 26 years it wasn't a senior political figure holding the prize was in 2000 when the writer and former president of PEN International György Konrád won. There was also the time that "the Euro" won (2002).
http://bit.ly/1AYTQQR
BANK OF ENGLAND'S MARK CARNEY ADDS MOMENTUM FOR 2016 BREXIT REFERENDUM:
http://bit.ly/1Plon7A
. David Cameron himself has also hinted at 2016.
http://bit.ly/1HfBe40
UK'S EXTRAORDINARY LGBT ACHIEVEMENT: The UK hit a remarkable milestone last week, the Telegraph points out: It now has 32 out LGBT Members of the Parliament. That's 5 percent of all MEPs, and means that gays and lesbians have reached a level of representation in Parliament that approximately equals their relative size in the overall population. This happened before women achieved the same level (there are now 191 female MPs — 29 percent of MPs compared to 51 percent of the population), and just 31 years after the first MP (Labour's Chris Smith) came out of the closet. The UK also has more LGBT reps than any other Parliament in the world.
http://bit.ly/1IDdwjL
. More on the debate about how many LGBT citizens there are in Britain here:
http://bit.ly/1K84IV5
THE LASTEST UKIP FARCE: The peculiar tradition of Pantomime is usually reserved for the weeks after Christmas in Britain — UKIP has brought it forward to spring. Yesterday was a drawn-out drama over whether Nigel Farage's un-resignation as leader would become a re-resignation. You can follow it here in this Telegraph blog:
http://bit.ly/1H59rjZ
. According to MEP Patrick O’Flynn, the party’s economics spokesman, Farage has become a “snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive” man who is making UKIP look like a “personality cult.”
LABOUR HQ KNEW ED BALLS WOULD LOSE HIS SEAT — BUT DIDN'T TELL HIM: Report in the Daily Telegraph:
http://bit.ly/1e3iyef
ONE YEAR OF THE "RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN:" The European Court of Justice ushered in this partial new Internet right a year ago, and now 80 academics have accused Google of being non-transparent over how it makes decisions to comply with the ruling. The academics write: "The vast majority of these decisions face no public scrutiny, though they shape public discourse ... A fact-free debate about the right to be forgotten is in no one’s interest."
http://bit.ly/1K872eE
. For its part Google says that it has processed 253,617 requests to remove 920,258 links, and approved just over 100,000 (40 percent) of those requests.
http://bit.ly/1RJwjy3
POLITICO PRO’s MORNING TECHNOLOGY LAUNCHES MONDAY: POLITICO Pro’s morning must-read for European technology policy debuts on May 18, penned by POLITICO’s Dave Meyer (@superglaze). Sign up here
http://politi.co/1HjIPkH
to receive a complimentary trial of the newsletter, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning after 7 am CET.
FRACAS OVER FOIE-GRAS: The European Parliament can always be relied on to undermine itself. Exhibit A next week: banning foie-gras from the restaurants of the EP. To be fair, it's sources from the Parliament itself who alert Playbook to this development. But the fact the sources are (rightly) afraid to be named here shows the pettiness level to which the Parliament overall is willing to descend.
EASTERN EUROPE WIMPING OUT ON CLIMATE CHANGE — GETTING INTO BED WITH RUSSIA: POLITICO's Sara Stefanini reports on how seven countries from eastern Europe want to use out-of-date benchmarks to give themselves as easy ride on carbon emission reductions.
http://politi.co/1Hj4Fot
INTERRAIL GLOBAL PASS: If you're over 40 there's a reasonable chance you've bought and used a rail pass to trek or trundle around Europe at some point in your life. Not so much for the generation that grew up on budget airlines and fast trains. Now there's a new "global" rail pass designed to get the young and not-so-young to think again.
http://bit.ly/1IAc9DO
BRUSSELS INSIDER TIP — LISBON COUNCIL: One of the most successful and challenging think-tanks in town rarely advertises its events. So you need to take action if you want to join their hand-picked audiences. Make sure you asked to be added to event list on the subjects that interest you here:
http://bit.ly/1KN6uHZ
RETIRING — IMF's OLIVIER BLANCHARD: After helping to steer the fund through the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, Blanchard is moving to the Peterson Institute from October.
http://on.wsj.com/1A2r0nX
BRUSSELS TERRACE TIP: De Markten Café on Vieux Marché aux Grains. Part of the Flemish cultural center, the staff all speak good English (and appear to refuse to speak French). Spotted there recently: Luxembourg Green MEP Claude Turmes. h/t Antony So.
ON THE ROAD: Commissioner Tibor Navracsics is in Yerevan, taking part in the European Higher Education Area Ministerial Conference & 4th Bologna Policy Forum.
BIRTHDAYS: Sophie Norman of FleishmanHillard celebrates on Sunday.
THANKS: to Craig Winneker and Ivo Oliveira.
**A message from GE: Powering your flying experience. Learn more at
http://invent.ge/1Fc6OAs**
Thanks to improvements in aircraft technology, long gone are the days where you had to crane your neck to watch the same movie as everyone else.
On board computers and avionics systems have put interactive screens in the back of everyone’s seat.
But all that interactive technology comes at a price: power.
No wonder, then, that both airlines and plane manufacturers are investing billions to ensure they have enough electricity on board to enhance customers’ flying experiences.
The essential work to achieve this is being done behind the scenes. Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, recently awarded a contract to GE Aviation to provide the Electrical Load Management System (ELMS) and backup generation power to the latest addition to the Boeing aircraft portfolio, the 777x.
Read more at gereports.eu
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