Turnout has been slowing down in Europe and France since the first elections back in 1979. A surge in participation could come as a surprise. Only 42,4 % of voters showed up 5 years ago…
The European election campaign have been very French. Citizen still wonder what is it about, Google trends show. “It has been the 3rd round of the presidential election”, outgoing MEP Jean Arthuis said in a…
Turnout might be the lowest ever for EU elections. The French government has launched a campaign about polling booths to fight against it, though real solutions do exist in other countries. Less than 40% of…
Austrian vice-chancellor and Steve Bannon in Paris demonstrated once again that extreme-right leaders are here for the money – not for the people The leader of extreme-right party FPÖ and vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache had to…
Paris is warming up to the ALDE candidate after Barnier announced he would vote for Les Républicains. The competition commissioner is Brussels’s sweetheart. She is strong and resolute, she has contributed to revive the EU’s…
Barnier, Verhofstadt, Weidmann, Borrell: there are already candidates for the EU top jobs. It’s too early, OK. But one way to spark citizen vote for European election would be to tell them about what’s going…
Macron has been willing to destroy the Spitzenkandidaten system to push his own people. But Orban is the one who definitely killed it. It did happen back in 2014, with Jean-Claude Juncker. But this time…
Despite the Paris Agreement and all the research by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), some people in France still think climate change is an opinion. And one of them has a TV show….
French citizens show little interest for EU issues and most of the 33 lists for the European elections call for a vote against Macron. The three weeks campaign might prove challenging. The previous government spokesman…
In France, headlines focus on who will be the first party at national level to win the European elections. But National Rally has shown that being the number one does not help much at EP.
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