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ASEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTION WILL COMING AFTER EU ELECTION....WITHIN MY LIFE...MORE DREAM????? i just ask my friends in europe that they feel exciting about this EU election???....they have BIG right as EU citizen to be select the best representative to protect thier benefit inside big fields of europe and variety goverments in europe ..and world..and they can cover all power to negotiate for this world!!!!!!!! i feel upset every time that some of my foriener friends try to tell me that weapon always in super market of world basket about security issues ....significance of undeveloped countries is not developed infrastructions... so i need not to ask for peacefully...?????forever???? because of if those developed countries still alive from sell weapon to undeveloped countries....in many regions of this world....thier people ..they will more survive than sell others stuff..???low benefit or little business for sell people with agriculture products or high technology innovation stuff????? if you buy my nice military weapon,bomb or tank or jet for your safety border line....big money for me and little commission for you...ok?????deal???? so if i donot buy your weapon in high cost like this i will look for your weapon seller compettitions...right????maybe i get more commissions under cheat contracts...wow...nice accused???? i must forget all stricky of all forum or conference for many cooperations between countries in our ASEAN????because of war take more benefit for someone or some group or some organizations...more than peacefully... together.......yes or no????? wider gap between the rich of war stuff seller and poor agriculture tourist town...must be spread out ...more and more....right????? sometime ...only that i feel that every projects of cooperations that tough to created in many missions with our nieghborhood or far east or west asia ....be penetrated and ruined by some dark power that need only WAR..!!!.NO PEACEFULLY FOR NEXT COOPERATE?????NEXT MISSION S...WILL COMING?????? sugar in bad dream about no way out of ASEAN cooperate..waiting for next project missions job...JEALOUSE EU!!!!!!!
http://www.eudebate2009.eu/eng/article/29859/parlorama-eu-website-censorship-flavien-deltort.html
The e-initiative, which acts as a pre-electoral exam before the European elections in June 2009, used to be exclusively available in French. But parlorama.eu will be adding English, Italian and Spanish versions to its bows. If you check the website today, it will tell you: Due to the overwhelming volume of complaints, the site is closed… ,after a one-week blackout under legal pressure. As it prepares to makes its e-comeback on 4 or 5 May, we catch the site’s Belgian founder Flavien Deltort, an ex-parliamentary assistant who worked alongside Italian MEP Marco Cappato. ‘With the new tools included in this website, I am free of all legal risks,’ he says. Deltort’s lawyers back the legality of the site’s revolutionary initiative in European politics, one month before the European elections in June 2009.
Ostracised for strengthening democracy
(www.parlorama.eu)Parlorama.eu reopens with a new homepage, on which Deltort publishes the excel files that list the original statistics from which he bases his MEP classifications. Moreover it includes a grading system of the politicians and the official reports which inspire his study. He adds a nuance that the scoring system could be considered as subjective. The point classification system, which run from 1 - 10 (lowest to highest), is relegated to the background which is accessible via a link from the homepage, and won’t include MEPs who passed away during their mandates, like the late Polish MEP Bronislaw Geremek; one of the justifiable complaints coming from official levels.
‘It is clear that the doors are now closed to me in Brussels,’ Flavien Deltort resignedly affirms, who despite the fact that he ‘had received words of support from politicians off the record’, denounces the code of silence imposed by the European party to MEPs. eudebate2009.eu unsuccessfully tried to interview numerous MEPs about this scandal. ‘Some British MEPs with a more critical spirit congratulated me because they are more used to citizens being aware of their activities. And of course those who got a good score on parlorama.eu also showed their satisfaction with the initiative,’ explains Deltort. These include French politician Pervenche Berès, Spaniard Raül Romeva and the Portuguese Ilda Figueiredo.
Fighting euroscepticism
The criticism surrounding parlorama.eu has spiced up the eurospectic appetite on the continent. Flavien Deltort disagrees. ‘The more transparent politics is, the more interest it generates amongst citizens. Nevertheless, politicians do not want voters to judge them. A lot of information about their work is not available for the public.’ Effectively, today it is impossible to know what parliamentary group co-ordinators, parliamentary rapporteurs and political group meetings are actually up to. Two separate registers do exist which list the actual presence of MEPs during sessions. ‘I sent e-mails demanding information from MEPs every single day and no-one ever answered,’ Deltort says – his investigations went on for at least a year and a half.
| MEPs often sign in the registers and promptly leave, as this video shows
There are many evident black holes in European politics – not only for the press who devote themselves to uncovering truths in this crucial space in democracy, but also for the citizens, 45% of whom voted at the last European elections in 2004. The last Eurobarometer poll reveals that this number is set to diminish to 40% this year. What might the European press’ next investigation be? ‘The money marked aside for interns,’ replies Deltort. ‘It’s a scandal that interns are paid badly - if at all - in the European parliament.’
He met German Chancellor Angela Merkel early Friday in the heart of the city, where an estimated 35,000 people died in the final months of World War II.
Click here for a photo gallery of Obama’s visit to Germany.
After policy talks and a news conference, Obama and Merkel were due to travel to Buchenwald, the former Nazi concentration camp where more than 56,000 prisoners perished.
He will then make a brief stop at the US military hospital in Landstuhl in western Germany before flying to France where he will take part in commemorations of the 65th anniversary of D-Day landings in Normandy.
Obama arrived in Dresden from Cairo, where he delivered a landmark speech vowing to forge a "new beginning" for Islam and America and laid out a new blueprint for US Middle East policy.
A senior US administration official said Obama had had useful discussions during his time in the Middle East on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and Iran's disputed nuclear programme.
"The president picked up a fair amount on both the issues," he told reporters from Air Force One.
Obama met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi King Abdullah on the first leg of his international tour.
The aide said the two subjects would figure in his talks with Merkel and then in France with President Nicolas Sarkozy, and that Obama would call British Prime Minister Gordon Brown later Thursday to discuss the same topics.
Merkel told the German press that she also planned to discuss the global financial crisis, climate change, Afghanistan and Pakistan and North Korea's recent nuclear tests with the president.
Obama's visit to Buchenwald will have an important personal tinge as a great-uncle, Charlie Payne, helped liberate the camp while serving with US forces in World War II.
At least 56,000 prisoners died there in horrendous conditions.
Payne, now 84 and in frail health, decided not to accompany the president to Buchenwald, but will join Obama's party at the Normandy ceremonies at the US war cemetery at Colleville-sur-mer.
Obama pointedly mentioned the importance of Holocaust remembrance in his speech at the University of Cairo.
"Six million Jews were killed - more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful," Obama said in a clear swipe at Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
AFP (news@thelocal.de)
EP launches campaign for higher election turnout / 28-03-2009
“The campaign will cost the EP EUR 18 million, or 5 eurocents per person – that’s calculated on the number of potential voters across the EU,” Mihail Hristov of the EP’s information office in Bulgaria, says. “To disseminate information, the campaign will rely on mass media, the Internet, post cards, billboards, three-dimensional installations on crucial issues to EU citizens, such as energy, security, transport, borders, food safety, etc. The campaign’s posters will carry the official logo – a yellow star against a blue background reminiscent of the EU flag.”
In Bulgaria, a choice box with audio-visual equipment, just like the one in Brussels will be installed near the National Palace of Culture in Sofia. Anyone will be able to enter the box, inform themselves on issues related to EU and EP’s work and express their opinion. The latter will be processed in all EU languages and alphabets and broadcast in EU’s three centers: Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg. There will be two additional three-dimensional installations in Sofia displaying provocative images and words. One of the topics will be consumer protection while the other, borders and security.
“In Bulgaria, there will be billboards in 8 more towns,” Mihail Hristov explains. “Election trailers will be played in 11 cinema halls. TV and radio clips will be broadcast free of charge by mass media. Postcards and posters will be given away. There will be a special tour “Your first European elections” that will travel to 8 university towns across the country. All these events will take place weeks before the official elections. There will be citizen fora and in 14 towns in Bulgaria the so-called ‘Europe-direct’ centers will be set up. All this is part of the EP’s election campaign and will be a supplement to the real campaign of political parties and their candidates. The campaign won’t say vote left, right, liberal, centre or others. It just reminds people that on a given date, elections for European Parliament will take place and by participating people vote not only for local but also for European authorities.
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375 million Europeans are eligible voters and will elect 736 MEPs from 27 member states. Bulgaria has 17 seats in the EP.
Written by Tatyana Obretenova
English version by Delian Zahariev
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