For a cleaner and safer Internet…

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

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Cleanternet.org is a campaign to support European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström in her plans to introduce a website blocking system in Europe.All European countries must be forced to fight for a cleaner and safer Internet. The video is based on a German zensursula video. The producer of the video made several videos that became famous in [...]

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Hooray! Every day some more Lisbon Treaty innovations. Today I came across a campaign for the first European Citizens’ Initiative. (Hat tip: Andrew Burgess) Good news is that it is not an animal rights campaign but a campaign for a “Free Sunday“. Regardless of the idea behind the “free Sunday”, the timing and the execution [...]

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Stop Barroso is a nice campaign by the greens with a very funny video (via Anyone but Barroso) .  “In the absence of a firm agenda from him, perhaps we  take this as his programme for government?” asks The European Citizen blog. Although I fully support the campaign and the idea behind it I partly [...]

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The first video (out of a series of 3 I guess) of a online viral video campaign was just launched by the European Parliament in order to promote the European parliament elections. It seems to be a trend for international organisations:  First. the numerous EUtube experiments by the European Commission, then the attempt by NATO a [...]

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Anyone but Barroso!

by Kosmopolit in Digital Public Sphere, EU politics

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Jon Worth has just launched a new campaign that aims at replacing European Commission President Barroso with…well, anyone but Barroso. And it is even featured in this weeks European Voice! The “Anyone but Barroso” – Campaign calls for a new Commission President in 2009: We don’t care who but the Commission needs a new President [...]

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Blogs are one of the latest additions to the Romanian political landscape. From a totally unknown concept, they have turned overnight in fashionable tools, a “must have” for any politician who wants to be taken seriously. In fact, most of the politicians pay small fortunes to have a blog (although most of them use free [...]

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Who's your candidate?

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Here we go again, with another campaign… this time about the President of the European Commission, no doubt the most powerful person in European politics. The Who’s your Candidate? campaign calls for a transparent and democratically elected President of the European Commission. The term “presidential elections” (see logo) is somewhat misleading since the new European [...]

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One President of the EU

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It is campaign time again! (the euro-blogoshpere seems to get into online campaigns…) “Who do I call if I want to call Europe?” is one of the best known quotes by Henri Kissinger. Now Jon Worth and Jan Seifert want to answer this question and launched the whodoicall.eu campaign that calls for one president of [...]

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Recently, the debate surrounding the apparently missing narrative of the EU gained momentum. Timothy Garton Ash thinks that “old-fashioned grand narratives and Euromyth will no longer do the trick” and proposes that Freedom, Peace, Law, Prosperity, Diversity and Solidarity should be at the centre of a new debate. Join the debate on his proposal here. [...]

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Speak up Europe!

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A new campaign to foster a European debate just started a few days ago. “Speak up Europe” wants to “facilitate the debate about the European Union”. It is part of the controversial Plan D (D stands for Democracy, Dialogue and Debate) that was proposed by the European Commission after the non/nee votes last year. By [...]

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