Watch how the European Parliament is voting

Tomorrow, VP Commissioner @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social will be in office for 100 days.
She had many meetings.
Meetings with NGOs = 0.
ec.europa.eu/transparency...

- stripe (another US company) has the reputation to be easier to use and more cost effective
- for €: Regulation (EU) 2024/886 SEPA Instant Payments Regulation (IPR) should be implemented by most banks and offer a payment in less than 10 seconds.

Ask your bank and put pressure on them if they don't

Help Denmark Buy California – Because Why Not? Buy it from Trump, the bigliest crowdsourcing ever

if @politico.eu covers it, it is a story 🙃
"SHOULD CALIFORNIA JOIN THE EU? denmarkification.com campaign seeks to buy #California from the U.S. and make it Danish territory. The offer is enticing: A trillion dollars and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries for Trump. 🇩🇰🥐

chat bot dialog with deepseek

with all the discussion about #deepseek and the impact of AI on democracy, we tried to ask directly to the source "can a democracy advocate be apolitical?". Deepseek answers:

if you want to look at how the parties and meps voted
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hopefully easier to read by country too

if you want an hopefully easier way to analyse the votes:
mepwatch.eu/10/vote.html...

mepwatch.eu/10/vote.html... Hopefully easier to read and analyse than the PDF

Election of the European Commission
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Check how MEPs voted

Where is Bluesky legally established in the EU what are its user numbers? Even modestly sized platforms need a page with such details as per the Digital Services Act. A spokesman for @ec.europa.eu said on Monday that the search is now on "for any trace" of @bsky.app in the EU's 27 member states.

starter pack with the MEPs we found on twitter.
Please share if you found more
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Calendar | Plenary | European Parliament List of scheduled meetings taking place each day e.g. meetings of political groups, parliamentary committees and governing bodies. Find details on meeting date, time and meeting room.

Next week plenary in Strasbourg, vote sessions scheduled:
- 26/11 11am
- 27/11 12am
- 28/11 12am

www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/m...

I think it was pretty clear for quite a while for many many folks, what's new is that we have reached a tipping point
... and that enough folks seems to agree bluesky is the alternative to try.

We publish an analysis per country less than 30 min after this pdf. you can even automatically link to the votes from a specific country:
mepwatch.eu/10/vote.html...

In a real democracy there's no space for inaction!
Snap a selfie in front of the European Parliament and get framed

so far this term:
- 358 roll call votes
- 404 raise hand votes
- 36 electronic votes
You can only see what your MEPs voted on the rollcalls.

MEPs are still not individually accountable for the majority of the votes in 2024.

All the (rollcall) votes in the parliament online.
Be informed, hold MEPs accountable
mepwatch.eu/10