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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 [...]
Now what?
The emerging consensus is that the campaign went well. Speaking parochially, we believe the online part of it particularly so. Of course, indulging in a feelgood factor for a while is fine, but the time is coming now for some serious evaluation. What worked, what didn’t, what did but wasn’t worth it…
Post-electoral depression
Nothing matters any more. The day-to-day work seems quite boring. What’s the aim of the articles we write, if not to increase the turnout in the elections?
Twitter HQ
Parliament’s web team has become so accustomed over recent months to working on the elections communication campaign that it has become a way of life. So much so that it is actually quite disconcerting that the elections are actually now upon us. The Brits and Dutch have already voted, and, as I write, the Irish [...]
One third of webcomm unit still floating
Each member of our team will be voting since there is always time to vote. Here at the EP headquarters we will on election night be as much waiting for the results to know how the “camembert“ will be divided as we will be waiting for the turn-out figures. As an incentive for candidates to continue campaigning: one third [...]
No equal representation? No sex!
The European Parliament currently has 31 % of the seats filled with female MEPs. This figure made Commission Vice-President Margot Wallström recently question the representativeness of this potentially most democratic European institution: “Women account for 52% of the EU population. They must have equal representation. How can we speak of representative democracy when half the [...]
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).
“It’s Your Choice” goes viral
Well, it didn’t take long… EP-webeditors’ congratulations to Cédric Puisney (a.k.a. l’Européen jamais content) for his reinterpretations of the European elections campaign banners, posted yesterday. Nice work, and the bar set suitably high for future satirists… The emails were flying around the office this morning, with everyone selecting their favourite from Cédric’s versions of the [...]
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