The European elections 2009

Where is our Barack Obama?

Starting from the 4th of June EU elections are held in 27 countries. Media and Politicians alike have devoted themselves to think up reports, documentations and witty campaigns to interest the people in casting their votes, but 2009s EU elections will go down in history with the worst turnout ever. 325 Million people across Europe are eligible to vote, 10 % of them are young people. But only one in three of the 18 to 24 year olds planed on voting. The contradiction lies in the details... full story


By SUSANNE WERNICKE
from Greiffenberg, GERMANY

Analysis

Euro elections in Romania
As in the majority of the EU countries, Romania was not an exception either, regarding the population's participation at the voting sectors, on Sunday the 7th of June 2009. Although, most of the essays written before the elections forecasted that the participating ratio would be 25%, tops. This prediction proved to be wrong, because this number rose to 27.6%


By TAMAS TORO
from Timisoara, ROMANIA



European elections - comment

Conservatives stay dominant in the European Parliament
Except the far-right parties, seats in the European Parliament are won even by the one-issue parties, such as the Swedish Pirate party, which advocates shortening the duration of copyright protection and allowing non-commercial file-sharing. The success of small parties, besides, lies in the modest interest of Europeans for EU election


By NENAD RADICEVIC
* a foreign affairs journalist with Politika daily
Story from CEV magazine - an online publication of the Centre for European Values