Dear friends, I am in the process of
revising my website and down on the left hand side you will see a new set of links. With links it seems as soon as they go up someone changes their address or stops blogging but I would like to draw to your attention the blogs of two of my Socialist and Democrat colleagues. Campaigning in London during the June elections I met many supporters from other European countries. European blogs are readily accessible through tools like google translate.
Dan Jorgenson pictured on the left has a lively blog talking about domestic and European politics. Dan is an environment specialist and as you would expect he has plenty to say the Copenhagen climate change discussions. For a flavour of his style try this post ” Chill Out Lomborg” where he takes on Danish climate change denying author Bjorn Lomborg (do allow for the translation a little!).
From southern Europe my colleague David Sassoli features his blog on his homepage. To see all of it you have to click through to his blog archive. David is a foreign affairs expert and this is reflected in his posts. I note also that like myself he tries to give a flavour of Plenary session of the Parliament to his readers with news of votes as they happen in Strasbourg.
I am charmed by how David addresses his readers as “Dear Friends”, perhaps the blogosphere in Italy is less robust and more courteous in Italy than Britain. This also works for him as he appears to not allow comments. I welcome the dialogue and feedback comments provide.
