http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu european blogging competition 2009 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:49:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Blogging about the EU seems to be like being the only one with a costume on a costume party - everyone was lazy to prepare, so they just came for the open buffet. Thus people either ignore you, wonder why you bother or wish they had the time and will ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/05/one-mans-fight-for-the-ep-elections-or-make-that-a-thousand/ In the last few weeks we can see something amazing going on in the Bulgarian web - all parties, big and small, are rushing to get a bigger slice of the Internet voter pie. They were quick to realize how much further their message would reach by simply building a ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/05/bulgarian-ep-elections-explode-in-the-internet/ The right wing parties in Bulgaria are far from being united. I talked about four of them in an earlier post. Since then, another party has gained momentum - RZS (Order, Lawfulness and Justice). Its leader is Jane Janev and since it attracted a few parliament members of another party ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/05/breaking-news-a-leading-bulgarian-right-wing-party-may-not-take-part-in-the-ep-elections/ In his TED talk, Dan Dennett speaks about the strange inversion of reasoning which allowed for the idea behind Darwinism to be born. This theory is still counter-intuitive to us, as we are quite used to the notion of things created by our own intelligence. We cannot imagine that nature ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/05/why-we-need-an-inversion-of-thinking-about-the-eu/ On 18. April, a group of students left Sofia on a one week trip around Europe. During those few days, they have visited a number of European institutions, cultural centers and other important cities that have left their mark in what we call the European Union today. Their goal was ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/04/a-tour-around-europe/ As parties are worming up for their election campaigns and newspapers are preparing their witty artwork just in case, several early predictions surfaced in the past week. Here are three of them, which come from quite different sources and discuss the results of the Bulgarian EP elections: Predict09.eu - a group ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/04/3-ep-election-predictions-disturbing-in-their-own-way/ At this very moment a heated discussion is being led in the Bulgarian Parliament on changes of the election law. It regulates how the next EP and Bulgarian Parliament elections are going to be done and how the votes will be counted. These attempted changes are just part of the ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/04/dangerous-last-minute-changes-of-the-election-law-in-bulgaria/ As I shared in my last post, in Bulgaria we make little difference between the EU elections and those for the Bulgarian parliament. The only difference may be that the EU elections will come sooner and will serve as a barometer for the public opinion. As the greatest prize for ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/04/the-results-of-the-bulgarian-ep-elections/ Currently the Bulgarian government is formed by a coalition of three parties – BSP, NDSV and DPS. On the street the nicknames of their leaders are the Russian, the Spanish and the Turk. BSP is the socialist party, which spawned from the communist party after the fall of communism. It's ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/03/bulgarian-politics-101/ I am writing this as a reaction to the post by George Iulian JIGLAU: "Getting sensitive (part I): Is the EU capable of dealing with the problems of the Roma?" I should start with one thing about the roma's origin: the romas that live in eastern Europe are originally from India. ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/03/getting-real-how-can-the-problems-of-the-roma-be-solved/ Before I went to the event in Brussels in the end of January, I put up a poll to find out what my readers know about the EU and what they wish to learn. In that article I also shared what I wish to take away from that event - ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/02/some-statistics-about-bulgarians-and-the-eu-from-my-blog/ This would be the first Europe-wide EP elections that Bulgaria will participate in. One would think that we as a new member would be eager to influence the European politics. Think again. Julien Frisch quotes statistics that nearly 50% of the Bulgarians have decided not to vote. Is the glass ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/02/eu-elections-and-bulgaria/