Welcome bloggers!

The main goal of the Centre for European Studies as the official think thank of the European People’s Party is to bring policy making closer to its citizens by stimulating debate from the ground-up and in so doing developing new ideas to provide a base for centre right political research. For that reason the CES is proposing tools which invite European citizens to take part in the political decision-formation process. 

Modern, web-based technology will be used to reach out to Europeans. Multiple new initiatives taken by the CES have been put in place to provoke active debate. They include this EuroThinkers blog space and the Centre’s Facebook Forum together with its first web-based pan-European poll. The latter, which has been fully supported by Jose Manuel Barroso, was an interactive non-partisan survey available in six official languages .

The webpage (www.tellBarroso.eu) was officially  launched on 30^th March 2009, and in just one month got a record participation: more than 150.000 individual users joined the project!!!

You can have an overview of the results of this sucessful interacitive exprience in www.thinkingeurope.eu/tellbarroso 

It is now up to you, citizens of Europe, to make your voice heard. Feel free to express yourself by joining our blog space and our CES Facebook group and leaving comments and suggestions. Remember; anyone can take part in active debate: you can be an Eurothinker!