Image by Muffet via Flickr Thanks to Generation Yes on twitter for the reminder that there is only 9 working days remaining to get registered to Vote for the June 5th elections, Local, European and Byelection. Check if you are registered on ChecktheRegister.ie. Remeber EU Citizens are entitled to vote in the Local and European Elections. Non-EU residents may be eligible to vote in Local Elections depending in their situation. If you are not registered to vote and have...
Image via Wikipedia Well I haven’t blogged since Monday and I apologise! But I may make up for it today! So I have found a few things relating to the EU elections. First up is VoteMatch. Now I think its done by the same crowd who had the tool for the London Elections last year. This is based on the European Political Parties rather then the National Parties. You get asked to agree, disagree, neither with 30 statements and...
A new website launched recently to show people which national party you should vote for. Its called EU Profiler. I had a go off it. It presents to you 30 statements and say whether you agree or disagree. Then you rate their importance and then say who you would be willing to vote for. The results are close enough. I come out right wing and pro-Europe which fits the me perfectly I think! Its recommendations for me are: Fine...
On Monday after the Fine Gael Ard Fheis, UCC Young Fine Gael had a walk about in Cork City for Sean Kelly, a Fine Gael candidate in Ireland South. One member of the public asked to meet Sean Kelly, he was introduced. What was his question? Go on take a guess. Can you get me a house? Yes, in typical Irish fashion, his question was on the housing lists which plague this country. This is something so sitting or...
Image by stephen.spillane via Flickr Well I seam to be getting used to blogging over on the thinkaboutit.eu blog becuase I just published my 5th post on it! Its on women and European politics. Eurobarometer recently did a Flash survey on Women and Politics in the EU. It found that 79% of Irish Women and 78% of women in the United Kingdom think that politics is male dominated. Read Full Post, dont forget to rate it!
Thanks to Eoin Ryan MEP for highlighting this on twitter. Vist www.dyp2008.org/ to see how you could win a trip to Africa. One person from Ireland has to win! Check it out! Best of luck if you enter!
Image via Wikipedia Near full results show 59% of voters in Switzerland back the extension of labour accords to cover Bulgaria and Romania. This was on a 52% turnout. The opposition won a majority in four cantons out of 26. If the Swiss had voted no, it would have ended a number of important treaties between the EU and Switzerland. For more see Swissinfo
Image via Wikipedia Well my first post is up on the Th!nk about it blog. It is on “How do we make Europe Sexy?“. Please read, comment and vote! Heres an excerpt from it: One of the issues that kept coming up during the Launch event last week in Brussels was how do we make Europe Sexy? By Europe I mean the European Union. This is something that I have spent much time thinking about since getting back to...
This is one of the most asked questions about my upcoming trip to Brussels for the Thinking about it competition so here goes an idea of what I will getting up to. Monday sees me in a hotel all day at talks from fascinating people. After a welcome, Tony Barber of the FT, Mark Mardell of the BBC and Stefan Happer of Politikportal (German) and Brussels Media (English), will be talking to us about blooging about the EU and...
Image via WikipediaOn January 1st the Slovak koruna will join the French Franc, the German Deutschmark and the Irish Punt in the history of Currencies as Slovakia will officially join the eurozone and begin to use the notes and coins as of January 1st. The fixed exchange rate is €1 = 30.1260SKK. With Slovakia joining it will increase the Eurozone to 16 members of the EU. The number of people using the euro will increase by over 5 million....
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