I’ve been live blogging, together with Europasionaria, from the EU Council yesterday and today, gathering information and transforming them live in usable text, photos and video while interacting on Twitter with the outside world.
It’s fun, but exhausting.
I’m preparing for the first day of the EU Competitiveness Council tomorrow which will be dedicated to research issues. On the agenda: Europe 2020 strategy – Annual Growth Survey; contribution to the European semester Interim evaluation of the 7th Research Framework Programme including the Risk-Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF) European Innovation Union flagship initiative Follow-up to the [...]
This morning, thanks to my short-term blogger accreditation, I’ve been at the off-the-record briefings on the upcoming Competitiveness Council (see my previous posts on my preparations for the Council here and here). I am not supposed to talk about the content of these briefings unless I quote “Brussels sources” or “EU sources”. This is actually a [...]
I’ve given you a little ride on how to prepare for an EU Council yesterday. So to the least you’ve found the agenda of the upcoming Competitiveness Council.
Taking a look at the agenda, you may ask where the stories are that a blogger of journalist could cover. Four particular items strike me as particularly worth studying: [...]
I will be part of a pilot project this week, participating as an accredited blogger at the EU Competitiveness Council. The background for this pilot project is here, so I’ll head directly into the preparations. Please follow me into how the blogger can prepare for an EU Council meeting (Trivia is only for experts): Step 1 [...]
Interested in the organisational work of a Council Presidency? If yes, you may be want to listening to the recordings of the 4th bloggers meeting with Hungarian Presidency in Brussels. Having participated in that meeting I found it most interesting […]