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Valéry-Xavier — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:00:34 +0000

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/

Yet another anti-Barroso website

Valéry-Xavier — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:30:30 +0000

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.”

Limited service

Jon — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:32:21 +0000

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!

Some people in Portugal don’t like our campaign

Jon — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:21:15 +0000

This website has about 35mb of web files, and has used about 2Gb of bandwidth each of the last couple of months. So it was a complete surprise when the site had already used more than 3Gb of data in May already – in 9 days. So who are all of these visitors? See the extract from the stats above – 6 Portuguese IP addresses that have been visiting the site incessantly.

Some allies of Mr Barroso’s that don’t like our campaign?

Le traité de Lisbonne et le président de la Commission

Valéry-Xavier — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:21:38 +0000

Jean Quatremer publie ce jour un billet intitulé Barroso menacé par le traité de Lisbonne ?

Selon lui, les modalités de confirmation du président de la Commission européenne définies par le nouveau traité, lequel pourrait si tout vas bien entrer en vigueur en novembre 2009, rendent plus difficile une nouvelle nomination de celui-ci, ce choix devant être approuvé par la majorité des membres de l’Assemblée. Le PPE ne disposera probablement pas à lui seul du nombre d’élus nécessaire.

P.S. : commentaires fermés : merci de commenter sur le billet d’origine.

Cédric Puisney’s spoof election posters

Jon — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:26:55 +0000

Cédric Puisney has designed some fab fake European Parliament election posters, including this excellent one that compares José Manuel Barroso to a sloth – the Barrosloth. That’s about the speed the Commission has moved to reply to the financial crisis after all…