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• A strange wave of anti-Communism in the EU’s corridors of power

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  Communist Statue - CC / Flickr I’ve come across this little summary from PressEurop of an article from the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza which looks at comments within the EPP saying that anyone who formerly co-operated with “repressive regimes and undemocratic organizations” be denied the post of ...
  16 hours ago

• ECR Group: the worst Twitter strategy I’ve ever seen (after no website for 3 months)

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  It took them 3 months to get a website together, and not before I had hit them with a bit of cyber squatting . Now the ECR Group in the EP is at it again with its catastrophic IT – this time applying it to Twitter. 3 weeks ago I noticed that @ecrgroup on Twitter follows zero people, and tweeted this : @ ...
  1 day ago

• EU flood aid money for Cumbria (let’s avoid the errors from last time)

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  Wordkington Floods - CC / Flickr In June and July 2007 parts of the UK were hit be severe floods . The EU has a Solidarity Fund to help its Member States deal with natural disasters, yet in the months after the floods wrangling continued about whether the UK would get any money from the fund, and when cash was ...
  2 days ago

• All followers are equal but some are more equal than others (a follower strategy for Twitter)

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  This post is motivated by two recent experiences. The first was being asked at an event a couple of weeks ago for some ideas to develop a Twitter strategy for a recruitment consultancy, an area of work about which I know nothing. The second was my experience looking at the Twitter profiles of the speakers at Personal ...
  3 days ago

• The PdF Compass

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  I’m on my way back to Brussels from Personal Democracy Forum Europe in Barcelona. I enjoyed participating in the conference, and was also very grateful to have been able to moderate one of the sessions there. Some of the everyday practical conclusions of PdF Europe will become clearer in due course, but for the ...
  4 days ago

• Where we could have been this evening – Lamy/Freiberga/Miliband

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  I try to see the positives where I can, but I am really struggling this evening. Who actually wanted Barroso, Van Rompuy and Ashton to be running the European Union? It all strikes me as the lowest common denominator of the worst sort. As @kosmopolit pointed out on Twitter, the three of them – together with EP ...
  1 week ago

• Baroness Ashton for High Rep – really?

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  Baroness Ashton - CC / Flickr Rumours are reaching me via Twitter that Baroness Ashton, UK Labour politician and outgoing Commissioner for Trade is the individual the socialists are now backing to be the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Policy. I must say I am astounded. Let me at least set the record ...
  1 week ago

• Atheist Bus Campaign – the sequel!

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  Launched today ! [IMG: http://www.jonworth.eu/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Atheist-Billboard-Campaign-615x154-590x147.jpg]
  1 week ago

• It’s time for a Gender Balanced Commission

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  The Treaty of Lisbon has been ratified and Heads of State and Government are getting together on Thursday this week to try to hammer out a deal on the EU’s top positions – President of the European Council and High Representative for Foreign Policy. Once that’s in place the team of 27 members of the ...
  1 week ago

• Stephen Wall might be a brilliant boffin, but he’s not the person to make a citizens’ case for the EU

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  EU Flag - CC / Flickr As quoted in this piece at EUObserver : A former British EU ambassador, Stephen Wall, also poured cold water on the scheme, saying that the appointment is about balancing national and political interests in Europe, rather than individual merit. “Given that they have to placate the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Berliner Mauer: no fanfare

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  Mauer - CC / Flickr No fanfare on this blog about today’s 20 year commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not because I’m not super happy to commemorate such an event, but because understanding the division of Berlin, the division of Germany, and the division of Germany has been a fascinating, personal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Live blog: Reporting forbidden? Freedom of the press and personal rights

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  I’m at the conference “Media and politics – the tension between freedom of the press and personal rights in print media and the internet” (more here ) – refresh the page for the latest entries. 1921 –  Hajo Friedrich is making the introduction, introducing Klaus-Heiner Lehne from the CDU, chair ...
  2 weeks ago

• Henry Porter in The Observer: you are a lazy f**kwit too

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  Crucifix - CC / Flickr It’s not just the Daily Mail at fault for utterly lazy, shit and f**king crap journalism about European Politics. Henry Porter in today’s Observer is horribly, dreadfully, shockingly awful : When the European Court of Human Rights announces a ban on crucifixes in Italian schools, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Nick Pisa example: get your attack in first and Google does the rest

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  One of the major frustrations about the UK mainstream media’s coverage of EU affairs is that even if an article is eventually corrected on a newspaper’s website, or a correction appears in the printed press, the damage is already done – when it comes to the European Union it’s all too often write ...
  2 weeks ago

• Some questions for David Cameron today

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  David Cameron - CC / Flickr It has been widely trailed that David Cameron is going to outline his new European policy today, after capitulating yesterday on the Treaty of Lisbon issue. The feral members of the Tory Party are baying for blood, so what is Cameron going to give them? The most likely position that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cameron’s referendum travails make him look an idiot

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  David Cameron - CC / Flickr David Cameron, as quoted on the BBC News website today : It looks like this treaty is no longer going to be a treaty, it looks like it is going to become part of European law and that is going to create a new situation. Does David Cameron simply not understand how the EU works? ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nick Pisa, Daily Mail journalist, lazy f**kwit

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  It’s not often that something makes me angry enough to resort to language befitting of Devil’s Kitchen , but Googling for news of the recent European Court of Human Rights case about crucifixes in Italian schools brought me to this article in the Daily Mail with the headline shown above (they might subsequently ...
  3 weeks ago

• Some examples of the power of Youtube

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  In the presentations I make about the impact of the internet on politics and society, Youtube often gets a mention. Although not all explicitly political these are 4 of my favourites. Think of what you could do with some inspiration like this… Dave Carroll, the singer in the first one, said he asked himself “if ...
  3 weeks ago

• The modern modern art gallery

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  Damien Hirst Pills - CC / Flickr It’s normally the first thing on my agenda when visiting a new city: take a trip to the best modern art gallery in town and spend a few hours wandering around. But I’m getting increasingly jaded, and here’s why. This describes the modern art gallery I’ve most ...
  3 weeks ago

• If you’re a rail passenger Schengen is a myth

  
  Jon Worth — Authority: 524
  Zoll - CC / Flickr Enough is enough. Why, oh why, are we re-establishing border controls in Europe, at least as far as night train passengers are concerned? On the Amsterdam-München CityNightLine service last weekend Netherlands Police boarded the train at Venlo and shone a flashlight in everyone’s faces at ...
  3 weeks ago

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