Jon Worth's Euroblog

The European Commissioner every telecoms executive loves to hate is at it again – Viviane Reding will today propose further legislation to cap mobile phone prices: further reductions to call prices and also this time for SMS and mobile internet

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So we need new rules for international financial markets according to Alistair Darling in his Labour Party Conference speech today. All very well. The actual passage of his speech, as quoted by The Telegraph is thus: “Just as one government

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I’ve been having a look at Europarl TV, launched yesterday with a bit of fanfare in Brussels. I was not at the launch so I didn’t profit from a few glasses of wine to temper my views on the project.

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A Labour Deputy Leadership website for Harriet Harman. 12 websites for Labour politicians, with plenty more in the pipeline. Online campaigns for One President of the EU (finalist in the 2008 New Media Awards), cricket as an Olympic sport, and

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I’m confused. I’m completely supportive of the idea that at least one of the top positions in the EU should be held by a woman – it’s about time it happened! And as Females in Front, the petition I’ve signed,

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Former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing has spoken out about the UK’s relationship with the EU, and has said that Britain should simply not participate in some policy areas if doing so would be to the detriment of further EU

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Perhaps it’s a little more complex than the headline, but not much – this is a post about how to make people in the blogosphere write about the things you want them to write about. Frankly it’s not that complex.

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Back in June there was a lot of debate on numerous blogs about a draft European Parliament Resolution by Estonian Socialist Marianne Mikko. The original draft contained some rather strong paragraphs about placing legal restrictions on blogs but, after all,

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Bruno Waterfield has written a blog entry about a leaked Commission document looking at the media environment in Ireland and how that contributed to the debate (and the result) in the referendum in Ireland on the Treaty of Lisbon. The

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