Stop Barroso is a nice campaign by the greens with a very funny video (via Anyone but Barroso) .  “In the absence of a firm agenda from him, perhaps we  take this as his programme for government?” asks The European Citizen blog. Although I fully support the campaign and the idea behind it I partly [...]

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Just a reminder: there were actually European Parliament elections last week… Francisco G. Basterra (El Pais) Global Vote, local mindset. Lykke Friis The EU elections are like a European soccer championship played in each national league with aggregated results. Evenimentul Zilei Send in the Clowns. NikOs To the 57% of Europeans: Not voting and at [...]

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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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European Parliament elections!

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Here we go: it is the last day of the European Parliament Elections.  I guess everything (for example here or here or here) has been said – no need to add anything.  If you don’t know who to vote for – EUprofiler and Votematch might help. The only advice I can give you,  is the [...]

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EU/EP videos for Dummies

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… not in a bad sense. More like in this book series (and there is even a EU dummy book!)… A couple of days ago the Austrian version of this video was all over twitter. Now, the producers fulfilled their promise and released an English version with a nice Austrian accent. (hat-tip: europeum). Great visuals [...]

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What have we learnt this week? Poul Nyrup Rasmussen: I would have preferred the PES to have a candidate for the President of the European Commission, but we do not, and we will not before the elections. Andrew Moravcsik: Final anecdote: On my way back out to Heathrow I quizzed the cabby about the European [...]

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The first video (out of a series of 3 I guess) of a online viral video campaign was just launched by the European Parliament in order to promote the European parliament elections. It seems to be a trend for international organisations:  First. the numerous EUtube experiments by the European Commission, then the attempt by NATO a [...]

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The European Institute for Participative Democracy (Qvorum) published today a study on the activity of Romanian MEPs in a one year period (January 2008- February 2009) during their current mandate. The goal of the NGOs study is two-fold: on the one hand, to look into how the MEPs contributed, through their activity, to stimulating participative [...]

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Are you interested in getting into the EU blogging scene? Would you like to write journalistic pieces on the European elections next year? Maybe you even want to become a EU blogger? In any case: if you want to share your thoughts on the EU and the upcoming European elections in an online environment you [...]

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Anyone but Barroso!

by Kosmopolit in Digital Public Sphere, EU politics

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Jon Worth has just launched a new campaign that aims at replacing European Commission President Barroso with…well, anyone but Barroso. And it is even featured in this weeks European Voice! The “Anyone but Barroso” – Campaign calls for a new Commission President in 2009: We don’t care who but the Commission needs a new President [...]

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