Contrôlé, privatisé: à qui appartient le net?

Op Invitatioun vun Déi Lénk hunn ech am Kader vun der “Reclaim the Net” Konferenz un der Table Ronde zum Thema “Wiem gehéiert d’Internet” Deel geholl. Hei kënnt der déi ganz Table Ronde nokucken:

Brussels is not the EU is not the Commission is not the Council

Today I read an editorial in the luxembourgish online newspaper Tageblatt.lu criticizing the European Commission’s country-specific recommendations for Luxembourg.1 In that article the author Robert Schneider uses the words “European Council”, “Commission” and “Brussels” as synonyms. He goes on to criticize the “ivory tower” of the European Commission that seems to only care about who will pay… Continue reading →

Luxemburger Standortschutz im Europäischen Parlament

Dieser Artikel wurde in der März Ausgabe des Magazins ‘Forum’ publiziert. „Die Mitglieder des Europäischen Parlaments sind nach Maßgabe ihrer politischen Nähe und nicht nach Staatsangehörigkeit zusammengeschlossen“ – so beschreibt das Europäische Parlament auf ihrem Internetauftritt den Zusammenschluss der gewählten Mitglieder des Parlaments in den sieben Europafraktionen.1 Dieser Zusammenschluss suggeriert, dass die Mitglieder des Europäischen… Continue reading →

The Captcha problem: limited ECI accessibility

This article was published on the ECI Campaign‘s website on May 6, 2013: The Captcha problem: limited #ECI accessibility for blind people and non-English speakers. One year after the launch of the ECI campaigners and ECI organizers agree: while the European Citizens’ Initiative is a great new tool of civic participation, its implementation is insufficient. One… Continue reading →

SIGI Biergerdësch: Biergerbedeelegung

De SIGI huet fir d’Foire du Printemps e Biergerdësch organiséiert mat de Gäscht Georges Engel, Ben Homan, Emile Eicher, Blanche Weber, Claude Meisch, Felix Braz a mir. Dir kënnt déi komplett Diskussioun hei nokucken:

La peur luxembourgeoise de l’influence des “étrangers” aux élections européennes

Dans une année les citoyens européens sont appelés à élire un nouveau Parlement Européen. En principe, tous les citoyens européens ont le droit de vote et d’éligibilité aussi dans leur pays de résidence. Sauf au Luxembourg où les citoyens européens doivent résider au pays pendant 2, respectivement 5 ans avant de se voir octroyer le… Continue reading →

Dear Commission, I want to decide, not to debate!

Today, first of January 2013, starts the “European Year of the Citizen“. I am a European citizen, since 1993. But I’m tired of the talks, the debates, the good intentions – I want to decide!

European citizens’ initiative update for Luxembourg

I previously wrote that there were some remaining obstacles for an accessible European citizens’ initiative (“ECI”) in Luxembourg. On January 25th the Commission on Institutions and Constitutional Revision of the Luxembourgish Parliament (“the commission”) discussed the draft law and made some (but no enough) modifications to the text. At the end of this post I’ll… Continue reading →

Mapping EU Pirate Parties – a common program for the 2014 EU elections

European Union Pirate Parties – mapping the common principles In order to find the common principles of Pirate Parties I made a list of ideas that EU Pirate Parties officially supported in their programm1: Common principles to EU Pirate Parties (Pad).2 I try to keep the list up-to-date and hope that it will be helpful… Continue reading →

Common programme for European Pirate Parties – united in diversity

In Prague at the PPI conference Pirates signed a declaration about PPEU/Europe. In this post I would like to present how I would propose to continue the work for a common programme.