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I've been working very hard trying to get some good stuff together for a post. Firstly, I went to my classmates, who are studying the European Union to find out some of their thoughts. They all seemed to feel positive, but picked up on the age old questions, and ultimately were all left asking, `who's actually standing in the EU Elections?' And we're studying it! So what can everyone else think? I then went to the North West Liberal Democrat Conference and was lucky enough to have been able to interview an MEP, Chris Davies. Although the video came back edited, my questions were taken out, and even changed a little, he said some interesting stuff. Apologies for the cheesy music!
I've been working very hard trying to get some good stuff together for a post.
Firstly, I went to my classmates, who are studying the European Union to find out some of their thoughts. They all seemed to feel positive, but picked up on the age old questions, and ultimately were all left asking, `who's actually standing in the EU Elections?' And we're studying it! So what can everyone else think?
I then went to the North West Liberal Democrat Conference and was lucky enough to have been able to interview an MEP, Chris Davies. Although the video came back edited, my questions were taken out, and even changed a little, he said some interesting stuff. Apologies for the cheesy music!
Perhaps time to look at what the Union of European Federalists (UEF) has to say in its manifesto Stronger together in a federal Europe, the clearest constructive election programme I have seen to date.
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There was no party that covered my preference, even GroenLinks (Greens) was too light on European integration...
First, the positioning of parties and myself; right-left axis social-economic left-right (methinks that should be two separate dimensions... for a number of parties, extremes in those cancel out), top-down: for-against EU integration.
(MDF: small centre-right party with a recent extreme market-liberal makeover; SzDSz: small liberal party; Fidesz: right-populist main party; MSzP: Socialists; LMP: a new moderate Green formation; Jobbik: fascists)
(CSU, CDU: Bavarian/rest of Germany Christian Socialists/Democrats; FDP: [neo-]liberals; FW: Free Voters, localists; SPD: Social Democrats; Die Grünen: Greens; Die Linken: Left Party; DVU, Rep[ublikaner]: far-right)
Next, level of shared values with individual parties:
I suspect the reason this test claims I share more with the domestic far-right than the CDU, CSU and FDP is the fascists' support for the social state. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Would you take the test & post your own results for Italy in nanne's new FP story? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
any tips? there's got to be an easier way than screen snapshotting it then posting it on flickr, please? 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
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