A post from the Thinkaboutit.eu Blog! Last month the Maldives Government held a Cabinet meeting under waterto highlight the threat of global warming to the island nation. This month Nepal’s Government will hold a Cabinet meeting at the Mount Everest base-camp to highlight the threat to glaciers. While both of these events are being reported around the world, will they do anything in the lead up to the talks in Copenhagen? While both events can be used to place moral...
Daily Archives: November 2, 2009
Bruton For European Council President?
Young Fine Gael is trying to launch a grassroots campaign for John Bruton to be made President of the European Council. I received the following missive from HQ. Dear Member, As you may know former Taoiseach and Leader of Fine Gael John Bruton is seeking election as President of the European Council. Let’s get behind him by using the internet to spread his campaign around Europe. SIGN THE PETITION Please sign and forward the petition link...
Fianna Fail and the Liberals
Things aren’t looking so good for the Fianna Fail Party in their new Grouping in the European Parliament. At the last plenary session they caused hassle by abstaining on a vote on a resolution by the ALDE, Green and Socialist groups on media freedoms, this caused the vote to be lost. This has causd huge anger in the ALDE grouping. Reports are also surfacing that the Fianna Fail MEP’s tried to scupper a resolution on Gay Rights emerging from...
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