As well as that, it gives a broader group of people for cross-fertilisation of ideas.

Given how inter-connected the startup world is now, it would seem strange to not take a networked view and limit it to only UK. That’s a bit 1999 to me.

That’s generally how the media refers to Europe though – I see it all the time on the BBC site, the Guardian, The Times and plenty of other publications. The UK is seen or referred to as being separate from Europe – particularly by publications with a UK audience. I don’t think people in this country really feel European – probably because we’re separated from the rest of Europe by a great big piece of water.

Currently, there is no entity called “TechCrunch Europe”. There might one day be, but for now, the economic realities of online publishing (all publishing in fact) means that advertising budgets remain regionally controlled. This is why Pan-European titles often fail. You will know that from your experience as a German contributor to the ill-fated BlogNation, which tried to flush out pan-European, english-speaking advertising budgets and found there weren’t any.

However, as you wll know I have been writing about startups in many European countries both on TCUK and on TC.com, where appropriate. I see my role here as both editing a UK/Irish focused site as well as contributing as a European-focused correspondent to TechCrunch.com

Now, if it turns out that loads of comments come on here and I get lots of email saying people want a pan-European events listing associated with TechCrunch, then I’ll happily consider changing the Upcoming Group. As I inferred above, this is something of an experiment. I can always change the title.

Please note: It is not the case that “people from the UK are not able to cope with the fact when they are called European.” But this web site remains focused largely on UK, and Ireland as a close-by English-speaking market.

You also run your own pan-European new media groups on Upcoming, so I’m sure the market is pretty well-served by your own enthusiasm. And well done, btw.

I like the startup focus with yours and will try to crosspost events I see with startup focus from the other groups, I’d be happy if people use the other groups as well it only helps the spreading of the news of such events.

One of the ones you where mentioning surely is this one
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/1927/
which I moderate to only allow events happing in mostly english (= appealing to the european crowd) and with social media / startup / barcamp etc focus which is separated from the meetups groups for the pure fact that people want to see just conference like events in one group.

A note for event organizers: This is not a beauty competition. Different people use different groups and if you like to be noticed, do spread them whereever they are appropriate, but do spread them!