Ska Keller

03.09.2018 EU Politics

Candidates for Commission President 2019 (Spitzenkandidaten)

Prior to the 2014 European Parliament elections I examined all the runners and riders for President of the European Commission and other EU top jobs (2014 posts on President of the Commission: EPP, PES, Others | President of the European

21.01.2016 EU Politics

Why don’t we all know which journalists are accredited to the EU institutions?

Ska Keller retweeted this from Spiegel Online journalist Markus Becker earlier: https://x.com/MarkusBecker/status/690186662941474816 The insinuation is that – having purged the Warsaw press, the government of Poland is about to try to do the same in Brussels. That may be the

29.01.2015 EU Politics

The vexed issue of politicians on Twitter – is it really them?

I’ve never met European Commission for Trade Cecilia Malmström in person. But from tweets exchanged over the years with @MalmstromEU I have some picture of what Malmström must be like as a person. From serious discussions about the implementation of

12.03.2014 EU Politics

Britain is absent from the EU’s Presidential Election

So the lineup for the first-ever Presidential Election in Europe, to select the Commission President 2014-2019, is complete – Martin Schulz for the Party of European Socialists (PES), Jean-Claude Juncker for the European People’s Party (EPP), Guy Verhofstadt for the

14.01.2014 EU Politics

Candidates for President of the European Commission – where we stand in January 2014

Back in the early summer of 2013 I wrote a detailed series of blog posts about the future President of the European Commission. There were posts about EPP, PES and other candidates. Overall those posts have stood up well over