Ronny Patz is a political scientist currently writing his PhD thesis on information flows in EU policy-making at the University of Potsdam (Germany). Since 2009, he and a number of bloggers from around the European Union are running Bloggingportal.eu, a platform cataloguing and linking the EU-focussed blogosphere. Ronny is blogging on Polscieu (http://polscieu.ideasoneurope.eu) about EU politics, EU research, and political communication in European Union. in 2011, he was one of three bloggers to become accredited to the EU Council for a pilot project.