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Posted Jun 9, 2004 7:44 UTC (Wed) by Felix.Braun (guest, #3032)
Parent article: An activism update from Europe

Thank you for an informative article! It is very rare that people get the intricacies of the European legislative process right (which probably contributes to the belief that the EP has no power). It is therefore too bad that the author makes a couple of unneccesary mistakes:

• The term of the Presidency is only six months. As the Irish Presidency started 1 Jan 2004, it will end on 30 Jun 2004, to be followed by the Netherlands.
• The elections to the European Parliament run from 10-13 June 2004 Where each country uses a fixed election day according to local custom.

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Posted Jun 10, 2004 11:22 UTC (Thu) by telex4 (guest, #21370) [Link]

Sorry about that. I knew about the Irish Presidency mistake, but stupidly missed it when
correcting my first draft. As for the election dates, that I didn't know, so I'm grateful for the
correction.