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Brussels, 18 January 2006
Internet Chat with Margot Wallström On Thursday 19 January 2006 at 17.00 CET, Margot Wallström, the Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy, will take part in a live internet chat to mark the anniversary of the launch of her blog in January 2005. Participants will include members of the public who are regular commentators in her blog. For practical reasons, the number of participants in the chat will be limited but the discussion can be followed by the public via her website and a transcript will be published afterwards. The discussion will be a general one about the future of Europe. The address for the chat will be published in her blog:
http://weblog.jrc.ec.europa.eu/page/wallstrom
Still one of the few prominent politicians in Europe to have a blog, Margot Wallström has made 49 posts over the past year and received over 4500 comments from readers. Her blog currently has about 15.000 regular readers from all over the world and her website has received close to 1 million hits during the year.
She shared her views with the public last year on many important issues, including the rejection of the Constitution in France and The Netherlands, the London bombings, the Global Call to Action against Poverty, Climate Change, Globalisation, China, Development Aid, EU-US Relations, the Budget and the general future of the EU as well as giving an insight to her work as a European Commissioner and occasional private reflections on life and family.
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