I have lived in Ireland for the last 1,5 year and have started to explore cultural, social and political aspects of life in the West. I ended up in the most western part of the state, in the county of Galway which boasts with breath-taking landscape and Irish speaking people. However, the country which, in [...]

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A couple of months ago we all complained that there is no tool for tracking MEP votes in the European Parliament. The times have changed and we now have literally a multitude of different websites that deal with the issue. VoteWatch.eu, announced already a while ago, was finally launched today. It is quite a complex [...]

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With just two more months to go until the European Parliament elections, it seems that the number of initiatives aimed to attract people to vote is growing at a steady pace. Unsurprisingly, following the success of the Obama campaign in the US Presidential elections, the EU decided to make use of the Internet, thus trying [...]

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Written by Guest blogger Dorina in Chisinau -  Read more here:  part 1 , part 2 & part 3! On April 8 2009, people knew that the evening before it was said that the protests will continue and that meeting hour was 10 AM in PMAN (the National Square, in front of the Government building). [...]

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Written by Guest blogger Dorina (in Chisinau/Moldova). Here are  part 1 and part 2 of her story! NEW: part 4 Soon after that the Presidency have been occupied, the protesters entered into the building, got on the roof and on the 1st level balcony and entered the cabinet of the Mr. Vladimir Voronin, the President [...]

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Written by Guest blogger Dorina (in Chisinau/Moldova). Read the first part of her story here. NEW: part 3 and part 4 The population in Chisinau, the capital of Republic of Moldova doesn’t recognize the results of the elections  in which the communists won. They believe the elections were rigged. The protest continued today, April 7, [...]

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Guest blogger: Dorina (Live from Chisinau/Moldova) NEW:  Read more here: part 2 , part 3 and part 4! On April 6, at 6 pm, the second day after the Parliamentary elections, when the counting of almost 98% of the votes was indicating that the communist have won again (obtaining almost 50% and 61 seats in [...]

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On June 7, Romanians will go to the polls to vote for the 33 MEPs who will be representing them in Brussels for the next five years. It is the first time when Romanian MEPs are elected for a full mandate, after Romania’s accession in 2007. But the prospect of spending five years in Brussels, [...]

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The formation of the new government is in these days the biggest news in the Slovenian media. Parliamentary elections, which were held on 21st of September 2008, have brought changes on the Slovenian political horizon. The slight difference between Social Democrats (SD) and the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) in the recent elections has to be [...]

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“A leader is a dealer in hope”. I believe Napoleon said that. The spectacular Obama campaign and his likely imminent victory seem to prove him right. Sometimes I wonder if Romanian politicians are aware of that. Traian Basescu seemed to be aware of that in December 2004, when he defeated Adrian Nastase. People Hoped. People [...]

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