“Harnessing the power of the Internet for better communication” – Here is an interesting open letter (in case you have not seen it on twitter…) from the European Commission’s Internet editors and webmasters to Commission President Barroso and incoming Commissioners in which they ask for more web 2.0 in EU institutions… Read it here.
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Why Wolfgang Schäuble should not become EU Commissioner!
It seems as if my predictions about who will become the new German EU Commissioner were wrong. Spiegel Online reports today that Chancellor Merkel wants to nominate Wolfgang Schäuble, the current German Interior Minister, for the post in Brussels. This is quite a bad choice especially if he aims to get the Justice and Home [...]
Who will be the next Romanian Commissioner?
As the (rather temporary) buzz around the EP elections started to diminish, the next big question is popping up in various circles, from political parties headquarters to newspapers and blogs (see the concerted blog action here, here and here): who will be each country’s nominee for the Commissioner position?
With the institutional framework governing the next [...]
Thinking about the next European Commission
I just came back from the Th!nk About It event in Rotterdam. The event was quite a success and we even made it into the Financial Times! Bloggers from almost all 27 member states were present so we came up with the idea of a “concerted EU blogging action”! The aim is to put together [...]
What is the EU planning to do?
This is really useful – and an important step towards more transparency. The European Commission just launched a directory for legislative proposals as part of the Eur-Lex service (hat tip: Grahlaw) You can browse through 20 policy areas and discover what kind of EU legislation is in the pipeline!
What exactly is included?
‘Preparatory documents’ means [...]
