Did you know that Goscinny and Uderzo used 14 litres of india ink, 30 brushes, 62 soft pencils, 1 hard pencil, 27 rubbers, 1984 sheets of paper, 16 typewriters ribbons, 2 typewriters, 366 pints of beer to create one of theire masterpiece: Asterix and Cleopatra?
Using the same scientific methodology here is one year of our working life: the creation of the European election web pages. Presented with the Feltron way .
What it took to make the Election 2009 website
Love the chart!
Hi,
Following your “request”, we published today a story about the rights and duties of MEPs.
It’s here:
Quick A- Z of MEPs’ duties and obligations
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/story_page/007-50576-061-03-10-901-20090302STO50535-2009-02-03-2009/default_en.htm
Hope you’ll find that interesting.
All the best,
T.
Hi,
The election procedures are handled by each Member State, which leads to 27 “electoral laws” (one of our little personal nightmares). We publish them next to each Country factsheet in the section “27 countries, 1 election.”
Here’s the link to UK’s:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2009/countries/electoral_laws/united_kingdom.htm?country=GB&language=EN
Highlighting the rights and duties of MEPs is a good idea – we could write a story on that. In the meantime, you can find a lot here:
Rules of procedures
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/parliament/expert/staticDisplay.do?language=EN&id=56
MEPs allowances:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/parliament/expert/staticDisplay.do?language=EN&id=39
Thanks for your comment,
T.
I am impressed by your efforts, but is it too much to ask of the European Parliament to offer the European basics about the election procedures as well as the rights and obligations of the members of the European Parliament we are about to elect?
Despite the resounding failure to enact a uniform electoral code, there are still some rudiments the EP could tell us about before linking to national pages, aren’t there?