An excellent Swiss blog has appeared, here, covering the European Constitution ratifications under the (rather long) title "The Fundamental Principles of the European Constitution". It provides solid and detailed regular coverage of the national ratification campaigns, wrapped in a rather impressive design. Mind you, rather like they said about Lynryd Skynyrd's three guitarists, having at least seven members of a team blog gives you a certain advantage. One of those advantages is that they seem to have at least one member who knows something about every member state, from Sweden's "virtual feminist party" to the exact details of the CGT/Force Ouvriére split and the ins and outs of Finnish integration with the EU.
Mind you, it could perhaps be accused of being a tad stodgy. Here be great, hulking slabs of facty text heavy with authority; if you like "shorters", blog flame wars, troll-bashing, catblogging and links to "amusing" flash games, this is not your place. If you don't believe me, check out the post consisting of a complete and untranslated transcript of a Spanish focus group that runs to at least nine screens of closely packed print. This is one time when I will forgive a blog for hiding content "below the fold", something I usually hate. Cleverly, either the army of bloggers who feed it or some nameless web bunny has rigged the site so that it drills down by nationality/language.
Technote: the engine is a French PHP/SQL blogtool called DotClear.
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