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la rafale
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# Posted: 8 Jun 09 17:05
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a new member, Caroline Castendijk,from Netherlands, uploaded today an original pic from Venice ; i noticed that,on the ship, we can see the blue stars of UE:
are there others witnesses on Woophy ? post them here 
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la rafale
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# Posted: 8 Jun 09 17:11
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an example by geert geenen
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BadWolf
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# Posted: 8 Jun 09 19:17
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I have always wondered, because Europe has been voting over the weekend, what was your voting turnout like?
England always puts voting days on a week day, usually a thursday, then wonders why we don't get many people voting.
If your voting day was moved to a week day, would you still try and make sure you went?
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geert geenen
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# Posted: 8 Jun 09 19:24
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@badwolf: in the netherlands we had elections last thursday too; 36,5 percent has voted
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la rafale
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# Posted: 8 Jun 09 19:24 - Edited by: la rafale
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@ BadWolf : in France, voting day was yesterday ( 43% voters in France and 48% in our region) and first time for Mathilde, my daughter, who was really greatly received and got a "voting baptism" because she was the youngest voter in our city 
and as answer to "
If your voting day was moved to a week day, would you still try and make sure you went?" : yesterday, i was working
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geert geenen
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# Posted: 8 Jun 09 19:30
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extreme right, anti-European anti Islam-party PVV has been the great winner of the elections in the Netherlands; PVV now is the second political party in my country; this photo shows a PVV-poster with the text 'never again fascism'
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A.Miguel Oliveira
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# Posted: 8 Jun 09 19:33
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La Rafale, I guess you meant "deceived"...
Here, in Portugal, we always vote on sundays, what seems to be better apparently. But when the weather is fine... not that better. Anyway, yesterday it was a half bad weather and the abstention was about 62%.
Something must change in European politics (in each country and in the EU, as an organisation) to call citizens to participate. It's a serious problem some results we got in some countries! And as woophy is not a politics centre, I'll not go further with this comment I was making... 
Better some photos, as La Rafale asked for. Sorry, I have any other than the joke I made with my previous one (just meaning that many citizens are completely out of the real situation, on fault of politicians, and only go voting as they are blindly faithful to their parties...)
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la rafale
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# Posted: 8 Jun 09 19:41 - Edited by: la rafale
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@ A.M.O : received yesterday and deceived today  but it would have be more difficult if we had this choice :
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geert geenen
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# Posted: 8 Jun 09 19:42
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let's have a beer! watching tv on the evening of the european elections (balgoij, netherlands)
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BadWolf
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# Posted: 8 Jun 09 21:05
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extreme right, anti-European anti Islam-party PVV has been the great winner of the elections in the Netherlands; PVV now is the second political party in my country; this photo shows a PVV-poster with the text 'never again fascism'
I'm sorry to hear this. It seems as soon as things get hard, people blame immigrants for all our problems.
Here, the bnp (british national party) gained two seats at these elections. They are holocaust deniars and want a completely white britain (or anglosaxon as they put it) and if they ever came to power they would send anybody 'home' who moved to britain after the 1950's. It makes me sick that I could be passing a person in the street who put a cross next to the bnp on their ballot paper.
In my area 'yorkshire and humber' there was only a 20% turnout, I personally think this is pathetic.
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TBM
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# Posted: 9 Jun 09 23:10
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@ Geert and BadWolf: a little comforting thought, racists usually take horrible photos...
That does not comfort much, I'm afraid....
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geert geenen
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# Posted: 9 Jun 09 23:15
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@TBM: that bnp-photographer is really bad indeed; and yes, that doesn't comfort much; but written by you: it comforts a little
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geert geenen
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# Posted: 10 Jun 09 22:14
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Eisenach (Germany); the photo was taken three weeks before the elections; a lot of people indeed have turned their back to Europe by not voting, 4-7 june made clear
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bruha2
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# Posted: 12 Jun 09 13:03
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What about postal voting or on-line voting. In Australia voting it is compulsory by law with fines for not voting. It also has the most complicated voting system ever devised. Voting in NZ we just copy Germany as with everything else.
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