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High level, low results: EU media pluralism and some random recommendations
Published on by Ronny Patz | 4 CommentsDamian Tambini had announced it for November. Neelie Kroes has blogged about it yesterday. Bruno Waterfield took the occasion today to get a quote from Nigel Farage that included a reference to “1984”. And I also thought it would be worth writing about the report of the “High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism” titled […]
How the dominance of English kills the European debate
Published on by Ronny Patz | 58 CommentsSpanishwalker has already argued some months ago that one of the problems of the European blogosphere is the dominance of English. He sees the problem in English being the gatekeeper language between blogging and writing in most other European languages. In consequence, conversation between Swedish and Spanish bloggers would only take place if they (a) write and […]
Standing in European Parliament elections “abroad”: Simplified rules
Published on by Ronny Patz | 1 CommentIt’s not been big news – only New Europe has reported already as far as I can see – but according to this EU Council document dated 19 November, it is agreed that it should be more simple for EU citizens to stand for the 2014 European Parliament elections in EU member states other than their home country. […]
The days the #EUCO hashtag was born (and starting the #eu14 hashtag)
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I’m preparing a presentation on the European Online Public Sphere (see previous post in German). When I read on Twitter during the week that Jon used the #SOTEU (‘State of the European Union’) hashtag as a success story in one of his recent presentations, this reminded me of the relatively young history of the #EUCO (‘European Council’) […]
Gibt es eine deutsch(sprachig)e Europa-Blogosphäre?
Published on by Ronny Patz | 1 CommentWeil ich auf der re:publica 12 diesen Vortrag gehalten habe, bin ich Montag in Essen zu einem Vortrag samt Diskussion geladen, bei dem es um die “Europäische Online-Öffentlichkeit” gehen soll. Googelt man den Begriff, ist der einzige Text, den man dazu findet, der hier (vergleiche: Selbstreferenzialität), das heißt, ich muss die Antworten auf die großen Fragen […]
Is EUROPA governed by Berlin?
Published on by Ronny Patz | 6 Comments. I I EC EIT EIB TED ETF ECB COR Curia Europarl PRELEX Consilium EEAS Eurozone Eurojust EMA Biodiversity EESC Bookshop Europol European Council EDA We Mean Business EDPS EuroparlTV EIGE ACER OLAF EASA EASO EFSA EFCA EMSA ESMA OAMI ECHA ECDC OSHA MADB ENISA BEREC ESPAS EU-UN EACEA CORDIS ERA EEA ECA FRA ERC GSA EUR-LEX EMCDDA CEDEFOP FRONTEX CERT CDT Is EUROPA governed by Berlin, […]
Fortress Europe, Schengen and the European Sphere
Published on by Ronny Patz | 6 Comments“[H]ow can the public debate necessary to make the EU a genuine ‘land of immigration’ take place if there is no common, democratic European ‘public sphere’, and no space for genuine intra-European political debate? The desire for such debate is connected to the need for a common sphere of social and public interaction within the […]
Extended book review: “La théorie de l’information” by Aurélien Bellanger
Published on by Ronny Patz | Comments Off on Extended book review: “La théorie de l’information” by Aurélien BellangerI first stumbled over “La théorie de l’information” by Aurélien Bellanger – published this summer – in a review by Le Soir about a month ago. It was a sunny Saturday morning, a rare occasion here in Brussels, and I was reading the weekend edition of the Belgian newspaper over a breakfast in a café. […]
The structure of EU politics: Story-telling about European Parliament committees
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Trying to make sense of EU politics is quite difficult. Good story-telling is almost impossible because too many people are involved in too many issues. Convincing analysis is hard because the amount of time you have to invest in research is often not proportionate to the amount of insight you get. Yet, we have to […]