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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.

Downtown on the digital frontline (with Obama)

Today, I find myself in downtown Brussels in a hotel, surrounded by people without ties but all sporting the inevitable conference badges, where in a moment I am participating in a panel discussion entitled “What won it for Obama?”

MCMLXXIX….MMIX

When the first elections to Europe’s parliament were held in 1979 I was a energetic four year old. We had just moved to Ireland where we would spend many happy years.

How far can you go (online)?

Back to our seminar of 29-30 September (see previous post). The Big Issue. At events such as this seminar, one subject often emerges as the one which sets the debate alive, gets people disagreeing with each other and spills over into the conversations at the table later.  It may have been me who set the [...]

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