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 agree [...]
Posts Tagged ‘European Parliament Elections’
Quotes of the week (V)
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 the same time speaking about a [...]
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 comparative manner. [...]
European Parliament elections!
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 following: [...]
EU/EP videos for Dummies
… 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 [...]
Quotes of the week (III)
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 elections. Exceptionally, [...]
Horror at the the polling station
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 [...]
Civil society proudly presents: The quality check of Romanian MEPs
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 democracy, [...]
Think about it! – The European Blogging Competition 2009
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 [...]
