Tag Archives: EP elections 2009

Blogging about the European Parliament elections

The EP elections 2009 are finally over! Results are in and being the author of a political EU blog I probably should be writing an election analysis including: … a critical look at the disappointing turnout figures and the reasons behind it. … a sharp analysis of  the results in different countries preferably in a [...]
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Libertas: The one-man show comes to Europe

So, just in time for next years European Parliament elections Declan Ganley launched his Libertas party, or “pan-European movement” as he would label it. However, so far the ‘party’ neither has programme nor candidates which I think is major shortcoming when launching a party. You would at least expect some basic policy goals in order [...]
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Who's your candidate?

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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