So yea, I got sent the link of my th!nk interview! (Thanks Mantas!) So raather then let you people find it, here it is! The questions I am answering are: 1) what you think about the EP election results in your home country and 2) what have you learned from the project. CRINGE! I never realised I sounded so Irish!! Really in my head I dont sound so Irish… Tips for future interviews greatly received!
Jon Worth one of the Th!nk editors and a few others, Julien, Andreas and Joe have an excellent idea. Their are looking for ideas and possibilities for the next commission. So will represent your country? I think Pat Cox will be the Irish Commissioner. Am I right? or is it there a better candidate?
Well I am holidays, well kind of! I am at the thinkaboutit.eu finale. We have a day lined up and a boat trip, its going to fun. So far I have gotten to meet two of my favourite European Bloggers. Julien Frisch and Joesef Litobarski of Citizen-Europe. Today we find out what happens after the competition as well as who won!! Which some people might find important! Some of us were discussing last night what happens after this, and...
Well after an email sent to all the participants in the Th!nk About It Project about some votin irregularities that have appeared on the site, and I have noticed a few myself, the following was sent today. I’m sorry to inform you that discrepancies in the voting via the use of proxies and abuse of computer-classrooms have increased so much that the results can not be trusted anymore. For this reason, the EJC editorial team will choose the April...
I put a post up on think about it website about the European Elections in Northern Ireland. To me, Northern Ireland is going to be one of the interesting constituencies in Ireland and UK where recent events and changes to parties and the split to the Unionist vote. Its all going to ve very interesting! Something that seems to have escaped mention on this blog is the change that could come about in Northern Ireland during the European Elections...
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
I have been a busy boy today! I have posted two new posts over on thinkaboutit.eu. The first post is about Jury Team, a group of independents going for election to the European Parliament in the UK. The Federal Union blog high-light an interesting initiative in the UK which aims at getting independents elected to the European Parliament. They are called Jury Team. While Federal Union think they are wrong way about the European Parliament saying we need more...
Image via Wikipedia Yup, I’ve gone on posted my 6th post over on thinkaboutit.eu. This one is about the EPP-ED and their new tag-line.. I got a press release today from the EPP-ED Group of the European Parliament. In it they inform me of an event to launch their new tag-line. The tag-line is “Europe’s Driving Force” (now you see why the UK Conservatives left them). Read Full Post, dont forget to rate it! Thanks!
Image by stephen.spillane via Flickr Well I seam to be getting used to blogging over on the thinkaboutit.eu blog becuase I just published my 5th post on it! Its on women and European politics. Eurobarometer recently did a Flash survey on Women and Politics in the EU. It found that 79% of Irish Women and 78% of women in the United Kingdom think that politics is male dominated. Read Full Post, dont forget to rate it!
So yea I just stuck up my fourth post on the Think About It Blog. This one is on how I got involved in Politics and I have given it an EU slant. It was inspired by a converstaion at Cork OpenCoffee so do please check it out and rate. I have reprinted the first paragraph as a teaser: I am a rare one, I mean among my peers, that not only am I interested in politics but I...
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