This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. This media advisory outlines the briefings and practical assistance available to journalists covering the 6-9 June European elections. Daily media briefings from Thursday 6 June to Monday 10 June Parliament’s press service will organise briefings for media, in physical presence and remotely via interactio, […]European elections 2024: practical details for media on election days and night
June 4, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. This media advisory outlines the briefings and practical assistance available to journalists covering the 6-9 June European elections. Daily media briefings from Thursday 6 June to Monday 10 June Parliament’s press service will organise briefings for media, in physical presence and remotely via interactio, […]EU cybersecurity exercise: foster cooperation, secure free and fair EU elections
November 22, 2023 by 1 Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. To evaluate and strengthen current working methods ahead of the 2024 elections, EU institutions have organised a cybersecurity exercise today. National and EU partners tested their crisis plans and possible responses to potential cybersecurity incidents affecting the European elections. The exercise is part of […]2024 European elections: 15 additional seats divided between 12 countries
September 14, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. MEPs have approved the European Council’s decision increasing the number of seats in the European Parliament for the next legislative term from 705 to 720.The European Council’s proposal was based on Parliament’s report of June 2023, which started the process and was prompted by […]European Youth Event 2023: young people speak out a year before EU elections
May 31, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Around 10,000 young people from the EU and beyond will meet in Strasbourg to discuss Europe’s future, against the backdrop of the war against Ukraine and upcoming European elections. On Friday 9 June and Saturday 10 June, the European Youth Event 2023 (EYE 2023) […]Final turnout data for 2019 European elections announced
October 29, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. The official and final turnout of the 2019 European Elections is set at 50.66% (up 8.06 pp on 2014), following the publication all 28 final national turnout data. On 18 October 2019, the UK electoral commission published the definitive numbers of registered voters and […]2019 European Elections gets backing from professional footballers
May 22, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Dozens of professional footballers from across Europe have joined a campaign by the European Parliament and FIFPro to promote this week’s 2019 European Elections. German goalkeeper Kevin Trapp, Sweden midfielder Nilla Fischer and Finland captain Tim Sparv are among those to send out the […]EU elections 2019: Trump’s share in the support of populism
May 15, 2019 by Leave a Comment
It was last Monday when the US President Donald Trump met the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the White House. Both leaders had the beautiful chance to praise each other at a gathering which lasted less than an hour. Only a few days ahead of the EU elections, the US President clearly shows his […]5 key themes for reforming the EU, as elections loom
May 14, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Grace A. Ballor, Max Weber postdoctoral fellow, European University Institute Whether you are a supporter of more or less Europe, one thing is clear: citizens want change. Debates about which way forward have become highly polarized between defenses […]Does Indonesia have the world’s most complicated elections?
April 18, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Emma Charlton, Senior Writer , Formative Content How do you organize an election that spans more than 17,000 islands and hundreds of thousands of local candidates? As voting concludes in the world’s third largest democracy, Indonesia, the scale of […]Brexit update: Will Theresa May’s last-minute desperate efforts procrastinate Brexit?
April 3, 2019 by Leave a Comment
After a long seven-hour meeting with her cabinet, Theresa May decided to meet Jeremy Corbyn in order to agree on a common plan for the future UK-EU relations, but practically ask for an extention of Article 50. The recent inability of the members of the Parliament (MPs) to get a majority on twelve indicative votes […]The EU might as well go down the drain if foreign meddling corrupts May’s elections
March 13, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The EU elections will take place in about two months’ time but anti-European together with foreign parties are most likely going to try to exert influence on the upcoming outcome. Anti-establishment parties are expected to change the current balance and status quo if the two mainstream parties, the conservative EPP (European People’s Party) and the […]EU elections: Can EU citizens’ awareness eradicate fake news more efficiently than Facebook, Twitter and Google?
March 6, 2019 by 2 Comments
Last Thursday, the European Commission published the reports of Facebook, Google and Twitter regarding the progress made in January in their voluntary pledges to tackle disinformation. Disinformation is a major challenge globally and for Europe and all stakeholders have to be actively involved in order to address citizens’ exposure to it. However, the US tech […]EU Elections: new rules to prevent breaches of data used to influence elections
January 18, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. A proposal introducing penalties on European political parties deliberately breaching data protection to tamper with EU elections was informally agreed on Wednesday. The new provisions agreed by Parliament and Council negotiators are aimed at protecting the electoral process from online disinformation campaigns based on […]Siemens-Alstom merger: Will the EC succumb to Franco-German pressures for the sake of May’s EU Elections?
January 9, 2019 by Leave a Comment
It was yesterday when executives of Siemens and Alstom met with EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager in one of their last attempts to convince her to give the green light for their merge. The European Commission (EC) is now left to decide till February 18 whether or not to approve the merger of the rail operations […]EU Elections: new rules to prevent breaches of data used to influence elections
December 7, 2018 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Constitutional Affairs Committee backed a proposal introducing penalties on European political parties deliberately breaching data protection to tamper with EU elections. The new provisions are aimed at protecting the electoral process from online disinformation campaigns based on misuse of voters’ personal data. Some recent […]Can Europe and the US reverse their nationalist and xenophobic drift? Is the West becoming belligerent?
June 12, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The appointment of the next European Commission President now clearly threatens the very unity of the EU. The two opposing camps have been well shaped around those longing for less or more Union. The first cluster is formed around the British Prime Minister David Cameron, who utterly opposes the candidacy of Jean-Claude Juncker, finding the […]EU elections: The louder the threats and the doomsaying the heavier the weight of the vote
May 15, 2014 by Leave a Comment
All mainstream political leaders of Europe in the socialist camp, the liberals and the center-right parties, invariably exorcise nationalism and populism, as the gravest threats to the EU project. They are quite right to do so. It’s not only the future of the EU which is at stake. Nationalism and populism already threaten the very […]EU voters not interested in the European Parliament elections. What’s behind this European Titanic?
May 14, 2014 by 1 Comment
It’s just a matter of few days, and around 350 million European voters will be called upon to choose their representatives. They are expected to go the polls to vote in elections to the European Parliament, the EU’s only directly elected body. Think about it, almost 5% of the globe’s population called to express its preference […]MEP Cristiana Muscardini @ European Business Summit 2014: International Trade in Europe
May 10, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Written by Cristiana Muscardini, Italian MEP, European Conservatives and Reformists Group, Vice Chair of Committee on International Trade The common commercial policy is a pillar for the external relations of the European Union. It is based on a set of uniform rules under the Customs Union and the Common Customs Tariff and governs the commercial […]
