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The infographic section provides short data visualizations mainly based on social media or survey data.

12 December 2018

UK citizens’ view on Theresa Mays’ Brexit deal

By Alessandro Pellegata

Data collected by the IPSOS Mori December 2018 Political Monitor in early December shed light on the opinions of UK citizens on Theresa May's agreement with the EU and the scenario of a no deal.

5 December 2018

MEPs on Twitter #9: all eyes on Brexit and the Yellow vests

By Martina Zaghi

Overall, discussions are clearly focused on the #giletjaunes protests and the draft #brexit deal.

27 November 2018

MEPs on Twitter #8: the comeback of ALDE and S&D

By Martina Zaghi

MEPs from the EFDD Groups were still those engaging the citizens the most. Yet, they obtained fewer reactions that the week before. Contrarily, ALDE and S&D conversations generated more retweets and replies than last week, significantly reducing the gap with EFDD.

20 November 2018

MEPs on Twitter #7: EFDD seizes the Brexit debate

By Martina Zaghi

Without any doubt, the EFDD was the most influent EP Group, collecting, on average, 36 reactions for every tweet.

13 November 2018

MEPs on Twitter #6: the “spitzenkandidat” conundrum

By Martina Zaghi

With no surprise, the messages sent by MEPs were mainly focused on the #eppcongress, besides the usual attention given to #brexit.
Citizens focused instead and, once again, on #brexit and #venezuela. Interestingly, people also focused on some issues that involved the Italian deputy Prime Minister, Luigi Di Maio (Five Star Movement).

6 November 2018

MEPs on Twitter #5: are Greens and S&D catching up?

By Martina Zaghi

The Social Democrat MEP, Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto, featured as one of the most active Deputies this week. Prieto mostly tweeted about the Castilla La Mancha issue. Instead the British Deputies, Richard Corbett (S&D Group) and Nigel Farage (EFDD Group), top the rankings of the most retweeted and replied Deputies, respectively.

30 October 2018

MEPs on Twitter #4: the Italian budget row

By Martina Zaghi

The first insight from this week's monitoring is that the absolute number of tweets followed a declining trajectory, following the EP plenary days (22-25th of October). This signals a strong effect of the monthly gathering in Strasbourg on MEPs' Twitter activity.

23 October 2018

MEPs on Twitter #3: EPP takes the lead

By Martina Zaghi

MEPs of the EPP group tweeted more than all other parties and increased their amount of online conversations week after week. Also looking at the tweets-to-MEPs ratio, EPP deputies proved to be more active than previous weeks. They ranked third, behind the EFDD and the Greens/EFA.

16 October 2018

MEPs on Twitter #2: MEPs’ and citizens’ diverging priorities

By Martina Zaghi

This week MEPs mainly dealt with the Brexit negotiations (#brexit, #peoplesvote) and the local elections in Warsaw that took place on October 21 (#trzaskowski2018, #debatawarszawska). Instead, citizens mostly focused on Brexit and other UK issues (#brexit, #scrapthelicencefee).

9 October 2018

MEPs on Twitter #1 : Brexit under the spotlight

By Martina Zaghi

In the run-up to the 2019 European elections, EuVisions kicked off a special project centred around the current members of the EU Parliament. Out of a total number of 750 MEPs, we are tracking the online activity of 666 deputies on Twitter, through their profiles. Currently, we are collecting all the tweets sent by MEPs, as well as, the reactions to the former, in terms of retweets and replies.

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«In the next MFF, concerning employment-related policies, the legacy of the YEI will be carried through by means of compulsory earmarking: member states with an above EU average of young people neither in employment nor in education or training (NEET) will be required to allocate at least 10% of their resources in tackling youth unemployment. »

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