First of all, a big Thank You to all the organisers and participants of the launching event! It was a great weekend, I am glad I took this challenge. ‘Wait a  minute….Challenge??’ you might ask. Well, it is the first time I’m writing about the European Union, and this is quite...

About 6 months ago I finished an internship in the DG COMM department of the European Parliament. This opportunity is offered in many Parliament divisions and provides young graduates (or almost graduates) an opportunity to discover working atmosphere inside of the EU representative body and is regularly...

Fresh from TH!NK ABOUT IT event in Brussels, I have decided to produce a sort of manifesto. (During the event, I was asked to explain on the record why I had decided to participate in the competition and what I would like to cover in my blog. I then took a paper manifesto from an overactive representative...

Returning back from couple of days spent around the European Parliament, and not terribly excited with having to do some household chores, I was suddenly stuck by the possibility that the EU is no more than a consumer goods company in the lives of everyday Europeans! Below a small general comparison...

The EPP has launched today a new web tv project called Dialogue TV. Some comments on the flood of new EU web tv channels.

Reading posts including I’m a European and “Some call it Europe, we call it home”, I have become very curious as to how the Europhiles and Eurosceptics balance out in the competition. So I would like to ask the so far unasked. Below is a funky Euro-poll. I’m going to pre-empt...

Last week in Washington, a key congressional committee voted 55 to 0 to attach a “Buy America” clause to President Obama’s financial stimulus package. The clause would bar federal funding of any public projects “unless all of the iron and steel used is produced in the United States”....

Not surprisingly, in the piece of art unveiled at the Council of Ministers by the Czech presidency, in which all EU members states are portrayed according to some national stereotype, the UK is nowhere to be found. A clear irony about the British semi-detached status in the European Union. In a country...

the two days’ seminar is brussels for the th!nkaboutit-bloggers was just finished. me i was locked up in my hotel room, packing up for tomorrow morning’s train. 6:59 - unbelievably early. tryied hard to organise my thoughts: what did i get out of this trip? (no sightseeing, obviously. that’s...