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Parisian 'eco-geeks': the youngest players in the French presidential elections

('Annie Rutherford',) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:49:30 -0000

‘Paris is modern and forward-looking – which is why the green voters are important,’ says Joly, who will be representing the party ‘Europe Ecologie-Les Verts’ in the upcoming French presidential elections. Joly’s race for the candidature this spring was monopolised by a handful of eco-geeks, who grasped before anyone else that the internet could be the key to the election campaign. Reportage from the campaign

Daniel Cohn-Bendit lets rip on new EU 'commission of hypocrites'

('English language version of cafebabel.com',) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:00:00 -0000

'Just before St Valentines Day we tell Mr Barroso 'Je t’aime moi non plus'' - the French-German co-president of the pan-European greens was more than slightly sceptical about the approved commission on 9 February. See the video (in French)

EU elections 2009 record abstention: no ‘europeanisation’ of countries

('Hayley Worsley-Carter',) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:42:17 -0000

A participation level of just 43.5% is the product of a European election campaign that was too focused on national issues. Mainstream media makes European politics seem a depressing subject, leaving only the web to provide us with passionate and beneficial debates surrounding the concept of Europe

Daniel Cohn-Bendit: 'converting back to ecological ways is the only way to save jobs'

('Andrew Burgess',) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:15:00 -0000

The electoral campaign of the green party has been launched. Inspired by their Green New Deal, they want to transform industrial, housing and agricultural worlds in the short and the long term. For the French-German MEP, this will not be pleasurable

Barroso, commission president again? Smells fishy in Europe

('rhiannon_nicolson',) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:01:59 -0000

Secrecy and suspicion shroud the elections for the next president of the European commission and the distribution of power between the European parties. It seems as though Hans Gert Pöttering wants to accelerate the process to enforce the Portuguese conservative’s re-election

68% non-voting Europeans think their vote doesn’t count

('Erin Woycik',) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:00:00 -0000

Presenting very different political programmes could be the key to massive voter turnout in Europe for the elections in June 2009. It is still possible that the socialists will present a candidate to run against the current European commission president, conservative José Manuel Durão Barroso

Sarkozy's last attack on the European parliament

('Helen Swain',) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:15:00 -0000

The French six-month presidency of the European Union is up on 31 December. Nicolas Sarkozy, who repositioned France at the centre of the EU and brought the political atmosphere up to date, is not happy with what the parliament is doing… and has not minced his words in Strasbourg!

Nicolas Sarkozy says he might be a socialist

('Marie Pepper',) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:58:58 -0000

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president and current president of the European Union, gathered momentum during the European parliament’s plenary session, which saw one of the liveliest debates of the last few years on 21 October

Brussels: parliament rift over Tibet

('Annika Thornton',) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0000

To boycott or not to boycott the Peking Olympic Games, Europe's MEPs ask, a mozzarella crisis and Sarkozy honeymooning at 10 Downing Street - it's your latest from Brussels