Democraţie

EU calls for the release of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov

marţi, 11. decembrie 2018. | Gina Pavone
| OBC Transeuropa

The Sakharov Prize for human rights and freedom of thought is being awarded in Strasbourg, but the 2018 winner cannot receive it because he is imprisoned in Russia. Several MEPs participated in the Twitter campaign for his release. All the tweets and hashtags used by MEPs can be traced using EDJNet's Quote Finder tool.

Brexit in tweets by MEPs

marţi, 04. decembrie 2018. | Gina Pavone
| OBC Transeuropa

Britain’s exit from the European Union; the agreements and bargaining on the way to this notorious institutional “divorce”; the debate which has kept the Parliament busy since 2017, and has become rather heated in recent months, given the plan to reach an agreement by March 2019: MEPs post about all this on Twitter with particular frequency.

Tweeting above their weight

luni, 22. ianuarie 2018. | Giorgio Comai
| OBC Transeuropa

Some MEPs receive plenty of attention on Twitter, but their popularity cannot always be ascribed to their activity in Brussels and Strasbourg.

MEPs’ takes on the #EUbudget

luni, 07. mai 2018. | Marzia Bona
| OBC Transeuropa

Praise and criticism about the multiannual financial framework presented last week by Junker’s Commission, as it was tweeted by MEPs.