EAPC - European Association of Political Consultants

23 experts in political communications from different european countries have analyzed on 352 pages the 18 most interesting political campaigns celebrated in Europe in 2005.

Of special interest are the analysis of the four referendums on the European Union Constitution celebrated in Spain, France, Netherlands and Luxembourg with the tables result: two supporting and two against.

But "Election Time 05" dous not only focus in the EU construction. This edition includes among others the analysis of Parliamentary and Presidential Elections in UK, Germany, Denmark or Poland but also of non EU members as Bulgaria, Croatia or Andorra.

"Election Time 05" includes as well some regional and local elections of big interest as for example the last regional elections in Italy, and some others in Germany, Spain, Portugal and Austria from which we may learn that professionalism is not only important in larger campaigns.

"Election Time 05" is available in English and German and Turkish.

In time for his year´s EAPC Conference the second Yearbook of Political Campaigning was ready to be presented, still hot of the press. The perfect setting of the new city hall of Matosinhos was provided by the city government and its Mayor Narciso Miranda. Vice President, Guillerme Pinto, outlined the important work of the Association and praised its achievments documented in this series of Yearbooks.

The second out of an annual series is even more complex and informative and includes 17 analysis of 22 European, national and regional elections and referendums from 15 countries on it´s 337 pages. All these analysis were written in English by 27 authors and co-authors, all of them experienced political consultants from all over the continent.

It was a longcherished plan of the EAPC. And a lot of work before Election Time could be presented to the public in the beginning of May 2004 in Istanbul on the occasion of the EAPC Annual Conference. The first Yearbook on political campaigning in Europe. Published by Sepp Hartinger, the founder of the EAPC, in cooperation with the EAPC and coordinated by José Manuel Talero García, this first edition offers 296 pages of exciting analyses of 18 European elections or referenda in 2003, all written by political consultants. In addition all analyses are accompanied by grafics as well as pictures of advertising material of the campaigns and are “The best work so far presented by the associations of political consultants all over the world. I heartly congratulate to this work”, as Joe Napolitan, former campaign chief of John F. Kennedy and founder of the IAPC as well as the AAPC, commented on this hot of the press work.