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A Union of Peace, Love and Bass? [update]

Is a “party place for everydays” what we want for the European Union? Perhaps not, but we could definitely live with some more creativity and especially effort for European issues like the artist “DJ Trexx” has put into his election  campaign contribution with this humorous 90′s eurotrash track “A Union of Peace, Love and Bass” [...]

Posted 02 June 2009 § English ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

“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) ° Also 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) ° Also 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) ° Also 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) ° Also tagged: