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Yesterday, I defended my master thesis in front of an audience of academics and friends. Henceforth, I can place MSc behind my name.
The defence entailed a presentation and debate with the audience on my thesis titled "Opening up: The Council's changing discourse on transparency of the European Union". It deals with the changing attitude towards opening the administration up for the wider public. Within a period of twenty years, the Council's attitude towards transparency has changed dramatically. The thesis seeks to address the questions of how and why this happened.
This sure is an exceptionally rumbling summer. Let's hope it stays that way: exceptional.
Summer 2011: Greece on the brink of banruptcy from June onwards. Rain all through July. Crazy extreme-right conservative kills over 80 people which he sees as a way to "rescue" his country. August: Spain and Italy nearly drag the EU into an economic abyss that it won't be able to crawl out of. Like the USA, the EU has the greatest trouble to find a politically workable solution. European leaders pose unconvincingly, late, and half-hearted. And now: London and other English cities burning and looted, for several days on end. Is this summer an exception, or part of a pattern?
