NEW YEAR WISH

THE MEP PETER SLOVAK WISHES YOU A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS YEAR 2012!

WE WERE IN THE EP IN BRUSSELS

THE MEP PETER SLOVAK AND HIS ASSISTANTS HAD A SPEECH IN THE EP ON 7 - 9 NOVEMBER 2011.

The local newspapers wrote yout our activities

We have won the trip to the EP in Brussels

It has been our dream ant it has been fulfilled. The assistants of Peter Slovak are travelling to Brusselts to visit the European Parliament! It is gift for our 2nd place in the competition EPfor YOUth:
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Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it

Somebody wise and intelligent said: „Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it.“ And it was also the appanage of the MEP Peter Slovák and his assistants. Peter Slovak has done a lot of work he had planned at the beginning of the electoral term together with his assistants Michal Adami, Matúš Kotora and Ján Seneši.
Peter Slovák has been working hard and together with the efforts of other MEPs who are members of the political group Green and co-operating Europe aimed his attention at the hottest green issues and supported a lot of activities joined with the environment and thinks that it is possible to help envinment by supporting campaigns to help nature. His results in this sphere have been great and all his campaigns aimed at nature have brought immediate results, he and his assistants have grown a lot of trees, bushes and flowers and made the environment better place to live.
A lot of other work in the fields of human and children rights have been done by Peter Slovák in the EP. He also aimed his attention at European issues, he was trying to block temporarily enlargement of the EU until the economical situation in the EU is stable, to stiffen up the immigration policy and to eradicate world hunger. These are great results of the politician with great impact in the area of the European Union on its citizens.
The end of the electoral term is the great opportunity to summarize and evaluate all the efforts of work for the European Parliament and all the citizens of the EU and it is necessary to be said it was a really successful term and of course the thanks goes to voters and all the MEPs who were together with Peter Slovak and his assistants trying to do their best. Al the activities of Peter Slovak are mapped in the blog http://mep-peter-slovak-ep-for-youth.blogspot.com/ which is considered as the place of the contact with the MEP. Personal meetings and cooperation with his voters have been done in various and numerous campaigns and activities of Peter Slovák.
Peter Slovák and his assistants would like to express their thanks they could take part in this project and improve their knowledge and skills affiliated with European issues, English language and communication. It has been great to cooperate with other MEPs, coordinators of the project and the tutor.It has been our pleasure to be part of such a great project as „EP for youth“ is. We are ready to play a real role in our common home Europe in the future.

NEW ARTICLE OF THE MEP PETER SLOVAK “Electromobiles"

We are daily flooded by many car innovations, which fumes are cleaner than your breath and consumption level lower than a lawn-mower. However, history has a strange sense for irony and the trend of hybrid models is only an old idea that has existed for decades and now has just been cleared from the dust.
There are many reasons why to buy a hybrid car. A few reasonable reasons are: economy, global warming, lack of fuel and others. The brand new hybrid cars are considered as a modern reaction to these problems. This brings me to a question:” Can modern hybrid cars be compared to discovering of new worlds?” It could have seen that yes but the truth is far away from the knowledge of the most people.
Already in 1839 the first electricity powered car was constructed whaich had been invented by Robert Anderson. And it was far longer than Benz constructed his first car. About popularity of an idea of electric cars shows even the fact that in historical documents of the UK there were found documents, that declare about using taxi powered only with a small electro-engine and 28 batteries. But technical problems with batteries and existence of good working combustion engine supplied with cheap gas, stopped the developing of this technology.
The gas was the cheap matter until the 70ties when there was the first oil crisis which led people to think about inexhaustibility of fossil fuels. The first ideas considering hybrid cars were coming mostly from the USA. The General Motors (GM) after spending 20 billion USD on research said final verdict that the introduction of electric cars is not possible sooner than in the half of 80ties. Let´s have a look at the closest history. 90ties were full of big mouthed politics with visionary talks about the greener behaviour to the nature. The first real act which we can take as the revolution in the world of hybrids was Toyota Prius introduced to market in 1997.
In following years came with their own versions of hybrids even other automotive producers like Honda – EV Plus, General Motors – EV1 and S-10 and Toyota again with new model RAV4 EV. But these were only 100 pieces of series solled only in California (USA). In 1999 “hit” American market a double door Honda Insight and finally touches the masses. Since then there have been more successfull hybrids.
There are no doubts that the leading front runner in producing the hybride cars is Toyota with its subsidiary Lexus. Both these automotive companies sold together more than 1.7 million hybrid cars from 1997 till 2009.
That is again the USA which tries to give good model and are lowering their oil dependents imports. The plan is to sell 1 million electricity powered cars to year 2015. And the statistics made by Ministry of energetics proves that it is not an exaggerated ambition.
The path to electric cars will not be easy. There are many obstacles standing in its way. One of the biggest is that the people do not have enough information about electric cars and the new technologies are not introduced to them.

NEW ARTICLE OF THE MEP PETER SLOVAK “MEPs´ digital communication with voters"

New technological developments are spreading at an astonishing speed, and the European Parliament aims to keep up with the pace. The main pillars of this strategy are mobility, interoperatibility and connectivity for MEPs in their daily work. More and more ICT conveniences are used in digital communication with thein voters.
According to the Fleishman-Hillard's research the use of Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Digg is used by many MEPs for the communication with their voters. Despite some early adopters, the data shows that only a minority of MEPs have fully grasped the potential of using online technologies to help them engage meaningfully with their electorate. The vast majority of politicians in the European Parliament still use mass media techniques rather than the personal and participatory media of the future. However the direction of travel is clear from the data and when new MEPs take their seats later this year, it is likely that many more will start using online communication techniques which provide inexpensive and limitless ways to reach voters at relevant moments in the right context at the right time.
The survey also concludes that MEPs increasingly are using the Internet to inform their daily legislative work. Public affairs professionals in Brussels need to build digital communications into their public affairs strategies if they are to remain effective advocates for their organizations. The results show that MEPs are using search engine and Wikipedia results to inform their thinking on policy issues. It also concludes that those MEPs who use the Internet in their own communication are more likely to see the Internet as influential in their thinking on policy issues.
Other headline facts revealed by the study are:
• 75% of MEPs use a personal website extensively.
• 93% of MEPs use search engines on a daily basis to understand legislative issues.
• 51% of MEPs visit blogs once a week or more.
• MEPs who are active online are more inclined to rate the internet as crucial to helping them form policy positions than those who are less active.
• 33% of MEPs believe online advertising to be either very effective or effective way to communicate to voters compared to 57% for television advertising.
The MEP Peter Slovak and his assistants use Informationcommunication technologies very often in thein everyday work. They have created thein own blog - http://mep-peter-slovak-ep-for-youth.blogspot.com/
They inform their voters and all the people interested in European issues via their blog about thei activities, they have organized several videoconferences with the public and also have written a big amount of email responses to their voters. They also use You Tube web site to show their contributions during the sessions in the European Parliament. You can see one of the speeches of Matúš Kotora the assistant of the MEP in the EP in Strasbourg in January 2011 at this address - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAe7VbZauaA (minute 2:44).
To conclude, the Internet and the ICT helps to contact the MEPs and their voters and enables their better cooperation, The life of the MEPs without the ICTand the Internet is not possible to imagine nowadyas, it plays an important role in MEPs practice.

Sources:
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=f1861
http://www.euractiv.com/en/pa/meps-twitter-their-way-new-communication-news-499873
http://internet-politics.cies.iscte.pt/IMG/pdf/ECPR2009braghiroli.pdf
http://aei.pitt.edu/30043/