I'm conscious Ireland is probably over represented here in terms of the number of diaries going up - but as with everyone else I'm more comfortable writing about stuff I know a little more about.  I will be trying to do a series on the Euro elections as part of the Thinkaboutit campaign, but again that tends to be Europeans from each member state writing about their own countries.  

It is quite a different expertise to be able to write in a transnational way - it requires a more intimate knowledge of more countries and sometimes languages and it has always struck me that this is, collectively, one of ET's great strengths.  I'm trying to re-direct some of the other 80 Thinkaboutit bloggers this direction as they come from all 27 Member states, but so far that site hasn't really developed a lot of interaction.

notes from no w here