Archive for July, 2009
May and June most read stories.
Our (recently established) monthly edition of sharing with your our monthly most read stories has suffered from too much work (between May and the Election) but also from too much rest (as I flew away as soon as the last ballot was counted). In order not to let the late posts piling up on my [...]
I take it all back…
Well, some of it anyway… Hardly had I pressed the “publish” button on the last post than the Parliament provided its big surprise of the week.
…And how can we go greener
Last week I wrote about where does the EP stand in green standards. This week, some tips on what can WE do to make the Parliament greener. And also, some fresh news about what is going to happen soon…thanks to EMAS that revealed it exclusively to us! In our corridors… I want to believe that [...]
About cycling and fulfilling election promises
Fishing for public attention is the daily business of politicians; therefore it is always a pleasure to witness some original and positive ideas in this respect. One such election project was a Czech MEPs idea to cycle from Prague to Strasbourg and to announce it as [...]
Gossip and the joy of politics
The fight for positions and influence has been tough, the deals which result in the outcomes to be formalised this week come after tough negotiations and sometimes bitter fights. There are winners and losers. Some are in, others are out. For the well-informed observer, the process is a fascinating one. Yes, it’s even fun to watch.
How green do we go?
Call it post-election annihilation. Or maybe we were too concentrated to catch the new MEPs in the corridors to be able to notice anything else. The fact is, the ‘Green week’ of the European Parliament passed relatively unnoticed, if it was not for a Green official that made me test the ecopassenger tool, a very [...]
Still no equal representation in Parliament
Next week the newly elected MEPs will flock to Strasbourg for the inaugural session of the Parliament. Among them approximately 35% female Members. A slight increase compared to the previous legislature (until recently Parliament had 31% female MEPs) but way too little to be able to speak of an equal representation, after all 52% of EU’s [...]
User-generated cyber-trash
There’s a grey zone of cyberspace cluttered with petabytes of irrelevant publicly available private content. Is social media making us waste time and in reality become anti-social?
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