Jon Worth (born 23 May 1980) is a political blogger, journalist and editor who regularly writes about EU policy,
Brexit and Germany policy. Since 2015 he has been a
visiting professor at the
College of Europe.
Worth studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at
Merton College
Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, ch ...
,
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.
In his political work, he was president of the
NGO Young European Federalists
Young European Federalists (french: Jeunes Européens Fédéralistes, JEF) is a political youth organisation. Active in most European countries, it seeks to promote European integration through the strengthening and democratisation of the Euro ...
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 and also did online campaigning for
Diane Abbott
Diane Julie Abbott (born 27 September 1953) is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. A member of the Labour Party, she served in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn as Sh ...
's Labour Leadership bid in 2010. He was one of the founders of the
Atheist Bus Campaign
The Atheist Bus Campaign was an advertising campaign in 2008 and 2009 that aimed to place "peaceful and upbeat" messages about atheism on transport media in Britain, in response to evangelical Christian advertising.
It was created by comedy wr ...
in 2008, the campaign having first been visualized in his blog entry "In your face atheism?". In 2013, at the time of his move to Berlin, he quit the Labour Party and joined the German Greens, where he ran in the 2016 local elections
He is a Visiting Professor at the
College of Europe in
Bruges, 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.
He is a member of the Europe Policy Group of
World Economic Forum and the
Transparency International EU Advisory Group.
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.
References
External links
Jon Worth EuroblogProfile The GuardianJon Worth on TwitterJon Worth at College of Europe
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1980 births
Living people
Welsh bloggers
Writers from Berlin
Welsh journalists