Never Forget to Vote From the youth movement of the Swedish Social Democrats, SSU . Voteman The Danish Parliament’s official EP election film that was taken down, and hence I re-post someone else’s upload here . Choose Who’s In Charge Official EP election film I’ll leave you to decide which […]
With less than two weeks to go before the most excitement any EU nerd gets in their lives, the European Parliament elections and with this year’s added bonus, the Spitzenkandidat process, I’m happy to announce 2 #EUtweetup dates. Berlin, Thursday 15th May, from 1900 Location: Altes Europa Café, Gipsstraße 11, 10119 Berlin (1900-2030), […]
In 2012 the EU won the Nobel Prize for Peace. But what about the slightly less good things that have been happening in the European Parliament for the past 5 years? As a bit of fun before the European elections here’s my very own, very unscientific, EP Ignobel Prize. Vote below […]
I don’t recall why I did not post this wonderful sketch at the time Claudio Nichele tweeted me about it, but I have just been reminded of it and hence post it here. Click the image to see it at full resolution. Claudio was a participant in a half-day workshop […]
I am going to be a guest on Deutsche Welle’s online discussion #dwwebtalk on 14th May about the European Elections. It will be filmed using a Google Hangout, and broadcast here. You can follow the discussion using the tag #dwwebtalk on Google+ and on Twitter. I know that Martin Fuchs […]
It’s European Elections time. That period every five years when people partially wake up to the issue that democracy is supposed to work in the European Union, and the press starts to worry why it does not. The media itself may of course compound the problem. In both the media […]
I am a speaker at the Europe Conference “This time it’s different” in Copenhagen today. There is no live stream by default, so I will use Bambuser to stream my speech. That, and my slides, are below. Your browser does not support iframes.
I write this blog entry as a convinced EU democrat. By that I mean that, faced with the options about how to solve the many problems the EU currently faces, actually trying to make democracy work at EU level is the least worst of the available options. Yes it is […]
With the European elections now just over a month away, every campaign organisation in Brussels is coming up with its demands for wannabe MEPs before the election. ALTER-EU, the campaign for lobby transparency, has released its campaign site entitled “Politics for People“, with the subtitle “Stop banks and big business […]
From its headquarters at the southern end of Stresemanstrasse as far as Potsdamer Platz, the SPD has filled the street with huge election posters for the European Parliament election campaign… and they are awful. The five main posters are shown below. For me the main test for an election slogan […]
One of the supposed advantages of the European Commission top candidate / Spitzenkandidat process is that it gives some personality to the European Parliament election campaigns for the first time. I am hence very happy to see that televised debates between the main candidates are now also starting to take […]
I’ve previously written about how the UK is absent from the EU’s Presidential Election (otherwise known as the top candidate, or Spitzenkandidat process), and while the essential content of that earlier post remains valid, I have reflected further about the implications for UK-EU relations from this process, and cannot see […]
