Some magazine I have never heard of which is "...supported by Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt." is running a poll for the Europeans of the year 2005. Unfortunately there seems to be no opportunity for write in candidates so one is frequenty forced to vote for the "least bad" candidate. Also, rather peculiarly, many of the choices are supposed to be considered based on 2004 performance which is odd for a poll coming out about two thirds of the way through 2005.
There are some interesting choices and omissions though. For example there is
Commissioner of the Year
Which of the following European Commissioners has had the most impact on EU policy in 2004?
Dalia Grybauskaite, Budget
Charlie McGreevy, Internal Market
Louis Michel, Development
Olli Rehn, Enlargement
Günter Verheugen, Enterprise and Industry
One regrets that the fragrant one appears to have not made the cut.
I also note that, assuming you have a system with throwaway email addresses, it looks like it would be possible to vote early and often. Not that I'm suggesting that anyone actually do that of course.
The one category that has any great interest was "Campaigner of the year" where there seem to be at least two worthy entrants, Florian Müller and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Campaigner of the Year
Who has made the boldest social or political stand in 2004?
Bono, Rock star turned politician
Bob Geldof, Rock star turned politician
Laurent Fabius, French Socialist Politician
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch Policitian
Florian Müller, Nosoftwarepatents.com
Krzysztof Turowski, from the Association of Polish Tourism POT