A green activist published this video on Youtube. Cheap montage but straight to the point.

It promotes yet another anti-barroso website : http://www.stop-barroso.eu/

via Europe sociale au jour le jour

Huit anciens dirigeants socialistes européens ont lancés un appel, à quelques jours de lélection du Parlement européen, pour que le PSE présente son candidat contre le sortant de droite José Manuel Barroso.

À l’initiative de Mario Soares, le texte est signé de  Lionel Jospin, Felipe Gonzalez, Paavo Lipponen, Gerhard Schroeder, Costas Simitis, Franz Vranitzky et Aleksander Kwasniewski.

En savoir plus sur le site de l’Express

A few PES grassroot activists have launched http://a-new-president.eu/, a web site calling for a new EU commission president.

“We need a new majority in the European Parliament”, says the baseline. It may help indeed for a new president.

The website offers a petition to sign, to be sent to PES officials.

“The European Parliament will elect the next European Commission. We, the voters on June 7 do not only decide the composition of the European Parliament, we also decide upon the driving seat of the EU: The European Commission. The composition of the executive EU body – the European Commission – has to reflect the vote of us EU citizens on June 7.

We call for the PES to build a new progressive majority with a strong Commission President.

We demand respect for our democratic rights! We demand that the Presidency of the European Council makes sure that the European Governments nominate a Commission President that reflects the majority in the European Parliament.”

Due to continuing abnormal patterns of traffic from Portuguese IP addresses we have had to resort to a limited service here at Anyone But Barroso – essentially a basic Wordpress theme and no more for the moment. We’re investigating precisely what’s up together with the hosting firm.

Apologies for the inconvenience, but it’s a lot less of an inconvenience than having Barroso back for a second term will be!