Askthepresident.eu is the latest attempt of the EU institutions to somehow reach out to the citizens using some fancy online tools. First impression is ok – nothing revolutionary, a normal PR instrument if you ask me. It looks pretty basic – probably they are not sure whether it will actually work. The idea is the [...]
Interesting piece of research on “how online experiences feed back into offline perceptions” in the case of the official europa.eu website which indeed has some potential for improvement regarding content, accessibility, participation and navigation. Some points are obvious, others quite surprising though: The hierarchical structure that relies on top-down decision processes often led to the [...]
Here are the results of an intereting survey (pdf) on “Media relations and Europe – from the journalist’s perspective”. It was carried out by APCO, a public affairs consultancy in partnership with Journalists at Your Service (J@YS). Although the sample was relatively small (121 respondents = 10% of Brussels press corps) there are quite some [...]
Jean-Claude Juncker, PM of Luxembourg made a few interesting comments at a conference that took place in Brussels just one day before the European Council: “Politicians give the impression that Europe is being built against their will. Governments always try to explain in their countries that they have won against Europe” And asked about a [...]
… to the citizens seems to be a huge problem. One could assume that at least in Ireland, the only country that will hold a referendum on the Treaty, things are slightly different. But apparently this is not true! This article (What exactly are we reforming in this treaty?) shows us all the problems of [...]
OK, here are some rumours straight from Brussels: Apparently Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for information society and media, has quite an impressive self-promotional strategy. Of course she is a very important Commissioner who has a very busy schedule; no doubt she is in charge of a very important portfolio and has achieved quite a lot! [...]
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kosmopolit @ twitter- kosmopolit: RT @bloggingportal: The Week in Bloggingportal: #ACTA, the crisis & a half-naked EU Commissioner http://t.co/TER2KhPg #euroblogs February 6, 2012
- kosmopolit: @jonworth @ronpatz @ralfgrahn no idea really. Maybe a twitter wall somewhere in the EP? #epwall February 5, 2012
- kosmopolit: @Lionelsola that is also misleading as the post is not about FT's opinion - but a summary of a eurobarometer poll cc @spignal @ringrda February 2, 2012
- kosmopolit: [being a EU Commissioner]"is about as high as an official can climb in the eurocracy."-> misleading opening by @spignal http://t.co/vy5omNuv February 2, 2012
- kosmopolit: @wettach Oh - Interessant, mit oder ohne US? Irgendwelche Erfahrungen mit Zeitungsabos? February 2, 2012
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