Photo by mooste: I voted with a pencil for the first time in my life! I voted! Therefore I’m done. Done with Th!nking About It. I will not elaborate on my choice, nor convince you to vote the same. For my last post in this channel I want to take you back to November 2008. It’s when I received an...

Euro-sceptics love to point to declining voter turnouts in European Elections as evidence of the undemocratic nature of the whole European project. And of course they have a point: It would be so much better if there was a much higher degree of enthusiasm and turnout for the European Parliamentary...

How it all started I was sitting on a train, my eyes wandering around, when a sight of an aisle poster (usually an ad for tabloid press or spa) with a circle of yellow stars on a blue background caught my eye. Well, I had never seen anything linked with EU on a train before, so I even got a little...

Gerry Adams MP MLA and Bairbre De Bruin MEP Sinn Fein I am not a native nor an expert on Northern Ireland politics, but as there appears to be no one else of that ilk around here (with the possible exception of Eurocentric) I will offer my take on the Northern Ireland European Parliament Elections which...

Back in 1979, the year Iran became an Islamic Republic by a 98 percent vote; there was a 63 percent turnout in the European Parliament elections. In 2004, the year that Facebook was founded, the European Parliament voter turnout had dropped to 46 percent. What are we looking at now? 39 percent? 35 percent?...

Polling stations have only been open for a couple of hours and UKIP are already crying foul. Following hot on the heels of a row over an election guide on how to vote, which apparently had a Tory-bias, this row revolves around real ballot papers. The party has sent out a frantic press release reporting...

European Parliament has distributed a press release, saying that it’s possible to follow the EP elections also on Twitter. Apparently not only politicians and other celebrities are using this social site - also such companies and organisations as EP are following the new trend! It’s great...

Campaigning season in the Netherlands is almost over; tomorrow, according to the polls between 40% and 67% of the potential voters will let its voice be known. What is going to be the outcome? I honestly have no clue and neither does anybody else since the polls are all over the place. My guess is that...

Listen to the report: Gabriele Discepoli followed the UK Conservative party, the Labour party and the Liberal Democrats during their last days of campaigning in London.  With interviews to Charles Tannock (Conservative MEP), Mary Honeyball (Labour MEP), Claude Moraes (Labour MEP) and Sarah Ludford (Liberal...

Listen to the report by Gabriele Discepoli. With interviews to Gerard Batten (UKIP MEP) and Shahrar Ali (Green party candidate) LONDON - The latest polls suggest that the MP expenses scandal could benefit smaller parties. As a sign of protest many people in Britain are expected to vote for the euroskeptical...