The pre-election period in Cyprus in view of the European elections, to take place on June 6 on the island, ended at midnight on Thursday. A total of 526,060 registered voters are called to elect the six MEPs from Cyprus. The number of voters includes 6,458 community citizens living in Cyprus, as well...

“We hadn’t even heard of the European Arrest Warrant,” Frank Symeou says despondently. “Why would we?” “I spoke outside the magistrates’ court, saying that it’s an erosion of our civil liberties. And it is. But I think more people need to be aware of it,...

Question Time is the BBC’s flagship political programme, a weekly event where the general public gets the chance to grill its politicians. It being the evening of polling day, I thought I would  take the opportunity to live blog the programme. In the last few weeks, politicians on all sides have...

There are only 48 hours left until the Greek public cast their vote in the European Parliament elections. I will not be voting here (see my previous post). Those who will be voting here I expect will do so because they believe in democracy, because Greeks are highly politicised and in part, I expect,...

In March, Mrs. Clinton – FM/USA - commented in Brussels that the Obama administration was “determined to listen, advise (European Union countries) and through agreement arrive at wise solution to common challenges.” Among the “common challenges” was that the “Balkans is...

I just voted in UK. Remarks / differences with the Greek electoral procedures: 1) They didn’t ask me to show any kind of identification (passport or whatever) only the polling card I received via post. In Greece you need to have id card. 2) The polling station was in a Methodist Church (specifically...

The campaign for the elections has taken part during the last months. We all know that, it is not just the two previous weeks of the election day. But one thing is true: after the whole effort, one second summarizes the results, the ballot. Today, june 4th, is the first elections day. But still, just...

So Predict09 have their final prediction up. They have the European Groupings as follows: EPP: 262 seats PES: 194 ALDE: 85 UEN/EC: 53 Greens-EFA: 50 EUL/NGL: 40 Ind/Dem: 23 Non-inscrit: 30 To get Barroso elected President of the Commission, the EPP will need the support of more MEPs, but with the Spanish...

From the off, apologies for the apparent UKIP obsession. It’s just that apart from Labour in freefall (and I’m not going to bore you with that non-EU related drama here) the Euro elections have practically dropped off the radar. Anyway, following up my post from this morning, UKIP leader...

The last few weeks have been really hectic with the run up to the Elections here in Ireland tomorrow. I have been out nearly every night of the week canvassing and since I got more free time I got out on the European Campaign trail with sitting Ireland South MEP Colm Bruke MEP (Fine Gael/ EPP). We went...