According to the Guardian newspaper the first Feminist Party MEP is likely to win a seat in the European Parliament this week.
The European Parliament website has official data on the distribution of male and female MEPs since 1979
it also breaks this down by country. in 2009 a Eurobarometer survey on women and Parliamentary elections
examined women‟s attitudes and behaviour towards elections in general and their opinions
about the European elections and activities of the European Parliament in particular.found that half of European women would like 50% or more of the European Parliament members
to be women
The Centre for Women and Democracy has a briefing on women in the 2014 elections which predicts gains.
Its website also has a blog and other factsheets on the political representation of women.
The findings are echoed by the Hansard Society.
the European Women’s Lobby, the largest umbrella organisation of women’s associations in the EU has set up an online manifesto for Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to pledge to act for gender equality. Its website also has a gender audit of the manifestos of the main parties.see historic materials relating to earlier elections on their 50/50
Showing posts with label European parliament. Show all posts
Showing posts with label European parliament. Show all posts
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
EU elections recommended news sources.
Follow the European parliament elections in these recommended news sources.
These services aggregate news from different sources.
Eurotopics: How will Europe Vote?
eurotopics is a service provided by the Federal Agency for Civic Education. They sift through more than 300 newspapers, magazines and blogs in 30 countries (the EU plus Switzerland and Turkey),provided translated introductions and links to the original sources.
VoxEurop
Alos translates news from Europe's main newspapers.
EU Feeds- list of News feeds from hundreds of European newspapers
Special Coverage from Newspaper and news services.
European Voice - Economist Group.
BBC Politics Guide.
This includes links to party election broadcasts.
Guardian has a fun quiz who should you vote for in the elections? an interactive guide to battles in specific countries.
Le Monde
Die Welt
Irish Times
La Stampa
Telegraph
Independent
Blogs
OpenDemocracy - blog postings.
The Conversation - comment and analysis form UK academics.
EUROPP - LSE European Politics and Policy Blog - has basic user guides to the election and discussion.
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
European Elections starting points
This week see our recommendations for finding information on the European Elections. Here are some basic starting points.
Voter education guides on the European Elections.
In 2013 the European Commission declared an aim of increasing voter turnout.
In an effort to make voting more interesting the EP has sponsored a number of tools to help voters. In addition to the traditional 2014 elections website which has news and guides on voting. They have create a Box your EP app for tablets and the hashtag EP#2014 and a special website called Happy Vote which is based on the pop song. They have also had a presidential debate format
Votewatch has created a My Vote 2014 site for young voters which has a game that will help pick a party with similar views.
EUvox is another voter application sponsored by the Open Society Institute. Voters are encouraged to select the party that meets their preferences.
Euandi from the European University Insitute is another site which covers Europe Wide.
EuroVote+ is a research project which provides information to voters about different electoral systems. It asks people to consider if they would vote isf the system was different.
Electio2014 from Votewatch Europe has vote matching, interestingly this is based not just on policies but European Parliament activities. Other features of the site are a poll watching feature.
Academic dossiers on the European Elections.
European Parliamentary Information service has some interesting blog postings.
European Sources online has a guide to the role and legal operation of the parliament.
Robert Schuman Centre has a really good page with a basic guide, quizzes and interactive maps of candidates.
European Policy Centre is aggregating polls in the run up to the elections.
Europe Decides is website created by Burson-Marsteller Brussels it includes a pollwatch feature from Votewatch and also extensive coverage of the use of social media in the elections.
Voter education guides on the European Elections.
In 2013 the European Commission declared an aim of increasing voter turnout.
In an effort to make voting more interesting the EP has sponsored a number of tools to help voters. In addition to the traditional 2014 elections website which has news and guides on voting. They have create a Box your EP app for tablets and the hashtag EP#2014 and a special website called Happy Vote which is based on the pop song. They have also had a presidential debate format
Votewatch has created a My Vote 2014 site for young voters which has a game that will help pick a party with similar views.
EUvox is another voter application sponsored by the Open Society Institute. Voters are encouraged to select the party that meets their preferences.
Euandi from the European University Insitute is another site which covers Europe Wide.
EuroVote+ is a research project which provides information to voters about different electoral systems. It asks people to consider if they would vote isf the system was different.
Electio2014 from Votewatch Europe has vote matching, interestingly this is based not just on policies but European Parliament activities. Other features of the site are a poll watching feature.
Academic dossiers on the European Elections.
European Parliamentary Information service has some interesting blog postings.
European Sources online has a guide to the role and legal operation of the parliament.
Robert Schuman Centre has a really good page with a basic guide, quizzes and interactive maps of candidates.
European Policy Centre is aggregating polls in the run up to the elections.
Europe Decides is website created by Burson-Marsteller Brussels it includes a pollwatch feature from Votewatch and also extensive coverage of the use of social media in the elections.
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