Kroes & King

The last words of Neeli Kroes' blog post on the Digital Agenda:

But if we all – European Union institutions, national governments, businesses, citizens, researchers – join forces, it will be possible to make every European digital. And we can all look forward to some fascinating and exciting days if that happens.

The last words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech:

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

Do you see how well this fits together?

Picture: © european_parliament / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Daniel Hannan nationalises the European Parliament

Last week, British MEP Daniel Hannan ruled the world. Almost.

It is a pity that it has to be a speech from a British politician speaking to another British politician about basically British politics has to become one of the most viewed and famous speeches in the European Parliament ever (and for two days the most watched video worldwide).

The EP webeditors have discussed the viral effects of this phenomenon, but even Mr Hannan, a well-known blogger himself (which is one basic explanation for this success), seemed to be surprised.

So Mr Hannan has finally won: He managed to nationalise the European Parliament.