Milkshaker: EU election website gets election date wrong (updated)

Brussels has a new website dedicated to the European elections in June 2009.

The site is called "milkshaker" and unfortunately it has not only a confusing name but is also confusing in itself, as Julien has already noted.

Finally, the makers of the site seem to have put in a wrong date for the countdown to the EP elections. It currently says 143 days, but in fact 7 June (the date on which the majority of EU countries will hold the European elections) is only 117 days away.


I wouldn't complain if the content itself would be interesting. But it seems to be an automated mix of Google News results blended with some RSS feeds from Brussels-based media like EurActiv and New Europe. This is too little for journalists and too confusing for everyone else.

The European Journalism Centre has already produced good websites, including www.eufeeds.eu and the excellent blog competition Think About It. Milkshaker, however, does not convince me yet. The only attractive part is is the logo and name of the site.

Update 16/2/2009: after beeing offline a few days now, the milkshaker site is back online today, with the correct countdown!

Update 2: EJC responded, see the comment link below.