"Shouting into the storm - and EU 2.0
Nosemonkey has a sound piece on British public opinion and British media with a particular emphasis on the Guardian; have a look at the whole post here.
Everyone in the UK knows that of the national daily papers, it’s really only the barely-read (and increasingly unreadable) Guardian (c.311,000 sales per issue) and Independent (c.190,000 sales per issue) who are in favour of the European Union.
The Times (c.595,000) and Sun (c.2,916,000) follow their owner Rupert Murdoch’s eurosceptic lead. The Telegraph (c.833,000) and Mail (c.2,205,000) play to the middle-England, vaguely xenophobic gallery. The People (c.667,000) is also instinctively anti-EU in most of its approaches, most of the time. The Express (c.735,000) does what the Mail does, only with less panache. If you count the similarly unthinking Star (c.667,000) and Sport (c.93,000) as newspapers, they’re also primarily anti-EU on the rare occasions they bother to mention it.
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The EU doesn’t need a reform treaty, it needs to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch. Start proposing that kind of radical change, with EU citizens involved at every stage of the rebuild, and the next stage of the EU - EU 2.0, if you will - should actually end up with genuine popular support. Without that support as its foundation, it’s only going to crumble.
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I'll be living in Brussels from this autumn and it's probably high time to re-focus this blog on the topics I started out with over 2 years ago with the first incarnation of this blog - EU politics. Having said that I'm struggling to find interesting EU topics to blog about at present, and I'm also getting more and more confused by the bewildering and fragmented array of different EU blogs that I've come across recently. A starting point for my reflections was this analysis from Euractiv of the Euroblogosphere. I have also reflected on the issues of the Euro-blogosphere having contributed to this academic analysis by Myra von Ondarza at Hambury University....
