Reaching new audiences for EU politics 2.0: Blogging on the Personal Democracy Forum

I have been asked by responsibles at the Personal Democracy Forum, and in particular from the Personal Democracy Forum Europe subsection whether I would like to blog on their platform on issues related to European politics and modern technologies.

Since I knew that Bente was already writing there, I thought it would be a good idea to join in the effort of reaching out to new audiences, those not already involved or even interested in EU politics.

So from now on I will blog every 1-2 weeks on personaldemocracy.com and the first article published today is titled:

"EU politics 2.0: Getting the citizen into European democracy"

It is a fairly general and simplified introduction into the topic I am going to cover in future, but I think I managed to accentuate the most important challenges we are facing with regard to EU politics and communication strategies.

For the next post(s) I will try to involve you and your ideas, helping to spread the message and to foster creative thinking on how we can create European debates through online and offline activities - I count on your creativity!

Shut up, critics!

R.I.P, England Expects blog. This blog by an EP employee has been forbidden by the European Parliament's Secretary General Harald Rømer.

And while Nosemonkey and Jon have found enough reasonable and correct words, I would just like to add that such kind of threats by a parliamentary administration are disgusting, shamefull, and against every basis of democractic discourse. Marianne Mikko just wanted to "register" blogs, but forbidding them is just sad and horrible.

The European Union and its member states keep their officials travelling around the globe to foster democracy and human rights, but their incapability of respecting a basic norm of democracy - the freedom of expression - will make all their efforts remain in vain.

Excuse me, I have to go vomiting!


Via openeurope blog.