39 posts
The week on the EP Library’s Blog: kicking off a new season
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September is knocking at the door and I am glad to see that people are coming back populating the reading room of the Library. I watch them bended on their papers and I feel that empathy I have been missing throughout the summer break. Even if a bit...
Three Years in Bloggingportal
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Back in January 2009, our little experiment called Bloggingportal.eu officially started and today, three years later, we are still here. Three years in the life of a social media project is long, especially with the world of social media rapi...
Further reading
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Elsewhere on Wednesday,- Ad-libbing at the MF Global hearing.- US tax rates too high or too low? Some charts.- What “unemployment” means.- On the euro arbitrage....
The requirements for a personal blog, 2011 style
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Back in the autumn of last year I did a partial redesign of this blog. Since then the blog has sprouted all kinds of buttons, and looks a bit of a mess. In the meantime WordPress has evolved to version 3.2 and offers a whole bunch of new features. So...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Bloggers with their Foot in the Door.
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CC BY europeanpeoplesparty This week saw the pilot project of the blogger’s accreditation with two of our very own Bloggingportal editors (Polscieu and Europasionaria) liveblogging from the Council’s discussions on competitiveness (Part I and Par...
EU Weekly is changing
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If you are a regular visitor of the blog – as I encourage you to be – you might have noticed a few changes in the last days. You are right. After more than a year of blogging, “EU Weekly” is getting a make over. The visual appearance...
In the beginning...
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I'm new to the world of blogging in such a fashion, for many years I have posted on various UK newspaper websites on a wide variety of political topics. As the title of this blog explains I am a contradiction in terms, a Euro-centric Conservative. Fo...
Tunisia: Slim Amamou Speaks About Tunisia, Egypt and the Arab World
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Slim Amamou, a 33-year-old Tunisian blogger, programmer and activist, made the headlines back in January 18th, 2011, when he was appointed Minister for the Youth and Sports in the interim government of his country, following the toppling of the dicta...
Would You Like To Work At Blogactiv?
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EurActiv is the leading EU policy media, publishing in 11 languages and 11 countries to over 500 000 monthly readers. In November 2009, Euractiv celebrated its 10th Anniversary with a prestigious Award Ceremony – View related interviews including B...
Stanley Crossick Discusses The Benefits Of Political Blogging
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In part four of our series of interviews with Stanley Crossick, Stanley explains what he gets out of his blogging and why he has taken to it with such gusto. He also explains why he feels that there is still a need for more blogging at the EU level b...
A message from Johnny
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As a relative newcomer to the European blogging community (Ooh, Brussels! has only been going for 10 weeks) I’ve been struck by how lively and thriving the EU blogging scene is. Debate is informed and constructive and also close-knit: there see...
Euro-déblog
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Euro-déblog La présidence belge de l'Union européenne a pris ses quartiers d’été sur la pointe des pieds. Silence ouaté sur Bruxelles, le bonheur n’est que dans le pré. Car la pri...
The European Citizen and better Euroblogging
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Can independent Eurobloggers make a mark? Yes, if they deal with relevant issues and produce original content. Conor Slowey aka Eurocentric, who writes The European Citizen blog, is a case in point. His thoughts on the state(s) of the Old Continent...
Charlamagne to Bagehot
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David Rennie, formerly of the Telegraph (where I helped set up his first blog), then the Economist's man in Brussels has been Charlamagne for the past few years, Today is his last as he is moving to London to take up the London equivalent, Bagehot.Ho...
Méduse et médias
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Méduse et médias « In bed with Barroso. » C’est la déclaration fielleuse de Reuniting Europe qui détaille avec force sarcasmes le futur plan média « pilote » pour &la...
Branding is the key
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Branding, weither it’s online or in real life, has become one the key factors of your success, whatever your line of business is. There’s a blog of a Latvian branding expert I would recommend to you: Rue Archimede. Not yet Seth Godin bu...
Redesign pending
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Sorry for the long gap in posting material on this blog. I have been busy launching an Economist blog called Eastern ApproachesThis site has been redesigned and will be relaunched shortly at www.edwardlucas.com...
Post your blog at 0900 hours, General.
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Picture an enthusiastic proponent of social media in your head. Who comes to mind? I’ll tell you who I am thinking about – Admiral James Stavridis, the Supreme Allied Commander for Europe in charge of NATO military operations and planning and the...
How many MEPs use social media? A tentative update
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Some rough 'n' ready figures on how many MEPs are using social media. Thanks to our doughty trainees for an arduous online trawl to produce these. Main finding: a qualified majority of MEPs are Facebook users!
Flamboyant... Recriminatory... Really... Moi?
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Politics.co.uk gives England Expects a write up. Surprisingly polite.As a behind the scenes gossip column on the in-fighting and machinations of the European parliament it's pretty good and the writing is as flamboyant and recriminatory as Nigel Fara...
Welcome to my new blog
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Thanks for checking this page. Starting from next week, I will be making regular postings. Following me here will be a quick way to keep up to date with my work as European Commissioner responsible for the Digital Agenda, how we as a Commission are...
Cosmetic Uprise Joins the Euroblogosphere
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The euroblogosphere is growing all the time, and I've just stumbled across another great female euroblogger.Score: 0 (0 votes cast)...
What Are Your Favorite Blogs?
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A new decade has started and it's high time to update our blogroll. Many previously good blogs are now inactive or boring. What blogs do you read on international politics in general and transatlantic relations in particular? Which European or North...
New Year, New Look!
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Image by birdfarm via Flickr So 2010 swings around. The EU Presidency is taken over by Spain, and I give the site a bit of a lick of paint! I decided to change the style a bit and make it a bit like newspaper. (one that isn’t updated very of...
Basic elements of techpolitics
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So many try to reinvent the wheel when it comes to techpolitics in Europe – we need to get better at learning from each other, across borders! I will explain more eventually, but here is my attempt to visualize (in … Continue reading U...
Launching Citizen Europe (Lite)
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The Prudent Investor left a comment on one of my posts (here)Giuseppe, [EDIT: For that would be my name in Italian]nice blog. May I only suggest you change the colors as white script on dark backgrounds is tremendously eye-tiring (to the older geezer...
From ECPR to A&E...
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It's Monday morning. My head still feels bad and I feel terribly tired. I go the doctor, who decides I should go to hospital in Brighton to have my head scanned. It's modern and clean. Everyone's very professional and pleasant. In the course of the n...
Eurocentric
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Once in a while there is cause to highlight a Euroblog worth reading, especially if it is fairly new and worth a larger readership than it may have had time to acquire. One such blog is Eurocentric’s The European Citizen. When you read Eurocentric...
