Archive
Year: 2009
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Did the EP go web crazy?
March 17, 2009
It certainly looks like they did to Public Affairs 2.0, and we like it. The "Choice Box", which we gave you a sneak peak of in the previous post, is actually a interactive, multi-media studio which will travel around Europe, allowing people to record videos to send to MEPs and EuroparlTV. This is just one part of the online component of the European Parliament Secretariat-General's European Elections 09 Communication Campaign, launched this morning. The campaign...
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Exclusive here* – photos of the EP elections “tri-dimensional installation”
March 17, 2009
* These photos are probably not exclusive, as I happened to be walking by the Altiero Spinelli building yesterday with a camera, so I snapped a few photos. When I left the parliament an hour later, the workers were covering the structure with a blue cloth. As it turns out, this is the 'hard' part of the EP communication strategy for the 2009 European Elections. It asks hard questions, such as "How open should our...
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Green Week goes live
March 10, 2009
Word up to the European Commission's DG Environment, who launch this year's Green Week shebang with obligatory webpages on Europa, YouTube channel (featuring as yet a review of 2008), blog (Dimas fittingly recycled) and a Flickr page. It also features handy buttons to download in the press corner. The event takes place 23-26 June in the Charlemagne building on Rue de la Loi and the topic in this year of Copenhagen is of course climate...
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Europe Prepares for G20 Crisis Meeting
March 9, 2009
The European Competitiveness summit should look very different this year. The March 19-20 meeting will be struggling to finalise an EU position for the April 2 crisis meeting of the G20 in London on the basis of the Commission’s Communication. Negotiations will take place against a profoundly uncertain economic backdrop where there are major potential risks to national economies across Europe and beyond. I have talked with old friends in Brussels who believe that the...
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Larosière Report to Bring Comfort to the Commission?
February 26, 2009
In the next few days the European Commission will tell us how Europe’s regulatory regime for financial services should be reformed in the aftermath of the credit crisis. As a starting point the Commission has the report from Jacques de Larosière’s taskforce, which was commissioned by President Barroso last October and published earlier this week. No doubt this report will give comfort to the Commission, for it spells evolution not revolution, recognises the limited competence...
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Need help with Google Analytics? Guess who rides to the rescue.
February 23, 2009
Google is the big friendly monster, out to hug you and provide you with all sorts of free help. In some way, it is sort of frightening. But those of us who help build websites for a living shouldn't complain when the 'Analytics Evangelist', the man behind Google Analytics, offers advice on how to use that service. The Official Google Blog is publishing a series on measurement, and the first article discusses bounce rates. If...
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Economic Crisis Exacerbates Tensions
February 17, 2009
The economic crisis is exacerbating tensions across the EU. President Sarkozy has done his bit, stating on television that while French manufacturers can make cars in India which are for sale to Indians, they should not make cars in the Czech Republic which would then be sold in France. He apparently called for the repatriation of car manufacture to French soil. Sarkozy’s remarks could not have come at a worse time for the Czechs. The...
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Enviro.aero wins a gold medal(lion)
February 13, 2009
Admittedly this was not the type of award that led to long blubbering acceptance speeches (or in fact had an award ceremony), but it was accompanied by a gold medal (the digital variety). Enviro.aero, a cross-industry aviation and environment web resource, won Best New Aviation Website in the Flightglobal Webbies 2008. Enviro.aero is the website of FH client ATAG, The Air Transport Action Group, a global association that represents all sectors of the air transport...
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Can Europe Provide Leadership in Copenhagen?
February 9, 2009
It’s maybe hard to think of global warming as we shiver in the coldest European winter for two decades, but there are just nine months to go before COP15, the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen, which may well determine whether or not the world can respond to a threat to our planet which scientists are convinced will lead to catastrophic change unless we act fast. So can Europe provide the leadership in Copenhagen?...
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Join Us: Roundtable Discussion on WEEE and RoHS Directives Recast
February 7, 2009
In the coming months the recast of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and the Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS) Directives will be a key legislative dossier for the new European Parliament Enviornment Committee and one of the main environmental priorities of the Swedish EU Presidency of the Council of Ministers. As the legislative process begins in earnest, Fleishman-Hillard offers all interested parties the opportunity...