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Mysterious Martin, Sinister Selmayr?

April 18, 2018

Guest blog post by Denis MacShane, the UK’s former minister for Europe. His latest book is Brexit, No Exit. Why (in the End) Britain Won’t Leave Europe (IB Tauris). Recently the London Eurosceptic political weekly, the Spectator, published an article by the most fervent EU federalist to be found in Europe. Jean Quatremer is a… » read more

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blogactiv, Brexit, communication, democracy, digital, Elections, EU Citizens & Media, EurActiv.com, Freedom of Speech, média

Young Superheroes Build the Future of the Mediterranean

September 19, 2017

Guest post by Nada Al-Nashif, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO. “Supporting youth in the Southern Mediterranean region is vital,” writes Nada Al-Nashif. “Today’s youth are transforming their societies. We must harness their energies, capacities and ideas as partners for a common future built on peace, social justice and human rights.”… » read more

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blogactiv, democracy, development, Development Policy, Global Europe, média

Using online technology to beat hate

December 9, 2016

Guest blog post by Robin Sclafani, Director, CEJI – A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe. First published November 28, 2016. We all know people who are the victims of hate crimes and hate speech. They are people of colour. Perhaps from another country or ethnicity. Or with a distinctive religion. Maybe they are disabled… » read more

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blogactiv, digital, Freedom of Speech, média

Why the new EU directive on trade secrets protection is a threat to media freedom?

June 11, 2015

By Otmar Lahodynsky, President of AEJ A new EU-directive is likely to threaten investigative journalism throughout Europe. Its main objective is the protection against disclosure and theft of secret business information like patents, innovative technologies or recipes. But NGOs and journalists’ associations warn that this directive could endanger freedom of expression and… » read more

EU Citizens and Media, freedom, Journalists, média, Media Freedom

Macedonian media divided, same as the politics and the society

June 1, 2015

Author: Meri Jordanovska, BIRN Macedonia The report is written for AEJ-Bulgaria Two totally different aspects on the actual situation in Macedonia can be seen in the Macedonian media, a country that is dealing with one of the biggest political crisis in the last decade. In front of the Macedonian Government people set a camp on… » read more

EU Citizens and Media, Journalists, média

Applying advanced language technologies to EU democracy

April 27, 2015

An array of sophisticated language technologies could help ideas flow across EU borders, link national conversations together and support the EU Online Public Sphere – the demos the EU needs. But BloggingPortal is unlikely to feature them. [update (17/5/15): I finally decided to kick Medium’s tyres by reposting this there, with less history. Medium’s editor is actually… » read more

bloggingportal2, curation, EU Priorities and Opinion, média, multilingualism, Online Public Space, public space, semanticweb

Freedom of expression, access to information and the protection of secrets in Bulgaria– current situation, tendencies, threats

September 9, 2014

Alexander Kashamov, attorney-at-law, head of the legal team of Access to Information Programme *The text was published in Bulgarian on 20 July On 30th June 2014 the MP Jordan Tzonev put forward in the National Assembly a text suggested by the Bulgarian national bank (the Central bank) that was looking to criminalize a certain type… » read more

EU Citizens and Media, freedom, Journalists, média, Media Freedom

La transition de la Géorgie vers la démocratie : le rôle des médias

January 30, 2010

Crédit Photo : khalampre En attendant de pouvoir intégrer un player digne de ce nom, vous pouvez écouter cet article sur cette page : La transition de la Géorgie vers la démocratie : le rôle des médias by reimsstudentouverture Toujours à l’oeuvre pour ce qui est de construire son indépendance depuis l’implosion de l’Union des… » read more

démocratisation, French, géorgie, média

Europe’s New Chairman and Envoy

November 20, 2009

The New York Times writes about the two new (or upgraded) posts that were filled in for the European Union yesterday: Leaders of the 27 countries of the European Union on Thursday night chose Herman Van Rompuy, the Belgian prime minister, as the E…

European Issues, média, syn

, European Union

Meaning of “Obama”

November 4, 2009

In the run-up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election, a continental African friend emailed this to me: “WHAT IS THE MEANING OF OBAMA?”

Community, English, Euro-Americas, History, média, vote

First European blogger to go to jail…in Croatia?

October 9, 2009

I am one of those gals who will, every so often, attempt to find all the good news in a day’s media, just for the sake of reminding themselves that life can be wonderful, that there are incredibly good people in the world, and that it isn’t harmful to feel good about the earth, humanity,… » read more

Blogging, Croatia, Fintic, Freedom of expression, Judiciary, média, slander

Need a change

December 4, 2008

I think that in Europe it is time to think about immigration problems. The Europeans no longer seem mannered, reserved, correct people. The reason for this trend is the blind imitation of the mass culture of show business. Relegated to the background values of family, home, children. Europe is time to understand that we should… » read more

Education & Culture, média