Jon Worth Explained

Jon Worth
Birth Date:23 May 1980
Birth Place:Newport, Wales
Occupation:Blogger
Editor
Journalist
Nationality:Welsh
Alma Mater:Merton College
Genre:Non-Fiction
Subject:Brexit
European Union
Germany

Jon Worth (born 23 May 1980) is a political blogger, journalist, and editor who regularly writes about EU policy, Brexit and German domestic and foreign policy.[1] Since 2015 he has been a visiting professor at the College of Europe.

Worth studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College, University of Oxford, where he obtained a BA. He also holds an MA in European Politics from the College of Europe, Bruges. Jon Worth's "Euroblog" started in 2005. It was ranked the third most influential left-of-center blog in 2010 by Social Europe.[2]

In his political work, he was president of the NGO Young European Federalists Europe between 2003 and 2005. In British politics, he was responsible for the online campaign supporting Harriet Harman's 2007 bid for Labour Party Deputy Leader.[3] Worth also ran online campaigning for Diane Abbott's Labour Leadership bid in 2010.[4] He was one of the founders of the Atheist Bus Campaign in 2008, the campaign having first been visualized in his blog entry "In your face atheism?".[5] In 2013, at the time of his move to Berlin, he quit the Labour Party and joined the German Greens,[6] where he ran in the 2016 local elections[7]

He is a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges,[8] where he has been teaching since the 2015–16 academic year. He teaches students in the politics department about online communications and the EU and (together with Pierpaolo Settembri and Costanza Hermanin) runs the negotiation simulation.

As a UK citizen in Germany, he has regularly appeared in the German media to talk about Brexit.[9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

He is a member of the Europe Policy Group of the World Economic Forum[14] and the Transparency International EU Advisory Group.[15]

In the summer of 2022, he started the #CrossBorderRail campaign drawing attention to issues within the European rail network, and specifically the border connections between countries.[16] [17] [18]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jon Worth about his Euroblog - bpb. Bundeszentrale für politische. Bildung. www.bpb.de.
  2. Web site: The most Influential left-of-centre European Blogs: And the winner is.... 12 November 2010. 23 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170823171055/https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-most-influential-left-of-centre-european-blogs-and-the-winner-is. 23 August 2017. dead.
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=mXJ18qIuVMwC&pg=PA82 see Iain Dale's Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2007
  4. Web site: Jon Worth. 15 May 2013.
  5. Web site: In your face atheism? - Jon Worth Euroblog. 20 June 2008.
  6. Web site: Why I'm leaving the Labour Party, and joining the Grüne in Germany - Jon Worth Euroblog. 14 November 2013.
  7. Web site: Monika Herrmann soll Bürgermeisterin bleiben – starke Liste gewählt - Grüne Xhain. gruene-xhain.de. 9 April 2016.
  8. Web site: Jon WORTH - College of Europe. www.coleurope.eu.
  9. Web site: France and UK Vote: Hope for Europe? - All media content - DW - 15.06.2017. DW.COM.
  10. Web site: "Großbritannien war immer das problematische EU-Mitglied". n-tv. Nachrichtenfernsehen.
  11. Web site: Nach dem Referendum in Großbritannien - Wie weiter in der EU?.
  12. Web site: Brexit: Berlins Briten wollen bleiben. Luisa. Jacobs. 3 April 2016. Die Zeit.
  13. Web site: "Wir könnten zu Inselaffen werden". 22 June 2016. Sueddeutsche.de.
  14. Web site: Europe Policy Group New Concept for Europe Initiative . www3.weforum.org. PDF. 2020-06-18.
  15. Web site: Transparency International EU. Transparency International. EU. 1 December 2015. Transparency International EU.
  16. Web site: Homepage . 2022-10-10 .
    1. CrossBorderRail
    . en-GB.
  17. Web site: Smith . Ian . 2022-07-22 . 'The EU has to be more radical': How can we fix cross-border rail? . 2022-10-10 . euronews . en.
  18. Web site: Kotkamp . Lukas . 2022-10-09 . Spoorweg-activist Jon Worth: 'In Brussel lobbyt niemand voor de Europese treinreiziger' . 2022-10-10 . Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek . nl-NL.