La regulación del Parlamento Europeo tiene un fuerte carácter voluntario. Frente al 90% de los eurodiputados suecos, daneses o finlandeses que informan de algún encuentro con grupos de interés, solo uno de cada diez parlamentarios griegos, polacos y búlgaros lo hacen.
While climate change may be drawing the attention of the public, MEPs’ twitter profiles seem to find relatively little room for it.
The big debates on the EU's future that traditionally follow the State of the Union address (also known as SOTEU) by EC Commission President Juncker at the European Parliament did not grab all the attention of Brussels-watchers today.
En los próximos cinco años, la Unión Europea estará más fragmentada que nunca. Esta fragmentación es la principal lección de las elecciones europeas de 2019. Sin embargo, al contrario de la narrativa dominante de aproximadamente la última década, los antiguos bloques centristas no se enfrentan solo a una multitud de grupos y partidos populistas antisistema.
This is the first in a series of posts on how members of the European Parliament (MEPs) appear on Twitter. This first post introduces the EP twittersphere, outlines limitations to the analysis, and points at some broad trends. The following posts will focus on specific aspects.
French President Emmanuel Macron wants to unite the progressives in the European Parliament against the threat posed by the far right, but the road is winding.
What is being said about the newly-elected members of the European institutions, and in what terms? Do specific emotions tend to predominate? What are the emerging issues? A textual analysis of 18,000 tweets posted after the 2019 European elections provides a bird’s-eye view of the political landscape.