PdF speaker Alberto Cottica explains that there are good news on the Italian open data scenario, both on local and national level: after the Piedmont Region,  the Ministry of Economy is building interesting databases and creating new possibilities of using data information on budgeting:

When the Euroblogger enters unknown territory, she or he doesn't know whether he or she is walking into a gold mine or a mine field - and my participation at the EPP Summit ahead of the June European Council meeting was such a move into unknown territory.

Euroblogger Julien Frisch was invited to follow the European People's party summit and liveblogged the event. Frisch had previously been active part in the debate on whether bloggers should get accreditation to EU institutions (a topic we explored on our blog, too) and has a lot of interesting reflections, an exploration on the differences between blogging and journalism and how both of them can look at the EU work and tell people about that: