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Daniel Cohn-Bendit lets rip on new EU 'commission of hypocrites'
'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)
daniel cohn-bendit, european institutions, european commission, josé manuel barroso, european parliament
EU elections 2009 record abstention: no ‘europeanisation’ of countries
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, european media, media, abstentionism, journalism, citizen journalism, josé manuel barroso
Daniel Cohn-Bendit: 'converting back to ecological ways is the only way to save jobs'
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
daniel cohn-bendit, european elections 2009, economy, best of cafebabel.com, eudebate 2009, écologie, environment
Barroso, commission president again? Smells fishy in Europe
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
daniel cohn-bendit, best of cafebabel.com, felipe gonzalez, hans gert pöttering, european commission, josé manuel barroso, poul nyrup rasmussen
68% non-voting Europeans think their vote doesn’t count
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
daniel cohn-bendit, liberls, the elections in numbers, pes, josé manuel barroso, los verdes, abstencionismo
2008, war and independence: our ‘best’ of some of the worst events
January. Franco-German MEP and former student activist Daniel Cohn-Bendit tells the collective conscience to get over the 1968 riots. August. Russian bombs pepper Georgia. February. Kosovo becomes the world’s newest country with amidst divisions within the EU, a fact which was consolidated by the Irish people’s ‘no’ vote to the Lisbon treaty – September. It hasn’t been the most sparkling year for the EU
Sarkozy's last attack on the European parliament
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!
daniel cohn-bendit, presidencia semestral francesa, european democracy, directiva, ciudadanos europeos, european council, nicolas sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy says he might be a socialist
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
daniel cohn-bendit, martin schulz, joseph daul, nicolas sarkozy, european parliament, european elections 2009, eudebate2009
Brussels: parliament rift over Tibet
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
daniel cohn-bendit, italy, euweek, palestine occupied territory, europe, gordon brown, china
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