Jon Worth

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

Jon Worth
Born	(1980-05-23) 23 May 1980 (age 43) Newport, Wales
Occupation	Blogger Editor Journalist
Nationality	Welsh
Alma mater	Merton College
Genre	Non-Fiction
Subject	Brexit European Union Germany
Website
jonworth.eu

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 for Harriet Harman's 2007 run to be Labour Party Deputy Leader^[3] and also did 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 World Economic Forum^[14] and the Transparency International EU Advisory Group.^[15]

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

References

1. Bildung, Bundeszentrale für politische. "Jon Worth about his Euroblog - bpb". www.bpb.de.
2. 12 November 2010. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
3. see Iain Dale's Guide to Political Blogging in the UK 2007
4. "Jon Worth". 15 May 2013.
5. "In your face atheism? - Jon Worth Euroblog". 20 June 2008.
6. "Why I'm leaving the Labour Party, and joining the Grüne in Germany - Jon Worth Euroblog". 14 November 2013.
7. "Monika Herrmann soll Bürgermeisterin bleiben – starke Liste gewählt - Grüne Xhain". gruene-xhain.de. 9 April 2016.
8. "Jon WORTH - College of Europe". www.coleurope.eu.
9. "France and UK Vote: Hope for Europe? - All media content - DW - 15.06.2017". DW.COM.
10. Nachrichtenfernsehen, n-tv. ""Großbritannien war immer das problematische EU-Mitglied"".
11. "Nach dem Referendum in Großbritannien - Wie weiter in der EU?".
12. Jacobs, Luisa (3 April 2016). "Brexit: Berlins Briten wollen bleiben" – via Die Zeit.
13. ""Wir könnten zu Inselaffen werden"". 22 June 2016 – via Sueddeutsche.de.
14. "Europe Policy Group New Concept for Europe Initiative" (PDF). www3.weforum.org. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
15. EU, Transparency International (1 December 2015). "Transparency International EU". Transparency International EU.
16. "Homepage". #CrossBorderRail. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
17. Smith, Ian (22 July 2022). "'The EU has to be more radical': How can we fix cross-border rail?". euronews. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
18. Kotkamp, Lukas (9 October 2022). "Spoorweg-activist Jon Worth: 'In Brussel lobbyt niemand voor de Europese treinreiziger'". Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek (in Dutch). Retrieved 10 October 2022.

External links

• Jon Worth Euroblog
• Jon Worth on Mastodon
• Profile The Guardian
• Jon Worth at College of Europe
• Jon Worth on Twitter