Nach der Finanz- und Schuldenkrise, Rettungsschirmen und Haushaltskürzungen, werden die Europawahlen im Mai 2014 zum Stimmungsbarometer des Vertrauens der Öffentlichkeit in die EU. Zum ersten Mal wählen die Bürger indirekt den EU-Kommissionspräsidenten - eine Chance, die Zukunft Europas zu gestalten.

http://www.euractiv.de/

“Scelta Europea”. Si chiamerà così la lista liberal-democratica dell’Alde alle prossime elezioni europee, con un evidente rimando alla montiana Scelta Civica. La lista è il frutto dell’alleanza tra 13 movimenti di varia impostazione: liberale, centrista, moderata, europeista.

http://www.formiche.net/2014/03/04 /

With European Parliament elections scheduled for May, the European Commission is set to get a new president. Some member states have growing concerns about the frontrunners -- and now tempers are getting heated.

http://www.spiegel.de

In the 2009 EU elections, turnout was a relatively high 59.5 percent. A referendum held the same day on the equal right of Danish princesses and princes to inherit the old throne helped motivate people to go to the ballot boxes. EU election day will see a referendum this year too. Danes will be asked whether they accept that the country should sign up to the European Union’s patent court. But the issue is unlikely to have the same pull-effect on voters as the future of the royal family had in the last EU election.

http://euobserver.com/eu-elections/123292

Europe's far-left are set to outnumber the Liberals in the next European Parliament, according to a pan-EU opinion poll published on Wednesday (5 March). In the second of a series of fortnightly forecasts in the three months before Europe's 400 million voters go to the ballot booths from 22-25 May, Pollwatch Europe forecasts that the Parliament's leftist GUE group would see its number of MEPs swell to 67 seats and become the third largest group in the assembly.

http://euobserver.com/news/123367

So in May, Europeans will face a "real" choice in the elections. On the one hand, the Social Democrat, pro-EU, pro-integrationist Martin Schulz. On the other, the Christian Democrat, pro-EU, pro-integrationist Jean-Claude Juncker. There really is not much between the political philosophies of the two candidates. Perhaps they should both become presidents?

http://www.businessspectator.com.au

face à la montée des formations d’extrême-droite, seul le conflit politique permettrait d’asseoir des procédures démocratiques plus légitimes. Jiří Přibáň souligne que si l’Union continue à agir comme un ensemble technocratique, qui, en apparence, ne donne pas de place aux voix discordantes, elle n’arrivera jamais à créer une démocratie à son échelle

http://radio.cz/fr/rubrique/faits/jiri-priban-la-democratie-en-europe-a-besoin-de-conflit-politique

À l'heure actuelle, les sondages d'opinion montrent que, sans être un tsunami électoral, les partis d’extrême droite, eurosceptiques et d'extrême gauche, ainsi que les partis antisystème devraient gagner des sièges au futur Parlement européen. Cette montée de la droite dure devrait entamer la part électorale du centre droit, des socialistes, des verts et des libéraux.

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ir de tout citoyen, lorsqu'une élection est organisée démocratiquement, et que son résultat peut avoir un effet politique sur les institutions, est d'utiliser son droit de vote conquis de haute lutte. Ce n'est pas le cas de l'élection au Parlement européen.

http://www.marianne.net/

In Finland the European elections will be about Greece, at least if Timo Soini, chair of the radical right-wing populist party The Finns, previously known as the True Finns, gets his way. "If Greece isn't the issue, we will make it the issue," Soini told the Finnish daily Aamulehti, a few days after news reports indicated the third Greek bailout package might hit €10-20 billion.

http://euobserver.com/eu-elections/123163