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Monthly Archives May 2009

“Don’t vote” video now with subtitles

Some time ago I’ve put a video on this blog that we (Les Jeunes Européens, JEF) made for the European elections next week. Since then many people fortunately liked the idea and forwarded the video. Thank you for that! But we haven’t been lazy during the last weeks and tried to improve it. After having cut [...]

Posted 28 May 2009 § English ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

What the heck is the European Parliament?

Since the elections to the European Parliament (4-7 June) are only a few days away it’s just about time to once again have a quick look at what the EU citizens are actually voting for this year. Here is a nice video that a friend of mine just posted on facebook (Thanks Laura, very viral). [...]

Posted 22 May 2009 § English ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Schönen Europatag 2009!

Weil doch heute Europatag ist, poste ich hier nochmal eines meiner liebsten Europavideos “Kinderleicht – Die europäische Werte“. Das ist auf jeden Fall einfacher zu verdauen, als die Schuman-Erklärung, die am 09. Mai 1950 Europa als Gemeinschaft ja irgendwie ins Rollen brachte. Ich wünsche allen einen schönen Europatag 2009!

Posted 09 May 2009 § Deutsch ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Tracking your MEP’s voting behavior

Today I stumbled upon a somewhat interesting database tool in twitter that gathers all voting behavior of the Members of the European Parliament since May 8, 2008. It’s called EP Vote and lets you discover all votes according to the country, political groups and MEPs themselves. So far, 944 MEPs, 700 texts voted and 423,059 [...]

Posted 06 May 2009 § English ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Don’t vote .. unless you care, of course! [update]

During this year’s annual international Paris seminar of les Jeunes Européens we came up with the idea of copying a quite successful video made by Hollywood’s favorite celebs to mobilize young voters in the 2008 United States presidential election. Thanks to the French Foundation of Political Innovation we could actually adapt the idea to the [...]

Posted 05 May 2009 § English ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,