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The Green online hearing of Barroso - and its problems
This week the current President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso met with all political groups in the European Parliament to discuss his programme for re-appointment. Only the Green European Party decided to make the hearing available...
Also in Brussels - a picture tells more than thousand words
Yesterday, two stories on Brussels' online media caught my attention.EurActiv has an article about the logo of the upcoming Swedish EU council presidency. And Honor Mahony of EUObserver blogged about a design competition for Brussels' EU quarter.Both...
Milkshaker: EU election website gets election date wrong (updated)
Brussels has a new website dedicated to the European elections in June 2009.The site is called "milkshaker" and unfortunately it has not only a confusing name but is also confusing in itself, as Julien has already noted.Finally, the makers of the sit...
How many web TV projects does the EU need?
The EPP has launched today a new web tv project called Dialogue TV. Some comments on the flood of new EU web tv channels.The EPP-ED already has an ambitious web tv project (EPP-ED TV) so why does the EPP add another portal? Dialogue TV is branded as...
Major redesign of the Financial Times website, including the FT Brussels Blog
The Financial Times has relaunched its website. As the FT is not only a UK business newspaper but also one of the leading Brussels' print media I had a look at their new design.First of all it looks like the new design is currently only applied to th...
Facebook election features coming to Europe - not the EU
Facebook, which now already has more European users than US-based users (48 millions vs 41 millions) is planning to extend its election features to Europe, CNET reports.But, surprise surprise, Facebook is not targetting the upcoming European election...
Google In Quotes - Would love to see a European edition
Google has launched a beta version of a new project called In Quotes. It automatically indexes speeches and quotes by US politicians and puts the results in context.I hope that Google will release soon a European edition of it. Imagine you could sele...
Top EU domains for sale
This might be a bit of an unusual guest post on Brusselsmedia.eu but I think it still fits well with the topic of this blog.I own some .eu internet domains and have finally decided that I'd like to free some of the domains that I am definitely not go...
Europarl TV: Independent or not, a good initiative!
Europarl TV has been launched on Wednesday. The new on-demand video website provides background videos on European affairs and parliament's business. For more information and details see the EP press release and these media reports.My view of the pro...
Create a Transparent and Connected Democracy
While Europe is looking for a solution to the Irish No to the Lisbon treaty many say that the lack of transparency and democracy is seen as one of the main problems of the EU.A post by Bente Kalsnes lead me to very interesting proposals by Barack Oba...
New website of Euobserver launched
This morning, one of Brussels leading EU news website, Euobserver.com, has launched its re-designed website. I have a quick first look:Good:Modern layout: nice rounded corners, larger pictures, good font-sizeBetter positioning and highlighting of spe...
€ 4 m for a 9-months online discussion
The EU's latest communication project, myparl.eu, has been criticised by Bruno Waterfield of the Telegraph. While it is the usual eurosceptic headline "EU project ABC costs taxpayer € X-Z m" there are some questions around this € 4 m EU project.S...
Overview of prices for EU public affairs online campaigns
A comparison of the prices for a 1 month advertising campaign on Brussels' online media shows that EUObserver is probably the place where you get most for your money.The print publication European Voice is listed for comparison (and because of their...
Introducing the feedmixer: Aggregation, tagging, filtering key to EU blogosphere
In February 2008, Jon Worth wrote an article about the best approach to make the EU blogosphere more accessible. In his article, Jon featured a pyramid outlining the multi-level efforts within EU blogosphere:For those who have not done so, please rea...
New Website for The Parliament Magazine
The remakes of Brussels' main EU news websites seems nearly finished. After EurActiv and European Voice recently made changes to their website layout (the latter is covered over here) The Parliament Magazine is the latest to refresh their digital pre...
New press release service by EurActiv
Two weeks ago, EurActiv launched a new service for EU communication professionals. Time to review their new press release service.Launched by Christophe Leclercq in 1999, EurActiv.com has developed from a EU website focusing on "links dossiers" and "...
A new online media for Brussels?
Today on Eurobrussels, the leading job site for Brussels' international job market, features a job ad for an "Junior Internet Marketing Consultant". Nothing special one could say. But let's look at it in more detail.In fact, the company looking for t...
About EU Communication - Part 1 (acces to full text documents)
Yesterday, Commissioner Frattini presented its legislative package on border management. I would like to take it as a starting point to look at some aspects of the European Union's communication policy.The Commissioner's own spinThe concrete communic...
EU radio news to go on air in 2008
The European Union will fund a daily pan-European radio programme as of next year.A consortium of 16 radio stations including Deutsche Welle, Radio France Internationale, Radio Netherlands Worldwide and Polskie Radio won a tender by the European Comm...
EUObserver in German?
Today, EUObserver runs a story about the EU's year of intercultural dialogue 2008 - in German.While EUobserver normally is 100% English, and as a private sector media can afford this politically, this is an exception.On the other hand, the official w...
