TMO Tags: European Parliament

Viva le Republic

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

March 17th’s Gazeta Wyborcza hilariously describes Warsaw as “the most prestigious constituency” in the European elections. You hear that Hillbilly Boy? Your votes are not as good as our votes. They are not as prestigious.

Musical Chairs

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Here’s how meaningless politics is nowadays: Danuta Hübner, a left-winger (she was European minister in Miller’s allegedly left-wing SLD government), is running for the European Parliament for Platforma Obywatelska, the neo-liberal, right wing, technocratic political party that rules Poland in coalition with the Peasants Party, described by Poles as “melons” because they’re green on the [...]