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Guest blog post by Joe Mathews, columnist & Innovation editor at Zócalo Public Square and Board Member of Democracy International. A recent European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) intending to ban same-sex marriage has led to commotion in the European Commission and to a questioning of the participation instrument itself. Instead, Joe Mathews argues, the ECI should… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
Match fixing is undoubtedly one of the major threat to sport and Europe is currently one of the most affected continents by this problem. That is the reason why the Federation of European players and athletes, EU Athletes, committed itself to tackle the issue in setting up every year, on April 15, a “EU… » read more
Posted by Sport et Citoyenneté
Parmi les priorités mises en oeuvre par la Commission européenne, il en est une que le Président Juncker surveille de très près : il s’agit du plan d’investissement dont il pense qu’il va relancer l’économie réelle au sein des 28. C’est vraiment la priorité n°1. Pour ce faire, la Commission s’appuie sur la combinaison de… » read more
Posted by Morucci Europe Blog
Guest blog post by Koldo Casla, Human Rights consultant at King’s College London. I have lived in England for nearly five years, mostly in London, but due to personal reasons I have also become familiar with other parts of the country as well. I have always felt welcome here, for which I am grateful. I… » read more
Posted by The Guest Blog
November 25, 2015
French version below The Council is due to adopt conclusions on : the representation of the EU member states in the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Foundation Board the promotion of physical and sport activities for children Ministers will also hold a public debate on the educational potential of sports, in particular for the… » read more
Posted by Sport et Citoyenneté
November 23, 2015
This week NHSCitizen – one of the case studies I brought to my EuroPCom 2015 workshop on online communities – holds its first NHSCitizen Assembly, where the NHS Board meets citizens to ActionPlan the participants’ top 5 priorities. Time to summarise the Hangout-On-Air I had on NHSCitizen with the Democratic Society‘s Anthony Zacharzewski. NHSCitizen is… » read more
Posted by Mathew Lowry
November 20, 2015
The following is Part 1 of a ten-part blog on governance to be serialised over the holidays. Today our personal decision-making process is strongly influenced by the latest social media applications yet EU and American government policy mechanisms, developed in the last century, have not been adapted to these communications tools. This discrepancy has created… » read more
Posted by The Risk-Monger
November 10, 2015
There’s never been a better time to innovate in media, so it’s good to be back to EurActiv. Eight years ago I helped launch BlogActiv, before leaving for the world of EU communications agencies. Give or take a month or two, my 6-month stint fell in the middle of EurActiv’s 15 years of life… » read more
Posted by Mathew Lowry
October 30, 2015
This post provides the content from my EuroPCom session on online communities, plus some takeaways and extra links. I might follow it up with a Communities 101 post, as I was surprised by how many attendees had not heard of some of the fundamental concepts. In summary Firstly, a simply incredible executive summary composed by… » read more
Posted by Mathew Lowry
No one seems to be too happy about the results of the Spitzenkandidaten-procedure: Domestic governments feel a sense of loss of power; Juncker only reluctantly accepted his new position; older EU idealists like Neil Kinnock see a threat to the Commission’s equidistance and independence. What about the 1989 generation? For us the Spitzenkandidaten-procedure doesn’t go… » read more
Posted by 1989 Generation Initiative
October 12, 2015
Do people really want to have a conversation with brands, or their government? [Note: At last, a chance to bury the lede in a blog post. I started this post during my 2012-13 blogging hiatus, never finished it and then forgot clean about it. For reasons that will become clear, I’ve just rediscovered it… » read more
Posted by Mathew Lowry
“Why don’t we just build our community on Facebook?”. Some thoughts after a month playing with Knowledge Hub. [Notes: Reposted from Knowledge Hub – see disclaimer, below. Join me this Thursday in a Hangout-on-Air with Ezri Carlebach and Charlelie Jourdan on the ‘Rapido’ conference technique, visual communications and whatever else strikes our fancy] A short… » read more
Posted by Mathew Lowry
September 3, 2015
After the summer break parents often dread La Rentrée (the first day of school). In parallel there’s also the political Rentrée, which has to do with the social urgencies at EU and global level. The pressure to find answers and solutions to the migration flows have risen with the increasing number of migrants and humanitarian… » read more
Posted by Conny Reuter on Social Justice
August 24, 2015
Although it is difficult to define a “European sport model”, given the specificities of each country, there are nevertheless certain common characteristics. The pyramid structure, where the top (elite and professional sport) and the base (grassroots sport) work together, is the most striking feature. However, several European studies[1] and the current political and economic… » read more
Posted by Sport et Citoyenneté
My EuropCom 2015 workshop on online communities is taking shape. According to the EuropCom2015 site it’ll be held after lunch on Day 1, and will cover: Convening and managing an online community is an extremely effective way of achieving communications goals, but will probably fail if viewed primarily as a communications project. We will explore… » read more
Posted by Mathew Lowry
