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I don’t believe in those e-things (or do I?)
Borderline heresy from our current trainee Davide from Italy. Maybe after hanging out with a bunch of hard-core internet obsessives such as us for a while, he'll come round...
How Privacy Vanishes Online
If a stranger came up to you on the street, would you give him your name, Social Security number and e-mail address? Probably not. Yet people often dole out all kinds of personal information on the Internet that allows such identifying data to be d...
Social media forum debrief
“Less stories more creatively told” was one of the phrases ringing in my ears as I departed the recent “Social Media World Forum” in London. These words were uttered by Adam Parker of RealWire who was speaking about the relati...
Mads Mikkelsen – let your voice be heard!
What should governments do to fight climate change? The European Commission launched a campaign in order to encourage EU citizens to post a message and show their commitment to fighting climate change. Among its many supporters is also Danish actor...
Young, dynamic, creative? It’s time to join!
The rumours were louder and louder in the last weeks… And now it's official. The new competition to enter the European institutions has been launched this week. I was in this situation about two years ago, I know how it is, how people feel... Let's...
Forum: Rail safety
On 15 February this year, 18 people died and 200 were injured when two passenger trains collided on the outskirts of Brussels. Who or what is to blame? Two MEPs and the director of the European Railway Agency debate liberalisation of the sector, lack...
Sponsoring the World Cup? Nah, put Messi on YouTube
Online videos are part of everyone's advertising strategies now, of course, but some, like Pepsi, are going for it big time. Luckily, it's not all about the big fish. The minnows, and even the public sector, are still getting a look-in. This post off...
EU S.O.S. squad
Storm Xynthia claimed 60 lives and left many homes and businesses severely damaged as it swept through Europe. Following the unending stream of natural diasasters in recent weeks, MEPs are now calling for a European Civil Protection force. But the de...
Can it get more personal?
We are editors, we write daily news for the European Parliament. We come across all types of news and activities going on in the EP, which we pass them on to the real people, in an as comprehensible way as possible. This is our main objective of our...
Friends and business: 5 tips How to do it easier
Overloaded by working tasks? Do not know how and especially WHEN to meet your friends, business partners or even, for the single ones, the love of your life? In this “guest blogger” piece, Ivana, one of our trainees, has a quick look at a...
EU Diplomatic Service Causes Conflict
Catherine Ashton’s new diplomatic service, which will be in charge of EU foreign policy, “is causing conflict”. Too many Brits in top jobs say some Member States. Also questions are still being asked as to its exact mission and cost...
Will Jack and Jessica have the same career opportunities?
“Will Jack and Jessica have the same career opportunities?” A new clip on EUTube explains the gender pay gap in a Commission communications campaign. Not bad. Watch it! Share/Save...
If I go home he will kill me
“If I go home he will kill me.” This was the thought of Swedish MEP Eva Britt-Svensson before she left her abusive husband. Being a public figure didn’t make her immune to domestic violence and she wants all victims of domestic viol...
Facebook chatting today
On the occassion of the International Women Day, EP Facebook team organized today a live debate with MEP Eva-Britt Svensson, chair of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality of the European Parliament. The topic of the chat was ...
BBC: new old media organisation
When looking at best web practice, it’s never long before you get round to the extraordinary BBC. For an “old media” organisation, it really seems to have worked out how to live in the brave new world. Spotted this week in the Econo...
Life and art, Europe and the West Wing
One thing this blog can do is let you into those little secrets of the daily life of the European Parliament. So here’s one for you: the place is positively heaving with ardent fans of the US television series the West Wing. Well at least that...
The Battle of the Giants: Facebook and MySpace Fight It Out
It has become a platitude to say that social networks will be the next big thing. Unfortunately, if you subscribe to this widely held view, you are patently wrong. Judging by the amount of media exposure social networks get, and not just in web-focus...
When Hillary called Jerzy – NYT reveals all
Lots of articles in the press about the European Parliament all the time of course, but this one from the august New York Times caught our eye in the office today. It’s always interesting to see how the Parliament is perceived the other side of...
Endless Counting
A woman in a supermarket is compulsively counting everything to herself. When she leaves the shop she passes by a man walking in the opposite direction and he is also counting to himself. Today in Europe one person in 6 lives below the poverty thresh...
How much personal data is too much?
I was never a ‘personal data freak’. It’s more the other way round. I am able to give my date of birth even to an cute ice cream seller if he gives me one scoop more for free. But my latest experience made me look at the topic of it...
