Posts Tagged ‘ MEP ’

Boycott Hungary?

January 14, 2011
By Stephen
Boycott Hungary?

An interesting possibility has arisen from ALDE MEP’s. They want to move a meeting of the EU-African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Joint Parliamentary Assembly to Brussels according to Euractiv (original in French and English) thereby boycotting Hunagary. This is seen as a democratic protest against the recent media law in Hungary. This law has met with opposition from within and without Hungary. The idea of this boycott came after Belgian MEP Louis Michel, co-chair of the EU-ACP assembly, called...

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VoteWatch.eu Summary of European Parliament Votes 24-27 November 2009

December 1, 2009
By Stephen
VoteWatch.eu Summary of European Parliament Votes 24-27 November 2009

Image via Wikipedia Votewatch.eu sent this out to all its users today. Its a good idea and may be a reason in itself to sign up to the website! Important votes were taken during the recent EP’s plenary session, such as the resolutions on the upcoming Summit on Climate Change, the Stockholm programme in the area of justice and home affairs, “origin labelling“, the smoke-free environments, the European Police Office (Europol) and European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN). The progress...

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A Campaigning Lunch

April 18, 2009
By Stephen
A Campaigning Lunch

Today on my lunch break, I went Colm Burkes European Election Campaign launch on Patrick St. What a great idea that was. Really it was. By bringing politics back on the street he got a brilliant reaction. He was interacting with people and bringing politics to them. More politics should be conducting campaigns like this. I missed the speeches and that but a friend informed me that all speakers were on top form. This is what campaigning in, European,...

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Predicting the European Election

April 10, 2009
By Stephen
Predicting the European Election

I came across this site while checking out my new followers on twitter. The website is Predict 09. Predict09.eu is a prediction of the outcome of the June 2009 European Parliament elections and the resulting make-up of the next European Parliament. The prediction is based on a statistical model of the performance of national parties in European Parliament elections, developed by three leading political scientists: Simon Hix (London School of Economics), Michael Marsh (Trinity College Dublin), and Nick Vivyan...

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Latest Think Post!

March 24, 2009
By Stephen
Latest Think Post!

I’ve given up on counting my posts on ThinkAboutit was it was just getting confusing, and will be vey strange coming up towards the elections. But anyway the latest post is on Tory MEP Christopher Beazley joining the EPP. Give it and read and please rate it! I found out about the story from @NEurope

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Will 2009 see the End of the UEN?

January 19, 2009
By Stephen
Will 2009 see the End of the UEN?

Image via WikipediaThe Union for Europe of the Nations is a political grouping in the European Union. Fianna Fail is one of the members of this grouping and in fact Brian Crowley is one of the leaders of the group. The UEN currently consists of 44 MEPs from the following parties:# Danish People’s Party (1 MEP) – Denmark # Fianna Fáil (4 MEPs) – Ireland# National Alliance (8 MEPs) – Italy# Lega Nord (4 MEPs) – Italy# The Right...

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