- Approximate number of hotels hosting Convention delegates and visitors: 100
- Approximate number of hotel rooms booked in Denver for Convention week: 17,000
- Percentage of delegation hotels that are within walking distance or accessible by public transportation to the Pepsi Center: 80%
- Number of countries represented by journalists attending and covering the Convention: 130
- Approximate number of people who have signed up to volunteer for the Convention: 21,000
- Number of foreign dignitaries invited by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) : 300
- Number of people who have attended ‘Convention Conversations’ public forums in Denver, Pueblo, Boulder and Lakewood, Colorado and Las Vegas and Salt Lake City: 750
- Estimated increase of readership of the DNCC’s website, DemConvention.com, since January: 40%
- Number of middle and high school students who submitted entries for the “Write to Lead” youth essay contest sponsored by the DNCC: 1,200
- Number of Presidential winners selected from the 1,200 “Write to Lead” entries to attend the Convention: 2
And the dreamers? Ah, the dreamers! They were and they are the true realists, we owe them the best ideas and the foundations of modern Europe(...). The first President of that Commission, Walter Hallstein, a German, said: "The abolition of the nation is the European idea!" - a phrase that dare today's President of the Commission, nor the current German Chancellor would speak out. And yet: this is the truth. Ulrike Guérot & Robert Menasse
quinta-feira, agosto 28, 2008
Convenção Democrática - factos & diversos
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