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The Labour Party was congratulating itself yesterday on having joined with Tory rebels to defeat the Tory-led government by voting to cut the EU budget. In truth, this was sheer opportunism. While the two Eds (Miliband and Balls) may believe that supporting belt-tightening in Europe is good populist politics, in truth, Labour has shot itself [...]
Following the nomination process we now have our list of thinkers ready for the vote. As last year, you can vote for 1-5 nominees. The vote will be open until Friday, 30th September 12 am. Good luck everybody and we are looking forward to the results! Click here to vote!
First of all thanks to everyone who voted in our ballot to establish for the first time what the most influential left-of-centre European blogs are. We wanted to avoid a SEJ bias as far as possible and therefore notified all nominees and asked them to campaign for themselves. And here are the results: 1. Social [...]
Our week of nominations for the “most influential left-of-centre European Blog” has now closed and voting can begin. The European blogosphere is still quite small and hence the left-of-centre share of it is not huge either. Nevertheless we have 18 nominees and you can vote for up to three blogs. Cast your vote here. The [...]
Thank you all very much for the nominations for our first “most influential left-of-centre European thinker poll”. We were surprised by the positive response and the interesting mix of traditional public intellectuals and rather new faces who were nominated. We have more than 60 nominees and would like to find out the top 50. So [...]
It is a popular event in national politics to have readers of a blog or newspaper vote on the most influential political thinkers. We thought it is about time that we replicated this on the European level. So here it is! We will run a vote on the most influential left-of-centre European thinkers. But please [...]
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