Comments on: Post-elections thoughts and observations http://www.european-citizenship.org/2009/06/post-election/ Sailing across Europe Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:12:44 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Andreas http://www.european-citizenship.org/2009/06/post-election/comment-page-1/#comment-449 Andreas Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:09:50 +0000 http://www.european-citizenship.org/?p=197#comment-449 Woho, I cannot but include this here too. A tribute to Andy Warhol by the Design Team of the European Parliament's multilingual website (<a href="http://www.ep-webeditors.eu/2009/04/pop-vote/" rel="nofollow">Source</a>). <img src="http://www.european-citizenship.org/wp-content/uploads/popart_ee09.jpg" alt="European Election Pop Art 2009" title="European Election Pop Art 2009" /> Woho, I cannot but include this here too. A tribute to Andy Warhol by the Design Team of the European Parliament’s multilingual website (Source).

European Election Pop Art 2009

]]> By: Andreas http://www.european-citizenship.org/2009/06/post-election/comment-page-1/#comment-448 Andreas Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:25:54 +0000 http://www.european-citizenship.org/?p=197#comment-448 Margot Wallström, Commissioner , has kicked off an interesting debate shortly after the election on her blog: <a href="http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/wallstrom/european-elections/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/wallstrom/european-elections/</a> She wrote: <blockquote>«A hunt for someone to blame will also no doubt start and some will look to blame the Commission, which would be absurd. The main responsibility for persuading people to vote lies with the political parties.»</blockquote> That statement -- which is, to be fair, now taken out of its context, so please go to Margot's original article and read for yourself -- has caused quite a discussion in the comments, and was -- among others -- picked up and continued by <a href="http://julienfrisch.blogspot.com/2009/06/commissioner-wallstrom-blames-others.html" rel="nofollow">Julien Frisch on Watching Europe.</a> Margot Wallström, Commissioner , has kicked off an interesting debate shortly after the election on her blog:

http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/wallstrom/european-elections/

She wrote:

«A hunt for someone to blame will also no doubt start and some will look to blame the Commission, which would be absurd. The main responsibility for persuading people to vote lies with the political parties.»

That statement — which is, to be fair, now taken out of its context, so please go to Margot’s original article and read for yourself — has caused quite a discussion in the comments, and was — among others — picked up and continued by Julien Frisch on Watching Europe.

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