Archive for April, 2009
Europe is nothing but a big bad wolf
Once upon a time there was a big bad wolf called Europe (the taurus story is a myth as we all know). While walking in the forests, it devoured all human beings it crossed: bad and good. They made him move to the left, to the middle or to the right -according to where his stomach weighed heavier.
A bilingual chicken, a naked chicken
The “beauty queen” of the communication campaign for the elections is the chicken. By popular request. One of them even got a love letter in the form of graffiti: “Je t’aime, poulet” (I love you, chicken).
One seat
Yes, this blog entry is about one seat, but not that of European Parliament. And yes, it is about EP’s monthly commuting to Strasbourg, but in a slightly different perspective. It’s the end of one seat as we know it (I feel fine)…
The Box, the Garden and the Waffle
The hectic travel of one Choice box as well as an explanation of what exactly a Choice Box is. This post contains waffles.
Two crises that showed why the EP matters…
One editor, two crisis. Olav tells us the stories behind the story of two issues he covered during this first semester.
Yikes! Suddenly we are doing all this stuff
Seems only yesterday… It’s not long since we were in the happy position of being the ones pushing for all kinds of trendy, new-fangled ideas against a hidebound establishment. This blog seemed like a distant mirage – it was just too far outside the comfort zone of the way European institutions do communication to be [...]
The importance of being normal
Another meeting, another colleague teaching me about “what is normal”. What normal people are. “If we want to communicate the European Parliament, we have to understand how normal people think.” Not again…
Fact and figures vs. scandal: what are we working for?
What are we doing? What are we working for, and – more important – how? We try to explain what happens at the European Parliament. We want to provide citizens with reliable, high quality and very interesting information. What is the new proposal on tyres labelling about? Who’s for in the House, who’s against? And [...]
Ten most wanted stories of March
Hand-crafted as always, surprising as ever, interesting for everyone and coming straight from Alpha Centauri’s closest neighborhood, please meet our monthly editorial top 10.
Pop vote
Our designers strike again with a nice tribute to Andy Warhol in this visual post. Fred and Sophie have adapted the official logo of the Election campaign in more than 200 versions (sizes, languages, national claims, national dates of elections). They dream about it, if you want to know.
The human faces of (some) public faces
“One must go in and fetch a diamond out” says one of Arthur Miller’s characters in “Death of a Salesman”. The same process applied to collecting 10 reasons to vote from ex-EP presidents when they gathered in Brussels last week. I met them together with other three editors and our photographer Pietro and asked them to give our readers the reasons to participate to the European elections.
What you do will come back to you
It is about time to reveal a bit more about whom we are, also to give potential trainees the opportunity to make a well-informed choice. The only causes worth fighting for are lost causes At average we are 33 ¼ years young. This youthly figure is without the trainees but includes the boss! Still a [...]
Why vote? A question of generation perhaps
Just a quick one today, based on an observation about something we have just published on the site. We pounced on a lunch held in honour of former EP Presidents held last week to ask them why they think people should vote in European elections. (Perhaps they could improve on our ten reasons, which have given [...]
10 most read Stories in February
Most of websites do that automatically. We belong more to the handcraft school: we polish things manually, we shape them, we give them little names, we’re reluctant to give them away because we’re never sure they are quite finished. But for you, dear readers, here is our monthly top 10. 100% handmade.
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