europeanelections2024
The countdown to this year's EU parliament elections is well underway, but in many countries, the battle for votes seems to be being fought along national, not continental, lines. The dynamic is especially strong in France, where the EU elections are being framed by some parties as a forerunner to the 2027 presidential race – or "first and foremost mid-term elections", in the words of Jordan Bardella, head of list for the far-right Rassemblement National party, who is calling to "sanction Macron's Europe". "If I'm in the lead, I'll obviously ask for the National Assembly to be dissolved that v...
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Our guests this week include Robert Biedron, Polish MEP from the Socialist group, Deirdre Clune, outgoing Irish MEP from the European People's Party and Jaume Duch, the spokesperson for the European Parliament. The panel picked apart the highs and lows of the last 5 years at the European Parliament. From sealing deals on a migration pact after a decade of debate and the world's first ever AI regulations, MEPs sounded satisfied that a lot of compromises had been clinched but still concerned about the major inequalities across Europe. Jaume Duch hopes people will vote this June. “Now it's about ...
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Over the past five years, the European Parliament shaped much of the legislation that have had a direct impact on the lives of 450 million Europeans. The last plenary session before June's European elections saw a marathon of votes, with no less than 89 legislative texts and seven resolutions, in four days. At the opening of the session, President Roberta Metsola summarized her assessment of the mandate: "We have listened, we have learnt, we have broken the bubbles of Brussels and Strasbourg to engage and reach people in all member states. We have worked hard to ensure that this house is more ...
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But those reforms have been caught up in political infighting, resulting in measures many feel are too lax to tackle wrongdoing among elected officials. Investigative platform Follow the Money recently highlighted the extent of that wrongdoing, estimating that a quarter of current Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have been embroiled in some sort of scandal, ranging from sexual harassment to nepotism and bribe-taking. Lawmakers voted Wednesday on a new anti-harassment training for elected members, a response to a growing body of evidence that bullies and sexual perpetrators have long g...
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The leader of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party Jordan Bardella unveiled his European election agenda on Thursday, shortly after Emmanuel Macron delivered a Europe-focused speech earlier that morning. The 28-year-old who is leading the polls primarily seized the opportunity to criticise the French leader, targeting Macron’s involvement in the election campaign. “The President has decided to intervene directly and personally in an electoral campaign. Intervening in this way constitutes a personal, symbolic and political commitment," he said at his party’s headquarters in Paris. "I...
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Manfred Weber - European People's Party (EPP)Asked to recall the mandate's biggest success, the chairman of the centre-right EPP group harked back to the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The biggest achievement for sure was to restart the European economic engine after the corona crisis. The Recovery Resilience Fund was for sure the most important decision in this mandate," he explained, recalling the EU's record-smashing €723.8 billion temporary recovery instrument. Weber also named measures taken to curb climate change among his biggest highlights, despite his EPP party coming under fire...
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The European model is at risk of being killed off by the US-China rivalry and the coming decade will be decisive for its survival, French President Emmanuel Macron warned on Thursday, calling on the European Union to become ever-more united and sovereign. In a 108-minute speech delivered at the Sorbonne, where seven years ago the then-newly elected leader delivered a first address on his vision for Europe, Macron repeated numerous times that "the rules of the game have changed" on several fronts including geopolitics, the economy and trade, and culture. "We must be lucid about the fact that ou...
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Lawmakers will now head back to their native countries to prepare for the elections in June when voters will choose the 720 members of the next legislature. For many in the Parliament, the respite will doubtless be welcomed after five years of navigating a formidable succession of global emergencies, haggling over transformative pieces of legislation and scrambling to manage PR disasters. "I would never have been able to predict both how much we managed to achieve, but also how many crises and challenges we've had to overcome and to handle," the Parliament's president, Roberta Metsola, told Eu...
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Italian activist Ilaria Salis, currently imprisoned in Hungary on charges of participating in the attack of neo-Nazis, is standing as a candidate in the European elections for the Greens and Left Alliance. Her father Roberto spoke to the Strasbourg Parliament on Wednesday, revealing "she was quite motivated, happy to have made this choice." "For my daughter, the elections represent a further opportunity to solve her drama." He spoke to Ilaria a few days ago and detailed he had not gone to Strasbourg to campaign, but to defend his daughter's rights. My daughter is trying to get a fair trial The...
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In a press statement on Wednesday, the party said that its decision was based on its long-standing position that the so-called Spitzenkandidaten process is not fit for purpose. It came after the adoption of the party’s electoral manifesto in Strasbourg on Tuesday evening, in a meeting chaired by its president, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and attended by former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. The Spitzenkandidaten process, which sees each major political party field a lead candidate to preside over the European Commission, was scuppered in 2019 when Ursula von der Leyen was...
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