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The Week in Bloggingportal: ACTA, the crisis, and a half-naked EU Commissioner
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To make a long story short: The best post I read during the week was L’Europe Libre’s observations on a speech Merkel held China on the topic of Europe. Besides this short geopolitical-philosophical dissection of the queen’s speech...
Eurosphere roundup: ACTA, Davos, Bloggingportal.eu 3 years old
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Booklet: Why You Should Care About ACTA 14 November, 2011 » Campaigns | Intellectual Property Enforcement The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a plurilateral agreement which proposes international standards for enforcement of intel...
Chrome Users: Try the WordPress.com Extension
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Want to receive WordPress.com notifications instantly, even when you’re not on WordPress.com? Add the new WordPress.com extension for Chrome and as soon as you get a new follower or a new like on one of your posts, a notification will appear in...
Blogguer pour l’Europe
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Blogger est bon pour l’Europe ! Depuis trois ans, BloggingPortal.eu a réussi à proposer une collection de blogs et autre site-web liés à l’Union Européenne. C’est un excellent portail pour obtenir les dernières informations...
Blogging for Europe
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Blogging is good for Europe ! For three years, BloggingPortal.eu has magnificently managed a pool of blogs and EU-related websites. It is a great portal to get the latest news and deepest insights on the European Affairs. Happy Birthday ! As a blog...
3 years of BloggingPortal.eu
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Today marks 3 years of our little blogging project – BloggingPortal.eu It started as a conversation between Stefan, Andreas and I, and all the coding work was done by Stefan. The inspiration for it came from this blog post I … Continue re...
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...
3loggingportal.eu
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Three years of bloggingportal. And what a journey it has been. I remember sitting around a huge table in a flat in Brussels – with a certain Jon Worth and the (back then) mysterious Brusselsblogger – dreaming up something that is now know...
Happy Birthday Bloggingportal.eu!
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The EU blog aggregating website Bloggingportal.eu is 3 tomorrow. Since it was launched the number of blogs being aggregated has ballooned to 904, with over 250 posts being generated over the past week. The Euroblogosphere is definitely more vibrant t...
Bloggingportal.eu needs your help!
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The EU blog aggregator bloggingportal.eu is 3 years old – and needs your help! Bloggingportal is website that aggregates articles from hundreds of EU related blogs, including many of those hosted on blogactiv.eu. The project went online on 26...
Never waste a good (media) crisis
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OR How I learned to start reading every George, Nick’s and Harry’s blog and stopped worrying about the closure of …Continue reading »...
Happy Birthday, BloggingPortal(?)
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Apparently tomorrow – apart from being Australia Day – is BloggingPortal’s 3rd birthday. What does it’s state tell us about the EU Online Public Space? How many more friends can I lose anyway? [Update: read a blogtour of 11 ot...
Happy Birthday BloggingPortal.eu: three years young
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Tomorrow (Thursday 26th) marks three years since the launch of BloggingPortal - a website ran by volunteers that now aggregates more than 900 blogs written in an array of European languages and each discussing European affairs and political activity.
Here are the Eurobloggers
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Bloggingportal.eu is celebrating its third anniversary tomorrow, 26 January 2012. The website brings together 904 blogs in the different languages of the EU, written by individuals, journalists, Members of the European Parliament, European Commission...
Happy birthday: Bloggingportal.eu turns 3
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Update: See the collective anniversary post by 12 Bloggingportal.eu editors! Tomorrow, on 26 January 2012, Bloggingportal.eu celebrates its third birthday. I haven’t been an editor right from the start, but I followed the development of the po...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Schulzinisation, Orbanisation and the downgrading of the Union
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The week in triples (1 ) First the Union got downgraded. Then the European Parliament was Schulzinised. The day after, it was Orbanised. (2 ) Diana Wallis will leave the European Parliament. Commissioner Barnier may leave the European Commission. US...
State of the Labour blogosphere – into the darkness
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Let no one ever tell you that there are positives about being in opposition. Nothing about the gnawing impotence of opposition is positive. Nothing about waking up each morning to the sound of another government initiative is positive. Nothing about...
Contribute to Beyondbrussels.com
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Dear reader Since mid 2011 Beyondbrussels.com have delivered a digest on EU and European politics every day. From January 1. this have changed because I, EUgonzo, have decided to focus my writings on the danish EU presidency (starting with this post...
Read All Your Favorite Blogs in One Place
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If you feel like it’s a chore to keep up with all your favorite blogs, you can now read posts from all the blogs you follow (even the ones that aren’t on WordPress.com!) in one convenient place on the WordPress.com home page: Your reader...
Why Nick Archer’s blog doesn’t work
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I’m just back from the Presidency Press Trip in Copenhagen. It has resulted in numerous blog entries from me (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), a set on Flickr, and masses of activity on Twitter. The FT blog has a … Continue reading →...
Why there’s no LabourList column from me today
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It seemed like an excellent opportunity – to write a weekly column for LabourList, one of the biggest left-leaning blogs in the UK. Take EU matters to a new, wider audience. So I thought. In the second half of 2011 … Continue reading U...
2011′in en çok okunan EFD postları/ EFD’s Top posts in 2011-
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Top Posts for 365 days ending 2011-12-31 A video: Turkish Porn Star Şahin K’s comedy film trailer A video: ĐUBRIVO – PORNO STAR Bilgi’yi Bitiren Adam (Melek Çetin’den) “Remembering Egypt’s Martyrs”. Roundup continues.
On Christmas holiday
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We’re having a little break here at beyondbrussels.com. Enjoying christmas and new year. We’ll be back by mid-January. Merry christmas and a happy new year. See you.
The Week in Bloggingportal: It’s all about image(s)
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(Move the mouse over the images to read the comments; click on the images to get to the blog posts) Picture credits: KT zu Guttenberg by CSIS: Center for Strategic & International Studies | BY-N...
Week in Bloggingportal: #We’ll meet again…(?)#
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Europe: Heartbroken. BY CC RTP (Really Terrible Photographer) What a week for Europe. We’ve had a new fiscal compact, and it seems we’ll all remember the day Britain left. Or should that be, the day the UK fell out of the...
The Week in Bloggingportal: Summary without Cameron
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We will ignore him. He’s not among us anymore. He’s to the Union what the Union is to him. Even if he couldn’t have done anything else, it is clear: He and his country are on the edge now. He said goodbye, but we do not react to h...
Euroblogs in German
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Yesterday I looked at the euro crisis and euroblogs on Bloggingportal.eu, the multilingual aggregator. As I said: Increasingly Europeans realise that they are in the same boat, although some design the improved vessels for the future, some recall scr...
Euro crisis and euroblogs on Bloggingportal
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The euro is the currency of 332 million people, more than the home of the United States dollar (about 313 million). The severe euro crisis affects not only the 17 countries of the eurozone, but the economic prospects in the whole European Union (popu...
Week in Bloggingportal: Would a fiscal union by another name smell as sweet?
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BY CC jaldrome Fiscal union is the order of the day, and some – including some with the money to boost the markets, though they seem to do that after every Euro announcement (maybe they just like Merkel’s soothing voice?) – t...
New Blog on European Politics
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My friend and colleague Trisha Craig has just launched a new blog on European politics. There only one post so far, on the Spanish elections, but check it out. There will be more to come, and you're sure to find it interesting.
The Week in Bloggingportal: Iceberg ahead!
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When you listen to economic journalists these days, all you hear is “Iceberg ahead!“. They announce the perfect storm, not least after Germany failed to sell some of its bonds offered at a record-low interest rate this week. These news cl...
Policy euroblogs: economy and eurozone
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Ronny Patz made some interesting observations about policy-oriented euroblogs. He mentioned and linked to a number of interesting blogs in different policy areas. Patz mentioned the growth of economic blogging during the ongoing crisis, even if he di...
Euroblog Thanksgiving in the eurozone
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Today I want to import the Thanksgiving tradition in the USA to express my gratitude to some posts on the 890 euroblogs aggregated by Bloggingportal.eu. The spectre of eurozone breakup seems to advance faster than the mini-summits Fabien l'Européen...
Reporting Europe 2012
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Nominations are open for the UACES – Thomson Reuters Reporting Europe Prize 2012. There have been some interesting winners in the few years I’ve been going along. It’s very far from a hagiographic prize, as a brief glimpse at some &...
The Week in Bloggingportal: No comment
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Almost 60 blog post have been promoted by our editors during the last week, and we’ve selected relevant quotes from each of these posts for this week’s “The Week in Bloggingportal” without any further comment: “Never bef...
Hallo Welt!
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Willkommen zur deutschen Version von WordPress. Dies ist der erste Artikel. Du kannst ihn bearbeiten oder löschen. Um Spam zu vermeiden, geh doch gleich mal in den Pluginbereich und aktivier die entsprechenden Plugins. So, und nun genug geschwafelt...
New Themes: Photography, Brand New Day, and Bouquet
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I’m happy to announce that we’ve added another group of three new themes to our collection today. Each one has its own distinct personality but they do share one thing in common: they’re all awesome themes that I know you’ll l...
Hello world!
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
The Week in Bloggingportal: A Greek and German Tragedy
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After the gouls and ghosties of Halloween, we get a week of high drama. EU politics has rarely been so exciting… though I expect most EU bloggers would prefer a slightly more boring (and slightly safer) script to work from. Like the Gre...
Remember remember the 5th of November: Polscieu turns 1
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One year ago, the Polscieu adventure started, the experiment whether political science and political practice in EU matters could be brought together in a meaningful way. Now, to explain what I mean with “bringing political science and politica...
Week in Bloggingportal: Witching Hour
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BY CC typicalgenius. Tomorrow is Hallowe’en, an old Celtic holiday when spirits were close and had to be warded off. Nowadays, we make our own frightening spectres, like that of European financial catastrophe: well, we’re romantic...
The Week in Bloggingportal: No Panic on Planet Brussels
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Hey you, big politicians, big media, big players, you would like us bloggers to talk about European summits and party pre-summits, European budgets and Greek debts, Eurozone crisis and Eurozone panic, wouldn’t you? You think we shoul...
MountEUlympus at the EPP Summit
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In the footsteps of Julien Frisch, Joe Litobarski and Andrew Burgess, your humble blogger will cover the summit of the European People's Party (EPP), held this Saturday evening in preparation for the European Council on Sunday (and Wednesday). Ang...
Week in Bloggingportal: Euro Default Mode
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CC BY Kevan. You might say “crisis”, but in Brussels it’s pronounced “default mode”: yet again the Euro has been at the top of the agenda, and it will remain there for the weeks and months ahead. While Slovakia ki...
The Week in Bloggingportal: They just can’t kill the beast
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It was Jean Quatremer who started the week with a reference to Hotel California, and so we could not resist also to reference this song in the title of this Week in Bloggingportal. In fact, JQ’s musical citation was not the only cultural refere...
The Week in Bloggingportal: The State of the Union (euroblogosphere style)
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It’s not every day that one of the presidents of the European Union is trying to imitate the US president, and this year’s State of the European Union (SOTEU) sounded like a certain José Manuel Durão Barroso really wanted to impress the...
Barroso’s State of the Union 2011: My SOTEU bingo results
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This morning, EU Commission President Barroso delivered his “State of the Union” (text, video). We at Bloggingportal.eu have called for a Barroso Buzzword/Bullshit Bingo to be played, and I have proposed my own list of 10 words/phrases to...
Barroso Buzzword Bingo 2011
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Creative Commons BY Annie Mole. It’s that time of year again, with Barroso’s State of the [European] Union address. At 9:00 a.m. CET on Wednesday this week, Barroso will make his speech to the European Parliament, setting out his v...
Important Announcement
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Dear readers, Yesterday September 25, this blog, together with my entire google account were victims of hackers. All my related networks were temporarily shut down and I completely lost access to... To view the full entry click on the title or v...
European Day of Languages 26 September 2011 is Bloggingportal day
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It is time to remember the annual 26 September European Day of Languages, now into its 10th edition. Language learning is at the heart of the objectives, so become inspired.The European Day of Languages is arranged jointly by the Council of Europe an...
Week in Bloggingportal – Sending out an SO€
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Creative Commons BY Jayel Aheram Once again there have been calls for all hands to man the Euro battle stations as SO€s – Save our Eurozones – have been broadcasted, with apparently only 6 weeks to save the Euro. Saving it isn...
José remet-ça !
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Comme l’année dernière, José (Manuel Barroso, le président de la Commission Européenne) se plie à nouveau à l’exercice de l’Etat de l’Union – discours dont le nom, mais pas la substance, est emprunté aux state of...
Blog Repair
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As you can see, we're trying (hard) to get the blog back to normal.We're still having problems with the commentsbut apart from that, we seem to have made some progress…Patience…...
Barroso Bullshit Bingo for the 2011 State of the European Union address
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[…] Already last year, we at Bloggingportal.eu have made fun of this "State of the European Union" (#SOTEU), and Jon was the first to call for a revival of our Barroso Bullshit Bingo. […]...
Barroso Bullshit Bingo is back (economic crisis edition)
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Last year a bunch of EU blog nerds had a laugh when José Manuel Barroso made a State of the European Union address (more here). The very notion that Barroso would do this made us smile, and knowing he’s not a great … Continue reading &...
Links you may have missed today (Sept 21, 2011)
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Guest Post: Will Tokyo Be Evacuated Due to Fukushima Radiation? (Naked Capitalism) Little Woman Act (London Review of Books) – hilarious Facebook wants to be the newspaper of your dreams (GigaOM) Today’s treat: (click for full photo serie...
More traffic for your blog with the follow button
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We’ve written before about our efforts at WordPress.com to help you get more attention for your work. And we’re here again with a new feature: follow. After weeks of experimentation with different designs, locations and names, we’ve...
Total Politics Blog Awards
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It’s that time of year again. The “Total Politics” awards for most of their categories were announced last week. I was very pleased to be 14 again in the Labour Blogs section, the same as last year. My thanks to all … Continu...
Erkan’s Field Diary: Top posts of the week and the month….
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Top Posts for 7 days ending 2011-09-18 1- Sosyal Medya alanında çalışan ajanslar (24): “Df İstanbul” 2- Rwanda Massacre 3- Best answer to Danish populist leader comes from a Young Turk (!) 4- Turkey vs. Israel today:...
Call for: Freelance bloggers (text, audio, video)
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Do you shake your head about the latest decision in EU politics? Are you itching to tell the part of a story that was not told so far? Do you want to make a valuable contribution to our website but do you lack the time to write blogs regularly? EST o...
Coming to a WordCamp Near You
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Every now and then I like to remind people about upcoming WordCamps. WordCamps are locally-organized, casual conferences held all over the world that focus on WordPress. Bloggers, developers, and every other kind of WordPress fan get together to show...
Looking for tips on better blogging?
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Whether you’re a WordPress.com veteran or blogging newbie, the updated version of Learn WordPress.com is sure to teach you something that you don’t already know. The tutorial contains ten short sections on popular topics such as: Personalizing yo...
Our new address – europeanstrategist.eu
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From the moment we launched this webzine three months ago, our editorial team knew that we’d been entering into one serious relationship that would last for long. All our contributors tried hard to stay true to our original promise and deliver...
New Theme: Nishita
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Nishita is a simple, minimally-styled photoblogging theme—now available for WordPress.com blogs. With a choice of dark or light color scheme, the muted design puts all the focus on your photos. Not only is this theme designed for photos, it loves b...
A European foundation working on the creation of a bloggers’ European community
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The 100% citizen’s, participative media AgoraVox was created in 2005. Carlo Revelli thought it a few years ago. He wanted to create something to reduce the gap between the European information flow on the Internet and reflection given by mainstream...
