Comments on: I take it all back… http://www.writingforyeu.eu/2009/07/i-take-it-all-back/ A blog for a team. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:43:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: raffaella http://www.writingforyeu.eu/2009/07/i-take-it-all-back/comment-page-1/#comment-464 raffaella Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:02:40 +0000 http://www.ep-webeditors.eu/?p=1761#comment-464 Another episode has surprised me: the COCOBU (Committee on Budget control)has refused to vote for an EDF member (far-right eurosceptic group) as Committee's vice-chairman, even if there was a previous agreement. A green MEP as been elected´instead. The two reasons why it surprised me: 1) in Italy these things do not happen. "People's vote" is sovereign, so who has the votes rules, the other parties accept it and no further considerations are made. 2) European politics can be exciting! That vote was really a surprise. Unfrtunately not reported by the press, that was not even there, this was not 'news'. But I continue to believe that the potential is there and we have to do more to awake people's interest around EU politics. Another episode has surprised me: the COCOBU (Committee on Budget control)has refused to vote for an EDF member (far-right eurosceptic group) as Committee’s vice-chairman, even if there was a previous agreement. A green MEP as been elected´instead.

The two reasons why it surprised me:
1) in Italy these things do not happen. “People’s vote” is sovereign, so who has the votes rules, the other parties accept it and no further considerations are made.

2) European politics can be exciting! That vote was really a surprise. Unfrtunately not reported by the press, that was not even there, this was not ‘news’. But I continue to believe that the potential is there and we have to do more to awake people’s interest around EU politics.

]]> By: Thibault Lesénécal http://www.writingforyeu.eu/2009/07/i-take-it-all-back/comment-page-1/#comment-2558 Thibault Lesénécal Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:12:58 +0000 http://www.ep-webeditors.eu/?p=1761#comment-2558 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">New post by Steve on our team's blog: http://bit.ly/Us7EU If you're a political geek, you'll like it.</span></span> New post by Steve on our team's blog: http://bit.ly/Us7EU
If you're a political geek, you'll like it.

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