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Lady A. in the making
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A question so old, it has concerned scholars for decades: How can we get Europe to agree on one phone number? Europe should have one by now, with the post-Lisbon office of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
Hungarian EU-presidency overshadowed by media?
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Guest contribution by Andrea Jamborova Since Hungary took on the EU presidency in the beginning of this year, it has enjoyed plenty of media attention. The attention has turned especially to the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his governmen...
Approaching the EU – Practitioners Views
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Europolit will host its first workshop, titled “Approaching the EU – Practitioners Views” on January 15th 2011 in Cologne. There will be three Speakers, who will give short speeches about their experiences on how to approach the EU.
EU Tutorial
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Hey, today we have something new: Our Video Tutorial which is supposed to show, how the EU works (briefly). I think its a good mix between understandable and informative! It deals with the Codecision procedure after the Lisbon Treaty, so for those of...
New debate: European Citizens’ Initiative
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Today we launched a new debate. It is dealing with the European Citizens Initiative and is supposed to highlight what problems the MEPs are facing, who are at the moment concerned with a proposal of the Commission. Also we added one thing to the deba...
France ain’t close to Schengen
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Well, once more I have to say: Hooray for Schengen! I love visiting a friend in Madrid, seeing Paris for a Weekend, and going to Lublin for a wedding. Thanks to anyone who has been fighting for the freedom of movement in the EU. I really mean this. B...
European Citizens’ Initiative
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In Germany there has been some buzz lately about referendums and direct democracy. At first, people in bavaria have been voting for the strictest regulation on smoking. Last week then, people in Hamburg have been voting against a new school-concept.
Gentlemen’s Agreement
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Hey, today I was working, searching for a new topic. I read through some Commission proposals, and other documents. I found out, that there is a commission proposal on the Frontex-agency, to give the agency further powers. For example they want to se...
Launch
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Hey everyone. It’s been done. We launched Europolit. From now on you will find interesting debates, positions and views on politics in the European Union there. Check in at www.europolit.net and find out about the debates in the EU. Right now w...
Working on the site.
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Hey there, we‘re right now very busy, setting up the site. We have our first 3 debates (one more is also thought of) and we‘re working hard to set up the site. We set our own goal, that is to launch the site tomorrow, on Tuesday. But I‘m not qu...
What I’m doing right now…
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Hey, today I will let you know who I am and what i’m doing within the project. I’m student Cross-Media Concepting at Saxion Universtiy of Applied Sciences in Enschede/Netherlands since 2006. Right now i’m working on my final project...
Editorial Meeting
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We’re going to have our first meeting tonight – let’s see what is interesting enough to be spotted by us. It is our challenge to find relevant, interesting topics. But they should also be controversial. At the same time they shoul...
Europolit
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Hey, it’s been a long time, but we have have worked a lot since then. With my last posts, I tried to explain a little bit, how we think our site will work. Well I guess it was not concrete enough. So let me try to explain this again. We will as...
The Concept Of ‘The Political’ (II)
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As I pointed out in the previous post, we are not quite sure in what direction the project will be headed, what will be its nature. But one thing is for sure. It aims at bringing politics to the people. We want to do that by discussing important poli...
The Concept Of ‘The Political’ (I)
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Europe consists of at least 27 countries. Each country has its own public sphere and only on rare occasions national debates are discussed on an international platform. To change that, we want notions to all of our issues from all countries.
Who am I? And what am I doing here?
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Who am I? I’m a student, at the moment I’m trying to write my bachelor-thesis on ‘Decisionmaking in the EU’. I’m studying social sciences with a focus on european studies. I will finish this in february, afterwards I thi...
A brief history of ‘The Political’
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So far, a lot of thinking has been done, far more than in fact we have practically been doing. We are still trying to figure out the concept of our page. What will be the function, what kind of organization will we be and what we will be doing at all...
Welcome!
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This is a developer’s blog for the platform ‘the-political.eu’. We are a group of 5 students, trying to initiate a blog that will cover european subjects, will try to initiate, cover and illustrate debates. Everyone is invited to pa...
