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Britney and the top five
A while ago, in February to be precise, I wrote a post entitled “Sex, porn and Britney Spears”, at the end of which I wondered “whether an article titled and tagged as this one is, especially when these terms appear in tempting conjunction with “European Parliament”, gets any bump in traffic?”. Well, I went and checked.
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?
Learning to cope with social media
So now it’s all over… Nearly six weeks with intensive online election campaigns. Last week nearly 162 million European voters went to the polls to elect their 736 representatives in the European Parliament. Even though the 43, 2 % turnout is the lowest ever, it was way better than most analyst had expected before the [...]
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 [...]
Self-fulfilling prophecy?
What’s the one thing people know about the European elections due to be held between 4 and 7 June? Yes, you got it: that there is likely to be a record level of abstention. Am I alone in thinking that if the public were sometimes actually told something ELSE about these elections they might actually sit up and take an interest?
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