I know this post comes a bit late but in my attempt to adapt to living in the UK I can always blame it on the “wrong kind of snow” that somehow prevented me from doing something… Anyway, the big story for the EU blogosphere this week is the “successful hijacking” (in a positive sense!) [...]

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Bloggingportal.eu launched!

by Kosmopolit in Digital Public Sphere

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Finally! We launched Bloggingportal.eu! The new place to read EU blogs and keep yourself updated on the EU blogosphere. We have been working on it for almost one year in our free time. At the moment we are aggregating almost 300 blogs and we are publishing a daily editors choice selection! Check it out! It [...]

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The mindset of EU Journalists

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

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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 [...]

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Kosmolinks #14

by Kosmopolit in Kosmolinks

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Corruption in eastern Europe | Talking of virtue, counting the spoons The state of the elites in Eastern Europe. It seems as if especially anti-corruption agencies and justice ministries are very reform resistant. Or as the Economist puts it: “Yet from the Baltic to the Balkans, even politicians facing the most startling accusations of corruption [...]

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