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Hopeless new web comms plan from Reding

By Jon on June 30, 2010

Via Twitter I came across this post in French by Michael Malherbe about a letter sent from Commissioner responsible for Communications, Viviane Reding, to Commission President Barroso. Euractiv managed to get hold of a copy of the letter that contains 14 points about how communications are to be improved. The irony is that it looks [...]

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Who says EP speeches are never fun and interesting?

By Jon on February 17, 2010

Bit of genius from Danny the Red Green: Dany Cohn-Bendit-Investiture de la Commission Barroso IIenvoyé par EurodeputesEE. – Regardez les dernières vidéos d’actu.

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

By Jon on November 19, 2009

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 [...]

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Baroness Ashton for High Rep – really?

By Jon on November 19, 2009

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 straight about what I think about Ashton. I was [...]

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Fillon to be the knight in shining armour to save the Commission?

By Jon on September 7, 2009

There’s an interesting article in Le Monde today speculating once more about a role for François Fillon as a possible candidate for the Presidency of the Commission. The story goes broadly like this: José Manuel Barroso secured the nomination of the Heads of State and Government in July Approval of Barroso in the European Parliament next week [...]

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Nomination of the Commission: left backs the right, and wonders why it has no message

By Jon on September 5, 2009

The EP elections, the five year democratic interruption to the Brussels game, are long in the past. Everyone is back from their summer holidays, ready for a bout of jousting and positioning in that depressing and opaque game: how to put together a team of 27 Commissioners. The nomination of José Manuel Barroso as President of [...]

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EU Comms David vs. Goliath (only the stones are misdirected)

By Jon on July 31, 2009

OK, here we go again. Open Europe having a further whine at something going on in Brussels, this time the amount of money the European Union spends on ‘propaganda’. Also not a surprise is the choice of EUObserver to carry a column from Open Europe’s Lorraine Mullally, and in Sweden Timbro is apparently trying to [...]

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Campaign to back Barroso getting dirty

By Jon on June 15, 2009

As an alumnus of the College of Europe in Bruges I periodically get e-mails on the student e-mail lists. This one has recently reached me: Dear Alumni, Following  the recent elections for the European Parliament, the nomination of the Commission’s President is now on the European Agenda. The European Movement (www.europeanmovement.eu) has launched a petition supporting the re-appointment [...]

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