Jon Worth's Euroblog

Just a quick plug for a really amusing environmental campaign website entitled EV-EON – criticising power firm E-ON’s devotion to burning coal to generate electricity, and the problems with carbon capture. The site has excellent design and whether you agree

I’m probably about the only person anywhere who gets really hung up on the question of how effective MEPs are. A majority of the populations of European countries cannot muster the energy to turn up to vote, let alone cast

Sometimes you turn up somewhere for the first time in a while and you realise something is different, and you search for an answer why the change took place. I’ve been to the French port town of Sète, in Languedoc,

Thanks to LME for posting up the list of all of Labour’s candidates for the 2009 European Parliament elections – 69 candidates in all. Below you can find the full list. Apart from the retirement of Glenys Kinnock and Gary

The European Parliament (and indeed the EU) badly needs characters to liven up an often rather dull institution. Hence it’s sad that 2 of the most interesting and influential MEPs are departing this spring, for very different reasons. Alexander Stubb

What a slogan: “Nuclear is UK’s new North Sea oil”. That was the title of a front page article in yesterday’s Guardian about a pro-nuclear speech made by Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, John Hutton. Yet

Richard Corbett is probably Britain’s best known blogging MEP, and as I’ve stated here before I reckon he’s Britain’s best MEP. Give him his due – he does put his head above the parapet and try to take on Britain’s

I’ve stumbled across this excellent map of the US political blogosphere (small screenshot above), showing who links to whom and which sites have the highest influence. The colours on the map demonstrate political affiliation. Toute l’Europe has tried something similar

I wrote a first version of this entry in September 2007, and have added and amended it ever since. A starting point for my reflections was this analysis from Euractiv of the Euroblogosphere. I have also reflected on the issues