Europe through the Twitter lens

Today is World Press Free­dom Day, and the UN has decided to make it all about the web. So we decided to come back on that issue that has been strangely miss­ing from our White Paper (yes, we know).

On the day the World press is look­ing closely at the impact of the inter­net, we decided to right that wrong.

European Council live on Twitter

A week ago, we reported on the EU Pilot project of let­ting blog­gers into the Council’s den. Now, as Brus­sels is packed with Euro­pean demon­stra­tors, min­is­ters and secu­rity ser­vices, two French jour­nal­ists are live tweeting …

Does the internet’s interactivity foster the European debate?

The inter­net and social media have had a tremen­dous impact on jour­nal­ism and Euro­pean jour­nal­ism. Be it on news web­site, blogs or social net­works, Euro­pean infor­ma­tion can be found all over the web. Nowa­days, Euro­pean Commissioners …

EU Council (Video)">Live blogging a EU Council (Video)

Polit­i­cal sci­en­tist and blog­ger at the EU Com­pet­i­tive­ness Coun­cil Ronny Patz (@ronpatz) explains his first expe­ri­ence as accred­ited blog­ger at the Coun­cil. He was alone the first day. The sec­ond blog­ger, @europasionaria, could only come …

Live blogging a European Council: a new step forward

On 9 and 10 March 2011, a pilot project was done in Brus­sels at the Euro­pean Coun­cil on Com­pet­i­tive­ness. For the first time, two blog­gers were accred­ited to the Euro­pean insti­tu­tions as blog­gers. They were live blogging …