No, that’s not a reference to the European Union’s diverse collection of fonts and languages. That’s actually the twitter challenge Sweden has set itself after kicking off its six-month European Union presidency 0n Wednesday.
From the presidency’s website:
The EU in 140 characters. This is the challenge for the Swedish EU Presidency’s micro-bloggers. By posting brief remarks on the internet-based social messaging utility Twitter, a number of key players will share their everyday lives and give readers an insight into the Presidency behind the scenes, for the duration of the Swedish Presidency. You can follow their blogging in the box on the website’s home page or on the right-hand side of this page. If you are a Twitterer, you can also follow their blogs by adding them to your profile. You will find the user names in brackets.
Which is, of course, delightful. Tweets by some presidency key players like Mårten Wierup, Deputy Antici at the permanent representation of Sweden to the EU, are already generating gems like this:
Here we go! Starting off by giving away cinamon rolls at our first Antici meeting.
Sorry, we meant gems like:
1st meeting went well-the most exciting thing that happened was that Latvia’s excessive budget deficit was added to the Ecofin agenda (7/7)
Which actually is pretty interesting.
As the Fistful of Euros blog comments (our emphasis):
One’s first reaction might be to be glad that there’s someone in the world who finds Ecofin agenda items exciting. One’s second reaction might be to wonder: what’s the need for yet another rap on the knuckles for Latvia? Our twitterer is indeed correct that Latvia did not appear on the original draft agenda, so what’s the urgency?
Related links:
Sweden begins EU presidency with defence of private equity - FT
When all else fails: beg, steal and borrow - FT Alphaville
Latvia’s Achilles heel: deposits - FT Alphaville
Latvia - more parallels with Argentina - FT Alphaville
