http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu european blogging competition 2009 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:49:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en EP elections in Latvia have passed silently. The most attention was taken by local municipal elections and especially of the intrigue who is going to be the next mayor of Riga city. We have elected eight candidates from six different parties. Latvia has not been surprisingly different from the rest of ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/06/latvias-ep-election-observations/ I just got introduced with all the parties programs which are registered for upcoming EP elections in Latvia. Some of them made me laugh, some wonder but most of them just regret. Parties haven't spend much time in writing the programs and in general EP elections are not dominating but ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/05/latvias-ep-candidates-promises/ At last or for a change there is a reason why to congratulate Latvia for having done something important, interesting, useful and maybe even innovative. Latvia`s  social network portal draugiem.lv has created a possibility to get more involved in comming EP elections. The portal has created a possibility to get to ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/04/ep-elections-activated-in-latvias-social-network/ Last week in Latvia has been rather exciting as EP elections are approaching. More and more lists of candidates have been announced and the probable Latvia`s member list in EP is getting clearer. There are not many surprises as most of the top members of the top parties have already applied ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/03/latvia-has-its-european-partys-deputy-candidate/ Although Latvia in these days is struggling with it`s budget reduction and at all with it`s further existence and as people say - avoiding DEFAULT, then of course EP is not an issue.  In the same time I can imagine cynical bets going on saying that we gonna sink already ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/03/poking-political-advertisements/ Since autumn Latvia have become exciting and attractive observation area for many. One can call it misery and desperate action time, others - as just consequences and a heavy way of recovering from overheating. My excitement started with nationalization of one of our largest commercial banks, then followed by stressing ... http://elections.thinkaboutit.eu/2009/02/latvians-penguins/